Jazz Articles about Johnny O'Neal

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Tight: Johnny O'Neal Trio in Concert

by Samuel Chell
March 3, 2007

Johnny O'Neal Trio Tight BoJazz Productions 2006

“It don't mean a thing..." If Duke Ellington's criterion for meaning were to be strictly enforced, most of the sounds that pass for music wouldn't rise above nihilism. Pianist Johnny O'Neal knows the difference between “keeping time" and “swing," which is as much a visceral, sensuous experience as a state of mind. Moreover, the experience of freedom that's shared by musicians and listeners alike when the music ...