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Ron McClure: Lookout Farms and New Moons
by Donald Elfman
Bassist Ron McClure has a practical philosophy about what he does. Making music begins with doing your job," he says. It's nice if you can be a hot soloist, but do your job first and do it well." These are words that the bassist has lived by for over 40 years in the jazz music business. McClure has done everything from playing with saxophonists such as Charles Lloyd to being part of pop recordings by the Pointer Sisters and Blood, ...
read moreRon McClure: Wonderland, Always & Between or Beyond
by Robert Iannapollo
Harold Danko / Ron McClure Wonderland Steeplechase 2008 Kalman Olah Trio Always Memphis International 2007 Mike Nock Underground Between Or Beyond MPS Japan 1970-2008
Although not particularly well known, bassist Ron McClure has been one of those utility musicians that everyone seems to ...
read moreMarian McPartland: Twilight World
by C. Michael Bailey
Marian McPartland can be described on one word: gracious. Listeners have been treated to weekly installments of Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz, on US National Public Radio, for the past twenty-nine years, experiencing firsthand her graciousness in her light but stubborn Berkshire accent, her unmatched interview style, and, above all, her gin-crystalline pianism. That would be impressive enough if one were not to consider the fact that McPartland is the living corporate memory of jazz.
Marian McPartland celebrates her ...
read moreRon McClure: Making Music
by AAJ Staff
Submitted on behalf of Ron McClure Remembering one's self, or having an internal awareness file, with constant access capability, is a wonderful and necessary thing in the process of making music, since we all forget ourselves. The term making music means different things to different people. In 1964, bassist Chuck Israels told me: Whatever you do in your career, don't become competitive." I think I know what my wise friend meant, and have tried to ...
read moreRon McClure Quartet: Dream Team
by C. Andrew Hovan
It would be hard to argue with bassist and leader Ron McClure when he assesses the musicians assembled here as being a “dream team”. Drummer Billy Hart alone guarantees the success of just about any record date he is a part of, while pianist Marc Copland has recently been turning heads with his own acclaimed series of Savoy dates. The ringer here is likely to be tenor saxophonist Rich Perry, at long last getting his due thanks to a viable ...
read moreThe Ron McClure Sextet / The Los Angeles Jazz Quartet: Double Triangle / Conversation Piece
by C. Michael Bailey
Better The Second time Around. Naxos Jazz has spent the last three years building a solid base of recording artists. Evidence of this is found in the two most recent releases by The Los Angeles Jazz Quartet and bassist Ron McClure. Both artists have previous debuted on the label with the LAJQ’s Look To The East (Naxos Jazz 86009) and The Ron McClure Quartet’s Pink Cloud (Naxos Jazz 86003). These first releases were firmly steeped in Hard Bop/Mainstream and were ...
read moreJoe Henderson: In Pursuit of Blackness / Black is the Color
by Robert Spencer
Rather famously, Joe Henderson released a series of albums for Milestone in the early Seventies that courted popular acceptance in a variety of ways: most notably, he played modal proto-world music with Alice Coltrane and added an electric piano and other frou-frou to his ensembles in order to catch the fusion crowd. Nothing worked, and these albums are generally regarded as inferior both to the series of Blue Notes that preceded them and the Grand-Old-Man Verve releases of the present ...
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