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His first steady gigs of note were with Shirley Horn and Buck Hill. In the 1960’s he toured with Jimmy Smith, Wes Montgomery, Eddie Harris, and Pharoah Sanders. In 1970 he joined Herbie Hancock’s Sextet, and after that band broke up in 1973 he joined first McCoy Tyner (two years) and then Stan Getz (four). In the 1980’s Hart was a regular with many bands and leaders: Gerry Mulligan, Billy Harper, Clark Terry, The New York Jazz Quartet, the Jazztet, Mingus Dynasty and most extensively with Quest (with David Liebman, Ritchie Beirach, and Ron McClure). In the 1990’s Hart was a member of the Charles Lloyd, Joe Lovano, and Tom Harrell groups, and in 1999 he began performing with the Three Tenors (Liebman, Lovano, and Michael Brecker). He is on about 500 hundred records as a sideman.
The Jazz Cruise 2024
by Katchie Cartwright
Celebrity Summit The Jazz Cruise Miami, Labadee, Puerto Plata, St. Thomas January 18-25, 2024 Founded by Anita E. Berry in 2001, The Jazz Cruise has been offering patrons a yearly action-packed weeklong jazz experience at sea with some 100 world-class musicians in 200 hours of programming ...
Eddie Henderson: Everything Changes
by Ian Patterson
Eddie Henderson made his name in Herbie Hancock's Mwandishi band in the early 1970s, at the dawn of jazz-fusion--a new frontier. It was undoubtedly a launching pad that saw the New York-born trumpeter go on to play with Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers, Elvin Jones, Archie Shepp, Pharoah Sanders and McCoy Tyner. Yet ...
Eddie Henderson: Polishing The Mirror of Truth
by Steven Roby
When a jazz musician rolls into jny: Denver for a performance, it's not often that a documentary film and immersive art exhibition await them. But jazz great Eddie Henderson is no ordinary musician, nor has he led an ordinary life. A few hours before Henderson played a two-show set at Denver's premier jazz venue, ...
Interview with Joe Lovano
by Mark Felton
This interview was first published at All About Jazz in 1996. All About Jazz: The author of the liner notes of your latest release Quartets suggests that the current trend in jazz is towards a dialogue between the avant-garde and the tradition. How do you interpret that? Joe Lovano: Well, I don't ...
Bob Gluck: And every fleck of russet
by Karl Ackermann
Julliard-trained Bob Gluck is an accomplished composer, religious leader, and academician. He is the author of two books published by the University of Chicago Press, You'll Know When You Get There: Herbie Hancock and the Mwandishi Band (2012) and The Miles Davis 'Lost' Quintet and Other Revolutionary Ensembles (2016). Gluck has also written an e-book, The ...
Bridges
By Kevin Hays
Label: Smoke Sessions Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Butterfly;
Capricorn;
Song for Peace;
With a Little Help From My Friends;
Row Row Row;
Throughout;
Irah;
Bridges (Travessia);
Live In Montauk
Label: Savant Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Do Nothing till You Hear from Me;
Sparks;
Moanin';
No Rhyme or Reason;
One Finger Snap;
Ripty Boom;
Tip Toes.
The Art of Intimacy, Vol. 2/His Muse
By Jeremy Pelt
Label: HighNote Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: For Whom I Love So Much; Slow Hot Wind; If I Ruled the World; I Can’t Escape from You;
There’ll Be Other Times; Don’t Love Me; Blues in Sophistication; Two Different Worlds;
When She Makes Music; Two for the Road.
Introducing Vocalist Tyreek McDole
by Sanford Josephson
This article previously appeared in Jersey Jazz Magazine. In 2018, Tyreek McDole, a student at the Osceola County School for the Arts in Kissimmee, FL, was playing classical percussion for a performance of the 1987 Stephen Sondheim/James Lapine musical, Into the Woods. During rehearsal," he recalled, one of the actors got sick. I had ...