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Born on Jan. 1, 1923, in Detroit, Jackson's musical beginnings were in the neighborhood gospel churches as a pianist, guitarist, violinist percussionist and singer. He took up the vibraphone in high school. He moved to New York, played with Earl Hines and in 1945, joined Dizzy Gillespie's big band rhythm section, which also included pianist John Lewis, bassist Ray Brown and drummer Kenny Clarke. He worked with Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis and in 1951 recorded with Gillespie bandmates Lewis, Clarke and Brown. Inspired by that recording, they reformed as the Modern Jazz Quartet in 1952 with Percy Heath replacing Ray Brown and Connie Kay taking the drum chair after the departure of Kenny Clarke in 1955
Miles '55: The Prestige Recordings
By Miles Davis
Label: Craft Recordings
Released: 2025
Track listing: I Didn't; Will You Still Be Mine; I See Your Face Before Me; A Night in Tunisia; A Gal in Calico; Dr. Jackle; Bitty Ditty; Minor March; Changes; Stablemates; How Am I To Know/ Just Squeeze Me; There Is No Greater Love; The Theme; S'posin.
Mid Century Modern Jazz
by David Brown
This week, the show kicks off with recent releases form Anat Fort, Matthew Shipp and Sumi Tonooka We then jump back to the 1950s for some mid-century modern recordings from Benny Golson, Gerry Mulligan, Roy and Diz, Louis Armstrong, Al Haig, Milt Jackson, June Christy The Four Brothers, Dorothy Donegan, The Joe Newman Octet, Terry Gibbs, ...
Exploration (Dominik Kisiel Exploration Quartet), Hank Mobley, Garaj Mahal, Wilton Felder and More
by David W. Daniels
Jazz classics by Milt Jackson, Abbey Lincoln, Woody Shaw, and more. Re-releases from Miles Davis and the Tommy Smith Quartet. New music from Mark Winkler, Nick Finzer, Paul Cornish, and more. This week's birthdays (8/31 through 9/6) include Horace Silver, Gerald Wilson, Teri Thornton, and more. Playlist Dominik Kisiel Exploration Quartet “Exploration" from Exploration ...
Ray Brown: His Life and Music
by Andrew Hunter
Ray Brown: His Life and Music Jay Sweet 310 Pages ISBN: # 9781800505353 Equinox Publishing2025 It is such a common occurrence in life that bad things happen to good people, and conversely that good things happen to bad people, that there is a branch of theology given to ...
Mike Freeman's ZonaVibe: Circles In A Yellow Room
by Jack Bowers
Circles in a Yellow Room, New York-based vibraphonist Mike Freeman's eighth recording as leader of his own ensembles, has a Latin flavor reminiscent of classic albums by West Coast maestro Cal Tjader. Stylistically, Freeman parallels Tjader and a host of others from Milt Jackson, Terry Gibbs and Gary McFarland to Bobby Hutcherson, Gary Burton, Joe Locke ...
Dug and Jazz Spot Intro in Tokyo
by Sanford Josephson
I owe my love of jazz to the time I spent in Japan in the mid-1960s when I was working as a writer in the public information office of the American Red Cross' Far Eastern Area headquarters, located on a U.S. Army base about 45 minutes from Tokyo. While there, I saw Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, ...
Andrea Motis, Ches Smith, and Noah Haidu
by Jerome Wilson
This program features modern jazz from Spain and Japan as well as older and newer music from the U. S. Musicians heard on the show include Andrea Motis, Ches Smith, Satoko Fujii, Keith Oxman, Milt Jackson, and Noah Haidu. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus ...
The Los Angeles Jazz Scene of the 1950’s from Robert Gordon’s “Jazz West Coast”
by Steven Cerra
Originally published in London in 1986 by Quartet Books LTD, Bob Gordon's seminal work on the jazz styles and groups that developed primarily in Los Angeles in the 1950s has long been out-of-print and copies of it are difficult to obtain. In order to rectify this lack of availability, Bob Gordon has given me ...
Behn Gillece: Pivot Point
by Carl Medsker
Posi-Tone will have released 253 albums in its post-bop contemporary mainstream jazz space with Pivot Point by Behn Gillece. Maintaining freshness and avoiding formula could become a creative challenge for any such productive label, but Gillece avoids that potential pitfall through well-written songs, crafty arrangements and excellent musicianship. The sequencing of songs is also thoughtful, varying ...
