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Phineas Newborn, Jr.
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Phineas Newborn, Jr. was an American jazz pianist, whose principal influences were Art Tatum, Oscar Peterson and Bud Powell. Newborn came from a musical family with his father being a blues musician and his brother (Edwin) Calvin Newborn (born April 27, 1933) being a jazz guitarist. Phineas studied piano as well as trumpet, and tenor and baritone saxophone. Newborn first played in an R&B band led by his father (Phineas Newborn, Sr.), a drummer and with Tuff Green and his brother before moving on to work with Lionel Hampton, Charles Mingus, and others. His earliest recordings were with blues harmonica player Big Walter Horton. From 1956 he began to perform in New York City, making his first album as a leader in that year
Together Again!!!!
Label: Craft Recordings
Released: 2024
Track listing: Together Again; You Stepped Out of A Dream; Up There; Perhaps; Misty; Sandy.
The Great Jazz Piano of Phineas Newborn Jr.
Label: Contemporary Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Celia;
This Here;
Domingo;
Prelude to a Kiss;
Well, You Needn't;
Theme for Basi ;
New Blues;
Way Out West;
Four.
Maggie's Back In Town!!
Label: Craft Recordings
Released: 2024
Track listing: Demon Chase; Willow Weep For Me; Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise; Sunset Eyes; Maggie's Back in Town;
Summertime; Brownie Speaks.
Backgrounder: Phineas Newborn's Great Jazz Piano
Following my post on Howard McGhee's 1961 album, Maggie's Back in Town, I received many emails asking me to feature Phineas Newborn Jr. This week's Backgrounder speaks volumes about his technique and touch. If I played this album as a blindfold test, many might guess s young Oscar Peterson. Born in Whiteville, Tenn., in 1931, Newborn ...
A World of Piano!
Label: Craft Recordings
Released: 2023
Track listing: Cheryl; Manteca; Lush Life; Dahoud; Oleo; Juicy Lucy; For Carl: Cabu.
Contemporary Records 70th: Barney Kessel and Hampton Hawes on vinyl
by C. Andrew Hovan
Almost a century ago, times were different and folks with the gumption to forge their own paths were more likely to make a mark on history. When you think of the documentation of jazz, names like John Hammond, Francis Wolff, and Ahmet Ertegun were integral to spreading the word of America's unique art form. Far less ...
Pat Martino: Nexus
by Victor L. Schermer
This CD is not only a fine addition to the Pat Martino catalogue, it is also of historical importance with respect to his personal and musical development. Recorded at the well-known eclectic nightclub the Tin Angel in Philadelphia in the mid-nineties (the exact date is not given and probably unknown), it is a duet set (or ...
Phineas Newborn Jr: 1962
Yesterday I was listening to the recordings of Phineas Newborn Jr. and was struck, yet again, at how remarkable a jazz pianist he was. His strength, poetic poise and, most of all, phrasing, were stunning. Born in Whiteville, Tenn., Newborn played often in Memphis with his father and other relatives in the late 1940s in an ...
Teddy Edwards: Four Classic Albums
by David Rickert
Teddy Edwards was a formidable tenor player on the '50s and '60s West Coast scene with a warm and congenial tone reflected the laid-back thoughtfulness of the West Coast scene with enough soul to indicate he was listening some Coleman Hawkins in the midst of the Lester Young platters. His own recordings were a typical mix ...
