Jazz Articles about Joe Lovano

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McCoy Tyner: Quartet

by Jeff Stockton
January 12, 2008

It seems grossly unfair that the debonair, elegant elder statesman on the cover of Quartet, a document of the concerts McCoy Tyner and his band gave on Dec. 30th-31st, 2006 at Yoshi's in Oakland, would still be trying to live up to the reputation for excellence he established with the John Coltrane Quartet some forty-plus years ago. Perhaps tellingly, three of the seven selections come from The Real McCoy, the first solo album Tyner made for Blue Note in 1965. ...

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Joe Lovano and Hank Jones: Kids: Duets Live at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola

by Paul Moots
November 27, 2007

Early jazz is often music of joy and playfulness--it's no wonder the great cartoons of the 1930s and 1940s are often backed by a classic jazz soundtrack. Now that jazz has become “art and “music of significance, joy and playfulness are too often missing from performances. It is a pleasure, then, that Kids: Duets Live at Dizzy's, a collaboration between Joe Lovano on tenor and soprano sax and Hank Jones on piano, revives the waning art of joyful jazz.

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McCoy Tyner: Quartet

by Mark Corroto
November 11, 2007

From the first few notes you know you're going to love this live recording by McCoy Tyner. With a bass line borrowed from John Coltrane's “A Love Supreme (Impulse!, 1964), the quartet doesn't exactly mimic the Coltrane era as much as take inspiration from its legacy. And of course that legacy included Tyner some forty years ago as he, Elvin Jones and Jimmy Garrison were the rhythm section for the most creative jazz artist ever to advance this music.

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Joe Lovano and Hank Jones: Kids: Duets Live at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola

by Joshua Weiner
August 24, 2007

Joe Lovano is an old-school saxophonist, a throwback to the golden age of jazz. While he has, of course, incorporated modern innovations introduced by saxophonists John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins, as well as others into his style, his exuberant playing maintains a direct line through the history of jazz, incorporating swing, bebop, big band, and modal influences.

This explains the success of Lovano's recent quartet recordings with the venerable Hank Jones on piano (I'm All For You, Blue Note, 2004 ...

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Aa.Vv.: Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 26, 2007

Strettissimo collaboratore di Duke Ellington per quasi trent’anni, Billy Strayhorn è uno dei grandi autori della storia del jazz. Basta scorrere i titoli dei brani contenuti in questo album per rinfrescarsi la memoria. Oggi, a quarant’anni dalla sua scomparsa, l’etichetta Blue Note pubblica questo CD, nel quale alcune delle sue più famose composizioni vengono interpretate da un nucleo di artisti davvero impressionante. Al di là del singolo brano, o della declinazione che ad esso viene attribuita dai singoli musicisti, quello ...

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Joe Lovano: Streams of Expression

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 23, 2006

Joe Lovano è uno dei protagonisti più eclettici ed attivi dell'ultimo ventennio: ha suonato di tutto e con tutti, senza mai rinunciare alla sua personale pronuncia, di un'eleganza classica e sofisticata, tanto rifinita e pomposa da risultare a volte stucchevole. Il che capita di rado in questo CD ben congegnato, in cui la tensione e i raffinati arrangiamenti utilizzano al meglio i qualificati partner invitati; un CD a programma, in quanto ognuno dei brani originali è dedicato a una serie ...

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Joe Lovano: Streams Of Expression

by Robert R. Calder
September 2, 2006

Joe Lovano Streams Of Expression Blue Note Records 2006

Forget those ill-founded accusations of conservatism. Joe Lovano is a genuine innovator. He's uninterested in novelty for novelty's sake and he's very, very ambitious for his music. He makes things more interesting for everybody, including himself, by (no apologies for the pun) digging foundations. On Streams Of Expression, Lovano combines a new suite of his own with another by Gunther Schuller, programming a further two ...