Results for "Dave Liebman"

Dave Liebman: Earth

by Mike Jurkovic
February 22, 2020

It's taken over two tumultuous decades for Dave Liebman to fully realize and execute his poetic, elemental suite. Alongside Pat Metheny,Billy Hart, and Cecil McBee, Water: Giver of Life (Arkadia Jazz, 1997) birthed the the long journey. Teaming with violinist/sound engineer Walter Quintus for 2006's Air (Finetunes) led to 2016's free-jazz flame torch with Dave Holland, ...

My First Visit to China

by Gene Perla
February 13, 2020

It all started with Dome. That's drummer Adam Nussbaum. Decades had gone by without the opportunity to musically connect with him, but then Dave Liebman and I decided to put together a quartet called New Light. In 2014, along with saxophonist Adam Niewood, we hit three NYC area jazz clubs followed by a concert at Clarke ...

Dave Liebman

Born: September 4, 1946

David Liebman was born in Brooklyn, New York on September 4,1946. He began classical piano lessons at the age of nine andsaxophone by twelve. His “epiphany” was hearing John Coltraneperform live in New York City clubs such as Birdland, VillageVanguard and Half Note as a teenager. Throughout high school andcollege, Liebman pursued his jazz interest by studying withsaxophone guru Joe Allard as well as jazz musicians Lennie

Tristano and Charles Lloyd. Upon graduation from New YorkUniversity (with a degree in American History), he began toseriously devote himself to the full time pursuit of being a jazz artist.In the early 1970s, Liebman took the leading organizational role asFounder and President of Free Life Communication, a cooperative ofseveral dozen young cutting edge musicians intent on performingaround New York in venues outside the traditional jazz clubsituation. Free Life became an integral part of the fertile New York"loft" jazz scene in this period and was funded by the New YorkState Council of the Arts and enjoyed a residency in the “Space forInnovative Development” which was a renovated church funded bythe Rubin Foundation as a home for the arts in midtown Manhattanalong with several other notable avant-garde performinggroups…the Alwin Nikolais and Murray Louis ballet companiesalong with Joe Chaikan’s “Open Theater.”

2020 Winter JazzFest Marathons: A Survival Guide

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 7, 2020

Believe it or not, it is that time of the year again! The holidaze are barely over and a new edition of Winter JazzFest is upon us. Knowing a jazz marathon is the perfect antidote to the holiday shopping and social marathons, producer Brice Rosenbloom and his cohorts have put together a program of gargantuan proportions. ...

Vic Juris: Tension and Release

by Victor L. Schermer
January 2, 2020

This article was first published at All About Jazz on July 28, 2009. Vic Juris is one of the premier jazz guitarists in the business today. Perhaps less known than some of his peers, he is nevertheless admired by all of them and has accumulated, since his emergence on the scene in the 1970s, ...

Most Read Articles: 2019

by Michael Ricci
January 1, 2020

All About Jazz tracks how often an article is read, and the articles listed below represent our most popular in 2019. The number to the right of the date published represents the article's read count as of December 30th. Live Reviews Documenting Jazz 2019 by Ian Patterson ...

Chi

By Dave Liebman

Label: RareNoiseRecords
Released: 2019
Track listing: Becoming; Flux; Continuum; Formless Form; Emergence; Whirl.

On the Corner Live!

By Dave Liebman

Label: Ear Up Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Lieb Talks About Miles; In a Silent Way; On the Corner; Wili (for Dave); Bass Interlude; Black Satin; Selim; Guitar Interlude; Ife; Drum Interlude; Mojo; Jean Pierre.

Shades of Red

By Nathan Ott

Label: Unit Records
Released: 2019

Quartette Oblique

By Dave Liebman

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Nardis, Vertigo; You and the Night and the Music; In a Sentimental Mood; All Blues; Vesper, So What.