Jazz Articles about Kevin Harris

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Jason Robinson: Blue Salience: For Yusef Lateef

Read "Blue Salience: For Yusef Lateef" reviewed by Keith Flint

by Keith Flint
October 18, 2026

From a single note a song takes form. From a single seed a tree grows. Consider Yusef Lateef's own words from “Where Are The Goodies?" Spheres: Stories by Yusef Lateef (Fana Publishing, 1976), “To find out in a hurry whether the roots are where the rich dirt is, look up at the tree and see if the branches are soulful." His writing was as evocative of spirituality and human communication as it was given to compositional foundations and creative ideation. ...

Album Review

The Kevin Harris Project: Museum Vo. 1

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 5, 2013

Un riassunto della storia del jazz newyorchese in otto brani: si può definire così Museum Vol. 1, il nuovo disco del Kevin Harris Project. Kevin Harris è un pianista originario di Boston, ma, come molti suoi colleghi-concittadini, si è da tempo stabilito a New York. Ed assolutamente newyorkesi sono le sue radici musicali. Per quanto egli abbia alle spalle una solida preparazione accademica, è la lezione, soprattutto compositiva, di Monk a contrassegnare la sua musica, come lui stesso ammette. Scorrendo ...