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Lewis Porter: Piano Solo
by Dan Bilawsky
The solo format is, quite often, a window into an artist's soul. For Lewis Porter, performing all by his lonesome at the piano, it also serves as a showcase for a tripartite balancing act between patience, impulse, and calculated intellect. In an autonomous state, left to his own devices and desires, this pianist-scholar produces music that's ...
Dave Liebman: Archives and Improvisations - The Past and the Now of a Life in Jazz
by Victor L. Schermer
Prolific saxophonist, composer, band leader, and educator Dave Liebman is a living legend, an NEA Jazz Master who has been making waves since the 1970s and never stops growing, learning, and discovering. His autobiography, What It Is (Scarecrow Press, 2012, with Lewis Porter) is an honest probing of his more than half century experience as a ...
Chris Kelsey Quintet
By Chris Kelsey
Label: Unseen Rain Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: 1. Very Good Wrath 2. Nikita's Mizkita 3. Corn Pone 4. Pestimism 5. Cowering Inferno 6. Purple
Drizzle 7. Useless Appendage 8. Boomtown for Dimwitz 9. Moochie the Minor 10. Fran's Coy Tune
1 Up 1 Down: Live from Nowhere
By Chris Kelsey
Label: Unseen Rain Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: 1. Alfie's Theme 2. Waltz Frisk 3. India (John Coltrane) 4. Easy Bake Burnt Pie 5. Blessing In
Disguise (Sonny Rollins)
Beauty & Mystery
By Lewis Porter
Label: Altrisuoni
Released: 2018
Track listing: Prologue; Birthplace; Bye Bye Blackbird; People Get Ready; Blues For Trane and
McCoy; 1919; Chasing Lines; Dazzling Raga; From Giovanni to Jimmy; Day Is Done.
Lewis Porter: Beauty & Mystery
by Mike Jurkovic
A somber, modern/Romanticist solo piano “Prologue" beautifully opens jazz scholar, historian, and accomplished pianist Lewis Porter's Beauty & Mystery, his fourth disc as a session leader. Accompanied throughout this often inspired recording by bassist John Pattitucci, sought after Grammy-winner and frequent trio companion drummer Terri Lyne Carrington and high-flying, rep-rising saxophonist Tia Fuller, Porter ...
Phil Scarff: Ragas on Saxophone
by Geno Thackara
Plenty of Western players have been inspired by the exotic sounds and qualities of Indian music. It's a much smaller number who've formally studied its classical traditions, however, and fewer still have been successful enough to master the forms and play to the acclaim of Indian audiences. Quick--can you name one off the top of your ...
A Pair From Lewis Porter: Beauty & Mystery/Three Minutes To Four
by Dan Bilawsky
Lewis Porter is living proof that the marriage of a wide knowledge base and an open mind makes for a beautifully creative whole. As an esteemed author, a revered academic, a highly respected composer, and a first-rate pianist, Porter operates from a unique, variable-angle vantage point occupied by few others. He knows from whence this music ...
Bobby Zankel and Odean Pope: Homage to John Coltrane 2017
by Victor L. Schermer
Bobby Zankel Warriors of the Wonderful Sound Featuring Odean Pope Philadelphia Clef Club of Jazz and Performing Arts 50th Anniversary Homage to John Coltrane Philadelphia, PA July 21, 2017 Fifty years ago, almost to the date, John Coltrane passed away at mid-career. In an all too brief ten plus year ...
Ashley Kahn: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece
by Lazaro Vega
This interview was first published at All About Jazz in November 2000 and is part of our ongoing effort to archive pre-database material. Ashley Kahn, the author of Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece (Da Capo Press, 224 pgs.), is Music Editor at VH1, and was the primary editor ...
