Jazz Articles about Burton Greene

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Album Review

Marion Brown: Three For Shepp To Gesprachsfetzen Revisited

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by Alberto Bazzurro
November 8, 2024

Tre brani di Marion Brown e altrettanti di Archie Shepp compongono il primo dei due album riuniti, come sempre meritoriamente, in questo CD, provenendo da quello che rappresenta il debutto dell'altosassofonista georgiano su Impulse!, inciso il 1° dicembre 1966 (dopo un paio di ESP e un Fontana) e pubblicato l'anno seguente. La stessa Impulse!, come già aveva fatto con lo stesso Shepp riferendolo a Coltrane per Four for Trane, ricicla per l'occasione la stessa formula riferendo Brown al collega di ...

Album Review

Marion Brown: Three For Shepp To Gesprachsfetzen Revisited

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by Mark Corroto
June 1, 2024

It's not too late to catch up with alto saxophonist and composer Marion Brown. Thanks to this excellent reissue and remaster series, you can hear the innovative recordings from this master musician. This release follows his 1965/66 discs Capricorn Moon To Juba Lee Revisited (ezz-thetics, 2019) and 1966/67 discs Why Not? Porto Novo! Revisited (ezz-thetics, 2020). Chris May's excellent liner notes posit an answer to Brown's relative obscurity. He essentially lays the blame on marketing. Record labels and ...

Liner Notes

Marion Brown: Three For Shepp To Gesprachsfetzen Revisited

by Chris May
April 21, 2024

"It is often those we hear the least that we should listen to the most." So wrote the Guadeloupean pianist Jonathan Jurion on the release of his album Le Temps Fou: The Music Of Marion Brown (Komos, 2019). Just why Marion Brown has become such a rarely acknowledged figure is unclear. He possessed all the qualifications needed to go large plus a few extras for good measure. He was a good-looking man. He dressed well (telling Dave ...

Radio & Podcasts

Spinifex, Greene / Smith / Moses & Devin Brahja Waldman Ra Kalam Bob Moses

by Maurice Hogue
January 27, 2023

This edition of One Man's Jazz tends to a lot of music out on the edge, starting with a tune from a 2019 release called Life's Intense Mystery by Burton Greene, Damon Smith & Bob Moses, before heading to the powerful and unpredictable band from Amsterdam, Spinifex; they've added singers to the mix on their latest. After that check out the sounds of the Blue Lines Trio, also from Amsterdam, Peter Van Huffel's Gorilla Mask, the Chicago guitar/bass duo of ...

Interview

Burton Greene: From Bomb To Balm

by Barbara Ina Frenz
December 18, 2020

Chicago-born pianist Narada Burton Greene (b.1937) can be called a veteran of the 1960s jazz avant-garde—the starting point of his universal musical life. In 1962, he moved to New York and founded, together with bassist Alan Silva, the Free Form Improvisational Ensemble, which played improvised music without preconceived compositional elements. In 1965, he became a member of the Jazz Composers Guild, founded by Bill Dixon and Cecil Taylor. The Jazz Composers Guild resonated with the community spirit that Greene had ...

Album Review

Burton Greene / Damon Smith / Ra Kalam Bob Moses: Life’s Intense Mystery

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by Mark Corroto
September 26, 2019

Let's give credit to whomever assembled this swinging free-improvisation trio. Sometimes, no, invariably, all great improvised music results from the reciprocal nature of the musicians: not something done in response to another (although it can be) but by some subconscious agreement made by the players. A fine example is Life's Intense Mystery by the trio of pianist Burton Greene, bassist Damon Smith and drummer Ra Kalam Bob Moses. Although the bassist recorded with Moses on Astral Plane Crash ...

Album Review

Narada Burton Greene: Live at Kerrytown House

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 28, 2013

Nato a Chicago nel 1937, Burton Greene fu al fianco dei più autorevoli esponenti dell'avanguardia nera degli anni Sessanta: Albert Ayler, Rashied Ali, Alan Silva, Roland Kirk, Marion Brown, Henry Grimes... Poi per motivi economici dovette mettere in secondo piano alla sua attività musicale. Questo CD lo coglie dal vivo in un concerto tenuto nell'ottobre 2010 ad Ann Arbor nel Michigan. Stranamente per quanto riguarda la composizione di molti brani viene riportato un doppio nome, il secondo dei quali è ...