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Brad Walker, Bobby McFerrin, Nichols@100, Newk & More
by Marc Cohn
Lots of features this week. Tenorist Brad Walker kicks off the Fall jazz concert season in Baton Rouge on Friday, October 4 @ Chorum Hall and we preview his new session recorded live at Snug Harbor in New Orleans. Another centennial segment celebrates pianist Herbie Nichols; more Sonny Rollins with Miles; and Bobby McFerrin who was appointed a NEA Jazz Master for 2020. Along the way Dave Zinno's latest, grease from Leon Spencer, a message from Betty Carter, swing from ...
read moreBurlington Discover Jazz Festival 2019
by Doug Collette
Burlington Discover Jazz Festival Burlington, Vermont May 31-June 9, 2019 Prominent among the many of virtues the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival offers its hometown each year is a reminder of the energetic activity that permeates the Queen City of Vermont (and not just at this most wonderful time of the year). Witness the first night of 2019's ten-day run: in addition to one of the most friendly and accessible opening acts in recent years--Bobby McFerrin on ...
read moreBobby McFerrin: spirityouall
by Mark F. Turner
A 10-time Grammy winner, Bobby McFerrin's undeniable gifted voice has not only inspired audiences with its unique qualities but also imbued his spiritual roots as found in songs throughout his discography such as the colorful Garden of Eden expression, “The Garden" from 2010's VOCAbuLarieS (EmArcy) or the unique scriptural vocal rendition of “The 23rd Psalm" from his 1990 release Medicine Music (EMI). Inspired by the music of his upbringing and his father Robert McFerrin Sr.--an operatic baritone ...
read moreBobby McFerrin: spirityouall
by C. Michael Bailey
Bobby McFerrin, Al Jarreau and Jon Hendricks are the most innovative jazz voices of the past 50 years. Our current subject, McFerrin, took the technical capabilities of the human voice, remolding them into the fantastic and delightful forms we recognise as his genius today. spirityouall is McFerrin's celebration of both his father, Robert McFerrin, Sr., the first African-American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera Company and the American musical vernacular called the Spiritual. McFerrin's father ...
read moreBobby McFerrin: Vocabularies
by AAJ Italy Staff
A quando risale l'ultimo capolavoro di McFerrin? Diciamo, più o meno, all'esordio omonimo; 28 anni fa. Poi c'è stato il live The Voice e anche Spontaneous Inventions. Una trilogia nella quale il cantante newyorkese imponeva la sua multiforme e giocosa abilità vocale sospesa tra le esperienze di Tormé, Vaughan, Hendricks e Manhattan Transfer e le possibilità moderne e tecnologiche della sovra incisione. Ne uscivano fuori riletture di standard e classici ("You've Really Got a Hold on Me," “Another Night in ...
read moreBobby McFerrin: VOCAbuLarieS
by Mark F. Turner
For nearly thirty years, Bobby McFerrin's illustrious career has proven that there is no instrument like the human voice. With an ability to cover any vocal range, his spontaneous inventions have spanned inventive a cappella singing, wonderful mimicries and global dialects, through memorable performances and recordings with the likes of the Vienna Philharmonic, Yo-Yo Ma, Chick Corea, and Herbie Hancock, or demonstrating the power of the pentatonic scale at the 2009 World Science Festival. A true virtuoso, McFerrin is far ...
read moreBobby McFerrin: Music's Renaissance Man Does It All
by Larry Taylor
Bobby McFerrin--master of all music, a man whose career embraces, jazz, pop and classical has one busy schedule coming up in 2008. This world famous vocal innovator and improviser, who added classical to his repertoire in the nineties, began the year in Southern California with concerts at the Orange County Performing Arts Center with the Pacific Symphony Orchestra, conducting Prokofiev's “Symphony No. 1" and Mendelssohn's “Symphony No. 4, 'Italian,'" as well as taking part vocally on Vivaldi's “Concerto For Two ...
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