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Dave Liebman: What It Is - The Life of a Jazz Artist
by Lewis Porter
[The following is an excerpt from Chapter 4 of What It Is: The Life of a Jazz Artist (Scarecrow Press, 2012), by saxophonist Dave Liebman, in conversation with Lewis Porter, author of John Coltrane: His Life and Music (University of Michigan Press, 2000). In it, Liebman and Porter discuss the saxophonist's involvement in the loft scene of the late 1960s/early 1970s in New York City, and creation Free Life Communication with a group of like-minded musicians.This excerpt appears ...
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by John Kelman
What It Is: The Life of a Jazz Artist Dave Liebman In Conversation with Lewis Porter 386 Pages ISBN: 978-0810882034 Scarecrow Press 2012 In life, there's them that are aware and them's that ain't. Them's that are aware are not necessarily better than them's that ain't; but in being aware, they're able to assess their own lives in a broader context and, perhaps, as they reach the later stages of life, truly comprehend ...
Continue ReadingMarc Copland David Liebman Duo: Impressions
by Raul d'Gama Rose
There is no telling what an imaginative musician such as saxophonist Dave Liebman might do if he were given the kind of room to maneuver--to let his soul soar free--as pianist Marc Copland affords him on Impressions. It is as if the pianist gifted the saxophonist with a very large and empty canvas for Liebman to paint a musical landscape. Liebman needs no further invitation to wander off into the ocean of undiscovered sound. The saxophonist assumes the persona of ...
Continue ReadingDave Liebman/Richie Beirach: Unspoken
by John Kelman
Dave Liebman / Richie Beirach Unspoken OutNote Records 2011 It's one thing for individual artists' voices to be instantly recognizable, another thing entirely when a readily identifiable language evolves amongst them, one that's absent when they're apart. There's no mistaking the bop-rooted expressionism that saxophonist Dave Liebman imbues with oblique lyricism, whether with his longstanding group on Turnaround: The Music of Ornette Coleman (Jazzwerkstatt, 2010) or in a new collection of largely old friends on ...
Continue ReadingDave Liebman Group at Café Paradiso
by John Kelman
Dave Liebman Group Café Paradiso Ottawa, Canada May 20-21, 2011 When saxophonist and recent NEA Jazz Master Dave Liebman brought his longstanding group to Ottawa's Café Paradiso a little over three years ago in April, 2008, it was truly one of the hottest, most memorable shows this city has seen in years--if not ever. Now two decades old, with three of its original members--Liebman, guitar underdog Vic Juris and the equally underappreciated bassist Tony Marino--still ...
Continue ReadingDave Liebman: Live/As Always
by AAJ Italy Staff
L'apertura di questo bel disco della big band del saxofonista Dave Liebman è affidata ad una sorta di fanfara che richiama gli album di Michael Gibbs, uno degli arrangiatori e band leader più importanti nel jazz degli ultimi quarant'anni. Un punto di collegamento interessante che poi si ripresenta quà e la anche nel prosieguo del CD, in particolar modo nella scrittura dei tromboni. L'altro riferimento importante potrebbe essere la scrittura di Gil Evans, anche se ci dobbiamo fermare al Gil ...
Continue ReadingDave Liebman: A New York Story
by John Kelman
A few months shy of 65, saxophonist Dave Liebman may be having the busiest time of his career, now in its fifth decade. In the past 12 months, nearly a dozen releases have demonstrated the tremendous stylistic breadth of a musical oeuvre that kicked into high gear early, when, in the short span of three years, Liebman participated in three recordings that remain important touchstones for their artists: guitarist John McLaughlin's My Goals Beyond (Ryko, 1970), drummer Elvin Jones' Live ...
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