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John Betsch was born in Jacksonville, Florida in 1945 and presently lives in Paris. His mother was a church organist and pianist and his sister a dramatic soprano singer. John began playing drums at age nine and started playing professionally at 18 while a student at Fisk University. He continued his studies at the Berklee School of Music and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst under Max Roach and Archie Shepp; John also taught at U. Mass. and in state prison education programs. Moving to New York City in '75, he played drums with the Ted Daniel big band, Jeanne Lee, Abbey Lincoln, Dewey Redman, and others
PNY Quintet: Over the Wall
by Giuseppe Segala
PNY è l'acronimo che unisce Parigi e New York. All'insegna di tale tracciato avviene l'incontro che sta all'origine di questo CD, sfociato nella registrazione di Over the Wall. Anche se l'album è a nome collettivo, e se nell'ordine dei musicisti elencati in copertina sono in prima fila i ben noti Steve Swell e Rob Brown, una ...
Over the Wall
By Steve Swell
Label: Rogue Art
Released: 2024
Track listing: Dances with Questions; Hop, Skip and Jump; Dawn; Chance Upon; Nexus; Fauns and Wizards; New Orleans; Over the Wall; Round Trip; Prévert Is Now; For Frank Lowe; Dusk.
Serranias: Sketchbook For Piano Trio
By Aruán Ortiz
Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Shaw 'Nuff (Siento Un Bombo); En Forma De Guajira; Memorias Del Monte; Los Tres Golpes;
Canto De Tambores Y Caracoles; Huellas (Interlude I); Serranias; Black Like Thunderstone (one);
Like A
Changui (Montuno); ...And Shadows (Interlude II); Lullaby For The End Times.
Aruán Ortiz Trio: Serranias: Sketchbook For Piano Trio
by Dan McClenaghan
Pianist Aruan Ortiz hails from Santiago de Cuba, but he has resided in the United States for two decades. Musically he is a first cousin to pianist Matthew Shipp with his approachable and often intense and avant-garde keyboard style; and he seems a stylistic grandson to Thelonious Monk with his joyful angularities and off-kilter interludes. But ...
The Warmth of Our Songs
By Darryl Hall
Label: Swingin Back
Released: 2020
Track listing: 1. One weekend out of two (U. Kairson)
2. Life on hold (D. Hall)
3. Skylark ( H. Carmichael, J. Mercer))
4. A name and a number (U. Kairson, D. Hall)
5. Nobody else but me ( J Kern, Hammerstein)
6. Serenity (J. Henderson)
7. I thought about you (J. Van Heusen)
8. If freedom (U. Kairson )
9. Antoine’s song ( V. Bourgeyx)
10. Spiritual Medley: (Traditional Spiritual)
- Joshua fought the battle of Jericho - Wade in the water
- Let my people go
- Hold on
11. There’s a man goin’ round takin’ names (Traditional Spiritual)
12. Swing low sweet chariot (Traditional Spiritual)
13. Sometimes I feel like a motherless child (Traditional Spiritual)
14. Precious Lord (Traditional Spiritual)
15. Melancholia (D.Ellington)
16. Out of the Blue
17. I wish I knew how it would fee to be free (B. Taylor)
Three in Paris
By Jeremy Udden
Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Roland Alphonso; Lazy Afternoon; Who Needs It?; Hope; Azure; Prayer; The Crust; Bone; Folk Song 2; One for Us.
Joris Teepe: In The Spirit Of Rashied Ali
by Mark Corroto
In politics, as well as music, the revolutionaries rarely govern. With the exceptions of Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, and John Coltrane, Albert Ayler, Marion Brown, and Rashied Ali exemplify this theory. Thankfully, those fighting in the trenches alongside the insurgents, like Joris Teepe, are determined to keep their memory and spirit alive. The Dutch-born New York ...
The Art (de Vivre) of the Trio
by Geno Thackara
Amaury Faye Trio Clearway Pias Jazz Village 2017 Following several years of studying and reputation-building in his native France and beyond, Amaury Faye makes an accomplished and overdue step foward with Clearway. It was largely a standards affair on his leader debut Big Moe Trio (Greenworks, 2010). Here the French ...
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