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Jazz this week: Oliver Lake, Hamid Drake, Greater St. Louis Jazz Festival, David Liebman, and more
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
It's a fine week to be a fan of jazz and creative music in St. Louis, as the calendar offers a jam-packed schedule of upcoming performances in a variety of styles and genres from big band and straight-ahead swing to free improv and experimental music. Let's go to the highlights... Wednesday, April 20 The Bad Plus Joshua Redman finish their two-night engagement at Jazz at the Bistro. While some tickets may remain for the 9:30 performance, call ahead to check ...
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Music Education Monday: A master class with David Liebman's Expansions
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week for Music Education Monday, it's a video master class with saxophonist David Liebman and his band Expansions, who will be in St. Louis to perform for one night only this Saturday, April 23 at Jazz at the Bistro. Liebman, who's now 69 years old, has played thousands of live dates and made hundreds of recordings over the last 45+ years, leading his own groups and working with notable musicians including Miles Davis, Elvin Jones, Chick Corea, Dave Holland, ...
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Jazz Arts Group Presents NEA Jazz Master David Liebman, Nov. 2 at Vonn Jazz
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Michael Ricci
The Jazz Arts Group of Columbus (JAG) is proud to present an evening of music from award-winning jazz musician and NEA Jazz Master, David Liebman and his quartet. As part of its Inside Track concert series, JAG will bring a bit of New York City to Vonn Jazz Supperclub for two shows (7:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m.) on Wednesday, November 2. David Liebman is considered a renaissance man in contemporary music with a career that has spanned over four decades—beginning ...
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Saxophonist David Liebman, Named NEA Jazz Master, Pays Homage to Trane, Ornette
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All About Jazz @ Spinner
David Liebman got his start in the early '70s as a sideman on saxophone for such esteemed leaders as John McLaughlin, Elvin Jones and Miles Davis. Like so many others, he was initially inspired by John Coltrane, which is one of the reasons Liebman pursued and is best known for his soprano sax work, creating a nimble, pliable and surprisingly muscular sound on the instrument. Always a prolific leader who does a wide variety of projects, Liebman has released 40 ...
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David Liebman and Fusion Both Honored by Jazz Prize
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AAJ Staff
WHEN the National Endowment for the Arts gives the 2011 N.E.A. Jazz Masters Award to the saxophonist David Liebman in January, it will represent more to him than a personal achievement. It will also mark the establishment's de facto validation of the fusion aesthetic, he said, because few, if any, of the 118 other award recipients since 1982 have been as strongly identified with fusion and its challenge to mainstream jazz conventions as he has. “It got a really bad ...
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Dave Allen Quartet Featuring David Liebman - September at 55 Bar
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All About Jazz
Dave Allen Quartet performs September 8th at the 55 Bar.
Dave Allen Quartet with Dave Liebman - sax Chris Lightcap - bass Adam Cruz - drums
55 Bar 55 Christopher St 10pm-1am
Allen has found a true voice, his effortless technique downplays the apparent complexity, paradoxically creating a cool surface sheen that has a white heat glowing beneath it...music that seduces both the body and mind--again and again. ...
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David Liebman, Ellery Eskelin, Tony Marino, Jim Black - Renewal (Hat Hut, 2008) ****
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All About Jazz
As Ellery Eskelin writes on the liner notes, this is a real quartet album, with contributions coming from all four musicians, and all equally contributing to the overall sound. Ellery Eskelin and David Liebman play tenor sax, Tony Marino bass and Jim Black drums. The music is excellent, composed, yet open and free, not really boppish, rather post-bop, but then a tad more free. So how can I describe this : lots of references to the jazz tradition, lots of ...
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David Liebman-Ellery Eskelin Quartet: "Renewal" on Hatology 654
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All About Jazz
David Liebman & Ellery Eskelin -tenor saxophones,Tony Marino -double bass and Jim Black -drums: Renewal on Hatology 654 Also available Hatology 615: Different But The Same There is a common understanding that we all share of freedom and spontaneity framed within underlying structures accompanied by a loving nod to the jazz legacy. The compositions heard on this CD evidence a diversity of idioms and styles unified by a common aesthetical approach. This is a group where straight ahead and free ...
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Saxophonist David Liebman and Pianist Jim Ridl Discuss The Creative Process in Jazz at AAJ
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All About Jazz
Unlike most other art forms, jazz creativity emerges directly in performance through improvisation. Every jazz performance is unique and comes together in real time while it is being played. Each moment is an original contribution, and not merely an interpretation.
It is clear that some musicians push the envelope more than others. They take necessary risks to explore new territory. Sometimes, they redefine the nature of jazz itself. While they appreciate their lineage, they are not satisfied with merely pursuing ...
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David Liebman, Richie Beirach, Ron McClure, Billy Hart, Redemption: Quest Live in Europe on Hatology 642
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All About Jazz
Redemption: Quest Live in Europe on Hatology 642
David Liebman: soprano & tenor saxophones & flute, Richie Beirach: piano, Ron McClure: double bass, Billy Hart: drums
Recorded 2005 in Paris and Baden/Switzerland.
“To be back on tour with Quest after fifteen years was like going home. We are peers with a common language that traverses the past several decades of music; experience and commonality are intangibles which when present create a sum much greater than the individual parts. What a ...
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