Results for "Patrice Rushen"

Lakecia Benjamin: Phoenix

by Mike Jurkovic
January 7, 2023

True to her nature, saxophonist Lakecia Benjamin keeps the flame to the dynamite on her smoking follow-up to the wildfire of Pursuance (Ropeadope, 2020), her still hot-to-the-touch dedication to the music and spirituality of John Coltrane and Alice Coltrane. Co-produced with maximum female power by Benjamin and Terri Lyne Carrington, the torrential riptide “Amerikkan ...

Ain’t But a Few of Us

by AAJ Staff
December 10, 2022

The following is an excerpt from the section “Magazine Freelancers" taken from Ain't But a Few of Us: Black Music Writers Tell Their Story edited by Willard Jenkins (Duke University Press, 2022). Magazine Freelancers by John Murph John Murph has successfully channeled his voracious appetite for modern music into a keenly social outlook that takes ...

The Headhunters: Speakers In The House

by Chris May
October 25, 2022

Although it appears to have been self-released in limited numbers in 2019, this Ropeadope release of Speakers In The House is effectively the Headhunters's first album since Platinum (Owl) in 2011. The band continues to be led and produced by its two Herbie Hancock-era members, percussionist Bill Summers and drummer Mike Clark, who together have kept ...

What Jazz Is Best For Running?

by Steve Cook
October 20, 2022

New York City isn't just an epicenter for the music that All About Jazz readers love. It is also home to the largest marathon in the world. With tens of thousands training for the upcoming race, this edition of The Big Question considers: What jazz is best for running? The following reflects on the question through ...

Mark de Clive-Lowe: Celebrating Pharoah Sanders

by Chris May
August 15, 2022

It is a curious thing, but among the present day champions of Pharoah Sanders' fundamentally acoustic music are two early adopters of post-production heavy, digitally-enabled, high-tech mutoid jazz: bassist and producer Bill Laswell and keyboardist and broken-beat pioneer Mark de Clive-Lowe, whose Freedom: Celebrating The Music Of Pharoah Sanders (Soul Bank) was released in July 2022. ...

Songs from My Father

By Gerry Gibbs

Label: Whaling City Sound
Released: 2021
Track listing: Disc 1: Kick Those Feet; Smoke ‘Em Up; Bopstacle Course; Nutty Notes; Take It from Me; Sweet Young Song of Love; The Fat Man; Lonely Days; Hey Chick. Disc 2: Townhouse; T&S; 4 AM; Waltz for My Children; Hippie Twist; Lonely Dreams; For Keeps; Pretty Blue Eyes; Gibberish; Tango for Terry.

Gerry Gibbs: Songs from My Father

by Edward Blanco
September 13, 2021

Drummer Gerry Gibbs pays tribute to father Terry Gibbs on the amazing nineteen-track double-CD set Songs from My Father featuring a guest appearance by the ninety-seven-year-old vibraphonist on one track, among other surprises, including the last studio performance by the late jazz icon Chick Corea, who also wrote “Tango for Terry" for this homage and is ...

Gerry Gibbs Thrasher Dream Trios: Songs from My Father

by Jack Bowers
September 1, 2021

Songs from My Father. What a marvelous idea!—and not simply for the sentiment. Drummer Gerry Gibbs' father happens to be Hall of Fame vibraphonist (and sometime song writer) Terry Gibbs, who is still on the scene at ninety-seven (and, in fact, making a guest appearance on the first disc of this superlative two-CD set). Eighteen of ...

Gary Bartz NTU Troop: Live In Bremen

by Chris May
May 20, 2021

In the early 1970s there was fusion and there was NTU Troop. After paying his dues in bands led by Charles Mingus, Max Roach and Art Blakey, Bartz made a splash in 1969 with his sophomore album, Another Earth (Milestone), a genius blend of spiritual jazz, space jazz and down and dirty blues. On it, Bartz ...

Patrice Rushen

Born: September 30, 1954

Three time Grammy nominee, and NEA Jazz Master, Patrice Rushen has fashioned her career after the legacy of her longtime friend and mentor, the late Quincy Jones. Composer...Producer... International Recording Artist...Rushen has definitely earned the respect she has been awarded by her peers in the music industry. 

Admired by many for her groundbreaking achievements, Rushen has amassed an impressive list of “firsts”. She was the first woman t serve as Musical Director for the 46th, 47th & 48th Annual Grammy Awards, the first woman in 43 years to serve as Head Composer/Musical Director for television’s highest honor, the Emmy Awards and the first woman Musical Director of the NAACP Image Awards, an honor she held for 12 consecutive years. Rushen has also been the only woman Musical Director/Composer for the People’s Choice Awards and HBO’s Comic Relief. She was the only woman Musical Director/Conductor/Arranger for a late-night television talk show. The show was The Midnight Hour, which aired on CBS. Rushen was named the Musical Director/Composer for Newsweek’s first American Achievement Awards, broadcast from the Kennedy Center. In March 2008, she received the assignment as Music Director and host of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s “LA Phil Presents: A Tribute to Ella”. The event that featured five outstanding vocalists paying tribute to the vocal talents of Ella Fitzgerald Patrice served as the Musical Director for Janet Jackson’s World Tour, “janet.” As the Musical Director for the award shows, she composed and performed special musical tributes to Michael Landon, Ted Turner, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, The Temptations, James Garner and Leonard Bernstein to name a few. Rushen was named Composer in Residence during the August 2004 sessions at the Henry Mancini Institute.