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AmooMazz

Born: August 20, 1896

Maziyar Khavajiyan, aka AmooMazz (born August 21, 1986), is a music producer, composer, sound designer, bassist, singer-songwriter, and art director from the Middle East. He began his career in 2005 as a photographer and session musician in the pop music scene and was a former member of the alternative rock bands Majid Kazemi and Comment Band.

In 2012, Maziyar released his first EP, Fana (Annihilation), inspired by the mystical concepts of Sufism. In 2015, he co-founded #Tehran Band, an electronic-urban duet project in collaboration with sound engineer and record producer Mrz.Asghari (WoolWave), releasing two studio albums. After leaving Iran in 2009, Maziyar moved to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where he attended the Cultural Center of University Malaya. Between 2010 and 2014, he performed at several music festivals as a fusion jazz artist.

Charlie Parker at 100: Part 2

August 18, 2020

Yesterday, in Part 1 of this series, I posted about the five reasons why Charlie Parker was such an important jazz figure. I also posted about his first accomplishment, the invention of bebop with Dizzy Gillespie in 1945. Today, let's look at the second reason—his ability to improvise fluidly at a high speed. Speed was essential ...

Charlie Parker at 100: Part 1

August 18, 2020

August 29 will mark Charlie Parker's centenary—the 100th anniversary of his birth. The alto saxophonist was a critically important revolutionary and remains essential listening today for five historical reasons: First, he helped invent bebop in 1945, a jazz form that shifted the focus from bands and bandleaders to individuals. Second, he helped invent a new way ...

CDs of Note Short Takes

July 30, 2020

Taking a closer look at CDs by The 3D Jazz Trio, Artemis, Mayita Dinos, theTNEK Jazz Quintet, and Bernard Purdie, Christian Fabian & Ron Oswanski…. 3D Jazz Trio, I Love to See You Smile (DIVA Jazz) Six years ago when they were backing dancer Maurice Hines’ show Tappin’ Through Life, drummer Sherrie Maricle, bassist Amy Shook ...

Roy Ayers + Maceo Parker

July 30, 2020

Roy Ayers and Maceo Parker are two of my favorite jazz-soul and jazz-funk artists. Both recently released new albums. And both musicians started out as jazz players but invented new R&B forms during their careers—Ayers as a neo-soul vibraphonist and Parker as a bump-and-funk alto saxophonist. Their new albums are moody, funky and chill. Ayers is ...

Art Blakey: Just Coolin'

July 20, 2020

Listening back to the tape he recorded at Rudy Van Gelder's studio in Hackensack, N.J., on March 8, 1959, Blue Note producer Alfred Lion liked what he heard. Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers were on fire. The music was tight and ferocious, with the horns—trumpeter Lee Morgan and tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley—improvising on point. The ...

Paul Gonsalves: '54 and '57

July 15, 2020

Yesterday, I posted on tenor saxophonist Paul Gonsalves and one of his late-career albums with piano wizard Earl Hines. Today, I want to give you a sense of how spectacular Gonsalves was on recordings in 1954 and '57. On the scale of playing styles, I'd put Gonsalves somewhere between Don Byas and Lucky Thompson, with Byas's ...

José Feliciano in 10 Tracks

July 10, 2020

About 80% of José Feliciano's music was recorded in Spanish. The 20% that's in English were pop covers that he routinely aced. His version of the Doors' Light My Fire reached No. 3 on Billboard's pop chart in 1968 (the Doors' hit No. 1 in '67) and is arguably on par with the original. And José's ...

Kenny Baker: Blowin' Up a Storm

July 9, 2020

Looking up at the sky at night, I've often wondered whether there's another us out there in a parallel universe. You know, like on the Twilight Zone or in science fiction novels. A world where there are people who look and sound like us but have had different outcomes and made different contributions. When it comes ...

Bill Evans: Metropole Orkest, '78

July 3, 2020

On May 9, 1978, Bill Evans was in the Netherlands to play on the Dutch TV program Music Gallery with the Metropole Orkest. The piece was Gabriel Fauré's Pavane, arranged by Claus Ogerman. Pavane was the only work recorded by Bill with the orchestra that evening. According to pianist Dave Thompson, who sent along the following ...