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by John Kelman
More than any complete score of the 20th Century, Gershwin's Porgy and Bess has to be the one most covered by jazz artists. A short list of significant players who have tackled the cycle includes Hank Jones, Oscar Peterson, Ray Charles and Cleo Laine, Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald, and Joe Henderson. Arguably the most definitive arrangement of Gershwin's score is the one Gil Evans created for Miles Davis in the '50s.
So vivid was Evans' score, in fact, that ...
read moreMark Masters Ensemble: American Jazz Institute Presents The Clifford Brown Project
by Michael P. Gladstone
Having recently learned about the ingenuity of Mark Masters per his May 2004 release with Lee Konitz, One Day With Lee , I eagerly anticipated checking out Masters' 2003 album The Clifford Brown Project.
In order to examine the body of music associated with the later trumpeter, Masters devised a unique methodology to highlight Clifford Brown's solos as performed by the Ensemble, which consists of eleven musicians. Tim Hagans is given the opportunity to emulate Clifford Brown, ...
read moreMark Masters Ensemble: One Day With Lee
by Michael P. Gladstone
Alto sax legend Lee Konitz seems to gather more steam with each passing year. I saw him play twice in the 1970s and each performance was a revelation. He appeared with a piano-less trio taking it both inside and out before an appreciative undergraduate audience and later in the decade with his bracing nonet. In recent years he has recorded prolifically in duets, small combos and orchestras with musicians from all walks of jazz music.
Mark Masters, the ...
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