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Avery Sharpe: Legends and Mentors

Read "Legends and Mentors" reviewed by Troy Collins


Over the last three decades bassist Avery Sharpe has been a stalwart sideman to some of the biggest names in jazz. Legends and Mentors is an homage to three of his closest colleagues, pianist McCoy Tyner and saxophonists Archie Shepp and Yusef Lateef. As McCoy Tyner's principle bassist for the past 20 years, Sharpe ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Avery Sharpe's Legends & Mentors Group Live at Cachaca in NYC on April 24th and 25th, 2008

Avery Sharpe's Legends & Mentors Group Live at Cachaca in NYC on April 24th and 25th, 2008

The Avery Sharpe Group will be performing in celebration of his new release “Legends and Mentors" at Cachaca Jazz Club in NYC on Friday and Saturday April 25th and 26th, 2008. Set Times both nights will be 9:00PM and 11:00PM. Avery Sharpe's Legends and Mentors Group: Avery Sharpe - Bass John Blake ...

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Dragon Fly

Label: JKNM Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Oh No!; Swingfield; Dragon Fly; Protect Me; Morning Glow; My Favourite Things; Now That

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Avery Sharpe Trio: Dragon Fly

Read "Dragon Fly" reviewed by Germein Linares


Bassist Avery Sharpe, a long-time collaborator with legendary pianist McCoy Tyner, releases Dragon Fly on his own JKNM Records. Joined by pianist Onaje Allan Gumbs, drummer Winard Harper, and two special guests, Chico Freeman and Jeri Brown, the album prominently features Sharpe's multiple skills as leader and soloist. The album's opening number, “Oh No!", sounds very ...

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Avery Sharpe: Dragon Fly

Read "Dragon Fly" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Listening to Dragon Fly is an exercise in frustration, plain and simple. Avery Sharpe's trio outing with guests, coming on the heels of his warm three-part Extended Family series, promises to be an engaging trip through varied styles and moods--but it would be immeasurably better if he could back off now and then, quit doubling lines, ...

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Avery Sharpe: Dragon Fly

Read "Dragon Fly" reviewed by John Kelman


Best-known for his longstanding relationship with pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Avery Sharpe has released three albums to date that feature him mixing it up with a sounds ranging from gospel/groove to straight-ahead. But while he has made his name in Tyner's piano trio format, Dragon Fly is the first time Sharpe has explored that configuration for ...

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Epic Ebony Journey

Label: JKMN
Released: 2001
Track listing: Movin' Up; Prayer Meetin'; Underground Railroad; Motherland; Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child; His Eyes On The Sparrow; Maiden Dance; Freefall; Mr. P.C.; Promised Land; Jim Crow; There Is No Greater Love. (Total Time: 60:57)

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Image In The Mirror: The Triptych

Label: Justin Time Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: Image In The Mirror, My Window, All At Once, My Fragile Heart, I'll Remember Love, Who's Been Loving You, Hardly A Day, Alone With You, I'm In Love Again, You're My World, The Dragonfly And The Pearl

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Avery Sharpe and John Blake Duo: Epic Ebony Journey

Read "Epic Ebony Journey" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


The Jazz Violin Recast. There is a powerful earthy ambience to bass/violin duet environment of Epic Ebony Journey. Bassist Avery Sharpe provides thick, pulsing chords beneath the humid flight of John Blake's violin. This landscape is best detected in the disc's closer, the Isham Jones standard, “There is No Greater Love". Here Sharpe lays out the ...


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