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Charles Tolliver Music Inc: Live at Captain's Cabin
by Alberto Bazzurro
Inciso nel locale del titolo, sito a Edmonton, Canada, il 24 giugno 1973, questo doppio album del trombettista Charles Tolliver, una delle glorie dello strumento in quel preciso momento storico, ci restituisce i riflessi di un periodo particolare--e particolarmente vitale--del jazz in cui anche coloro che non avevano sposato la causa dell'avanguardia mantenevano pur tuttavia nella loro musica un preciso riferimento alle istanze che la stavano (e l'avevano) informata. C'era, in altre parole la sensazione che comunque non mancasse la ...
Continue ReadingCharles Tolliver Music Inc.: Live at the Captain's Cabin
by Pierre Giroux
Charles Tolliver's Live at the Captain's Cabin is a previously unheard two-CD set captured at an intimate venue in Edmonton, Alberta, on June 24, 1973, produced for release on Reel to Real Recordings by tenor saxophonist and jazz entrepreneur Cory Weeds. The synergy and spontaneity heard in this session can only come from a group accustomed to the rigours of the road. With no prior intention to record, trumpeter Tolliver and his quartet, comprised of pianist John Hicks, bassist Clint ...
Continue ReadingPharoah Sanders Quartet: Live At Fabrik
by Chris May
One reason Pharoah Sanders was such a special artist was the prismatic nature of his music. When Sanders lit on to a new avenue of investigation, he did not in the process reject what he had been doing up until that moment. Instead, he wove the new perspective into the existing structure, enriching rather than replacing it. The result was a rainbow in which the joins between what might have been, in lesser hands, incompatible instead became inaudible, and the ...
Continue ReadingJohn Hicks: Live at the Jazz Corner of the World, Jammin' Uptown & Mind Wine: The Music of John Hicks
by Graham L. Flanagan
Mickey Bass New York Powerhouse EnsembleLive at the Jazz Corner of the WorldEarly Bird2009 Alvin QueenJammin' UptownNilva-Just a Memory2008 John Hicks Legacy BandMind Wine: The Music of John HicksSavant2008 When pianist John Hicks passed away back in May of 2006, the jazz community lost one of ...
Continue ReadingThe John Hicks Legacy Band: Mind Wine - The Music Of John Hicks
by Douglas Payne
John Hicks (1941-2006) gave much to jazz over several decades but never really received the appreciation he so richly deserved. As a pianist, he proved himself in the Art Blakey and Betty Carter universities. He was also the prototypical musician's musician, a first-call pianist for many jazz greats and a magnificent accompanist to the art's best saxists, including Pharoah Sanders, Arthur Blythe, Chico Freeman, Archie Shepp, and David Murray.
He was often accused of hovering in McCoy Tyner's ...
Continue ReadingThe John Hicks Legacy Band: Mind Wine: The Music of John Hicks
by John Barron
John Hicks (1941-2006) was a musician's musician; a player who was held in high regard by his peers as a versatile performer who could elevate any ensemble. With Mind Wine: The Music of John Hicks, Hicks' wife, flautist Elise Wood-Hicks and pianist Larry Willis co-lead a group of the late pianist's long-time associates for a celebration of one of the most distinguished jazz personalities of the last forty years.
With the exception of Duke Ellington's “Single Petal of a Rose," ...
Continue ReadingJohn Hicks/Buster Williams/Louis Hayes: On The Wings Of An Eagle
by Mark Corroto
The passing of pianist John Hicks in 2006 marks the loss of one of the quintessential New York pianists. And this, perhaps his last recording, is a stunning example of a fully developed bebop piano trio in flight.
Hicks gained the spotlight working with Art Blakey, Betty Carter and Woody Herman in the 1960s and '70s. He then migrated to avant-garde saxophonists Pharoah Sanders and David Murray before returning to the hard bop sounds of his Keystone Trio ...
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