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Tommy Flanagan / Jaki Byard: The Magic of 2
by Dan McClenaghan
One of San Francisco's most famous jazz venues, Keystone Korner, closed in 1983. It was a favorite venue of the top jazz players of the day, and several landmark live albums by pianists Bill Evans and McCoy Tyner, and saxophonists Rahsaan Roland Kirk and Stan Getz, resulted from shows taped inside its hallowed hall.The ...
Orchestre National de Jazz: Piazzolla!
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
The Argentinian composer, bandoneón player and tango revolutionary Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992) was no stranger to jazz. As a music student in Paris in the mid-1950s, he was inspired by the joyous improvisation he witnessed in the effervescent Left Bank jazz scene. He would go on to collaborate with baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan (Summit/Reunion Cumbre, Erre, 1974) ...
Conrad Herwig: There's Nothing Else
by Bob Kenselaar
Talking about some of his great influences in jazz, Conrad Herwig points out that it's important to look beyond their achievements on their instruments. “Sometimes during a musician's lifetime, people put so much emphasis on their virtuosity as a player that they don't really think about the vehicle of their expression—their compositions." Herwig was speaking of ...
Please Help Julian Priester
Julian Priester, the well-known trombonist who has, in a career now well into its sixth decade, played with everyone from Duke Ellington, Max Roach, Dinah Washington and Booker Little to Herbie Hancock, Sun Ra, Freddie Hubbard, Eric Dolphy and John Coltrane —not to mention a small but superb discography as a leader that includes Love, Love ...
Special Edition
by John Kelman
With drummer/keyboardist Jack DeJohnette entering his eighth decade on planet earth, he's managed to accomplish what few other drummers have. Recipient of the 2012 NEA Jazz Masters Award, there are few jazz drummer s alive today who can cite as many recordings as the Chicago-born DeJohnette can, nor are there many who have been on such ...
Joachim Badenhorst: The Jungle He Told Me
by Eyal Hareuveni
Belgian reed player Joachim Badenhorst has been busy in the last five years. He is a member of the forward-thinking outfits of Dutch drummer Han Bennink, American saxophonist Tony Malaby, German trumpeter Thomas Heberer, and many other working bands. His first solo album, a limited edition vinyl, reveals Badenhorst as a versatile musician well-versed in the ...
His Prestige / New Jazz Albums
By Eric Dolphy
Label: Prestige
Released: 2012
Track listing: Outward Bound; G.W.; On Green Dolphin Street; Les; 245; Glad To Be Unhappy; Miss Toni; Out There; Out There; Serene; The Baron; Eclipse; 17 West; Sketch Of Melba; Feather; Caribé; Caribé; Blues In 6/8; First Bass Line; Mambo Ricci; Spring Is Here; Sunday Go Meetin'; Far Cry; Mrs. Parker Of K. C. (Bird's Mother); Ode To Charlie Parker; Far Cry; Miss Ann; Left Alone; Tenderly; It's Magic; Serene; At The Five Spot, Vol. 1; Fire Waltz; Bee Vamp; The Prophet; Bee Vamp (Alternate Take); At The Five Spot, Vol. 2; Aggression; Like Someone In Love; Memorial Album; Number Eight (Potsa Lotsa); Booker's Waltz; In Europe, Vol. 1; Hi Fly; Glad To Be Unhappy; God Bless The Child; Oleo; In Europe, Vol. 2; Don't Blame Me; Don't Blame Me (Take 2); The Way You Look Tonight; Les; Laura; In Europe, Vol. 3; Woody'n You; When Lights Are Low; In The Blues (Takes 1-3); Here And There; Status Seeking; God Bless The Child; April Fool; G.W. (Take 1); Don't Blame Me (Take 2);
Where? + The Quest
By Eric Dolphy
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Released: 2012
Track listing: Where?; Rally; Bass Duet; Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise; Where?; Yes, Indeed; Saucer Eyes; The Quest; Status Seeking; Duquility; Thirteen; We Diddit; Warm Canto ; Warp And Woof; Fire Waltz;
Li Gao Yang: Locks, Stock and Smoking Barrel
by Ian Patterson
With dreadlocks tumbling over his shoulders, Li Gao Yang already cuts a striking figure. When he's on stage blowing his tenor saxophone and leading his quartet with quiet assurance, the impact is all the greater. Chinese jazz stars are few and far between, at home or abroad, but already this unassuming musician from Beijing has appeared ...
