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The Avery Sharpe Trio: Autumn Moonlight
by C. Michael Bailey
The Avery Sharpe Trio makes a sharp dressed brand of jazz. At once intelligent and immediate, the eleven songs that make up Autumn Moonlight are splendid fuel for Sharpe's crack piano trio with exceptional pianist Onaje Allen Gumbs and drummer Winard Harper, who collectively raise the art of the trio to a level where the concert ...
Legends and Mentors
By Avery Sharpe
Label: JKNM Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Mac; Ballad For Aisha; Fly With The Wind; The Chief (Bro. Shepp); Steam; Ujamma; Gentle Giant (Bro. Lateef); Morning; Because They Love Me.
Legends & Mentors
By Avery Sharpe
Label: JKNM Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Big Mac (Bro. Tyner); Ballad For Aisha; Fly With The Wind; The Chief (Bro. Shepp); Steam; Ujaama; Gentle Giant (Bro. Lateef); Morning; Because They Love Me.
Avery Sharpe: Legends & Mentors
by Michael P. Gladstone
Bassist Avery Sharpe pays homage to three jazz musicians influential in his life: McCoy Tyner, Archie Shepp and Yusef Lateef. The ambitious and powerful Legends & Mentors provides Sharpe the opportunity to present his own music as well as the compositions of Tyner, Shepp and Lateef. The bassist has provided one section apiece for each artist, ...
Avery Sharpe: Legends & Mentors
by Woodrow Wilkins
Typically, when an instrumentalist or solo artist creates new music, the instrument carries most of the leads. That's not necessarily the case with acoustic bass players. In a class that includes Rufus Reid, Harvie S and Charles Fambrough, Avery Sharpe presents music that features the entire ensemble more than himself.Sharpe, a native of Valdosta, ...
Avery Sharpe: Legends & Mentors
by Budd Kopman
There are those who take jazz to be part of a larger racial identity, and hence define its characteristics within that framework. Others, however--while not neglecting jazz's origins--point to its essence being individual expression, with the main rule being that there are no rules. The tension between the two viewpoints is palpable; but in the end, ...
Avery Sharpe: Legends and Mentors
by Troy Collins
Over the last three decades bassist Avery Sharpe has been a stalwart sideman to some of the biggest names in jazz. Legends and Mentors is an homage to three of his closest colleagues, pianist McCoy Tyner and saxophonists Archie Shepp and Yusef Lateef. As McCoy Tyner's principle bassist for the past 20 years, Sharpe ...
Dragon Fly
By Avery Sharpe
Label: JKNM Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Oh No!; Swingfield; Dragon Fly; Protect Me; Morning Glow; My Favourite Things; Now That
Avery Sharpe Trio: Dragon Fly
by Germein Linares
Bassist Avery Sharpe, a long-time collaborator with legendary pianist McCoy Tyner, releases Dragon Fly on his own JKNM Records. Joined by pianist Onaje Allan Gumbs, drummer Winard Harper, and two special guests, Chico Freeman and Jeri Brown, the album prominently features Sharpe's multiple skills as leader and soloist. The album's opening number, “Oh No!", sounds very ...
Avery Sharpe Trio: Dragon Fly
by Jerry D'Souza
Avery Sharpe is probably best known as the bassist in the McCoy Tyner trio. But he should be known as a remarkable leader and composer with some notable releases to his credit. If that latter trait has been overlooked to an extent, now is the time to stop and pay attention. Sharpe's new trio recording is ...
