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Authentic Jazz?

by Peter Madsen
May 30, 2006

I'm sitting here in my narrow little coach class seat with almost no legroom for a 6'4" mutant like myself returning from a great one-week tour with an amazing Austrian recorder player named Winfried Hackl. Winfried plays all different sizes of recorders including a huge bass recorder he built himself that has a beautiful deep sound. ...

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Don Cherry

by Peter Madsen
May 30, 2006

Back about fifteen years ago I had the great fortune of playing with one of the most innovative trumpeters and world music masters, the late Don Cherry. To this day I am touched by the memory of his personal and musical presence at our brief encounter. What I remember the most is his quiet intelligent personality ...

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Oscar Brown Jr.

by Peter Madsen
May 30, 2006

"While Miles Davis got top billing during this nine-day concert series--the star unquestionably was Brown. Night after night, performance after performance, Brown's presence, repertoire, and almost uncanny rapport with his audience added up to a unique entertainment experience... in Oscar Brown Jr. we have the most exciting entertainment figure in decades."--Down Beat 1962 ...

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Fred Wesley

by Peter Madsen
May 30, 2006

It ain't easy being a trombone player in today's music world. They seem to have gotten a bad reputation over the years. You know, strange looking instrument, blatty sound, slow and clunky. There's an awful lot of jokes about them out there none of which will be repeated here for I myself love the trombone and ...

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Kiyoto Fujiwara

by Peter Madsen
May 30, 2006

Greetings from Japan jazz fans. I'm back on tour in the land of the rising sun, where raw fish, horse and whale are happily eaten by young and old. It seems that at least a couple of times every year for the past fifteen years I'm asked to come over here and play music for some ...

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Matt Wilson

by Peter Madsen
May 30, 2006

If you combined Groucho Marx with Marco Polo, Gomer Pyle and Albert Einstein and gave them a drum set they would probably play exactly like the funny, explorative, country-boy genius Matt Wilson. I first met Matt a couple of years after he had arrived here in the big apple back in 1992. It was ...

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Kenny Garrett

by Peter Madsen
May 30, 2006

Greetings to all of you Wide-Open Jazz and Beyond readers. I've just returned from a one month European tour with the great funk trombonist Fred Wesley of James Brown fame (who I'll write about in a future article). We played many of the summer festivals including the world-famous Montreaux Jazz Festival. As I was roaming the ...

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Stan Getz

by Peter Madsen
May 30, 2006

I still remember the phone call as if it were yesterday. It was twelve years ago and on the other end of the line from California was the voice of one of the finest tenor saxophone players in jazz history. It was the great Stan Getz and I was overwhelmed to say the least when I ...

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Thomas Chapin

by Peter Madsen
May 30, 2006

As I sit on my hotel balcony overlooking the beautiful German City of Lindau that rests quietly on the sailboat-covered Lake Constance, the grand snowy Alps Mountains rise up in the distance. The water is calm, the mountains majestic and peaceful. The contrast between this postcard-view and the destruction I witnessed yesterday riding on the train ...

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Stanley Turrentine

by Peter Madsen
May 30, 2006

Webster's dictionary defines the word “soul" as someone having a strong and positive feeling and having an intense sensitivity and emotional fervor. It also says that soul is characterized by an intensity of feeling and earthiness. It defines the word “funky" similarly as someone having an earthy unsophisticated style and feeling. To me they would be ...