Jazz Articles about Wilbur Campbell

About Wilbur Campbell

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Mal Waldron: Stardust & Starlight At The Jazz Showcase

Read "Stardust & Starlight At The Jazz Showcase" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
June 22, 2026

Dall'archivio inedito di registrazioni dello storico locale chicagoano Jazz Showcase, il produttore Zev Feldman pubblica nella sua Resonance Records una nuova gemma: un live del pianista Mal Waldron con Steve Rodby al contrabbasso e Wilbur Campbell alla batteria più Sonny Stitt al contralto in un paio di brani. Un'edizione limitata in doppio LP da 180 grammi e in compact disc, comprendente un booklet con foto inedite, interviste e note di copertina dello scrittore Howard Mandel. La registrazione risale al ...

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Mal Waldron: Stardust & Starlight At The Jazz Showcase

Read "Stardust & Starlight At The Jazz Showcase" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
April 24, 2026

April 2026 sees Zev Feldman--a man devoted to finding unreleased tapes of past jazz masters, well-known and lesser-known--bringing us four excellent live recordings on his Resonance Records label. All of these shows were captured at the Jazz Showcase in Chicago. Pianist Ahmad Jamal's At the Jazz Showcase comes from 1976; Reedman Yusef Lateef's Alight Upon The Lake was recorded in 1975; saxophonist Joe Henderson's Consonance is taken from a 1978 show; and the disc at hand, Stardust & Starlight, from ...

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Mal Waldron: Stardust & Starlight At The Jazz Showcase

Read "Stardust & Starlight At The Jazz Showcase" reviewed by Pierre Giroux

by Pierre Giroux
April 21, 2026

The never-before-released Stardust & Starlight: At The Jazz Showcase captures pianist Mal Waldron in August 1979, first in solo, then in the company of bassist Steve Rodby and drummer Wilbur Campbell, then in dialogue with the ever-incisive saxophonist Sonny Stitt, and always in conversation with himself. Resonance Records issues this performance as a limited-edition 180-gram 2-LP set and as a CD. Few figures in modern jazz carry the quiet gravity of Waldron. Emerging from the fertile NYC jazz ...