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Muddy Waters

by Peter Madsen
May 30, 2006

Muddy Waters! Muddy Waters! Muddy Waters! Damn this man could sing and play the blues. Lately I've been listening to his very first recording done for the Library of Congress in 1941 in the fields of the Mississippi Delta. Absolutely some of the finest music ever!! Beginning in 1933 music researcher and ...

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Holiday Thanks

by Peter Madsen
May 30, 2006

Turkey Day has just passed and Christmas is just around the corner. It's that time of year again to remember and thank the important people in our lives! This year I want to shout-out some historical thanks to a few jazz and blues people who've helped to make my life pretty cool. I want to thank: ...

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Kenny Wheeler

by Peter Madsen
May 30, 2006

For years I've admired the great Canadian musician Kenny Wheeler because of his fantastic compositions and arrangements, his incredible sound on both the trumpet and flugelhorn, his superb recordings as well as his wide open artistic vision. Last week I went to a big-band concert that featured Kenny as the guest performer and composer. At 70+ ...

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Dewey Redman

by Peter Madsen
May 30, 2006

There's a story about a saxophonist being approached by an excited fan after a concert to get his autograph. The fan asks him to sign a CD he says he had just bought of his. Happy to oblige he takes the CD, looks, and with mixed emotions sees that it's a CD recorded by his son, ...

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Taro Okamoto: Too Many Unknown Greats

by Peter Madsen
May 30, 2006

New York is full of improvising musicians that spend thousands of hours practicing their instruments and dream of becoming the next Joshua Redman or Joe Lovano. They come by the busloads from all over the world. Many enroll at one of the universities or schools in the area that have a world famous jazz program. They ...

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Adam Kolker

by Peter Madsen
May 30, 2006

The sometimes heard, “those that can't do, teach" is a description not very fitting of the jazz world as hundreds of great musicians have become professors at some of the finest educational institutions around the world as well as teach privately at home. Many elder statesmen such as pianists Kenny Barron and Barry Harris as well ...

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Pee Wee Ellis

by Peter Madsen
May 30, 2006

I was half-asleep in my bunk on a Fred Wesley tour bus a few years ago heading for the next where-the-hell-are-we European city when the sound of an amazing saxophonist literally pulled my eyes wide open. It sounded like an old bootleg recording of Sonny Rollins playing standards that I was unaware of, full of rhythmic ...

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Toninho Horta

by Peter Madsen
May 30, 2006

I've been very fortunate in my career to have met and sometimes even play with a few musical geniuses. These are special musicians who have developed an intimate relationship between their instrument and their inner selves to transcend the mechanical act of playing into the artistic act of soulful and spiritual self-expression. One such ...

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Anthony Cox

by Peter Madsen
May 30, 2006

I'll never forget my first encounter with the astounding Minneapolis bassist Anthony Cox. It was 1977 at the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire where I was nearing the end of my music studies looking forward to escaping with my degree in hand, when this African-American man (not a common sight at this lily-white University in ...

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Fred Ho: We Refuse To Be Used And Abused

by Peter Madsen
May 30, 2006

When I began playing jazz over 30 years ago I felt that it was music leaning its sounds in the leftist direction. Being in the jazz world gave me the feeling of being in a secret underground, a place outside the all-American white-bread Christian society that was always telling me what to believe and how to ...