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Cedar Walton Horns Add Heft for a Strutting Piano Vamp
The pianist Cedar Walton has been a mainstay of New York jazz circles since the 1950s, usually working in small-combo mode. On Saturday night at the Kumble Theater for the Performing Arts, on the Brooklyn campus of Long Island University, he began his concert that way: at the helm of a quartet with the saxophonist Vincent ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Cedar Walton
All About Jazz is celebrating Cedar Walton's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Cedar WaltonFor over 25 years, pianist Cedar Walton has enjoyed an uptempo career, which never seems to slow down. Maintaining a non-stop itinerary, Walton has accompanied a litany of Jazz greats while also fronting his ...
Blue Note 7: Mosaic: a Celebration of Blue Note Records
by J Hunter
Blue Note's 70th anniversary deserves more than a cake, a toast, and a chorus of “For He's a Jolly Good Fellow." To that end, The Blue Note 7's Mosaic: a Celebration of Blue Note Records is a collection of music from some of the imprint's greatest masters, as interpreted by a group of Blue Note's current ...
Seasoned Wood
By Cedar Walton
Label: HighNote Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: The Man I Love; Clockwise; Longravity; When Love Is New; Hindsight; A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square; Plexus; John's Blues.
Cedar Walton: Seasoned Wood
by Andrew Velez
Seasoned is an apt term for Cedar Walton who, at 72, continues to dazzle, refresh and satisfy with his keyboard artistry. Among several of his compositions included in Seasoned Wood, “Clockwise" is a bit of unusual waltz-time magic from which gradations of application spill from his keyboard, chiseled and burnished, as drummer Al Foster lends dazzling ...
Curtis Fuller: Motor City Messenger
by Russ Musto
The most recorded jazz trombonist of his lifetime, Curtis Fuller's illustrious career spans six decades and includes tenures with many of the greatest names in this music. Born Dec. 15th, 1934 in Detroit, Fuller was orphaned at an early age, but found family in the close-knit jazz community of the musically fertile Motor City. He first ...
Cedar Walton: Seasoned Wood
by Douglas Payne
Pianist Cedar Walton has long been the perfect accompanist for so many other leaders. He's written quite a few of jazz's few “standards" over the last half century as well. For four decades now, he's also been an outstanding leader, waxing dozens of discs that win plenty of critical plaudits but never seem to bring him ...
Manhattan After Midnight
By Cedar Walton
Label: Twinz Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: 01. My Heart Stood Still (L. Hart/R. Rodgers); 02. Don’t Blame Me (D. Fields/J. Mchugh); 03. Relaxin‘ at
Camarillo (C. Parker); 04. Con Alma (D. Gillespie); 05. Darn That Dream (E. Delange/J. Van Heusen); 06. Euphoria (D.
Barlow); 07. I Want to Be Happy (I. Caesar/V. Youmans); 08. Harpy (D.Barlow); 09. Like Someone In Love (J. Burke/J. Van Heusen)
Glass Bead Games
Label: Harvest Song Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Powerful Paul Robeson; Glass Bead Games; Prayer To The People; Cal Massey; John Coltrane; Eddie Harris; Biskit; Shoulders; Bridgework; Maimoun;
Alias Buster Henry; One For Amos.
One Flight Down
By Cedar Walton
Label: HighNote Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: One Flight Down; The Rubber Man; Lush Life; Daydream; Raincheck; Seven Minds; Time After Time; Hammer Head; Little Sunflower.
