Results for "Charles McPherson"

2009 Detroit Jazz Festival

by Wilbur MacKenzie
October 3, 2009

Detroit Jazz FestivalDetroit, MISeptember 4-7, 2009A short distance from Hitsville USA, where Berry Gordy created the Motown sound, shaping the history of American music and culture, and the Diego Rivera Court, where the artist's murals pay tribute to the workers whose hands made the auto industry a reality, sits Hart Plaza, Detroit's waterfront ...

30th Annual Detroit International Jazz Festival: In Pictures

by C. Andrew Hovan
September 23, 2009

30th Annual Detroit International Jazz Festival Detroit, Michigan September 4-7, 2009With perfect temperatures and wall-to-wall sunshine, Detroit recently celebrated a tradition that has brought jazz to the city every Labor Day weekend for the past 30 years. Billed as the largest free jazz festival in North America, this year's festivities ran ...

Jacksonville: Big City, Big Band, Big Plans

by Jack Bowers
August 5, 2009

Almost everyone who's even mildly interested knows that the big band scene in the US isn't what it used to be. On the other hand, the big bands aren't yet dead, as some alarmists have claimed, or even on life support. Thanks in part to college and armed services programs, there are perhaps as many or ...

Charles McPherson's Post-Bird Bop: A 70th-Birthday Tribute

July 24, 2009

Charles McPherson is an alto saxophonist who spent much of his early career under the spell of jazz great Charlie Parker–but who fired the Parker sound with his own intense energy and expressive skills. Championed by jazz writer Ira Gitler, McPherson made a number of records for Prestige throughout the mid-to-late 1960s, garnering generally good reviews ...

Legendary Jazz Club Baker's Celebrates 75 Years

April 30, 2009

4 days of special programming to highlight Baker's anniversary The owner of Baker's Keyboard Lounge, Detroit's legendary jazz club on the brink of its 75th anniversary, pauses as he considers the question: What's your most memorable night at the club? Advertisement A big smile spreads across John Colbert's face and he reaches for scrapbook photos of ...

Crazeology

Featuring the music of Charles McPherson
Duration: 4:50
February 24, 2008

Saxophonist Charles McPherson Interviewed at AAJ

December 12, 2007

Having started his professional career at the age of nineteen, alto saxophonist Charles McPherson found himself working with Charles Mingus from 1960 to 1972, while also recording for the Prestige label under his own name. Always inspired by Charlie Parker, but far more than just an acolyte, he has kept the bop fires blazing with his ...

Charles McPherson: Keeping the Faith

by Maxwell Chandler
December 12, 2007

Having started his professional career at the age of nineteen, alto saxophonist Charles McPherson found himself working with Charles Mingus from 1960 to 1972, while also recording for the Prestige label under his own name.Always inspired by Charlie Parker, but far more than just an acolyte, he has kept the bop fires blazing with ...

Charles McPherson: Passionate Bopper

by Ken Dryden
July 17, 2007

Charles McPherson, one of many artists inspired by Charlie Parker, has been a professional jazz musician for nearly a half-century. Growing up in Detroit, he played in his school band and studied with pianist Barry Harris. Soon after he left for New York City, McPherson joined Charles Mingus' band and recorded with the bassist on numerous ...

Live at the Cellar

By Charles McPherson

Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2005
Track listing: Spring Is Here; Illusions in Blue; Blue & Boogie; How Deep is the Ocean; Manhattan Nocturne; Star Eyes.