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Stan Getz: Apasionado
by Chris May
Tenor saxophonist Stan Getz's neo-big band album Apasionado has been consigned to minor league status since its original release in 1990. It does, indeed, look unpromising: recorded in fall 1989, when Getz was undergoing treatment for the cancer which would kill him less than two years later; with a pair of synthesizers replicating a string section; ...
Now Is The Time (Live at the Knitting Factory)
By Alex Blake
Label: Bubble Core
Released: 2000
Track listing: On the Spot; The Chief (intro--Neil Clark); The Chief; With a Little Help; Now Is The Time (intro--Alex Blake); Now Is The Time; Mystery of Love.
Now Is The Time
By Alex Blake
Label: Bubble Core
Released: 2000
Track listing: On The Spot; The Chief; With A Little Help; Now Is The Time (intro); Now Is The Time; Mystery Of Love.
Alex Blake: Now Is The Time
by Mark Corroto
Randy Weston’s secret is revealed on this live date from New York’s Knitting Factory. But anyone who has seen the tall pianist knows his rhythm secret is Alex Blake. The Panamanian-born, New York-raised bassist started out with Mongo Santamaria and toured with Sun Ra and Dizzy Gillespie. For the past decade he has been touring and ...
Alex Blake Quintet featuring Pharoah Sanders: Now Is The Time (Live at the Knitting Factory)
by AAJ Staff
Bassist Alex Blake, though an experienced virtuoso, has released only two records under his own name. Now Is The Time is his first disc released outside Japan. It's not as if Blake hasn't been around the block: he toured with Sun Ra at the age of 16, and has recently been working with Randy Weston and ...
