Results for "Clifford Thornton"

Clifford Thornton

Born: September 6, 1936

The Call

By Henry Grimes

Label: Thingamajig
Released: 2026
Track listing: Fish Story; For Django; Walk On; Saturday Nite; What Th'; The Call; Son Of Alfalfa; Ia; Geno; Backdrop For Urban Revolution.

Henry Grimes & Marzette Watts: The Call

by Glenn Astarita
October 5, 2026

Long before Henry Grimes became known as jazz's great Lazarus story, he was simply one of the most technically astonishing bassists working in New York City's' free jazz underground. Recorded on December 28, 1965, and issued by ESP-Disk in 1966, The Call stands as his debut as a leader, and it remains a document of quiet ...

Clifford Thornton: Ketchaoua Revisited + Arthur Jones Trio: Scorpio

by Alberto Bazzurro
January 30, 2024

Clifford Thornton è una di quelle figure rimaste fin troppo fra le pieghe della mitologia (sia detto ovviamente senza alcun intento ironico) free, e più ancora il pressoché sconosciuto altosassofonista Arthur Jones, l'uno nato a Philadelphia nel 1936 e scomparso nel 1989, l'altro nato a Cleveland nel 1940 e morto nel 1998. Questa preziosa ristampa, che ...

Ketchaoua Revisited + Arthur Jones Trio: Scorpio

By Clifford Thornton

Label: Ezz-thetics
Released: 2023

Blase And Yasmina Revisited

By Archie Shepp

Label: Ezz-thetics
Released: 2021
Track listing: My Angel; Blasé; There Is A Balm In Gilead; Sophisticated Lady; Touareg; Yasmina.

Marion Brown/Dave Burrell: Live at the Black Musicians' Conference, 1981

by Mark Corroto
December 27, 2018

One of the benefits of our digital music world is the ability to drive deeply into the jazz narrative. By that I mean, preserving the story of important musicians, the ones whose story was omitted from the Ken Burns' CliffsNotes history of jazz. Without a few labels and several producers, musicians like Bobby Naughton, Clifford Thornton, ...

Joe McPhee: Artistic Sacrifice from a Musical Prophet

by Lloyd N. Peterson Jr.
April 30, 2012

He could have easily chosen a different path: a more successful one or, perhaps we should say, a more commercial one. But that has never been the style or the character of multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee. His saint-like humility reflects a gentle and wise creative spirit; his music and poetry are a mirror into the human condition. ...

Joe McPhee: A Band Apart

by Clifford Allen
October 13, 2011

You might expect a musician who has been a steady figure on the creative improvising scene for nearly 45 years to have some variance in their discography and a diverse range of projects and band concepts. Reedman (and sometime pocket trumpeter) Joe McPhee's vast number of recordings and ensembles speak to that impulse, but the curious ...

The Panther And The Lash

By Clifford Thornton

Label: EmArcy
Released: 2004