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News: Video / DVD

New DVD of Legendary Jazz Drummer Elvin Jones Released!

New DVD of Legendary Jazz Drummer Elvin Jones Released!

(New York, NY) - V.I.E.W. Video, a leading home video label and producer of jazz, performing arts, and pop music programs, announced the January 2008 DVD release of Elvin Jones: Jazz Machine. It would be impossible to overstate the importance of master drummer Elvin Jones in the evolution of current and mainstream Jazz. Elvin ...

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Video

Gingerbread Boy

Featuring the music of Elvin Jones
Duration: 4:34

From a 1968 concert in Copenhagen, Denmark, the Elvin Jones Trio plays "Gingerbread Boy". Elvin Jones: drums Joe Farrell: sax Jimmy Garrison: bass
Album

Bob Brookmeyer And Friends

Label: Columbia Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Jive Hoot; Misty; The Wrinkle; Bracket; Skylark; Sometime Ago; I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face; Who Cares?; Day Dream; Time For Two; Pretty Girl.

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The Truth: Heard Live at the Blue Note

Label: Half Note Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: E.J.'s Blues; Straight, No Chaser; Body and Soul; Truth; A Lullaby of Itsugo Village; Wise One; Three Card Molly

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Night Dreamer

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Night Dreamer; Oriental Folk Song; Virgo; Black Nile; Charcoal Blues; Armageddon; Virgo (alt. tk.)

Album

Inner Urge

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Inner Urge; Isotope; El Barrio; You Know I Care; Night and Day.

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Article: Album Review

Elvin Jones Jazz Machine: The Truth: Heard Live at the Blue Note

Read "The Truth: Heard Live at the Blue Note" reviewed by John Kelman


Recorded five years before his passing earlier this year, The Truth: Heard Live at the Blue Note paints a picture of Elvin Jones before ill health weakened his powerful and individual style. With an expanded version of his Jazz Machine that includes saxophonist Antoine Roney, trombonist Robin Eubanks, trumpeter Darren Barrett, pianist Carlos McKinney, long-time musical ...

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Article: Profile

Elvin Jones 1927-2004: A True Moment In Time

Read "Elvin Jones 1927-2004: A True Moment In Time" reviewed by Jack Gold-Molina


Elvin Jones, one of the most influential and accomplished drummers in history, passed away Tuesday May 18 due to heart failure. Most notable for his work with John Coltrane, he helped to revolutionize the way jazz and contemporary music are heard and played. Described by Louie Bellson as “Mother Earth coming alive with syncopation," there isn't ...

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Article: Opinion

Good-bye, Elvin

Read "Good-bye, Elvin" reviewed by Ronald B. Weber, MD


On May 18, 2004 the world lost perhaps the most influential drummer of all time, Elvin Jones . He happened to be one of my heroes. Incredibly muscular and robust most of his life, Elvin succumbed to chronic heart failure. For those of us who knew him, it seemed inconceivable that he could become as frail ...

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Article: Profile

Elvin Jones: In Memoriam

Read "Elvin Jones: In Memoriam" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Elvin Jones: September 9, 1927 - May 18, 2004 AAJ pays special tribute to the life and legacy of drummer Elvin Jones... “I feel very, very gratified when people are complimentary to what I have done or appreciated it with sincerity... It makes me feel that maybe I did do something that was proper and that ...


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