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Lonnie Plaxico: Striving for Originality, Noteriety
by R.J. DeLuke
The story of bassist Lonnie Plaxico starts out like a classic tale. Local kid makes it out of Chicago’s projects by learning to play an instrument, finding himself, and making music his life’s work. He goes on to play bass with a Who’s Who list of musicians, including a long tenure with one of rising star ...
Live at the 5:01 Jazz Bar
Label: PlaxMusic
Released: 2003
Track listing: Red Light District; Emergence; Delusion; Too Young to Go Steady; Inner Voice; Squib Cakes
Lonnie Plaxico: Live at the 5:01 Jazz Bar
by AAJ Staff
After a brief stint with Blue Note, Lonnie Plaxico quietly released this fine live date in 2002 on his own label, PlaxMusic. It consists of highlights of two sets he cut with his band (featuring trumpeter Alex Norris, tenorist Marcus Strickland, pianist George Colligan, and drummer Nat Townsley) earlier that year while at the 5:01 Jazz ...
Lonnie Plaxico: M
by Javier AQ Ortiz
Lonnie Plaxico’s maturity as a musician comes to the fore in his first release under the jazz banner label Blue Note as Mélange finds him putting together almost 30 years of professional musical experience in a recording that works well. Plaxico wisely allows the supporting cast of this flecked tale to make the most of their ...
Melange
Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: 1. Squib Cakes (4:43) 2. Melange (4:58) 3. Darkness (5:11) 4. Short Takes (7:20) 5. Miles II (5:29) 6. Paella (5:42) 7. Sunday Morning (5:31) 8. Beloved (5:35) 9. T.O.P. (6:37) 10. Patois (4:58) 11. Windy City (4:47)
Eyes of the Elders
By T.K. Blue
Label: Arkadia Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Wee; Village Council Interlude 1; Dance of the Nile; Frozen Mist; Eyes of the Elders;
Village Council Interlude 2; Harold’s Theme; Nostalgia in
Times Square; Village Council Interlude 3; Matriarch; Rites of Passage; South Side
Samba; Wise One.
Lonnie Plaxico: Melange
by C. Andrew Hovan
He was part of the crowd surrounding Wynton Marsalis’ jazz revival in the late ‘80s, yet bassist Lonnie Plaxico has been seen in the spotlight far too little during the past decade. Yet, with a resume that includes work as a musical director for Cassandra Wilson and an inclination for the genre-bending grooves of the M-Base ...
Lonnie Plaxico: Melange
by Jim Santella
Experience has taught Lonnie Plaxico that a tenor saxophone and trumpet front line works best. His 6th recording as a leader combines straight-ahead, modern mainstream, and Tower Of Power funk. At 40, the bassist has paused to reflect on which jazz styles are meaningful; his session includes variety with significance. Plaxico writes out the arrangements in ...
Lonnie Plaxico: Melange
by David Adler
Lonnie Plaxico’s Blue Note debut is similar in thrust to last year’s Emergence (Savant). The emphasis is on funk, yet the frequent complexity of Plaxico’s writing harks back to his M-Base roots, especially on tunes like “Short Takes," “T.O.P.," “Patois," and the title track. Apparently the disc grew out of two different sessions — the first ...
