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Backgrounder: Ray Bryant - Alone With the Blues
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Recorded in December 1958, Alone With the Blues was Ray Bryant's first solo piano album. Growing up, Bryant was deeply influenced by the church, and gospel always played a big part in his approach to jazz. His mother was an ordained minister in Philadelphia and made sure Bryant was with her in the pews. He began playing at age 6, and by 12 he was being paid to play at local events. Throughout the 1950s, Bryant was the house pianist ...
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Third Thursdays with Dave Bryant And Friends: A Monthly Harmolodic Jazz Series Starting In April 2022
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Mary Curtin Productions
Keyboardist and composer Dave Bryant has many friends. Many who also happen to be notable local, national, and international jazz artists, who have collaborated with Cambridge-based Bryant on different projects over a span of decades. Those connections began to grow in the early 1980's, within a year after Bryant completed his formal undergrad studies at Berklee. It was then that he began to study privately with free jazz harmolodics pioneer Ornette Coleman. During this seven-year student/mentor period, Coleman counselled Bryant ...
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Loston Harris Trio at Bryant Park Tree Lighting on December 3
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
LOSTON HARRIS TRIO PERFORMS AT BRYANT PARK TREE LIGHTING DECEMBER 3 - TUESDAY JOINS ALL-STAR LINEUP OF PERFORMERS Celebrate and Give Back at the Tree Lighting Show Featuring Loston Harris The Loston Harris Trio will be featured at this year's Bryant Park Tree Lighting Show, which will present an array of personalities, musicians, and excitement. Throughout the evening, you can enjoy music performances by the Loston Harris Trio, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Carly Rose Sonenclar of The X Factor, Young ...
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Berkshire Gateway To Feature Phil Woods, Freddie Bryant, Greg Caputo Big Band
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Ed Bride Associates
Berkshires Jazz, Inc. today announced the second annual Berkshire Gateway Jazz Weekend, bringing marquee performers and local jazz musicians to downtown Lee, Massachusetts, July 25-28. In collaboration with Berkshire Gateway Preservation, Inc., Berkshires Jazz presents the {Greg Caputo Big Band, Phil Woods, and the Freddie Bryant Quartet in the striking performance space at First Congregational Church, 25 Park Place, and other venues. In addition to the headline performances on July 26 and 27, the weekend will include “jazz about town,” ...
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Aurora Blue 16th Release From Fusion Composer Gary Paul Bryant
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Kl Ma
The fact that two minute, thirty-eight second “Smokin Mirrors" from Fusion composer Gary Paul Bryant's latest EP release is debuting at number one on Soundclick's Jazz Fusion charts is no surprise. Gary's 16th instrumental release jumps into uncharted fusion territory. Defying genre and tradition, Aurora Blue melds the sophistication of jazz with power rock, classical and world elements to create a unique progressive fusion that sometimes hints of Yes, King Crimson and Pink Floyd. Before the advent of today's digital ...
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Stewart Plays Bryant
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Reaction to the death of Ray Bryant keeps coming in. Dubliner Colm (Red) O'Sullivan writes from Rio de Janeiro, where he is immersing himself in Brazilian music. He alerts us to video of a fellow Irishman, guitarist Louis Stewart, playing a Bryant composition. Stewart has been an important player in the UK for decades. He has occasionally appeared in the US. In The New York Times in 1981, John S. Wilson wrote, after hearing Stewart, “he spins out single- note ...
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Jazz Guitarist Freddie Bryant Performs at Ryles in Cambridge on Wednesday, June 8
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MassJazz: Jazz in Massachusetts
Ray Bryant, 1931-2011
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Ray Bryant died on Thursday in a New York hospital following a long illness. He was 79. A pillar of modern mainstream piano, Bryant was often categorized as a blues pianist. He was certainly that, a great one, but his stylistic breadth,powerful swing and harmonic flexibility put him in demand not only by blues singers and players but also by the most sophisticated modern jazz artists from the 1950s on. A list of a few of his colleagues and employers ...
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Ray Bryant - R.I.P.
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Sound Insights by Doug Payne
While the news today has been full of the deaths of Jack “Dr. Death" Kevorkian, 83 (a curiously interesting musician in his own right), and actor James “Matt Dillon" Arness, 88, the great pianist Ray Bryant has also died. His sound—a mix of joyous jazz and grandstanding gospel—was like no other and is evident on many recordings by Art Blakey, Dizzy Gillespie, Coleman Hawkins, Benny Golson, Oliver Nelson, Aretha Franklin, Sonny Rollins, Yusef Lateef and others. Ray Bryant began recording ...
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Bryant Thompson Releases "Puzzle Pieces"
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Cheryl Hughey Promotions
BryCel Productions is proud to announce the release of Puzzle Pieces by pianist/composer Bryant Thompson. A stellar production of seamless quality, Puzzle Pieces serves as another reminder of the insane talent that has been pouring out of the Atlanta area. With a complete complement of the city's finest musicians that forms a sideman list too large to mention, Thompson doesn't pull any punches with this release. The grooves simmer in a powerful stew that's rich in texture and bountiful in ...
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