Jazz Articles about Clifford Adams

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Charlie Rouse: Cinnamon Flower: The Expanded Version

Read "Cinnamon Flower: The Expanded Version" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
March 20, 2026

Il decennale sodalizio con Thelonious Monk ha dato ampia notorietà a Charlie Rouse ma ne ha anche oscurato l'immagine e le potenzialità che aveva espresso negli anni cinquanta (quando suonò nelle orchestre di Duke Ellington e Count Basie, si unì al quintetto di Bennie Green e fondò con Julius Watkins i Jazz Modes). Dopo aver lasciato Monk nel 1970, Rouse lavorò per un decennio come freelance realizzando cose diverse per rientrare nel decennio successivo nell'orbita monkiana (senza più Monk, deceduto) nel gruppo ...

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Charlie Rouse: Cinnamon Flower : The Expanded Version

Read "Cinnamon Flower : The Expanded Version" reviewed by Pierre Giroux

by Pierre Giroux
September 19, 2025

Cinnamon Flower: The Expanded Edition is a reissue of The Charlie Rouse Band's 1977 Brazilian-inspired album originally released by Douglas Records. Now, nearly 50 years later, Resonance Records presents a deluxe, definitive edition of the album featuring previously unreleased versions of the songs from the original release. Recorded during a prolific period in Rouse's post-Thelonious Monk career, this project reveals a rarely heard side of the tenor saxophonist: a rhythmic sensuality and melodic elegance inspired by Brazil's vibrant music scene. ...

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Philadelphia Heritage Art Ensemble: Under The Bridge

Read "Under The Bridge" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff
May 1, 2001

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 ...

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Album Review

Charles Earland: Intensity

by AAJ Staff
September 1, 1999

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 ...

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Charles Earland: Intensity

Read "Intensity" reviewed by Douglas Payne

by Douglas Payne
August 1, 1999

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.

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Clifford Adams: The Master Power

Read "The Master Power" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
November 1, 1998

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 ...