Jazz Articles about Patrice Rushen

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Album Review

Not much is really new on veteran drummer Mike Clark's 2026 album, Kuon Ganjo (Time Without Beginning), which encompasses a series of nine hard-bop themes performed by Clark's able quintet. Having said that, the most reasonable question is, do they do it well? And the answer to that is an unequivocal yes. Clark, who has been around the block more than a few times during his decades-long career as a jazz/funk timekeeper and is perhaps best known for ...

Album Review

Mike Clark: Itai Doshin

Read "Itai Doshin" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
November 14, 2025

Itai Doshin is a Buddhist term that, translated from Japanese, refers to a state of harmony wherein individuals share a common goal and purpose, or “many in body, one in mind." That is the level California-based drum legend Mike Clark's quintet strives for on Clark's second album on Gregory Howe's Wide Hive label. Is the mission accomplished? That is for the listener to decide. What can be said is that everyone gives it his (or her) best ...

Radio & Podcasts

Patrice Rushen, Peter Bernstein, Alice Zawadzki, Ezra Collective

by Ludovico Granvassu
February 4, 2025

Revelations and confirmations in a playlist that mixes new releases and reissues bridging tradition and innovation.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Ezra Collective “Expensive" Dance, No One's Watching (Partisan) 0:16 Host talks 6:27 Patrice Rushen “Haw-Right On" Prelusion (Prestige) 7:20 Host talks 15:21 Joe Webb “100 years of Bill & Lil" Hamstrings & Hurricanes (Edition) 16:42 Alice Zawadzki, Fred Thomas, Misha Mullov-Abbado “Golden Lady" Ze Gorami (ECM) 20:18 ...

Radio & Podcasts

Holly Channell, Anne Sajdera, Roxana Amed, Teri Parker, Michael Mayo, Nicole Mitchell & Ballake Sissoko, Nubya Garcia & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
October 14, 2024

This broadcast includes new releases from Holly Channell, Anne Sajdera, Roxana Amed, Teri Parker, Michael Mayo, Nicole Mitchell & Ballake Sissoko, Nubya Garcia plus a single from Laila Biali, with birthday shoutouts to Ann Richards, Basia, Hyuna Park, Patrice Rushen and Melissa Stylianou among others. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear. See them live, purchase their music so they can continue to distract, comfort, provoke and inspire.Playlist Holly Channell “I Can't Give You Anything But ...

Album Review

Gerry Gibbs: Songs from My Father

Read "Songs from My Father" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
September 13, 2021

Drummer Gerry Gibbs pays tribute to father Terry Gibbs on the amazing nineteen-track double-CD set Songs from My Father featuring a guest appearance by the ninety-seven-year-old vibraphonist on one track, among other surprises, including the last studio performance by the late jazz icon Chick Corea, who also wrote “Tango for Terry" for this homage and is the only non-Gibbs composition on the album. Son Gerry had plenty of his father's music to choose from when contemplating this project but chose ...

Album Review

Gerry Gibbs Thrasher Dream Trios: Songs from My Father

Read "Songs from My Father" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
September 1, 2021

Songs from My Father. What a marvelous idea!—and not simply for the sentiment. Drummer Gerry Gibbs' father happens to be Hall of Fame vibraphonist (and sometime song writer) Terry Gibbs, who is still on the scene at ninety-seven (and, in fact, making a guest appearance on the first disc of this superlative two-CD set). Eighteen of the elder Gibbs' songs, written between 1949 and 1985 (and one more, “Tango for Terry," by the late Chick Corea) are performed by four ...

Album Review

Stanley Clarke: Standards

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 20, 2006

Era da un bel po’ di tempo che non ritrovavamo Stanley Clarke al basso acustico per un intero album. In questa occasione il formidabile bassista, diventato celebre per il suo breve sodalizio con Chick Corea nei Return To Forever e poi per i tanti progetti a suo nome (anche se da parecchi anni sembra essere un po’ fuori dai giochi), è accompagnato dalla brava pianista Patrice Rushen e dal batterista Ndugu Chancler che qualcuno ricorda giovanissimo alla corte di Miles ...