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Free-Jazz Guitar Pioneer to Be Honored by Hometown
Free-Jazz Pioneer, Miles Davis Sideman Warren “Sonny" Sharrock Gets His Due, Oct. 2, in Ceremony Conducted by Bill Hanauer, Mayor, Village of Ossining; Special Performance by Sons of Sharrock 2010 Marks What Would Have Been Master Guitarist's 70th Birthday WHAT: The Village of Ossining, in conjunction with the family and friends of the late, great guitar ...
Mort Weiss: Raising the Bar: The Definitive Mort Weiss
by Samuel Chell
In late 2006, clarinetist Mort Weiss told his unusual story to R. J. Deluke in an exclusive interview for All About Jazz, appropriated titled “Mort Weiss: Sets Sail with Clarinet." His narrative is the timeless, archetypal journey of the hero's circular route to hell and back--much like that of Homer's legendary mariner, Ulysses, except that in ...
Mark Weinstein: Timbasa
by Woodrow Wilkins
First came the transition from trombonist to flutist. Then came the transition to Latin jazz. For Mark Weinstein, a confluence of worlds has become modus operandi. Brooklyn-born Weinstein's experience has included a fusion of post-bebop music with traditional Afro-Cuban drumming. As a trombonist, he worked with Chick Corea, Cal Tjader, Tito Puente, Maynard Ferguson, ...
For Latin Lovers: Mark Weinstein, Claudio Roditi, Emilio Solla
by J Hunter
In many ways, the description “Latin jazz" is no more useful than the umbrella description “jazz." There are sub-genres inside the sub-genre, all of them with subtle color changes that provide different flavors, even though it all can lead to the same satisfying result. Here are three early 2010 entrants into this musical conversation.
Sizhukong: It Don't Mean a Thing if it Ain't Got That Oon
by Ian Patterson
It is something of a paradox that the western world knows so relatively little about modern China, even as the awakening giant's influence in the world is increasing. Who knows exactly what music is fermenting in its endless metropolises and among its multitude of ethnicities? Who knows what musical experiments and innovations are exciting passions and ...
David "Fathead" Newman: The Blessing
by Andrew Velez
What an apt name The Blessing is for David Newman's final recording before his death ended a long career last January (2009). He played for more than a decade with Ray Charles and alongside Herbie Mann, Aretha Franklin and Roy Ayers, among many others. For this last studio session he was in fine form. A Milt ...
Disney Jazz
Label: Walt Disney Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah; When You Wish Upon A Star; Alice In Wonderland; Beauty And The Beast; Disney's Main Street Electrical Parade; Some Day My Prince Will COme; A Whole New World; Whistling Medley; Whistle While You Work; Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy; You've Got A Friend in Me; Turkey in the Straw; A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes;
The Allman Brothers Band: 40 Years Out
by Alan Bryson
So what do Randy Brecker, Stanley Clarke and Lenny White have in common with Kid Rock, Eric Clapton and Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top? All were part of the Allman Brothers Band's three-week musical extravaganza at New York City's Beacon Theater celebrating the band's 40th anniversary. This year's list of surprise guests also included ...
Memphis Underground
Featuring the music of Herbie Mann
Duration: 6:02
Yardbird Suite
By Herbie Mann
Label: Sine Qua Non
Released: 2008
Track listing: Yardbird Suite;
Here's That Mann;
One for Tubby;
Squire's Parlor;
Who Knew?;
Opicana.
