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Sherman Ferguson

Born: October 31, 1944

Pat Martino Top Ten Albums: More Than Meets The Eye

by Ian Patterson
December 27, 2021

Hugely admired by his peers, guitarist Pat Martino never really enjoyed the high profile accorded the likes of John McLaughlin, John Abercrombie, Pat Metheny or John Scofield, though in that esteemed company the Philadelphian guitarist, who passed away in 2021, surely belongs. In a sixty-year career, interrupted for the guts of a decade by ...

Pharoah Sanders: An Alternative Top Ten Albums To Feed Your Head

by Chris May
December 10, 2020

Fellow tenor-wielding sonic adventurer Albert Ayler famously described his own and Pharoah Sanders' relationships with their mentor John Coltrane thus: “Trane was the Father, Pharoah was the Son, I am the Holy Ghost." The epigram goes some way to capturing the scorched-earth ferocity of much, though not all, of Sanders' music in the 1960s. But Ayler ...

Behind the Lens With Chuck Koton

by Chuck Koton
July 9, 2012

Meet Chuck Koton: Born into a family of photographers, I began carrying a camera around with me as a teenager. Eventually, I even set up a darkroom in my parents' Bronx apartment.Around the same time, I began my lifelong love affair with jazz. One night, I came across my older brother's copy ...

Welcome to My Vision . . .

By Sherman Ferguson

Label: Jazz/a/s
Released: 2003
Track listing: Mixed Nuts; Call It Whachawanna; Lester Left Town; Black, Brown & Beautiful; Monk He See, Monk He Do; Lush Life; Philly Joe / Jughead

Sherman Ferguson's Jazz Union: Welcome to My Vision . . .

by Jack Bowers
May 3, 2003

One need only glance at Sherman Ferguson’s smiling face on the cover of his long-overdue debut as leader of his own quartet to understand that this is a gentleman who thoroughly enjoys his work. Ferguson’s happiness is evident throughout the session, lending it an aura of good-natured camaraderie that enables his companions to simply loosen their ...

Sherman Ferguson's Jazz Union

By Sherman Ferguson

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Released: 2002
Track listing: Mixed Nuts, Call It Whatchawanna, Lester Left Town, Black, Brown And Beautiful, Monk He See, Monk He Do, Lush Life, Philly Joe (Drum Solo) Jughead's Hat, Spirit Of Higgins.

Sherman Ferguson: Sherman Ferguson's Jazz Union

by AAJ Staff
August 8, 2002

This recording has a unique make-up, instrumentally speaking, and it works beautifully. There is an other worldly feel to the tunes that give it a etheral sense. Sherman Ferguson conducts a seminar in the art of percussion on this disc, and as leader has his say in matters. His presence is felt throughout and it adds ...