Results for "Dexter Gordon"

Loose Walk

Featuring the music of Dexter Gordon
Duration: 10:00
February 27, 2011

Red Holloway Quartet: San Diego, February 8, 2011

by Robert Bush
February 24, 2011

Red Holloway Quartet with Plas JohnsonSaville Theater, San Diego City CollegeSan Diego, CAFebruary 8, 2011 Red Holloway has “been there and done that" when it comes to jazz standards and all forms of the blues. While normally his specialties are both playing the tenor saxophone and belting out blues vocals, ...

Stanley Clarke: Path Maker

by Esther Berlanga-Ryan
February 22, 2011

Innovation is a cherished quality in any art form and, truth be told, some follow greatness while others create the patterns that make that same greatness possible. There are teachers, and then, there are students. In jazz, musicians skilled in all sorts of instruments tend to look at their older peers in amazement, and challenges within ...

Take Five With Tyson Ailshie

by AAJ Staff
February 20, 2011

Meet Tyson Ailshie: Tyson Ailshie hails from Denver, Colorado, where he writes and performs straight-ahead jazz music in trio and duo settings as a group leader. Combining original compositions with deep grooves and intimate settings of eclectic jazz standards, he is beginning to make a name for himself in the Denver area, having performed most recently ...

Grammy Award-Winning Bassist Stanley Clarke Interviewed at All About Jazz

February 22, 2011

When bassist Stanley Clarke won the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album, last week, for The Stanley Clarke Band (Heads Up, 2010), it was particularly meaningful, given he was up against everyone from fellow fusion god John McLaughlin to young up-and-comer Trombone Shorty. But while this particular win has great significance for the bassist who ...

John Medeski & Lee Shaw: Together Again: Live At The Egg

by Bruce Lindsay
February 15, 2011

John Medeski is one of the jazz world's best-known and most accomplished keyboard players--but he had to begin learning jazz somewhere. That somewhere was with pianist, composer and teacher Lee Shaw, in late '70s Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Over 30 years later, as the title of their album makes plain, Medeski and Shaw are Together Again: Live ...

Herbie Hancock: Maiden Voyage

by Greg Simmons
February 15, 2011

There are few worse examples of a masterpiece performance being savaged by poor recording quality than Herbie Hancock's Maiden Voyage. This very expensive recent re-release on 45RPM vinyl by Analogue Productions only serves to highlight its engineering travesty.Rudy Van Gelder had the great fortune to record the best of the best in jazz for ...

Punt a del Este Jazz Festival, January 15-19, 2011

by Gerardo Stawsky
February 5, 2011

15th International Festival of Punta del EsteJanuary 5-9, 2011Punta del Este, Uruguay Over the last 15 years, dozens of today's top jazz musicians--the McCoy Tyner's and Joe Lovano's--have continued to return to the Punta del Este Jazz Festival, in Uruguay. The Festival is celebrated on a dairy farm in an ...

Dexter Gordon - Our Man in Paris (Blue Note, 1963)

January 19, 2011

When I bought this disc many years ago, the music manager of the now defunct Borders in Colonie, NY told me a story that for this record date Gordon had brought a number of complicated originals to the studio. Pianist Bud Powell was having none of it however, and in the end the album focused on ...

Daniel Humair in the Lions' Dens

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
January 17, 2011

Drummer Paul Motian is well-known for his “melodic" percussion, in which he skits and dodges arrhythmically, letting the guitars and saxophones mark the pulse of the composition. But for all the praise breathlessly--and deservedly--heaped upon Motian for this approach, the number of drummers who follow his example somewhere on this side of the free-jazz frontier, is ...