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Stanley Clarke: Path Maker
by Esther Berlanga-Ryan
Innovation is a cherished quality in any art form and, truth be told, some follow greatness while others create the patterns that make that same greatness possible. There are teachers, and then, there are students. In jazz, musicians skilled in all sorts of instruments tend to look at their older peers in amazement, and challenges within ...
Grammy Award-Winning Bassist Stanley Clarke Interviewed at All About Jazz
When bassist Stanley Clarke won the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album, last week, for The Stanley Clarke Band (Heads Up, 2010), it was particularly meaningful, given he was up against everyone from fellow fusion god John McLaughlin to young up-and-comer Trombone Shorty. But while this particular win has great significance for the bassist who ...
Thoughts on Charles Fambrough's Funeral
The secret is out now. Like St. Peter's in New York City, the Lutheran Church of the Holy Communion at 2110 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia is fast becoming this city's “jazz church" with a potent jazz ministry. Drummer Ed Dennis, who runs jazz vespers there, and pastors Reverends Kari Hart and Stephen Kaiser know how to ...
Dave Liebman: A New York Story
by John Kelman
A few months shy of 65, saxophonist Dave Liebman may be having the busiest time of his career, now in its fifth decade. In the past 12 months, nearly a dozen releases have demonstrated the tremendous stylistic breadth of a musical oeuvre that kicked into high gear early, when, in the short span of three years, ...
Charles Fambrough: A Friend Unlike Any Other, R.I.P.
by Mark Kramer
For my dear friend Charles, my second Brother: Bassist Charles Fambrough, born in Philadelphia on August 25th, 1950 and known as “Broski," died on January 1st, 2011 at 5:00 p.m. with his daughter and wife at his side. Reportedly, he ever-so-gently squeezed their hands as he held them, and smiled. Then he was gone. ...
Charles Fambrough - R.I.P.
After a long bout battling liver disease and many years of suffering, the great jazz bassist Charles Fambrough passed away on Saturday, January 1, 2011. Fambrough had apparently been awaiting a transplant match. Several musical tributes were held in Philadelphia over the last several years to help Fambrough and his family pay the bassist's outrageous medical ...
Anomaly
By Lenny White
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Released: 2010
Track listing: Drum Boogie; We Know; Forever; Dark Moon; Gazelle; If U Dare; Election Day; Coming Down; Catlett Out of The Bag; Water Changes Everything; Anthem; The Wait Has Lifted the Weight.
Carnival Of Soul
By Mike Clark
Label: Owl Studios
Released: 2010
Track listing: T's Boogaloo; Monk's Dream; Cry Me a River; Water On the Moon; Turok Son of Stone; Angel Eyes; Bookin'; Run
Straight Down; Catlett Outta the Bag
Various Artists: CTI Records - The Cool Revolution
by John Kelman
Various ArtistsCTI Records--The Cool RevolutionCTI Masterworks2010 The late 1960s was, in many ways, a time of reckoning for jazz. While the music had continued to evolve over the previous half century, it was coincident with the emergence of rock music as a serious force that jazz began to ...
New Universe Music Festival: Day 2, November 21, 2010
by John Kelman
Day 1 | Day 2 The New Universe Music FestivalRaleigh, North CarolinaNovember 20-21, 2010 It's no small challenge to make a new festival viable, especially when it represents something of a niche within a niche. The attendance at the first day of the New Universe Music Festival was impressive enough, but ...
