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Paul Motian: Live at the Village Vanguard, Vol. 1
by Francis Lo Kee
What has always been beautiful about drummer/composer Paul Motian is his use of space or silence. His concept seems to be more about letting creative voices come through the total texture. Sometimes the voice is the drum, but sometimes it is sax or piano and Motian plays ideally, regardless of textural setting. Speaking of piano, Masabumi ...
The Miles Davis Reader
by Francis Lo Kee
The Miles Davis Reader: Interviews and Features from DownBeat Magazine Frank Alkyer Hardcover; 356 pages ISBN: 142343076X Hal Leonard 2007 Miles Davis (1926-1991) was more than a trumpet player and bandleader. He was also well known for his outspoken personality, sometimes viewed as the epitome of ...
Warren Smith: WIS on Monk
by Francis Lo Kee
Warren Smith WIS on Monk (Warren Smith Solo Percussion) Freedom Art 2007 To say Warren Smith has broad experience as a percussionist would be quite the understatement. His ability to play ALL percussion instruments in any musical style--jazz, Motown, Broadway, classical, rock and pop-- makes the Chicago-born Smith one of ...
Martin Bejerano: Evolution/Revolution
by Francis Lo Kee
Time will tell, but this may be one of those debut CDs that people will talk about for decades, one where people ask, “Do you remember when you first heard...? While the opening “Blues Evolution displays enough amazing piano chops to send the most accomplished musicians back to the woodshed, what this recording has is a ...
Art Blakey: Holiday for Skins
by Francis Lo Kee
Holiday for Skins is not totally unique in drummer Art Blakey's output, as the drummer was most famous for some of the greatest hard bop era records ever made with his Jazz Messengers. Though not a Jazz Messengers recording, this original double volume definitely has Blakey's strong personal, percussive stamp. The cover states this is “a ...
Sun Ra: Springtime in Chicago & Concert for the Comet Kohoutek
by Francis Lo Kee
Sun Ra Concert for the Comet Kohoutek ESP-Disk 2007 Sun Ra Springtime in Chicago Leo 2007 The great composer/bandleader Sun Ra would urge his musicians, “play what ...
Cyrus Chestnut: Cyrus plays Elvis
by Francis Lo Kee
Certainly a concept designed to push peoples' buttons, the fact is that if you don't know Elvis Presley's music, this CD doesn't sound radically different from a lot of soul jazz recordings from Blue Note in the 1960s. One of the big differences between rock and jazz is harmony: while jazz, partially built on the standards ...
Lee Konitz & The Bert van den Brink Trio: Dialogues
by Francis Lo Kee
Dialogues may be one of saxophonist Lee Konitz's best albums in a discography both prolific and still expanding. The sounds of Bert van den Brink (piano), Hein Van de Geyn (bass) and Hans van Oosterhout (drums) blend perfectly with the leader's alto sax. So attractive is the sound that one hopes this session is not a ...
James Spauding: The Spoiler & The Right Touch
by Francis Lo Kee
Stanley Turrentine The Spoiler Blue Note-RVG 2007 Duke Pearson The Right Touch Blue Note-RVG 2007 Alto saxophonist and flutist James Spaulding has been an important contributor to ...
Lennie Tristano: Jazz Visions & Lennie Tristano: His Life in Music
by Francis Lo Kee
In 1949 Lennie Tristano (1919-78) recorded “Intuition and “Digression , two of the earliest examples of freely improvised jazz. Though the approaches and content differ greatly, authors Peter Ind and Eunmi Shim agree on the following: Tristano best represents how a non-commercial artist can be “air-brushed out of jazz history as an extremely influential teacher.
