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Instrument: Trombone
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by AAJ Staff
If you think that the remainders and reminders of hard bop reside today within the music of Horace Silver, the keeper of the flame—and perhaps within that of very few others like Valery Ponomarev—think again. The jazzmen of Philadelphia, from which much of hard bop arose, never forgot it. In fact, they celebrate it...in concerts, in tributes, in writings, on radio and in schools.Fred Adams decided to concentrate all of these references into a single group, the Philadelphia ...
read moreCharles Earland: Intensity
by AAJ Staff
You hear it at once: a different sound, not always for the better. The music was changing, and Charles Earland joined his easy groove to the lush CTI sound so popular at the time. Results vary: the Burner is hot but too many horns spoil the brew. Take “Goin' Home": a rock guitar crashes through the left speaker, and Charles steps coolly behind him. Now he works the chords for warm strength: the feel of his Black Talk! album. But ...
read moreCharles Earland: Intensity
by Douglas Payne
For 1972's Intensity, Charles Earland's fifth of ten Prestige discs, the Mighty Burner seemed to be aiming toward something a little different than his usual collection of soulful tenor-organ jams. The presence of two songs from the rock group Chicago and a small trumpet-dominated horn section indicate that jazz-rock was the goal. The result, the LP's four original tracks plus two tracks from the same date originally released as part of Charles III, is one of his very best.
read moreClifford Adams: The Master Power
by C. Michael Bailey
All-Star Cast. In what is ostensibly his debut as a leader, trombonist Clifford Adams assembles a jazz who's who of side persons to help him on his quest. That quest, realized on The Master Power is both musical and spiritual (in my mind the same). Adams has enjoyed a varied and fulfilling career in music, playing with everyone from the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Big Band to Wynton Marsalis. He was also a founding member of the 1970s funk band, Kool ...
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