Results for "Ike Quebec"

Jazz Musician of the Day: Ike Quebec

August 17, 2021

All About Jazz is celebrating Ike Quebec's birthday today! “This incontestably superior musician has been almost totally ignored in the chronicling of the musical form to which he has contributed so much. Quebec was a tenor man of the Hawkins school with a big tone and firm, vigorous style. I hope this new perspective of the ...

Michael Cuscuna: In The Vault Playing God

by AAJ Staff
October 17, 2020

From the 1995-2003 archive: This article first appeared at All About Jazz in December 2000. Michael Cuscuna is one of the most important figures in the jazz reissue field today. He has been responsible for hundreds of releases for many companies, and he was fortunate to meet and befriend Alfred Lion during the final ...

Jazz Musician of the Day: Ike Quebec

August 17, 2020

All About Jazz is celebrating Ike Quebec's birthday today! “This incontestably superior musician has been almost totally ignored in the chronicling of the musical form to which he has contributed so much. Quebec was a tenor man of the Hawkins school with a big tone and firm, vigorous style. I hope this new perspective of the ...

The Soul Jazz Guitar of Montgomery, Burrell and Green (1960 - 1965)

by Russell Perry
March 31, 2020

Hard bop created a comfortable setting for a suite of great blues-influenced guitar players who led the way toward soul jazz. Several of these players were from the mid-west -Wes Montgomery from Indianapolis, Grant Green from St. Louis and Detroit's Kenny Burrell. The next three hours of Jazz at 100 will present music from the 1960s ...

Ike Quebec

Born: August 17, 1918

“This incontestably superior musician has been almosttotally ignored in the chronicling of the musical form to whichhe has contributed so much. Quebec was a tenor man ofthe Hawkins school with a big tone and firm, vigorous style.I hope this new perspective of the contribution Ike Quebechas made to jazz will help to bring a little lightness to his souland much more recognition to his name.” Leonard Feather

An accomplished dancer and pianist, he switched to tenorsax as his primary instrument in his early 20s, and quicklyearned a reputation as a promising player. His recordingcareer started in 1940, with the Barons of Rhythm. Herecorded or performed with Frankie Newton, Hot Lips Page,Roy Eldridge, Trummy Young, Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Carterand Coleman Hawkins. Between 1944 and 1951, he workedwith Cab Calloway. He recorded for Blue Note records inthis era, and also served as a talent scout for the label(helping pianists Thelonious Monk and Bud Powell come towider attention) and, due to his exceptional sight readingskills, was an uncredited impromptu arranger for many BlueNote sessions.

Mal Waldron: Free At Last

by Karl Ackermann
December 19, 2019

The sensitivity reflected in much of Mal Waldron's music was a deep aspect of his psyche. The Harlem-born pianist, who died in Brussels, Belgium, in 2002, worked downtown with saxophonist Ike Quebec at Café Society in the early 1950s and went on to record on several Charles Mingus recordings including Pithecanthropus Erectus (Atlantic), Jazz Composers Workshop ...

Jazz Musician of the Day: Ike Quebec

August 17, 2019

All About Jazz is celebrating Ike Quebec's birthday today! “This incontestably superior musician has been almost totally ignored in the chronicling of the musical form to which he has contributed so much. Quebec was a tenor man of the Hawkins school with a big tone and firm, vigorous style. I hope this new perspective of the ...

Ike Quebec at 100, D-Stringz & A Walk On The Outside

by Marc Cohn
April 5, 2019

A show from the 2018 archive with a salute to Ike Quebec, a wickedly good session with Stanley Clarke, Bireli Lagrene and Jean-Luc Ponty that you might have missed, as well as coloring outside the lines with Mary Halvorson, Henry Threadgill and Charles Mingus with Roland Kirk. Oh, and our usual dose of grease & funk. ...

Blue Note's Tone Poet Series

by Patrick Burnette
February 15, 2019

With CD-quality streaming a reality for those with butch internet and money to burn, and vanilla streaming the reality for almost everyone else, digital music has never seemed less collectable. Why clutter your Marie Kondo-approved home with jewel boxes when much (though heaven knows not all) of the digital catalogue is available on tap? While compact ...

2018: The Year in Jazz

by Ken Franckling
January 3, 2019

The year 2018 was a busy one for the jazz world. The genre's version of the #MeToo movement resulted in a new Code of Conduct and other efforts to make the music workplace more equitable. International Jazz Day brought its biggest stage to St. Petersburg, Russia. The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, which ran a high-profile ...