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Grant Green
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Green was born on June 6, 1931 in St. Louis, Missouri. Hefirst performed in a professional setting at the age of 13.His early influences were Charlie Christian and CharlieParker; however, he played extensive R & B gigs in hishome town and in East Saint Louis, IL while developing hisjazz chops. His first recordings in St. Louis were with tenorsaxophonist Jimmy Forrest for the Delmark label. LouDonaldson discovered green playing in a bar in St. Louis.After touring together with Donaldson, Green arrived in NewYork around 1959-60. In a Down Beat interview fromthe early 60's, Green said "The first thing I learned to playwas boogie-woogie. Then I had to do a lot of rock and roll.It's all blues, anyhow."
Charles Lloyd: The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow
by Mike Jurkovic
For a long, grateful while now the music of Charles Lloyd has rippled out from that rarified space where the ego does not prevail. A pool of depth and wonder which culminates in one masterful artwork after another, for example Wild Man Dance (Blue Note, 2015) and 8: Kindred Spirits Live from the Lobero Theater (Blue ...
Donald Byrd: Live: Cookin' With Blue Note at Montreux
by Stefano Merighi
Nelle note di copertina, Don Was, presidente della Blue Note, celebra questa pubblicazione inedita del concerto di Montreux di Donald Byrd del 1973 con toni di grande rispetto ed entusiasmo. E il trombettista (scomparso nel 2013) se lo merita, sia per un certo distacco critico che ne ha sempre contraddistinto l'opera, sia per il ruolo di ...
Joel Ross: Nublues
by Chris May
Planning this, his fourth album as leader on Blue Note, Joel Ross set out to connect with a wider audience, to make things a little easier for listeners. The vibraphonist and composer says that, with hindsight, his previous work for the label has been too focused on the musicians in his band and rife with devices ...
Ludovico Granvassu's Garden of Jazzy Delights 2023
by Ludovico Granvassu
If it is true that, like The Police once put it, “when the world is going down you make the best of what's still around," then throughout 2023 jazz fans were better off than most other social groups. In a year in which everyday news brought ever more inconceivable disappointments, jazz musicians, labels, festivals and venues ...
Ethan Iverson: Technically Acceptable
by Mike Jurkovic
The funhouse genius of pianist Ethan Iverson hits full nor'easter with Technically Accepted, an album so loaded with invention and cool it rises instantly to the pack of hands-down favorites for the still unformed year of 2024. Unbounded, Iverson's many quirks and instigations hurl madly around the house, the studio, the bodega down the ...
Corridors
Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: What Day Is It?; Corridors; A Voice Through The Door; One Door Closes; Isn’t This My Sound Around Me?; One Door Closes, Another Opens; Your Destiny Awaits; Another Opens; Threshold.
In Real Time
By Artemis
Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Slink; Bow and Arrow; Balance of Time; Lights Away from Home; Timber; Whirlwind; Empress
Afternoon; Penelope.
Grateful Deadication 2
Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Playing in the Band; China Cat Sunflower; Bird Song; To Lay Me Down; Truckin’; The Other One; If I
Had the World to Give; Scarlet Begonias; Crazy Fingers.
Return To Casual
Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Contra; River Styx; Pup-Pow; Shine; Mother Stands For Comfort; Quiet Song; Lamplight; Amelia Earhart Ghosted Me; Revive.
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