Results for "Larry Clinton"

Larry Clinton

Born: August 17, 1909

The Scott Silbert Big Band: Jump Children

by Jack Bowers
March 31, 2022

The best music, in jazz or any other genre, is and should be timeless. To prove the point, the Scott Silbert Big Band celebrates the songs of a bygone era on its debut album, Jump Children, refreshing a number of memorable themes from the '30s, '40s and '50s and underscoring their relevance in an ultra-modern twenty-first ...

John Pizzarelli and Tessa Souter: Classical Mashups

by C. Michael Bailey
May 21, 2012

The improvisatory nature of jazz provides a myriad of ways to enhance and tweak both the arrangement and performance of the music's canon. One approach being tried is the interpolation of one harmonically or rhythmically related song into another. Guitarist/vocalist John Pizzarelli and vocalist Tessa Souter have produced just such projects in their recordingsDouble Exposure and ...

Joe Morris: Fine Objects

by Mark Corroto
October 22, 2009

Guitarist Joe Morris continues his 2002 experimentation with the double-bass. On Fine Objects, he leads a trio of saxophone, bass, and drums through two of his own compositions, a couple of trio improvisations, and other compositions by Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy, Larry Clinton and Petr Cancura. Morris chose two former students from the New ...