Jazz Articles about Bill Summers

About Bill Summers

Album Review

Bennie Maupin: The Jewel in the Lotus

Read "The Jewel in the Lotus" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
December 3, 2007

Non mi stupirebbe che, in una delle tante trasmissioni televisive che si occupano di misteri, proponessero un servizio sul perché The Jewel in the Lotus di Bennie Maupin sia rimasto per così tanto tempo privato dell'onore della ristampa in CD. Artista appartenente alla scena di Detroit, Maupin ha attraversato in modo poco appariscente, ma in realtà intenso, le vicende del jazz contemporaneo a partire dalla seconda metà degli anni Sessanta, comparendo a fianco di Marion Brown, McCoy Tyner, Lee Morgan, ...

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Bennie Maupin: The Jewel in the Lotus

Read "The Jewel in the Lotus" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
October 31, 2007

Of the ECM titles that have remained unavailable on CD, woodwind multi-instrumentalist Bennie Maupin's The Jewel in the Lotus (1974) has long been considered a holy grail for collectors in search of a vinyl copy, and a title that's been on many fans' wish lists for release on CD. Well, it's finally happened and it's been worth the wait. Those familiar will recognize it as still classic thirty years on; for those unfamiliar with its magic, it's time to get ...

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Bill Summers/Irvin Mayfield: Los Hombres Calientes: Volume 4: Vodou Dance

Read "Volume 4: Vodou Dance" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki

by Chris M. Slawecki
October 11, 2003

Trumpet player Irvin Mayfield has been a primary shaper of the modern musical landscape of New Orleans. He serves as artistic director of the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra and as executive director and artistic director of the Institute of Jazz Culture at Dillard University in New Orleans, and has performed his own arrangements of spirituals and original works with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra (2001 commission) and the Louisiana Philharmonic String Quartet. Mayfield also leads his own Quintet and performs with ...