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Mr GONE
Mr. GONE is a 4 piece ensemble exploring the groove based music of early electric jazz
(fusion), focusing on the groundbreaking music of Weather Report and Herbie
Hancock’s Headhunters & Mwandishi bands, as well as original compositions.
Referencing the origins of the jam band movement, they connect the past with the future,
opening a window on the historical significance and influence of this music. Mr Gone is
the brainchild of Peter Furlan (saxes, Dizzy Gillespie, 10,000 Maniacs, Frank Foster)
Neil Alexander (keyboards, Corey Glover, Alphonse Mouzon, The Mahavishnu Project,
NAIL), with Bryan Kopchak (drums) and Charlie Dougherty (bass).
Peter Furlan & Neil Alexander met in 2011, and quickly realized they had a tremendous
amount of musical history in common - a history that included post bop, free jazz and
classical, as well as progressive rock, funk and jazz fusion. They
immediately resolved to put together a working ensemble. “Mr
Gone” grew naturally out of their shared connections and the desire
to explore some of their favorite music. Focusing primarily on the
music of the longest running jazz fusion outfit “Weather Report”
(1970 - 1986), they fully explore the material with a keen eye for
compositional details and extended improvisations.
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Backgrounder: Spud Murphy - Gone With the Woodwinds
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Lyle “Spud" Murphy was one of the more fascinating figures in jazz and today is among the least known. Murphy was a multi-instrumentalist, bandleader and arranger. He was one of Benny Goodman's arrangers in the mid-1930s and wrote charts for many other bands. But his claim to fame was his 12-volume course in composing, arranging, and orchestration for the professional musician titled The Equal Interval System. He taught mostly in Los Angeles. His EIS was a modern system of music composition ...
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Ellis Marsalis Is Gone
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
The death this week of Ellis Marsalis recalls dozens of enounters with him when he was one of New Orleans’ premier jazz musicians. Long before Ellis became famous as the father of Wynton, Branford, Jason and Delfeo, he established himself as a nonpareil pianist and educator. I remember hearing the the young Marsalis when he was a key member of alto saxophonist Al Belletto’s sextet in the 1960s and being spellbound by the intricacies he and Belletto wove in their ...
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Bill Smith And McCoy Tyner Are Gone
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
James Moody told me that his Georgia-born grandmother said one morning while looking through the newspaper, “Folks is dyin’ what ain’t never died befo’.” The trend continues, as It always has and, if human suscsceptibility is a guide, always will. Recently, the parade of departures resumed when the jazz world lost two giants in their nineties, McCoy Tyner and William O. Smith. Smith a clarinetist, composer, teacher and formidable arranger, was 93. Encouraged by the classical composer Darius Milhaud when ...
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Jimmy Heath And Claudio Roditi Are Gone
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
The last thing any of us at Rifftides wants is for our endeavor to become an obituary service. Life goes on, however, as does its opposite. So we continue to note the passing of musicians who have enriched listeners around the world. Recently, we lost American saxophonist, bandleader and composer Jimmy Heath and Brazil’s Claudio Roditi, perhaps the most influential trumpet and flugelhorn soloist to emerge from his country in the second half of the last century. Heath was 93, ...
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Joao Gilberto Is Gone At 88
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
The man often called the founding father of bossa nova, died today at home in Rio de Janeiro. Joao Gilberto was 88. Along with Antonio Carlos Jobim, Gilberto pioneered the form that became a phenomenon of popular music in the early 1960s. With varying degrees of authenticity, bossa nova was adapted by performers around the world. It sprang from traditions of Brazilian music that reached far into Brazil’s history and reflected aspects of American music that in the fifties and ...
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Nancy Wilson Is Gone
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Sorry to hear of the passing of Nancy Wilson. She was 81 and died yesterday at her home north of Los Angeles in the California desert community of Pioneertown. The singer achieved fame in the 1960s after Cannonball Adderley heard her in a Columbus, Ohio, club and recommended her to Capitol Records. An album she made with Adderley and his quintet became one of her most popular and has remained so for decades. Nearly as successful was her album with ...
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Jerry González Is Gone
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
It is sad to hear of the death of Jerry González, the extraordinary bandleader, trumpeter and Latin percussionist. He died of heart failure at 69 after being overcome by smoke in a fire in his home in Madrid, Spain on Monday. He had lived in Madrid since 2000. In the late 1970s, González and his bassist brother Andy established The Fort Apache Band, which quickly became one of the leading groups combining jazz and Latin music. Their album Rumba Para ...
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Patrick Williams Is Gone
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Sorry to learn that composer, arranger and bandleader Patrick Williams died yesterday at 79. Prolific in his work for motion pictures and television, Williams was sometimes taken for granted—but never by fellow members of the arranging fraternity or by the musicians who took part in recordings of his ingenious, often demanding, arrangements. Frank Sinatra chose Williams to do the arrangements for the singer’s final studio albums. Williams’ work on television series brought him several Grammy nominations. His music accompanied Colombo, ...
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Bob Dorough Is Gone
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Word has arrived that Bob Dorough died today at his home in Mount Bethel, Pennsylvania. He was 94. Dorough’s greatest fame in popular culture stemmed from his central role in the enormously successful television series Schoolhouse Rock. The program informed and entertained children, and many adults, from 1973 to 1985. Within the jazz community, Dorough was a beloved singer of literate and witty songs that he wrote and performed, usually accompanying himself as a skilled and harmonically adept pianist. In ...
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Mr GONE
Location: Beacon
Instrument: Band / ensemble / orchestra
Formed: 2013
