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Ron Carter: Detroit Jazz Festival 2016 Artist-In-Residence

by C. Andrew Hovan
September 15, 2016

As the artist-in-residence for the 37th Annual Detroit Jazz Festival, Ron Carter maintained an active role in both the artistic and educational functions that accompanied this distinguished position, made even more extraordinary by the fact that it was all happening in his hometown. Having teamed with Pat Metheny last year for a stellar duo set at the festival, artistic director Chris Collins got the idea that the time was ripe for the seventy-nine-year-old bassist to return to Detroit ...

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Ron Carter: Always at the Center of the Action

by Victor L. Schermer
August 22, 2016

Great jazz bassists can always be identified by the fact that you really listen to them! A good jazz bassist keeps good time and gets the chords right, but a great bassist, going as far back as Jimmy Blanton, Scott LaFaro, Charlie Haden, or Jimmy Garrison, catches your ear because you're surprised and moved by what they do. They aren't just keeping time but creating new music. They are at the center of the action. Ron Carter is ...

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Miles Davis Quintet: Miles Smiles

Read "Miles Smiles" reviewed by Nenad Georgievski

by Nenad Georgievski
July 2, 2016

Without a hint of a doubt, the trumpeter Miles Davis' Second Great Quintet which he led in the mid-'60s rekindled his fire for music resulting in exuberant and adventurous music. Davis was reenergized by his young band which vitality and enthusiasm has made a big difference. Not only did it stretch Miles' boundaries, as the band was taking chances and experimenting, but it also helped him get through a difficult period in his personal life (the deaths of his parents, ...

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Gerry Gibbs Thrasher Dream Trio: Live In Studio

Read "Live In Studio" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
March 31, 2016

È possibile che il nome di questa formazione e il suo stesso leader non vi dicano molto ma guardate chi sono gli altri protagonisti e gli ospiti coinvolti. Il pianista Kenny Barron e il bassista Ron Carter completano il trio mentre si aggiungono Roy Hargrove in quattro brani e Cassandra Wilson in tre. Senza esagerare è uno dei dischi più seducenti che ho ascoltato negli ultimi anni con un repertorio di gran classe che spazia da temi di Burt Bacharach ...

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Letizia Gambi: Blue Monday

Read "Blue Monday" reviewed by James Nadal

by James Nadal
March 20, 2016

As the world continues to shrink--musically speaking of course--the melding of American jazz with Mediterranean melody is another spin cycle that makes appreciation of this evolving art form so interesting. With high expectations, Neapolitan vocalist Letizia Gambi, which hails from a theatrical family, and has extensive jazz education, releases Blue Monday, an exuberant and ambitious production that takes jazz on a romantic Italian holiday. After a collaboration with drummer extraordinaire Lenny White in 2009 led to “Introducing Letizia ...

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Ron Carter and the WDR Big Band: My Personal Songbook

Read "My Personal Songbook" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
November 25, 2015

Ron Carter non è solo un protagonista indiscusso nella storia del contrabbasso ma anche un eccellente compositore che, a dispetto dei 3000 album registrati, non ne ha mai dedicato uno per intero ai suoi brani. Erano anni che il produttore Lucas Schmid voleva realizzare questo progetto ma solo nel novembre 2013, dopo una lunga conversazione al festival portoghese di Guimaraes, ha convinto Carter a impegnarsi in prima persona, in veste di ospite della WDR Big Band diretta da ...

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Gerry Gibbs Thrasher Dream Trio: Live In Studio

Read "Live In Studio" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
October 15, 2015

Drummer Gerry Gibbs has been living a recurring dream with slight variations for the past few years. In December of 2012, he laid down tracks with two of his idols--the legendary Ron Carter and the estimable Kenny Barron--and dubbed their group the Thrasher Dream Trio. The eponymous debut from that band, featuring fifteen tracks recorded at those sessions, was, not surprisingly, a strong and classy affair filled with standards, some originals, and other jazz-friendly fare, such as Stevie Wonder's “Don't ...