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Jazz Musician of the Day: Larry Willis
All About Jazz is celebrating Larry Willis' birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Larry WillisPianist Larry Willis has had an important and distinguished 40-year career in jazz. Since making his recording debut on Jackie McLean’s landmark 1965 album “Right Now!... more Website | Videos | Articles ...
Larry Willis: The Offering
by John Barron
New York native Larry Willis has had a distinguished career performing with artists as diverse as Jackie McLean, Blood, Sweat & Tears and Woody Shaw. Although he's not nearly as well known as he should be, the veteran pianist has established himself in the upper echelon of modern jazz recording artists. The Offering finds Willis in ...
Larry Willis: Blue Fable and Alter Ego
by Donald Elfman
Larry Willis Blue Fable High Note 2007 Tony Pancella Alter Ego Mapleshade 2007 Larry Willis is one of those musicians whose name should always be remembered when ...
The Big Push
By Larry Willis
Label: HighNote Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: The Surry With The Fringe On Top; Today's Night;
The Day You Said Goodbye; Just Wait And See; Annika's
Lullaby; I Have A Dream; Everything I Have Is Yours; The Big
Push; Poppa Nat.
Larry Willis: The Big Push & The Powers of Two, Vol. 2
by Joel Roberts
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 ...
Larry Willis: The Big Push
by Michael P. Gladstone
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 ...
Larry Willis: Sanctuary & The Powers of Two
by Russ Musto
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 ...
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.
Larry Willis: Sanctuary
by Franz A. Matzner
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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