Results for "Harold Land"

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Work in Progress: Big Band Harold Land, Part 2

Featuring the music of Tony Corman
Duration: 3:51
September 26, 2022

More about the music and the players as we prepare our October 8, 2022 concert at California Jazz Conservatory in Berkeley, CA where the Morchestra will perform original arrangements of the compositions of jazz master Harold Land.

Article: Album Review

Cory Weeds Quartet: Just Coolin'

by Jack Bowers
May 21, 2022

Although Cory Weeds spends much of his time promoting and recording other jazz artists, he does manage to place those tasks on the back burner every once in a while to blow his own horn, so to speak—which he does about as well as anyone else on today's scene. While the Canadian-based saxophonist is especially engaging ...

Article: Journey into Jazz

Record Store Day April 2022 Jazz Releases

by Kyle Simpler
April 19, 2022

April 23, 2022 marks the fifteenth anniversary of Record Store Day. Over the years, RSD has grown from a small once-a-year experience to multiple events depending on the year. Each RSD drop features limited-edition vinyl releases, which are popular among collectors. More importantly, though, RSD draws attention to independent record stores, many of whom have flourished ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Lost & Found Recordings: Pepper Adams, Sheila Jordan, David S. Ware

by David Brown
March 22, 2022

This week, lost and found recordings featuring Monk & Coltrane's final tour together, a lost movie soundtrack from Monk, a Sheila Jordan album she doesn't remember making, and other lost and found studio and live recordings from Pepper Adams, Bill Dixon & Cecil Taylor, Harold Land, David S. Ware, Ella Fitzgerald, Tim Berne Snakeoil and more! ...

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Westward Bound!

By Harold Land

Label: Reel to Real
Released: 2021
Track listing: Vendetta; Beepdurple; Happily Dancing/ Deep Harmonies Falling; My Romance; Triplin' The Groove; Autumn Leaves; Who Can I Turn To?; Beau-TY; Blue N' Boogie.

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The Stars of Jazz #1

By Arkadia Jazz All-Stars

Label: Arkadia Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Caravan, Body and Soul, Heaven’s Gift, A Night in Tunisia, Stella By Starlight, If I Were a Bell, Good Morning, Heartache, Visions of Gaudi, Bernie’s Tune, The Emergence, Nuages.

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Where in the World is Dupree Bolton?

by Patrick Burnette
September 30, 2021

This fortnight's spectacular focuses on two very different sets of music--two albums by modern jazz violinists and the two best-known recordings featuring elusive trumpeter Dupree Bolton (they are just about the ONLY recordings featuring him--stay tuned for the details). Pop matters range from St. Vincent to Sparks to Sade--and that's some ranging. Playlist Discussion ...

News: Recording

Harold Land: Westward Bound!

August 4, 2021

Over the years, tenor saxophonist Harold Land has been positioned as unheralded, underappreciated and not fully celebrated. He has also been referred to as John Coltrane's true heir and a genius. None of this is true, of course. Land recorded 15 leadership albums between 1958 and 2001 and four times that number as a sideman. Jazz ...

Article: Album Review

Kyle Asche Organ trio: Five Down Blues

by Pierre Giroux
July 31, 2021

It has been well documented that the Covid-19 pandemic has played havoc with the careers of the participants in the arts. The members of the Kyle Asche Organ Trio have also felt its sting. But fortunately they have a musical snapshot of the final time they made music together in March 2020, which forms the basis ...

Article: Album Review

Harold Land: Westward Bound!

by Peter J. Hoetjes
July 24, 2021

One can't help but wonder how large the stage may have been for tenor saxophonist Harold Land had he not tethered himself to the west coast for the majority of his career. In 1954 Land moved from Santa Monica to Los Angeles and quickly earned himself a place in the immensely popular Clifford Brown/Max ...