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Live: Cookin' With Blue Note at Montreux
By Donald Byrd
Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Black Byrd; You've Got It Bad Girl; The East; Introductions; Kwame; Poco-Mania.
Donald Byrd: Donald Byrd Live: Cookin' With Blue Note at Montreux
by Peter Jones
What a treat it must have been in 1973 to attend the Montreux Jazz Festival: the featured artists that year included Dexter Gordon, McCoy Tyner, Chico Hamilton, Sam Rivers, Bobbi Humphrey, Dr John, Marlena Shaw, Bobby Hutcherson... and Donald Byrd with his Tentet, whose July 5 performance is captured on this album. It was ...
Ludovico Granvassu's Garden Of Jazzy Delights 2022
by Ludovico Granvassu
The depth and range of the music that jazz players have put on record in 2022 are so big that summarizing this “year in jazz" by selecting only ten albums feels akin to taking the photo of a breath-taking landscape with an ultra-low resolution camera... Ten years from now, how is one supposed to understand how ...
Donald Byrd: Donald Byrd Live: Cookin' With Blue Note at Montreux
by Mike Jurkovic
With the release of his chart-topping, funk-fueled Black Byrd in 1973, Donald Byrd found himself in a volatile place in jazz circles. He was being hailed as having finally stepped out of Miles Davis' considerable shadow, while simultaneously many found the album to be Byrd's selling out his bop legacy for chart success. As most defining ...
A Night At Minton's Playhouse + New Finds And Releases
by David Brown
This week, we visit Minton's Playhouse in Harlem to check out Eddie “Lockjaw" Davis with Johnny Griffin for a two-tenor workout. We'll spin selections from three LP's The First Set, The Midnight Set, and The Late Show all documenting sets performed by the Davis/Griffin Quintet on January 6, 1961. Then, we'll celebrate the sounds of the ...
Elvin Jones: Revival: Live at Pookie's Pub
by Angelo Leonardi
Non c'è solo la musica --tumultuosa e avvincente-- a porre in primo piano questo doppio CD (o triplo LP) del quintetto di Elvin Jones, ripreso in un piccolo club di Manhattan dal 28 al 30 luglio 1967. L'edizione fortemente voluta da Zev Feldman (dopo 11 anni di tentativi presso varie etichette) illustra il ...
Ain’t But a Few of Us
by AAJ Staff
The following is an excerpt from the section “Magazine Freelancers" taken from Ain't But a Few of Us: Black Music Writers Tell Their Story edited by Willard Jenkins (Duke University Press, 2022). Magazine Freelancers by John Murph John Murph has successfully channeled his voracious appetite for modern music into a keenly social outlook that takes ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Donald Byrd
All About Jazz is celebrating Donald Byrd's birthday today! Trumpeter Donald Byrd was born in Detroit in 1932, his studies at Wayne State University (1954) were interrupted by military service, during which he played in an Air Force band. He then attended the Manhattan School of Music (MA in music education). At the same time he ...
Tito Carrillo: Urbanessence
by Jack Bowers
Urbanessence, the second album as leader from Chicago-area trumpeter, composer and educator Tito Carrillo, is a rhythmic showcase for ten of his buoyant original compositions, all of which embody his love of BAM (Black American Music) and the lyric legacy of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Brazil and Peru. Carrillo, a bold and burnished improviser ...
Various Artists: John Sinclair Presents Detroit Artists Workshop
by Chris May
Valuable as both a curated chronicle of jazz history and as high-grade music, John Sinclair Presents Detroit Artists Workshop: Community, Jazz And Art In The Motor City 1965—1981 comprises around 70 minutes of live recordings by some of Detroit's finest sons along with an informative 24-page booklet. Among the musicians are trumpeters Donald Byrd and Charles ...
