Results for "Lewis Porter"

The September Concert: The Heart Of Jazz For 9/11- Now In Its 10th Year

September 10, 2014

The September Concert: The Heart of Jazz for 9/11- now in its 10th Year. On Thursday, September 11, 40 of NYC’s top jazz artists will meet at Somethin' Jazz Club, 212 E 52nd St. NYC from 7pm - 1am, to play their take on various facets of that wretched day & its aftermath. They’ll be playing ...

Spiritualized, Connie Crothers, Allen Lowe & Vinny Golia

by Martin Longley
April 18, 2013

Spiritualized Secret Project Robot April 2, 2013 The English cosmo-psychedelic drugsludge-rock combo Spiritualized would usually be expected to play at one of NYC's larger venues, such as Terminal 5 or Webster Hall. Just prior to their U.S. West Coast dates, Spiritualized suddenly announced a micro-gig, leaking the ...

Untitled Calypso

Featuring the music of Lewis Porter
Duration: 10:03
November 13, 2012

Bobby Zankel: Revisiting Coltrane’s “A Love Supreme”

by Victor L. Schermer
October 10, 2012

John Coltrane's iconic A Love Supreme (Impulse!, 1965) is a jazz perennial, continuing to attract and move listeners around the globe nearly five decades after it was released. Great musicians, such as guitarists John McLaughlin and Carlos Santana, and saxophonist Joshua Redman cite its profound influence on their career. The Branford Marsalis Quartet , with A ...

Dave Liebman: What It Is - The Life of a Jazz Artist

by Lewis Porter
June 22, 2012

[The following is an excerpt from Chapter 4 of What It Is: The Life of a Jazz Artist (Scarecrow Press, 2012), by saxophonist Dave Liebman, in conversation with Lewis Porter, author of John Coltrane: His Life and Music (University of Michigan Press, 2000). In it, Liebman and Porter discuss the saxophonist's involvement in the loft scene ...

Catching Up With Lewis Porter

by Jeffery S. McMillan
April 11, 2012

On April 19, 2012, at 8:00 p.m. in Paine Hall on the Harvard University campus, jazz pianist, composer, educator, and author, Lewis Porter's Concerto for Saxophone will receive its world premiere with jazz icon Dave Liebman as the soloist:Dr. Porter was kind enough to answer some questions about the piece and his collaborations with ...

Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast

By Lewis Porter

Label: Terra Nova
Released: 2011

Italian Encounter: Lewis Porter at Siena Jazz

By Lewis Porter

Label:
Released: 2007
Track listing: 01. Blues for Siena (Porter) - 10:05; 02. Cherokee Variation (Porter) - 9:37; 03. A Summer Night (Porter) - 3:54; 04. Wine Hot (Di Castri)/Three As One (Porter/Di Castri/Sferra) - 10:55; 05. Body and Soul (Johnny Green) - 11:38; 06. Lester Young Samba (Porter)- 7:40; 07. Again and Again (ii-V-I) (Porter) - 8:19.

Lewis Porter - Furio Di Castri - Fabrizio Sferra Trio: Italian Encounter: Lewis Porter at Siena Jazz

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 15, 2007

Chi ha già letto i libri di Lewis Porter, un eminente musicologo americano che ha scritto fra l'altro una dettagliata monografia su John Coltrane (Blue Trane - La vita e la musica di John Coltrane), resterà forse sorpreso nel trovarlo dietro un pianoforte. Il disco è la documentazione del concerto tenuto per Siena Jazz, un'esibizione che ...

An Open Letter From Lewis Porter

by Lewis Porter
May 21, 2004

This is a very belated response to Dr. C. O. Simpkins' critique, posted on AAJ in March 2003, of my book John Coltrane: His Life and Music (Univ of Michigan Press, 1998). As your readers may know, Dr. Simpkins, a physician, was the author of Coltrane: A Biography in 1975. His book, and one by J.C. ...