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Ted Brown: Live at Trumpets
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Inspired by pianist Lennie Tristano, tenor saxophonist Ted Brown came up in what we now call the cool school of jazz. Saxophonists who played in this style tended to blow in dryer, pastel tones while keeping a rigid sense of time and unspooling long ribbons of improvised lines. Though Brown studied with Tristano, he is in many ways a protege of tenor saxophonist Warne Marsh, with whom he first recorded in 1956. In 2006 and 2010, Brown's quartet—Brown on tenor ...
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John Vanore: Stolen Moments
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
There were only seven musicians on Oliver Nelson's The Blues and the Abstract Truth in February 1961. But as Creed Taylor, the album's producer, told me in an interview in 2008, the extraordinary way Nelson arranged the septet enabled them to sound 10 times larger. Even more surprising is that the entire album was completed at Rudy Van Gelder's New Jersey studio in a single session. Who came up with the album's unusual title? “Me," Creed said. “I thought we ...
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Monday Recommendation: Tommy Smith On Coltrane
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Tommy Smith, Embodying The Light: A Dedication To John Coltrane (Spartacus Records) Fifty years ago in the aftermath of John Coltrane’s death, it would have seemed unlikely that a definitive tribute to the saxophone master would someday come from a Scottish tenor player. Yet, so universal is Coltrane’s presence in jazz and so deeply has Tommy Smith absorbed and incorporated his lessons that Smith’s tribute album is an important achievement and a moving listening experience. His rhythm section perfectly conforms ...
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Gabriel Alegría Afro-Peruvian Sextet Showcases Their Unique Fusion Of Jazz & Afro-peruvian Music On "Diablo En Brooklyn," Set For Sept. 22 Release
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Gabriel Alegría has dedicated his life to introducing audiences to jazz-infused interpretations of traditional music from his Peruvian homeland, Afro-Peruvian arrangements of works from the Great American Songbook, and original compositions inspired by both styles. On Diablo en Brooklyn, the sixth recording by Alegría’s Afro-Peruvian Sextet, the ensemble presents what is without a doubt their most fully realized and boldest album to date. It is also the first to be made entirely in Peru and, most notably, at Lima’s legendary ...
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Four New Releases From ECM Records: Vijay Iyer Sextet, Tim Berne's Snakeoil, Gary Peacock Trio, and David Virelles
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Universal Music Enterprises
August 25 Vijay Iyer Sextet Far From Over Vijay Iyer: piano, fender rhodes; Graham Haynes: cornet, flugelhorn, electronics Steve Lehman: alto saxophone; Mark Shim: tenor saxophone; Stephan Crump: double bass Tyshawn Sorey: drums Keyboardist-composer Vijay Iyer’s energized sequence of ECM releases has garnered copious international praise. Yet his fifth for the label since 2014—Far From Over, featuring his dynamically commanding sextet—finds Iyer reaching a new peak, furthering an artistry that led The Guardian to call him “one of ...
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Superstar Drummer & Songwriter Cindy Blackman Santana To Release New Summer Single "Fun, Party, Splash" Feat. Carlos Santana & Produced By Narada Michael Walden
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
The past few months have been a blur for Cindy Blackman Santana, who is currently touring and performing with her husband Carlos Santana, is featured as a vocalist, drummer, and songwriter on Power of Peace, the new Santana/Isley Brothers collaboration, and has been busy touring with her own band and recording tracks in the studio with the legendary producer Narada Michael Walden. Together through Walden's Tarpan Records label they will release the new single “Fun, Party, Splash” featuring Carlos Santana ...
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Jo and Rosey: Two New CDs
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Back in the 1950s, pop singers played a vital role in the fabric of our society. Unlike today, where many pop stars leverage dark fantasies and disturbing psychological dramas in songs to connect with audiences, singers 60 years ago were songbirds of the American Dream. They were relentlessly cheery and upbeat, and in the process lifted the spirits of a generation that had been through a Depression and World War II. Pop stars had an unspoken responsibility: to give listeners ...
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Chet Baker: Live in London
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Between March 28 and April 2 in 1983, Chet Baker appeared at the Canteen in London. By then, the club's space at 4 Great Queen St. in Covent Garden was something of a landmark. From 1979 to 1981, it was the Blitz, a wine bar where British pop's New Romantic movement was launched. So it was only fitting that three years later, Chet Baker, an old romantic, appeared under the same roof for six nights. He was backed by a ...
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