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Lex Humphries

Born: August 22, 1936

John Swana: Philly Gumbo Vol.2

by C. Andrew Hovan
February 19, 2024

It seems like a lot of up and coming trumpeters these days go for the bop stylings of Freddie Hubbard and Woody Shaw as their main influence. Far fewer look to players like Art Farmer or Kenny Wheeler for inspiration. That's what has made watching the development of Philadelphia trumpet man John Swana so fascinating over ...

Space Is The Place (Music From The Original Soundtrack)

By Sun Ra

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: It's After The End Of The World; Under Different Stars; Discipline 33; Watusa; Calling Planet Earth; I Am The Alter-Destiny; Satellites Are Spinning; Cosmic Forces; Outer Spaceways Incorporated; We Travel The Spaceways; The Overseer; Blackman / Love In Outer Space; Mysterious Crystal; I Am The Brother Of The Wind; We'll Wait For You; Space Is The Place; The Mathematics Of The Altered Destiny; Listen Intently To The Things I Do Not Say; Creation Is Fabrication; My World Is The Space Way; The Idea Of The Greater Age.

Denise King: Making the Tradition New

by Victor L. Schermer
July 23, 2015

Denise King is a jny: Philadelphia vocalist who has made the world her oyster with her unique ability to navigate between rhythm and blues and sultry jazz standards. Discovered in the 1980s by an R&B songwriter-producer, King quickly found her way in the City of Brotherly Love with some of the top musicians in both popular ...

Donald Byrd: A New Perspective - 1963

by Marc Davis
July 3, 2015

A New Perspective is unlike any jazz album you've heard before--and the change is refreshing. The biggest difference? Voices--singers, but not jazz singers. A New Perspective includes a seven-voice gospel choir, singing wordless syllables. Not scat, but pure notes. At first, the choir feels wrong. The very first notes of this 1963 ...

Wes Montgomery: So Much Guitar!

by C. Michael Bailey
August 19, 2013

Wes MontgomerySo Much Guitar!OJC1962/2013 Wes Montgomery's So Much Guitar! continues the latest round of re-releases/re-masters from the Concord Music Group, celebrating the 60th anniversary of Riverside Records. So Much Guitar! follows the re-releases of singer and trumpeter Chet Baker's Chet Baker Plays The Best Of Lerner & ...

Concord Original jazz Classics Remasters: Monk, Evans, Adderley, Montgomery, Baker and More

July 15, 2013

Concord Music Group will release five new titles in its Original Jazz Classics Remasters series on July 23, 2013. Enhanced by 24-bit remastering by Joe Tarantino, several bonus tracks on nearly each disc (some previously unreleased) and new liner notes providing historical context to the original material, the series celebrates the 60th anniversary of Riverside Records, ...

Muhammad Ali: From a Family of Percussionists

by Clifford Allen
July 7, 2010

Though not as well known as his brother, drummer Rashied Ali (1935-2009), Muhammad Ali spent the 1970s as one of the busiest drummers in free jazz, primarily working in a cooperative Paris-based quartet with saxophonist Frank Wright, pianist Bobby Few and bassist Alan Silva, and known as the Center of the World Quartet. Born in Philadelphia ...