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Larry Willis: The Big Push & The Powers of Two, Vol. 2

by Joel Roberts
December 7, 2006

Pianist Larry Willis has had an important and distinguished 40-year career in jazz, even if his name isn't as well known as it should be. Since making his recording debut on Jackie McLean's landmark 1965 album Right Now!, the New York-born Willis, who turns 66 this month, has played everything from free jazz to fusion to ...

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Larry Willis: The Big Push

Read "The Big Push" reviewed by Michael P. Gladstone

by Michael P. Gladstone
April 21, 2006

Pianist Larry Willis has been on over 300 sideman sessions and led eighteen of his own albums since 1970, fifteen of them since 1989. Willis has been in involved in many sub-genres of jazz, largely in the earlier years including jazz-rock fusion and the avant-garde. He was the pianist for Blood Sweat & Tears in the ...

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Larry Willis: Sanctuary & The Powers of Two

by Russ Musto
December 11, 2004

Larry Willis Sanctuary Mapleshade Records 2003 Larry Willis, for too long a time unjustly under-recorded as a leader, happily has found a home as Mapleshade Records' music director for the past 12 years. The Maryland-based label has afforded the veteran New Yorker a multitude of opportunities to demonstrate his imposing ...

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Sanctuary

By Larry Willis

Label: Mapleshade Recordings
Released: 2003
Track listing: The Maji; Sanctuary; Good Friday; Brother Ed; A Balm In Gilead; Thank you, lord; Were You There?; Fallen Hero.

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Larry Willis: Sanctuary

Read "Sanctuary" reviewed by Franz A. Matzner

by Franz A. Matzner
August 25, 2003

Antediluvian of method or anachronistic of taste, dedicated purist or obdurate conservative, iconoclast or ludite, the debates surrounding Mapleshade owner, engineer, and producer Pierre Sprey will most likely never reach a definitive conclusion. Regardless of what label one chooses to apply, Mapleshade productions possess a distinct sound related directly to Sprey's dedicated traditional recording methods. Using ...

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