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Wayne Shorter: Celebration Volume 1
by Chris May
In 2000, three years short of entering his eighth decade on this planet--a place of origin which at times seemed questionable, though he made less fuss about it than Sun Ra--Wayne Shorter finally did what he had resisted doing throughout his career. He formed his own band, not just for an album project but as an ...
John Lee: Second Wind
by Pierre Giroux
Second Wind, which, as the title indicates, is John Lee's sophomore recording, is a vivid example of the art of the trio featuring the estimable rhythm section Peter Washington on bass and Kenny Washington on drums. It had long been Lee's dream to play with these two legends and the result is a collection of favourites ...
Peter Brötzmann / Toshinori Kondo / Sabu Toyozumi: Complete Link
by Mark Corroto
As the liner notes to Complete Link by Yoshiaki Kinno state, “In the 1960s, each of them [saxophonist Peter Brötzmann, trumpeter Toshinori Kondo and drummer Sabu Toyozumi] was inspired by free jazz, practiced it themselves and met each other in the process of overcoming free jazz." That is indeed a bold statement. Did he mean to ...
Calvin Edwards: The Big Bopper Remembered
by La-Faithia White
Jazz guitarist Calvin Edwards, born in Kings Mountain, North Carolina, spent most of his time in the state of South Carolina surrounded by his family. “My father, Hiawthia Edwards was a pretty famous gospel singer" explains Edwards. At seventeen years of age he started out professionally with his father while playing in his brother's band, The ...
Ornette Coleman: Free Jazz To Ornette! Revisited
by John Eyles
For ezz-thetics' revisited series' fourth Ornette Coleman album, the label has ventured back further than any of its previous Coleman albums, to New York City in December 1960 and January 1961. Recorded at A&R Studios on Wednesday December 21st 1960 from 8pm to 12.30am, the Free Jazz session produced two pieces, the thirty-seven minute “Free Jazz" ...
Lee Underwood: California Sigh
by Gareth Thompson
Lee Underwood's late father played trombone in a big band at the University of Colorado. Underwood recalls, “Whenever he thought of those days, my dad would close his eyes, purse his lips, and extend his right hand as if still playing this beloved trombone." Lee himself became a high-school jazz pianist, but caught his break as ...
Mose Allison, Lisa Rich, Harry Skoler & Jihee Heo
by Joe Dimino
We kick off the 864th Episode of Neon Jazz with new music from a Kansas City treasure, E.E Pointer with the song “Uprights" off his 2024 album Worm. From there, we go old school Kansas City with the great Andy Kirk. The rest of the show focuses on a host of veteran musicians with new work ...
Backgrounder: Miles Davis - Miles Ahead, 1957
Miles Davis's Miles Ahead: Miles +19 for Columbia is one of jazz's most exquisite orchestral albums. The LP was arranged by Gil Evans, who, with Davis, selected nine jazz songs plus an Evans-Davis original and dressed them up in a modernist, Thornhillian style. The result is spectacular. Davis on flugelhorn is gentle and at times even ...
How Ahmad Jamal Got His Groove Back
by Chuck Lenatti
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 Though he was well-versed in the musical vernacular of blues, big bands, bebop and hard bop, piano trios and singers, as well as European classical music, pianist Ahmad Jamal seemed out of step as jazz fused with rock and R&B in the 1970s. ...
Chad Taylor Quintet at Solar Myth
by Victor L. Schermer
Chad Taylor Quintet Ars Nova Workshop Solar Myth Club Philadelphia, PA July 17, 2024 Chad Taylor is a “first call" drummer who is also a composer, band leader, jazz historian and scholar who was recently appointed to lead the University of Pittsburgh Jazz Studies Program. ...
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