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One Track Mind: Alphonse Mouzon on Weather Report, McCoy Tyner, Solo Songs
By Nick Deriso On this special edition of the Something Else! Reviews' One Track Mind, we hand the reins over to legendary fusion drummer Alphonse Mouzon. A life around jazz, and fellow jazz greats, has left Mouzon with his share of stories. So did the lengthy sessions for his impressive new recording Angel Face, which was ...
Something Else! Interview: Jazz Drumming Legend Alphonse Mouzon
By Nick Deriso A seminal force in the berth of fusion, the versatile Alphonse Mouzon has played drums alongside of dizzying array of jazz greats. Even today, it's no different. He worked with Gil Evans on his 1969 release Blues in Orbit, then Roy Ayers at the turn of the decade. Later, Mouzon collaborated with Jaco ...
Weather Report: Live in Germany 1971
by John Kelman
Weather Report Live in Germany 1971 MVD/Gonzo Distribution 2010 While technology has made audio and video recording a much easier thing in the 21st century, there's still the problem of where to broadcast it. Sure, there's the internet, and YouTube, for example, has become a treasure trove of archival live footage ...
Norwegian Road Trip, Part 5: Molde Jazz, Days 1-2
by John Kelman
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 [Editors Note: From July 6 to July 26, 2010, All About Jazz Managing Editor John Kelman will travel throughout Norway to cover both the Kongsberg Jazz Festival (also participating in Silver City Sounds) and Molde ...
Legends Festival in South Carolina to Honor Natives and Other Jazz Greats
By Larry Reni Thomas South Carolina is the native state and former home of several distinguished jazz musicians, including the most well-known, John Birks “Dizzy" Gillespie, the trumpeter, composer, bandleader and co-creator of bebop, who was born in Cheraw, South Carolina. There are several others, like the high note trumpet master, Cat Anderson, a former member ...
Virtue
Label: Promising Music/MPS
Released: 2009
Track listing: Master Funk; Baker's Daughter; Come Into My Life; Nyctophobia; Virtue; Poobli; The Mouzon Drum Suite: Jazz-Rock Improvisation, Out of the Desert, Colors of Africa, Total Swing.
Azar Lawrence: Prayer For My Ancestors
by Chuck Koton
Azar Lawrence is a man on a mission. His task: to express beautiful, healing music.At a young age, Lawrence was already touring and recording with jazz legends like Elvin Jones, McCoy Tyner and Miles Davis. Then, after recording several successful albums, including Bridge into a New Age (Prestige 1974) and Summer Solstice (Prestige 1975), ...
Alphonse Mouzon: Virtue
by John Kelman
Digging deep into the MPS catalog for its first reissues of 2009, Promising Music revives drummer Alphonse Mouzon's Virtue, an eclectic 1977 fusion date that may have coasted towards nascent smooth jazz territory but highlights the significant difference between what that term meant then and now. With a chorus singing “Master Funk" ...
