Content by tag "Joe Jones"

ARTICLE: INTERVIEWS June 11, 2015

Dave Burrell: Pianist Navigating the Windward Passages

Dave Burrell is a master pianist and composer who encountered the avant-garde in the 1960s and has been following his own independent path ever since. He combines classical and jazz elements that are both “inside" and “outside" the mainstream. The title of a poem by J.V. Cunningham, “The Metaphysical Amorist" characterizes much of his playing, which ...

ARTICLE: INTERVIEWS February 10, 2014

Victor Lewis: The Drummer's Spirit

By VICTOR L. SCHERMER

For several decades, Victor Lewis has been one of the most in-demand drummers of the post-bop era and beyond. He has performed with Stan Getz, Dexter Gordon, J.J. Johnson, Chet Baker, George Cables, Woody Shaw, Kenny Barron, Bobby Watson, and others of similar stature. On account of his exceptional ability to push the envelope of musical ...

ARTICLE: BOOK REVIEWS April 27, 2013

Idris Muhammad with Britt Alexander: Inside The Music – The Life of Idris Muhammad

By DAVE WAYNE

Inside the Music: The Life of Idris Muhammad
Idris Muhammad with Britt Alexander
235 pages
ISBN: 978-1-4691-9216-1
XLibris Corporation
2012

In popular music, particularly before musicians' credit listings became the norm on records, drummers --and really all rhythm section stalwarts--worked in obscurity no matter how brilliant their playing was. ...

ARTICLE: INTERVIEWS June 25, 2012

Christian McBride: Knocking on the Door

By BOB KENSELAAR

Christian McBride was talking about the Grammy he received in October, 2011 for his big band album, The Good Feeling (Mack Avenue, 2011)--his first Grammy as a leader and third overall. While the bassist certainly appreciated getting the nod from his peers and from the Recording Academy, he said he gets just as much of a ...