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Solos & Duets: Dave Rimpus, Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Mingus and more

By David Brown | The Jazz Continuum
January 25, 2022
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In a duo performance, musicians become instrumental equals. The interchange of ideas and flow of music is like a conversation. And for the artist who performs solo, there is no place to hide. Today, we present a smorgasbord of solo and duo performances from Coleman Hawkins to Colin Stetson, Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson to Duke Ellington and Jimmy Blanton, Art Tatum to Satoko Fujii, Peter Brotzmann and Walter Perkins to Bill Evans and Edie Gomez and so many more.

Playlist

Petter Eldh "Kali Koma" from Koma Saxo (We Jazz Records) 00:00
Cecile McLorin Salvant "By Myself" from The Window (Mack Avenue) 00:59
Coleman Hawkins "Picasso" from The Jazz Scene (Verve) 03:24
John Coltrane "Jupiter" from Interstellar Space (Impulse!) 07:09
Dewey Redman, Ed Blackwell "F1" from Red And Black In Willisau (Impulse!) 12:31
James Brandon Lewis, Chad Taylor "Radiance" from Live in Willisau (Intakt Records) 14:31
Nina Simone "Love O' Love" from Silk & Soul (RCA Victor) 22:02
Eric Dolphy "God Bless The Child" from Copenhagen Concert (Prestige) 27:05
Duke Ellington, Jimmy Blanton "Pitter Panther Patter" from Duo (RCA Victor) 33:45
Michael Formanek "Loop Back" from Imperfect Measures (Intakt Records) 36:52
Aki Takase, David Murray "Blue Monk" from Blue Monk (Enja Records) 43:45
Bill Evans, Eddie Gomez "Blue Surge" from Intuition (Fantasy) 46:58
Peter Brötzmann, Walter Perkins "Grass Flowers the Wind" from The Ink is Gone (BRÖ 3) 52:04
Art Tatum "After You've Gone" from The Genius Of Art Tatum Number Eleven (Clef Records) 59:04
Joseph Jarman, Anthony Braxton "Together Alone (excerpt)" from Together Alone (Delmark) 1:03:34
Camille Bertault "Goldburg" from Pas De Géant (Okeh) 01:17:30
Matthew Shipp "Yesterdays" from Ao Vivo Jazz Na Fabrica (Selo SESC SP) 01:18:39
Charles Mingus "I Can't Get Started" from Mingus Plays Piano (Superior Viaduct) 01:22:09
Dave Rempis "Knox" from The COVID Tapes: Solos, Duos & Trios (Aerophonic Records) 01:26:50
Colin Stetson "Those Who Didn't Run" from Those Who Didn't Run (Constellation) 01:33:36
Sylvie Courvoisier, Mary Halvorson "Lulu's Second Theorem" from Searching for the Disappeared Hour (Pyroclasticrecords) 1:44:03
Satoko Fujii "Inori" from Solo (Libra Records) 01:51:14

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