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Bobby Zankel: Peaceful Jazz Warrior
by Victor L. Schermer
For many decades, Philadelphia has been home to a cadre of multi-generational jazz musicians who go on year-after-year composing, arranging and performing some of the best, highest level music to be heard anywhere. This tradition is exemplified in no better way than by alto saxophonist, composer and bandleader Bobby Zankel. Zankel apprenticed with legendary ...
Jazz Bridge Benefit Jam Session for Daphne Fifield
On Sunday, August 1st, drummer Rob Henderson will devote his weekly jam session to raise funds for Daphne Fifield, the wife of bassist and jazz filmmaker Jason Fifield. She has breast cancer and the money raised will go to help with medical expenses. The Daphne Fund will be established as a permanent fund for local women ...
The 2010 West Oak Lane Jazz Festival: How Jazz Helped Change a Community
by Wade Luquet
Can jazz revitalize an urban neighborhood? In the northwest Philadelphia neighborhood of West Oak Lane it certainly has played a large part. For the seventh year, the neighborhood residents, along with the Ogontz Avenue Revitalization Corporation (OARC) and the office of State Representative Dwight Evans, have joined together, closing the main avenue for a weekend and ...
Odean Pope: Odean's List
by Troy Collins
Though best known for his lengthy tenure accompanying legendary drummer Max Roach, Philadelphia-based tenor saxophonist Odean Pope has long demonstrated a flair for writing and arranging that is as impressive as his sideman work. His most arresting compositions have been conceived for his decades-old Saxophone Choir, while smaller-scale projects have featured his improvisational prowess in collaboration ...
Odean Pope: Odean's List
by Dan Bilawsky
Odean Pope Odean's List In+Out Records 2009 Saxophonist Odean Pope is probably one of the most underappreciated jazz musicians of his generation. While Pope is most often cited for his long tenure with drummer Max Roach, his own recordings--from trio outings to his explosive saxophone choir albums--show a tough-toned tenor ...
Odean Pope - Odean's List (in + Out)
Simple economics and logistics are long-standing enemies to Odean Pope's influential Saxophone Choir. The viability of his smaller group projects is less susceptible to such concerns and that difference plays out in his discography of the past decade. Only a single album, Locked and Loaded, chalks in the Choir column of his catalog compared to the ...
Odean Pope Quartet - Fresh Breeze (Cimp)
Odean Pope records are old reliables. Such shorthand is not meant to argue anything safe or rote about the entries in his discography. Rather it's meant as an assertion of principled dependability across the board. Put on a Pope album and you're guaranteed some gold-standard tenor playing at a minimum. Fellow Philadelphian Bobby Zankel has a ...
Plant Life
By Odean Pope
Label: Motown
Released: 2009
Track listing:
01. Two Dreams Part 1; 02. Happiness Tears; 03. Plant Life; 04. I Want to Talk About You; 05. Scorpio Twins; 06.
Thoughts; 07. Multiphonic; 08. Two Dreams Part 2.
Jazz Musician of the Day: Odean Pope
All About Jazz is celebrating Odean Pope's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Odean PopeOdean Pope was born in Ninety-Six, South Carolina to musical parents who rooted him in the sounds of the Southern Baptist Church. After moving to Philadelphia at the age of ten... more ...
Amiri Baraka: Perspectives on Music and Race
by Lloyd N. Peterson Jr.
Amiri Baraka is the author of the insightful and comprehensive book, Blues People. It is a book that has opened many minds and readers to the African American Diaspora along with the history and roots of African American music. Baraka has now published a new book of essays titled, Digging (The Afro-American Soul of American Classical ...
