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Instrument: Saxophone, baritone
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by David Brown
Welcome friends and neighbors to The Jazz Continuum. Old, new, in, out... wherever the music takes us. Each week, we will explore the elements of jazz from a historical perspective. This week, let's celebrate the birth anniversary of Hamiet Bluiett; check out John Coltrane ending his time with Miles in an interview from Stockholm 1960; and finally a set of works that push the edges of the jazz genre with Natural Information Society, the Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble and more. ...
read moreCharles Mingus: Mingus At Carnegie Hall (Deluxe Edition)
by Chris May
This 2-CD set takes the 1974 album Mingus At Carnegie Hall (Atlantic) and adds seventy minutes of previously unissued material recorded at the same concert. It is as worthwhile an addition to Charles Mingus' recorded legacy as 2020's previously unissued 2-CD set Charles Mingus @ Bremen 1964 & 1975 (Sunnyside). Why it has taken so long for either set to be released is anybody's guess. But at least we have them now. Mingus led many great bands ...
read moreA tribute to Hamiet Bluiett, and new releases
by Bob Osborne
A large part of this show features a tribute to the late Hamiet Bluiett, one of the pre-eminent exponents of the baritone saxophone known for his outstanding solo work and a key member of the World Saxophone Quartet. There are also a selection of new releases with some highlights from the ECM back catalogue. Playlist Stefon Harris & Blackout Dat Dere" Sonic Creed (Motéma Music) 00:00 Benoît Delbecq, Jorrit Dijkstra, John Hollenbeck Place" Linger (Driff Records) 06:40 ...
read moreAndrew Cyrille & Haitian Fascination: Route de Frères
by AAJ Italy Staff
America del ghetto, Africa e Caraibi s'incontrano in questo nuovo lavoro (incisione, però, del 2005) dell'oggi settantaduenne batterista già gloriosamente a fianco di Cecil Taylor. Negritudine sugli scudi, quindi, anche perché l'altro elemento schiettamente jazzistico del quintetto è quell'Hamiet Bluiett la cui prima visibilità rimanda all'estrema stagione mingusiana. Più Mingus, se proprio vogliamo (ricordiamo almeno l'"Haitian Fight Song" inserito nel '57 in The Clown), che Taylor, del tutto assente, aleggia, sia pure in sedicesimo (per esempio in C´mon Baby"), su ...
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by Clifford Allen
When one thinks of great baritone saxophonists, the list is relatively short: Harry Carney, Serge Chaloff, John Surman and Hamiet Bluiett are the names that come most quickly to mind. Compared to the vast number of tenor and alto players, or even the throngs of soprano-doublers, the baritone is a criminally underrepresented horn. Part of this is that it was often a bottom-end instrument in large orchestras, often relegated to a supporting role: there are far more Bruce Grants than ...
read moreHamiet Bluiett: Baritone Nation
by Larry Koenigsberg
There's an overwhelming funk groove in this recording from the 1997 Montreal International Jazz Festival. It may be a little bottom heavy, but those baritones can shriek, too, and all the players have chops to burn. With Burrage pounding out the beat, it must have been a spectacular concert. The jazz saxophone quartet, the instrumentation first borrowed from classical music for jazz by Anthony Braxton over two decades ago, is now well established. Bluiett, a founder of the World Saxophone ...
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