Jazz Articles about Leo Wright

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Album Review

Tadd Dameron: Fontainebleau & Magic Touch Revisited

Read "Fontainebleau & Magic Touch Revisited" reviewed by Maurizio Zerbo

by Maurizio Zerbo
March 31, 2025

Le linee guida di Fontainebleau e Magic Touch, i due capolavori di Tadd Dameron qui riuniti in un solo CD, furono teorizzate dal pianista di Cleveland sulle pagine della rivista Record Changer, in cui descrisse come la sua adesione all'estetica del bebop fosse mediata dalla classica scrittura swing. Le forme multitematiche ABA e i trasporti di chorus di “The Scene Is Clean," nonché i quattro movimenti di “Fontainebleau" che non contengono una sola nota improvvisata, forniscono prove tangibili ...

Album Review

Tadd Dameron: Fontainebleau & Magic Touch Revisited

Read "Fontainebleau & Magic Touch Revisited" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
October 27, 2024

There is much that is tragic about Tadd Dameron's story. The composer, arranger and pianist fell prey to the heroin epidemic that gripped New York's jazz world in the 1940s and 1950s. He did jail time for his addiction in 1959-60. He died at the woefully young age of 48 years in 1965. But there is nothing tragic about Dameron's legacy as a composer-arranger, the field in which he made his most important contribution to jazz. His work was unfailingly ...