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John Betsch
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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
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 ...
Craig Handy Quartet at Sunset Jazz Club
by Patricia Myers
Craig Handy Quartet Hommage a Dexter Gordon Sunset Jazz Club Paris, France July 8, 2016 Tributes to noted jazz musicians are frequent throughout Europe, especially in Paris. Each “hommage" centers on the hits and compositions of a star, performed by a musician with a high skill-level for ...
Steve Lacy Quintet: Last Tour
by John Eyles
As its title says, this album dates from Steve Lacy's last tour, which ran from the summer of 2003 in NYC through to March 2004 in Boston, (where Lacy was living at the time, as he was teaching at the New England Conservatory of Music). The eight tracks on this album were recorded in Boston's ICA ...
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