Jazz Articles about Freddie Bryant

New Music From Illegal Crowns, Idle Hands, Freddie Bryant And More

by Bob Osborne
July 6, 2023

On this show new music from Illegal Crowns (Tomas Fujiwara, Mary Halvorson, Taylor Ho Bynum & Benoit Delbecq), Ingebrigt Håker Flaten & Paal Nilssen-Love, Freddie Bryant, La Disidencia de las Máquinas, James McGowan, Voodoo Drummer, Sana Nagano and Leonor Falcón, Idle Hands, and a never before heard recording of John Coltrane with Eric Dolphy.Playlist Show Intro 00:00 Illegal Crowns “Unclosing" from Unclosing (Out Of Your Head Records) 00:54 Ingebrigt Håker Flaten & Paal Nilssen-Love “Part 7" from Guts ...

Freddie Bryant's Upper Westside Love Story

by David Bixler
May 25, 2022

In this episode of LINER NOTES I speak with guitarist, composer, and now lyricist Freddie Bryant about his song cycle Upper Westside Love Story. With the help of vocalist Carla Cook and soloists Regina Carter, Steve Wilson, and Donny McCaslin, Freddie pays homage to his New York City childhood neighborhood and takes the listener on a journey of the changes it has endured. You can visit upperwestsidelovestory.com to learn more. This episode features music from Freddie Bryant's Upper ...

Freddie Bryant and Kaleidoscope: Live Grooves… Epic Tales

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 8, 2013

Freddie Bryant ama miscelare diversi idiomi musicali. Il suo è un approccio chitarristico nel quale si denotano influenze di differente natura: retrogusto indiano, forme che rimandano in mente i maestri del jazz, tagli dal sapore vagamente latin. Insomma, una derivazione multifunzionale, che nell'ambito del suo trio Kaleidoscope, completato da Patrice Blanchard al basso elettrico e Willard Dyson alle percussioni, trova ulteriori appoggi e prolungamenti espressivi. Questo grazie anche agli ospiti chiamati in causa, che nelle dieci tracce di Live Grooves... ...

Freddie Bryant: Boogaloo Brasileiro

by Dave Nathan
December 1, 2000

I don't know who is responsible picking covers on jazz albums, but some of them puzzle me, like the cover of Freddie Bryant's Boogaloo Brasileiro. It pictures him (or someone, since it's from the back) as a wild haired, guitar waving nut. When you discover who he is and listen to this album you quickly find out he is anything but that. First, Bryant has great musical genes. His mother was an opera singer and his father a pianist. He ...

Freddie Bryant: Boogaloo Brasileiro

by Michael Askounes
August 1, 2000

OK, let me admit it up front: I wouldn't know what good Brazilian Jazz was supposed to sound like if Pele snuck up behind me and hit me over the head with a timbale. My exposure to Latin music is pretty much limited to the “Ricky's" - Martin and Ricardo. So it is with much humility and trepidation that I present to you - the Brazilian Jazz buying public - with my honest opinion of jazz guitarist Freddie Bryant's latest ...

Freddie Bryant: Boogaloo Brasileiro

by Joel Roberts
May 1, 2000

Freddie Bryant is a busy young man with a taste for diverse musical adventures. Along with an active career as a classical guitarist, Bryant is also a current member of trumpeter Tom Harrell's quintet. And he's appeared with everyone from African pop star Salif Keita to Klezmer virtuoso Giora Fiegman. On his third CD as a leader, Bryant renews his romance with the music of South America, succesfully melding his superb classical technique with the explosive rhythms of Brazil.

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Freddie Bryant: Boogaloo Brasileiro

by C. Andrew Hovan
March 1, 2000

Like many of you, the name of guitarist Freddie Bryant was certainly a new one to me. My only previous encounter with his work was on a Steve Wilson Criss Cross date of several years ago and that in no way prepared me for the kind of mature and stylish presentation that awaited on Boogaloo Brasileiro. A heady mix of formidable jazz and Brazilian-inflected rhythms, the guitarist's septet breezes its way through four Bryant originals and four preferred standards.

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