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David Hazeltine: The Time Is Now
by David A. Orthmann
David Hazeltine's thirty-fourth date as a leader juxtaposes his strengths as a composer, interpreter of standard material, improviser, as well as the capacity to converse and interact with his peers. There's something magical about the ways in which the pianist employs these skills, avoiding emphasizing one at the expense of the others, and in doing so fashioning tracks that are balanced, agreeable, incisive, and substantive. It's fascinating to consistently hear him chart a middle course, melding emotion and intellect while ...
Continue Reading23th Punta del Este Jazz in Uruguay (First Night)
by Pablo Reyes
Photographs from the first night of the 23rd version of the Jazz Festival of Punta del Este in Uruguay. Performances by Amigos de El Sosiego (The Music of Lee Morgan) with David Feldman: piano; Popo Romano: double bass; Pipi Piazzolla: drums; Nicolás Mora: guitar; Diego Urcola: trumpet with Alex Brown: violin; Jessé Sadoc: trumpet. The Al Foster Cuarteto with Adam Birnbaum: piano; Doug Weiss: double bass; Chris Potter: saxophone; Al Foster: drums. And the Johnny O'Neal Trío. Mark Lewandowski: double ...
Continue ReadingNew Morning Paris Concert
by Chris Kompanek
Al Foster New Morning Paris Concert Inakustik 2009
Al Foster played with Miles Davis for several years in the '70s, appearing on Get Up With It, On The Corner, Big Fun, Dark Magus, Agharta, and reuniting with him in the '80s for The Man With The Horn, We Want Miles, Star People, Decoy and You're Under Arrest. And the drummer was one of the few people to stay in contact with him ...
Continue ReadingAl Foster Quartet: Love, Peace and Jazz!
by AAJ Italy Staff
Al Village Vanguard continuano ad essere prodotti dischi di grande livello, come nel caso di questo Love, Peace and Jazz! che ci butta nel mezzo di un'atmosfera live, ben registrata e con i musicisti che, a giudicare dalla precisione degli interventi, fanno come se fossero in studio. Certo non mancano di esperienza, se si pensa che Al Foster ha suonato praticamente con tutti i grandi del jazz moderno e che il sassofonista israeliano Eli Degibri, per un periodo ha suonato ...
Continue ReadingAl Foster Quartet: Love, Peace and Jazz!
by Joel Roberts
Al Foster is probably best known as Miles Davis' drummer for much of the '70s and '80s, and as a well-regarded sideman for jazz giants including Herbie Hancock, Sonny Rollins and Joe Henderson. He's also, somewhat quietly, been leading a first-rate unit of his own for more than a decade, one that has only released two albums, the first in 1997 and the second just out in 2008 on the Italian Jazz Eyes label. Love, Peace and ...
Continue ReadingAl Foster Quartet: Love, Peace and Jazz!
by John Barron
Al Foster is one of the most celebrated drummers in modern jazz, having worked as a sideman with a who's who of artists, including Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner and Joe Henderson. Recorded in April 2007 at the Village Vanguard in New York City, Love, Peace and Jazz! finds the veteran Foster leading a free-wheeling quartet with saxophonist Eli Degibri, pianist Kevin Hays and bassist Douglas Weiss.Throughout the disc, Foster, the elder statesmen, sits front-and-center, ...
Continue ReadingMiles Davis: On The Corner / Get Up With It
by Todd S. Jenkins
Columbia/Legacy is embarking upon a hot fusion reissue program, reshaping many of their classic albums via digital technology to make the roots of today’s music more relevant. Among the first reissues slated for 2000 are two of Miles Davis’ most misunderstood but oddly influential offerings, “On The Corner” and “Get Up With It”. At the “On The Corner” sessions Miles went nuts with electric eclecticism. He hooked a pickup and wah-wah pedal to his trumpet, hired three drummers and three ...
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