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Trio 3 + Geri Allen: Celebrating Mary Lou Williams (Live at Birdland New York)
by AAJ Italy Staff
Con Celebrating Mary Lou Williams (Live at Birdland New York) quattro figure storiche del jazz newyorchese quali come Reggie Workman, Andrew Cyrille ed Oliver Lake (ossia il Trio 3) tornano ad essere affiancati dalla pianista Geri Allen per celebrare la figura di Mary Lou Williams, una tra le prime donne affermatasi nel mondo del jazz alla metà degli anni '30. In primo piano troviamo alcune delle più rappresentative composizioni tra le trecento firmate dalla Williams che offrono un panorama assai ...
read moreSteve Colson: The Untarnished Dream
by AAJ Italy Staff
Anche negli anni settanta, quando l'AACM di Chicago otteneva ampi riconoscimenti in Italia e Francia, il pianista Steve Colson non ebbe modo di emergere come figura di primo piano. Dette anche concerti anche nel nostro Paese e qualcuno ricorderà il suo gruppo d'allora, The Colson Unity Troupe, con cui incise anche un album per l'etichetta Black Saint (No Reservation, 1980). Molto attivo come sideman, Colson ha inciso relativamente poco a suo nome e questo è il quinto disco come leader ...
read moreReggie Workman: Sculptured Sounds
by Terrell Kent Holmes
Bassist Reggie Workman has spent almost 50 years participating in the shaping of modern jazz, playing with groups led by Art Blakey, Cecil Taylor, Thelonious Monk, Archie Shepp and John Coltrane, using those experiences to form his own unique brand of improvising and composing. Just a few months short of 70, Workman continues to record and tour, as well as teach at the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music. Lately he has focused his considerable energy towards organizing the ...
read moreWayne Shorter: Night Dreamer
by John Kelman
By the time he made this recording, a few short months before he was to join Miles Davis' groundbreaking second quintet, saxophonist Wayne Shorter had already earned a reputation as a player combining heady intellectualism with a more visceral approach as a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. He'd also released four records for the Vee-Jay label that demonstrated how, while he'd learned a great deal with Blakey, he was developing his own voice, albeit still in the hard bop ...
read moreA Fireside Chat with Reggie Workman
by AAJ Staff
Why would someone leave the John Coltrane Quartet? That question still stigmatizes Workman forty years after his departure, overshadowing his impressive collaborations as a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers (with Wayne Shorter and Lee Morgan), and with Yusef Lateef, Sam Rivers, Andrew Hill, Archie Shepp, and Freddie Hubbard. So I asked. The following is my conversation with Reggie Workman, a groundbreaking bassist unfairly labeled 'avant-garde' and the before mentioned Trane water he has carried for far too long, unedited ...
read moreRoswell Rudd / Archie Shepp: Live in New York
by John Stevenson
The year was 1994. The venue: the Eilat Red Sea Jazz Festival. Hundreds of sweltering Jazz aficionados waited in a huge converted cargo shed to witness reedman Archie Shepp and his quartet--a marquee coup for the Israeli festival. When Shepp swaggered onto the stage, the more discerning members of the audience (including this reviewer) could scarcely conceal their disappointment. Here was the 1960s hero of radical Jazz conservatively bedecked in two--piece gray suit and tie. He might as well have ...
read moreLee Morgan: Taru
by Jim Santella
Just look at that rhythm section. One of the best in the business. The personnel on Lee Morgan’s 1980 album make this one valuable right from its opening bars. George Benson only appears on three tracks, but Morgan’s regular sidekick Bennie Maupin was in his prime. As was Morgan and the rhythm section. John Hicks, Reggie Workman and Billy Higgins each offer a unique sound while fitting Lee Morgan’s upbeat mold. Recorded February 15, 1968 but released in 1980, the ...
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