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by Troy Dostert
One of the undersung elder statesmen of the jazz avant-garde, guitarist Michael Gregory Jackson played a vital role in the burgeoning loft scene of the 1970s, where his work with Oliver Lake was especially noteworthy. On albums like Lake's Holding Together (Black Saint, 1976) and Zaki (hatOLOGY, 1979), Jackson brought a deep reservoir of influences, not the least of which was a rock/R&B sensibility that he would later develop in more pop-oriented directions during the 1980s and '90s, a shift ...
read moreMichael Gregory Jackson Clarity Quartet: WHENUFINDITUWILLKNOW
by Troy Dostert
A guitarist with a prodigious recorded legacy and an omnivorous stylistic range, Michael Gregory Jackson's return to his avant-jazz roots during the past couple of decades has been a welcome, if under-recognized, development. While he cut his teeth in the '70s loft scene in the company of luminaries such as Wadada Leo Smith, Oliver Lake, Julius Hemphill, Pheeroan akLaff, and Fred Hopkins, Jackson was never content to remain locked into a particular genre, and his subsequent trajectory included a number ...
read moreMichael Gregory Jackson: Clarity
by AAJ Italy Staff
Questo album del chitarrista Michael Gregory Jackson fu registrato nel 1976, un peridodo particolarmente intenso per il giovane musicista, nato nel 1953 nel Connecticut. Jackson sembrava essere il nuovo eroe della chitarra jazz, soprattutto per la sua partecipazione al disco Holding Together di Oliver Lake, oltre che per la sua presenza nella bella serie dal vivo denominata Wildflowers: The New York Loft Jazz Sessions. Cinque volumi registrati nel 1976 nel loft di Sam Rivers, pubblicati originariamente su vinile dalla etichetta ...
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by Raul d'Gama Rose
Michael Gregory is the quintessential modern troubadour. He may not sing in a Romance language, but he turns his instruments of choice--guitar and voice--into a powerful language that enables him to recreate the sensuous, reverential and spiritual literature that, in turn, enormously enhances his songbook. Gregory turns on the charm on Clarity, a short, but memorable album that provides a telling snapshot of the musician's art. He is joined here by the power trio of alto saxophonist Oliver Lake, tenor ...
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