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Ray Brown Defined the Modern Jazz Rhythm Section
Grammy Award-winning double-bassist Ray Brown was a leader in defining the modern jazz rhythm section -- in addition to being a first-rate soloist. His unique dynamic and innate sense of swing graced performances by Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Oscar Peterson and countless others. Raymond Matthews Brown was born October 13, 1926, in Pittsburgh, PA ...
The Avery Sharpe Trio: Autumn Moonlight
by C. Michael Bailey
The Avery Sharpe Trio makes a sharp dressed brand of jazz. At once intelligent and immediate, the eleven songs that make up Autumn Moonlight are splendid fuel for Sharpe's crack piano trio with exceptional pianist Onaje Allen Gumbs and drummer Winard Harper, who collectively raise the art of the trio to a level where the concert ...
Live In London
By Gene Harris
Label: Resonance Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: No Greater Love; Blue Monk; My Funny Valentine; In a Mellow Tone; Misty; Blues Closer.
Oscar Peterson: Oscar Peterson: The Complete Clef/Mercury Studio Recordings of The Oscar Peterson Trio (1951-1953)
by Samuel Chell
How do you criticize pianist Oscar Peterson? The two primary meanings of such a question expose the divide among those who must confront his talent--and, like it or not, no musician or supporter of the music can duck the issues raised by the most prolifically recorded pianist in jazz history. To the one camp, Peterson's playing ...
Gene Harris: Live in London
by Jim Santella
A never-before-release can be of great value or it can be entirely forgettable. This live session from London, featuring veteran pianist Gene Harris with a stellar quartet, stands with the former. It's a valuable watermark of his career that demonstrates the feeling that went into every performance and is what led sources such as the All ...
Blue Monk
Album: Live In London
By Gene Harris
Label: Resonance Records
Released: 2008
Duration: 11:19
Previously Unreleased Live Concert by Legendary Pianist Gene Harris Debuts from Newly Formed Resonance Records as the First Release of Their Heirloom Series
The Heirloom Series of Resonance Records makes an auspicious debut with Gene Harris: The Quartet Live in London, an outstanding and unexpected addition to the late pianist's catalog of buoyant, hardswinging discs. Based on previously unreleased tapes provided by his widow Janie Harris, Live in London is also the only available recording of Harris in action ...
Gene Harris: Live in London
by C. Michael Bailey
Gene Harris (1933-2000) was the master of blues in jazz. A self-proclaimed “blues pianist with chops," Harris could sting the most un-blues-like melody and make it sound like it was written by Meade Lux Lewis and performed by Oscar Peterson. Since Harris' death in 2000, posthumous releases of previously unreleased performances have been steady but sparse. ...
Essential Blue -Modern Luxury-
By Various
Label: Blue Note
Released: 2007
Track listing: Utopia; Footprints; Succotash; Abdullah And Abraham; Kamba; Mira; Little Messenger; On Children; Meat Wave; One Shirt; The Loner; Friends; Theme For Relana;
Essential Blue -Sunday Blue-
By Various
Label: Blue Note
Released: 2007
Track listing: Losalamitoslatinfunklovesong; Please Set Me At Ease; Love The Way You Make Me Feel; What Happened To The Sunshine; Beginnings; Places And Spaces; Inside You; Feel Like Makin' Love; Let Him In; Love Song; The Mohican And The Great Spirit; The Morning Side Of Love; April Child;
