Results for "Jackie McLean"

The Jazz Romeo of 46th Street

by Sam Newsome
August 18, 2009

The New York City jazz scene in the 1980s experienced an influx of young musicians from all over the world, looking to get a slice of “The Big Apple." Among them was an adventurous 22-year-old saxophonist and flutist from Italy named Roberto Romeo who--after selling most of his belongings--came to New York for what he thought ...

Amiri Baraka: Perspectives on Music and Race

by Lloyd N. Peterson Jr.
August 17, 2009

Amiri Baraka is the author of the insightful and comprehensive book, Blues People. It is a book that has opened many minds and readers to the African American Diaspora along with the history and roots of African American music. Baraka has now published a new book of essays titled, Digging (The Afro-American Soul of American Classical ...

You Taught My Heart To Sing

Featuring the music of Jackie McLean
Duration: 7:54
August 11, 2009

Posi-Tone Records: More Home Runs with Mike DiRubbo, Ralph Bowen, Sean Nowell

by J Hunter
August 4, 2009

If Posi-Tone Records was a major league baseball team, it would be at the top of its division. So far in 2009, the label has had big wins with Sam Yahel's piano trio debut Hometown and guitarist Yotam Silberstein's overall debut Next Page, not to mention former Ray Charles sideman, trumpeter Jim Rotondi's heartfelt tribute to ...

The Lanny Morgan Sextet: "6"

by Edward Blanco
August 4, 2009

Years ago a jazz critic of the Hong Kong press referred to Lanny Morgan as the “old master," and the moniker has stuck ever since. Now, at the ripe young age of 75, the “old master" Morgan holds court yet again with a sextet of equal masters on a scintillating session of bebop burners, simply titled ...

Mike DiRubbo: Repercussion

by C. Michael Bailey
July 18, 2009

The immediate appeal of alto saxophonist Mike DiRubbo's Repercussion is the replacement of the piano by the vibraphone as the rhythm section's harmony instrument. Guitar-based and piano-less rhythm sections have made their way into the mainstream, leaving the vibraphone-based rhythm section still a novelty. DiRubbo is certainly not the first to employ such a format. Trombonist ...

Lee Morgan: Tom Cat

by Matt Marshall
July 6, 2009

Lee Morgan Tom Cat Blue Note / Music Matters 2008 (1980) Tom Cat continues Music Matter's program of re-releasing generally unavailable Blue Note sessions from the 1950s and 1960s on 45-rpm vinyl double albums. As Michael Cuscuna explains in the liner notes from the original 1980 release, Tom Cat was ...

Rob Thorsen: Lasting Impression

by Jerry D'Souza
June 8, 2009

Bassist Rob Thorsen became interested in jazz when he heard Dave Brubeck, Cannonball Adderley and Rahsaan Roland Kirk. The acoustic bass, which he discovered when he was in his twenties, became his instrument of choice as he began his career as a performer on a cruise ship. On Lasting Impression, his fourth CD as leader, Thorsen ...

Steve Lehman: Travail, Transformation, and Flow & Kuntu

by Kurt Gottschalk
June 6, 2009

Steve Lehman Travail, Transformation, and Flow Pi Recordings 2009 Michel Edelin Trio Kuntu Rogue Art 2009 There's much about Steve Lehman's Travail, Transformation, and Flow that the packaging won't tell ...

Tina Brooks: Back To The Tracks

by Matt Marshall
June 4, 2009

Tina Brooks Back To The Tracks Blue Note / Music Matters 2009 (1985) Although probably not the intention, Back To The Tracks appropriately labels saxophonist Tina Brooks' mode of operation during the 1960 Blue Note sessions that would produce this album. Going unreleased until Mosaic put it out ...