Al Foster: Love, Peace and Jazz!

Terrell Kent Holmes

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Published: May 14, 2009

AAJ: A lot of younger jazz fans are under the impression that jazz stopped from around the time Coltrane died until the ascension of Wynton Marsalis.

AF: Wynton definitely opened jazz up when he hit the scene. I'm a Miles and Freddie Hubbard freak but [Wynton] definitely did a lot and he still does a lot for jazz with the young kids. We need people like that. I'm from another generation. He's a good musician and most of the young guys are really good musicians, but those great Blue Note records from the '50s and '60s, how can you top that stuff?

AAJ: Umm... you can't.

AF: Thank you, brother! Thank you!

Recommended Listening:

Miles Davis, In Concert: Live at Philharmonic Hall (Columbia-Legacy, 1972)
Miles Davis, Agharta (Columbia-Legacy, 1975)
Dave Liebman, Pendulum (Artists House, 1978)
Miles Davis, We Want Miles (Columbia, 1981)
Joe Henderson, The State of the Tenor, Vols. 1 & 2: Live at the Village Vanguard (Blue Note, 1985)
Al Foster, Love, Peace and Jazz!: Live at the Village Vanguard (Jazz Eyes, 2007)

Photo Credit
Ben Hopper

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