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West Side Stories
Label: PlaxMusic
Released: 2006
Track listing: West Side Stories;
Climb Every Mountian;
I Want It To Be;
Robin's Dance;
One Less Bell To Answer;
Funkadelic;
I Want To Know What Love Is;
Longer;
Duke It Out;
Speaking In Tongues;
Your Love Speaks To Me.
Lonnie Plaxico: West Side Stories
by Jim Santella
Six original compositions and several familiar pieces give Lonnie Plaxico's eleventh album a heavy dose of spontaneity. With pianist George Colligan, drummer Kenny Grohowski, tenor saxophonist Gary Thomas, trumpeter Alex Norris and several influential guests on board, the session rocks hard with a contemporary edge. The theme of West Side Stories points to the ...
Lonnie Plaxico: West Side Stories
by Mark F. Turner
West Side Stories, Lonnie Plaxico's eleventh recording as a leader, draws from memories of growing up in Chicago and listening to a variety of sounds from the '70s--R&B, popular music and smooth jazz--as well as his collaboration in the development of advanced M-Base musical concepts in the '80s. To coin a phrase from ...
Lonnie Plaxico
by Javier AQ Ortiz
Lonnie Plaxico's first recording on Blue Note is a treat for a musician who, in his early 40s, already has an exciting veteran career in jazz circles, although he played mostly R&B in Chicago. He left his native Windy City to come play for Wynton Marsalis. The famed trumpet player heard a demo tape from Plaxico ...
Persiflage
Label: Innova Recordings
Released: 2005
Track listing: March Nor'easter; Hitting The Windshield; Persiflage; Episodio Pa' Osmany; Ring On Delhi; Turbulent Life
Seekers; Spitfire; Mallard Call In The Cain Fields; Unknown Rebel; Country Rake Fight.
Live at the Jazz Standard
Label: 441 Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Sidewinder; Jumping Jacks; Dedicated To You; A Shorter Take; Summertime; Along Came Benny; You Don't Know What Love Is; Cachao's Dance; Senor Silver.
Live at Jazz Standard
Label: 441 Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: The Sidewinder; Jumping Jacks; Dedicated to You; A Shorter Take; Summertime; Along Came Benny; You Don
Lonnie Plaxico: Live at Jazz Standard
by John Kelman
The M-BASE Collective, when it first emerged in the ‘80s, championed a style that was about rhythmic unpredictability that was nevertheless mathematical in its precision, and a new way of looking at harmony that differentiated it from the post bop language of the young lions of the time. Bassist Lonnie Plaxico has the advantage of having ...
The Lonnie Plaxico Group: Live at the Jazz Standard
by C. Michael Bailey
Bassist Lonnie Plaxico is perhaps best known for his associations with Greg Osby and M-Base, and for being the long-time bassist for Cassandra Wilson. He was the leader of several recordings made for the now static Muse label in the '80s and '90s. On January 29, 2003, Plaxico was leading an energetically funky sextet at New ...
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 ...
