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Harold Mabern at Smoke, NYC
by AAJ Staff
Harold MabernSmokeNew York CityDecember 22, 2007 Harold Mabern performed with his piano trio three nights at Smoke, on New York's Upper West Side, the weekend before Christmas, 2007. The one-time sideman for luminaries such as Wes Montgomery, Lee Morgan and John Coltrane was accompanied by a suited white bassist and a ...
The Gigolo
By Lee Morgan
Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Yes I Can, No You Can't; Trapped; Speedball; The Gigolo; You Go To My Head; The Gigolo (alternate take).
Harold Mabern: Blessed
by Terrell Kent Holmes
Harold Mabern, one of jazz's most enduring and dazzlingly skilled pianists, was born in Memphis, a city that produced saxophonists George Coleman and Charles Lloyd, trumpeter Booker Little and pianist Phineas Newborn, Jr. Mabern started out as a drummer but, under Newborn's influence, switched to piano. During his over half-century on the scene as sideman and ...
A Few Miles From Memphis
Label: Prestige Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: A Few Miles from Memphis; Walkin' Back; A Treat for Bea; Syden Blue; There's Kind of
Hush; B&B; To Wane; Rakin' and Scrapin'; Such Is Life; Aon; I Heard It Through the
Grapevine; Valerie.
Harold Mabern: A Few Miles From Memphis
by Russ Musto
The relative dearth of dates as a leader by pianist Harold Mabern is an enigma--one made even more puzzling by the quality of this disc, a reissue of his first two records. Mabern was already in his 30s, possessing a well developed style, when he recorded these albums in 1968, and thanks to his considerable abilities ...
Harold Mabern and Eric Alexander: The Art of Duo
by AAJ Staff
When 68-year-old pianist Harold Mabern performs with 36-year-old tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander as a duo, their age difference might lead those in the audience to assume a mentor-apprentice relationship exists between the two musicians. And that assumption is correct... up to a point. It's true that Alexander was a student of Mabern's at William Patterson College ...
Harold Mabern: A Few Miles From Memphis
by Derek Taylor
Harold Mabern A Few Miles From Memphis Prestige 2004 A transplanted Chicagoan by way of Memphis, pianist Harold Mabern gigged with an incredible array of jazz talent during his youth. His colleagues, recounted in the liners to this recent two-fer, read like a VIP list of hard and ...
Meet Lynne Arriale
by Craig Jolley
Pianist Lynne Arriale served an apprenticeship in New York before striking out with her own trio in the early 90's. Her resume includes a performance at the 1998 IAJE convention and an appearance on Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz. She has released six CD's to date. Live at Montreux (TCB 20252), a trio session with Steve Davis, ...
Charles Lloyd: Crossing the Waters Wide
by C. Andrew Hovan
From the time of “love-ins" and tie-dyed shirts to today's current jazz renaissance, Charles Lloyd has played a part in the multifaceted history of the music. His series of Atlantic sides in the '60s transfixed a young and impressionable audience by way of an intoxicating fusion of mysticism, rock rhythms and jazz improvisation, while also launching ...
