Results for "Earl "Fatha" Hines"

ARTICLE: WHAT IS JAZZ? April 16, 2020

The Touch of Your Lips, Part II: Touch and Tone Color in Jazz Piano

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 As mentioned in Part I, tone color took on a prominent role in classical music in the 19C. The Romantic composers like Wagner, Strauss, Berlioz, Chopin and many others were, I think it is fair to say, somewhat obsessed with it. The composers before them were ...

ARTICLE: SOCAL JAZZ May 13, 2019

Arturo Sandoval: Two Counties, Two Lives, One Trumpet de Oro

By JIM WORSLEY

Arturo Sandoval is widely considered the world's premier living trumpet player. You will get no argument from me. After a tumultuous life in Cuba, he and his family successfully sought political asylum in the United States. His story is well documented in For Love or Country (HBO, 2000). Andy Garcia portrays Sandoval in this movie that ...

ARTICLE: YEAR IN REVIEW January 5, 2018

2017: The Year in Jazz

By KEN FRANCKLING

A year of achievements, challenges to gender inequality, scandal and losses The year 2017 was quite something for the jazz world. Incidents or discussions of misogyny and sexual misconduct bubbled up even before the #MeToo phenomenon developed. Beyond that, woman musicians made significant contributions to the genre. International Jazz Day brought its biggest stage ...

ARTICLE: HISTORY OF JAZZ June 14, 2017

Pittsburgh Jazz: A Brief History

By STEVE ROWLAND

This article was first published at the Explore PA History website. At first glance, Pittsburgh might not seem the most likely place to produce great jazz musicians. Situated on the western edge of the state, “Smoketown" was a gritty industrial city, better known for being the center of the nation's steel industry, than for ...

ARTICLE: INTERVIEW January 19, 2017

Clarence Becton: Straight Ahead Into Freedom

By BARBARA INA FRENZ

Clarence Becton is a musicians' musician—meaning, someone well-known in musician circles. He belongs to the generation of American jazz heroes who grew up under economically and socially difficult circumstances, and for that very reason, succeeded in gaining a comprehensive education, emancipating himself, and embodying the history of jazz music by directly learning from and working with ...

ARTICLE: ALBUM REVIEW November 22, 2016

Peter Saltzman: Blues, Preludes and Feuds

By GEANNINE REID

Solo piano albums have the special place in the cannon of improvised music as a mode of presentation and holds an honored place in jazz; the history could even be traced to music predating the origins of the genre. In mechanical terms, it has not changed, one musical artist sitting at the piano for well over ...

ARTICLE: MY BLUE NOTE OBSESSION February 9, 2016

Earl Hines, Pete Johnson and James P. Johnson: Reminiscing at Blue Note – 1939-43

By MARC DAVIS

In the beginning, there was the piano--if not in jazz generally, then definitely at Blue Note Records. From the start, Blue Note founder Alfred Lion was obsessed with the piano. Blue Note's very first recordings, in 1939, were 19 tunes by boogie-woogie pianists Meade Lux" Lewis and Albert Ammons. You can hear them all ...

ARTICLE: GENERAL ARTICLES August 27, 2015

I 10 CD nel CD-Player di... Kirk Knuffke

By VINCENZO ROGGERO

01. John Tchicai -Reggie Workman -Andrew Cyrille -Witch's Scream (TUM Records -2006). Sono stato recentemente ad un concerto in solo di Andrew Cyrille. Avvincente. E dopo il concerto ho acquistato questo CD direttamente da lui. Ho suonato brevemente con John Tchicai prima che ci lasciasse, aveva una tale forza, una tale energia! Suonava e cantava ...

ARTICLE: ALBUM REVIEW July 27, 2015

Debby Moore: My Kind Of Blues

By JAMES NADAL

For the record hounds (you know who you are) out there that seek and scavenge the garage sales and flea markets for old albums, there is such a thing as redemption. After scoring My Kind Of Blues by singer Debby Moore at a flea market for one dollar, further research revealed a mysterious back story with ...

NEWS: RECORDING May 14, 2015

Sal Mosca: Holland, 1992

Out today is a superb two-CD set of previously unreleased live solo recordings by pianist Sal Mosca at the Bimhuis in jny: Amsterdam on November 14, 1992. The recordings on Sal Mosca: The Talk of the Town (Sunnyside) come from the Mosca estate, and the sound is superb. The two CDs feature all jazz standards, like ...