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Lonnie Liston Smith
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The Great Lonnie Liston Smith is one of contemporary music’s most versatile musicians. In a career that spans some 40 years, he has been heard in a variety of context as a featured sideman for some of Jazz music’s most illustrious leaders before stepping out to reveal his own original concepts as a bandleader in the mid 70’s. He is a keyboardist of the first rank and has influenced a generation of young players that have acknowledged his rhythmic urgency (swing), harmonic acumen and composing skills. Lonnie was born in Richmond, Virginia into a musical family. His father was a member of the Gospel Group, “The Harmonizing Four”
Keyboard Special Featuring Joe Alterman, Tyrone Jackson, Kenny Banks Jr, And More
by David W. Daniels
In addition to the named keyboardists in the title, the show includes Atlanta musicians Kenny Banks Sr, Mary Lou Williams, and others. Also keyboardists Peter Johnstone, Geri Allen, Larry Young, and more. Playlist Lonnie Liston Smith “Explorations" from Loveland (Columbia) 0:00 Joe Alterman “You Can't Go Home Again" from The Living Room Sessions Vol. ...
Author George Cole On Miles Davis' Final Decade
by Jack Kenny
All About Jazz interviews George Cole author of The Last Miles, which concentrates on the final period of Miles Davis' life. Cole also maintains a website with additional interviews and research about Davis' life between 1980 and 1991. In these pages John Kelman wrote about The Last Miles: The Music of Miles Davis, 1980-1991, “There ...
Mal Waldron: His Journey Across 12 Albums
by Carl Medsker
Mal Waldron's life story is compelling, and to mark his 2025 centenary, this article aims to introduce his work to those less familiar with it by tracing his journey across 12 distinctive recordings. Max Roach once singled him out, along with Thelonious Monk, Herbie Nichols, Hasaan Ibn Ali and Randy Weston, as uniquely original ...
End Of Month Keyboard Special featuring Lonnie Liston Smith, Jackie Davis, Herbie Hancock, The Outernet, and Others
by David W. Daniels
This is our end of the month keyboard special, featuring jazz and jazz fusion musicians who specialize in keyboards of all types (piano, Fender Rhodes, organ, clavinet, and synthesizer primarily). This month we're including music from Nina Simone, Don Patterson, Doug Carn, Herbie Hancock, Kandance Springs, and others. As an added bonus, we are closing the ...
Funky Mama Show
by David Brown
This week's edition of The Jazz Continuum celebrates Mother's Day with an energetic mix of soul-jazz, jazz-funk, R&B, and groove-oriented selections. The program opens with classic organ-driven tracks from saxophonist Lou Donaldson, funk pioneers The Meters, and organist Jimmy McGriff, laying the foundation for the show's rhythmic theme. As the sound evolves into 1970s jazz-funk, selections ...
Meet Andy Bey
by Chris M. Slawecki
From the 1995-2003 archive: This article first appeared on All About Jazz in February 2000. Listening for the first time to Andy Bey is like stepping into a quiet, still lake. Your foot first parts a surface that's smooth and tranquil, but you can't really tell from that surface how deeply your foot must ...
Allison Miller and Michelle Dorrance at 92NY
by Paul Reynolds
Allison Miller and Michelle Dorrance 92NY “Rivers in Our Veins"New York, NY February 2, 2025 Jazz and tap have long been enthusiastic dance partners. With “Rivers in Our Veins," drummer and composer Allison Miller adds further art forms to the mix. The 80-minute piece celebrating America's waterways marries ...
Jazz Is Dead 17
Label: Jazz Is Dead
Released: 2023
Track listing: Love Brings Happiness; Dawn; Cosmic Changes; Gratitude; Love Can Be; Fete; Kaleidoscope; What May Come; A New Spring.
Lonnie Liston Smith: Jazz Is Dead 17
by Richard J Salvucci
If someone has not released a recording in twenty five years, it must be a special occasion. Lonnie Liston Smith went out west, met a Fender Rhodes piano and, voila, conjured up the '70s again. So, technology and memory presumably explain the appearance of this recording, part of the ironically named Jazz is Dead label's series, ...
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