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Cumbancha Signs Joe Driscoll & Sekou Kouyate / "Faya" out February 18th
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Press Junkie PR
The well-worn and often overblown expression “music is a common language" has never been more apropos in the case of Joe Driscoll & Sekou Kouyate. US-born, England-based Driscoll speaks no French and Kouyate, who hails from the West African country of Guinea, little English. When they were brought together at the Nuit Metis (Mixed Night) festival in Marseille, France in 2010 and given a week to produce a concert, music was the only way they could communicate. It turns out, ...
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One Track Mind: Kermit Driscoll with Bill Frisell and Vinnie Colaiuta, "Great Expectations" (2011)
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Something Else!
By S. Victor Aaron Pardon me as I continue on the topic of Bill Frisell The Sideman on an interpretation of a Miles Davis fusion deep cut. In the back of a Paris taxicab, probably sometime in the mid 1970s, three aspiring musicians were gobsmacked from the music playing on the radio. It was the early fusion side-long jam “Great Expectations" recorded by Miles Davis shortly after Bitches Brew. For one of these musicians, Big Fun, the album that this ...
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Kermit Driscoll "Reveille"
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Sound Insights by Doug Payne
Bassist Kermit Driscoll is best known for his work in the 1990s behind such downtown luminaries as Bill Frisell (1987-96) and John Zorn (1988-94). He was also co-founder of the Knitting Factory collective New and Used, featuring trumpeter Dave Douglas, which waxed several records in the nineties. But the bassist, who studied under Jaco Pastorius, has also performed with a wide swath of musicians from jazz greats Chet Baker and Toots Thielmans and pop stars Ben E. King and The ...
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Kermit Driscoll - Reveille
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Music and More by Tim Niland
Bassist Kermit Driscoll has played in the band of the idiosyncratic guitarist Bill Frisell on many occasions, so it's nice to hear them with him in the leadership position. Also joining them are the up and coming pianist Kris Davis and Vinnie Colaiuta on drums. The music still retains the heartland vibe of a Frisell record, but the music is focused and song based, and with Davis adding enigmatic piano accents and thick bass leaving open space for the group ...
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Enter the "Kermit Driscoll - Reveille" Giveaway
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All About Jazz
All About Jazz members are invited to enter the Nineteen-Eight Records “Kermit Driscoll—Reveille“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select THREE winners at the conclusion of the contest on February 9th. Click here to enter the contest (Following Kermit Driscoll at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.) Good luck! Your Friends at Nineteen-Eight Records About Reveille One thing's certain: it was definitely worth the wait. Kermit Driscoll has been a remarkable bassist and inspired sideman for the last 30 years, ...
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Koby Hayon Trio New Release - "Gemini" with Kermit Driscoll & Jerome Morris
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Michael Ricci
Israeli Guitarist and composer Koby Hayon releases debut CD “Gemini"
Koby Hayon was born and raised in Jerusalem, Israel. In 1999, Koby moved to Tel-Aviv to pursue his musical career, and played as a jazz guitar player in many different groups in venues throughout Israel . In 2001, Hayon moved to the United States, where he earned his BM in Jazz Studies at SUNY Purchase.
In Hayon's compositions, he fuses his heritage with his vast musical training by writing materials ...
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Kermit Driscoll Gravely Ill with Lyme Disease
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All About Jazz
Though he has never released an album under his own name, the bassist Kermit Driscoll has had a considerable impact in adventurous jazz circles over the last 20 years.
Mr. Driscoll first emerged as a close compatriot of the guitarist Bill Frisell during an influential stretch from the mid-1980s through the mid-'90s. (Live, a 1991 Gramavision album credited to Bill Frisell, is especially worth seeking out for Mr. Driscoll's nimble rapport with Mr. Frisell and Mr. Baron, a drummer.) Mr. ...
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