Results for "Oleo"

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Oleo

Featuring the music of Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen
Duration: 03:10
November 22, 2026

He is arguably the best walking acoustic bassist of all time… with the hardest to pronounce name: Neils-Henning Ørsted Pederson. Pederson, a Dane born in 1946, was playing with some of jazz’s greats in his teens and eventually spent long partnerships with Oscar Peterson, Sonny Rollins and Kenny Drew among others. In this remarkable performance of Rollins' “Oleo,” he transforms the bass into a swinging, bop solo voice, demonstrating the extraordinary technique and rhythmic command that would make him one of jazz's A-list. Listen for the astonishing speed and clarity of his lines and how effortlessly he navigates the tune's "Rhythm Changes" harmony. The solo is not merely a display of chops--it has momentum, melodic direction and undeniable swing.

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Oleo

By Grant Green

Label: Blue Note
Released: 2015
Track listing: Oleo; Little Girl Blue; Tune Up; Hip Funk; My Favorite Things;

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Oleo

Featuring the music of Herbie Hancock
Duration: 6:28
September 26, 2006

Herbie Hancock with Branford Marsalis, Ron Carter and Tony Williams!

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Oleo

By Joe McPhee

Label: Hat Hut Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Oleo (take 1) - Pablo - Future Retrospective - Astral Spirits - Oleo (take 2) - I Remember Clifford - Ann Kahle - When You Hear Music - After It's Over - It's Gone in the Air - You Can Never Capture it Again

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Joe McPhee Po Music: Oleo

by Jeff Stockton
December 5, 2004

Since his return to active recording and performing in the mid '90s, Joe McPhee's music has always been influenced by the palpable joy he takes from exploring the color and texture of sound. That's why it's startling to hear him tear into the familiar Sonny Rollins-penned title track so conventionally. And why it's even more startling, ...

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Joe McPhee Po Music: Oleo

by Clifford Allen
October 10, 2004

With Po Music, according to McPhee, the group concept centers on the process orientation of “po-," a linguistic prefix signifying possibility and change (Li Po, anyone?). Of course, McPhee has gone through a number of stylistic changes in his career, from high-energy free jazz to funk and R&B, to “deep listening" and chamber jazz outfits. “Po," ...

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