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Bobby Broom: Plays For Monk
by Mark Corroto
Monk lives! Perhaps it can be said that Thelonious Monk has had many lives. Ever since the unique pianist established his repertoire in the 1940s and '50s musicians have, probably beginning with saxophonist Steve Lacy, taken up the task of covering the now infamous music. With Plays for Monk, guitarist Bobby Broom delivers one of the ...
Toronto Jazz Festival Supersizes Closing Night with Addition of Kenny Garrett
The TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz Festival will close out its 23rd edition this summer with supreme saxophonist Kenny Garrett in a special triple bill performance on Sunday, July 5 at Nathan Phillips Square. Garrett will join previously announced acts, Alain Caron Band and Sadao Watanabe. A multiple Grammy nominee, Garrett is considered to be the ...
John McLaughlin/Chick Corea: Five Peace Band, Montreal, Canada, April 28, 2009
by John Kelman
John McLaughlin / Chick Corea Five Peace BandSalle Wilfred-Pelletier Montreal, Canada April 28, 2009 The chance to experience the evolution of a one-time group over the course of a single tour is a rare one. Even if a live album is released, it's more often than not recorded ...
Chick Corea / John McLaughlin: Five Peace Band Live
by John Kelman
Superstar collaborations often look good on paper but don't pan out in reality, so it's a real pleasure to see that the pairing of two modern legends--keyboardist Chick Corea and guitarist John McLaughlin--is far more than some marketing representative's wet dream. Teaming with three younger players who add their own cachet--saxophonist Kenny Garrett, bassist Christian McBride ...
Drummer/Singer/Songwriter Brian Blade Interviewed at AAJ
Known in the jazz world for his slick and superlative drumming skills, Brian Blade is engaged in making other musical statements these days. Statements that are outside the jazz genre, but are an essential part of this enlightened man and serious musician whose musical tastes run “between Bela Bartok and Wayne Shorter to Al Green," who, ...
Brian Blade: Songs From His Heart
by R.J. DeLuke
Known in the jazz world for his slick and superlative drumming skills, Brian Blade is engaged in making other musical statements these days. Statements that are outside the jazz genre, but are an essential part of this enlightened man and serious musician whose musical tastes run “between Bela Bartok and Wayne Shorter to Al Green," who, ...
Five Peace Band
by Geoff Anderson
Five Peace Band Paramount Theatre Denver, CO March 25, 2009 The reunion of Chick Corea and John McLaughlin—together for the first substantial time since their days with Miles Davis recording In a Silent Way(Columbia, 1969) and Bitches Brew—may be the most obvious feature of their new collaboration, Five Peace Band; ...
Clifton Anderson: Legacy
by Maxwell Chandler
Clifton Anderson has been on a lifelong journey of artistic evolution. From his start as a child surrounded by a musical family, to formal education mixed with the practical experience of live gigs, Clifton's odyssey is ever-unfolding. Whether playing as a long-standing member of his uncle Sonny Rollins' band, helping to run the Doxy label or ...
Justin Vasquez: Triptych
by Phil DiPietro
Young saxophonist Justin Vasquez acquits himself assertively on this 2009 debut, adapting the model of the tough Texas tenors to his own assiduous Austin alto. But that convenient alliterative to Vasquez's lone star origins belies his true lineage in the modern, slashing altoist mold carved out by the likes of David Binney,Greg Osby, Steve Coleman and ...
Chick Corea and John McLaughlin at Jazz at Lincoln Center - April 23-25
Jazz at Lincoln Center presents the all-star Five Peace Band with legendary pianist-composer Chick Corea and influential guitarist John McLaughlin in their long-awaited Rose Theater debut. Working together for the first time since the days of Miles Davis Bitches Brew-era band over 40 years ago, this newly created band includes saxophonist Kenny Garrett, bassist Christian McBride ...
