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Randy Weston: African Stories, African Rhythms
by Ian Patterson
In over 60 years as a leader, pianist Randy Weston has achieved an incredible amount. He has recorded nearly 50 albums and has been hailed in the process as the natural heir to Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk. Three times he has been voted Downbeat's composer of the year, and his compositions have been recorded by ...
Piano Legend Randy Weston Interviewed at All About Jazz
In over 60 years as a leader, pianist Randy Weston has achieved an incredible amount. He has recorded nearly 50 albums and has been hailed in the process as the natural heir to Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk. Three times he has been voted Downbeat's composer of the year, and his compositions have been recorded by ...
Central Brooklyn Jazz Anniversary Concert
Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium (CBJC) will celebrate its 11th anniversary on Saturday, November 27, 2010 at Jazz966 located 966 Fulton Street in the Fort Greene section of Brooklyn with a jazz concert featuring the Steven Kroon Sextet. The bill also includes a youth jazz ensemble performance by Q City Soundz and a special award presentation to ...
Duke Ellington's America
by Eugene Holley, Jr.
Duke Ellington's AmericaHarvey G. CohenHardcover; 682 pagesISBN: 978-0-226-11263-3University of Chicago Press20010 Dozens of books in print about Duke Ellington portray him as the pre-eminent composer of the 20th century, who led his orchestra for an amazing 50 years and possessed a percussive, dark-clustered ...
The Autobiography of Randy Weston: African Rhythms
by Ian Patterson
The Autobiography of Randy Weston: African RhythmsRandy Weston / Willard JenkinsHardcover; 344 pagesISBN: 978-0-8223-4784-2Duke University Press2010 It's hard to think of another jazz musician who has promoted the African roots of jazz with quite the missionary zeal of pianist Randy Weston. Weston's African ...
NEA Jazz Master Randy Weston To Release A New CD With His African Rhythms Sextet, "The Storyteller: Live At Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola"
For over five decades, pianist, composer, bandleader and NEA Jazz Master Randy Weston has enjoyed a distinguished career in music. With over 46 CDs as a leader, Weston has continued to perform his Africa-inspired jazz throughout the world and has been the recipient of many international awards and honors. This fall, Weston is set to release ...
Summer 2010 Taking a Toll on Jazz Ranks
he summer of 2010 has been a melancholy one in terms of friends and jazz warriors passing on to ancestry. Last weekend's loss of Abbey Lincoln, and prior to that her compadre Hank Jones were well-noted. Good friend and longtime Randy Weston African Rhythms and Basie band trombonist Benny Powell's passing, though at the ripe age ...
Ahmad Jamal: A Quiet Time
by Ian Patterson
Ahmad JamalA Quiet TimeDreyfus Records2010 Always reluctant to go into the studio unless he has material he is thoroughly satisfied with, pianist Ahmad Jamal's A Quiet Time could be considered as a follow-up to It's Magic (Dreyfus Records, 2008), given the relatively short period between the two releases. ...
Advance Praise for African Rhythms...
COMING IN OCTOBER on Duke University Press: An as-told-to autobiography Composed by Randy Weston; Arranged by Willard Jenkins “Randy Weston is a magical, spiritual, ebullient, and generous soul who just happens to be one of the most original composers and pianists of the last sixty years. African Rhythms is his fascinating story in his own voice--a ...
Jazz Master Randy Weston Named "Berkshires Jazz Living Legend"
“Berkshire Blues" composer recollects his career start-up in western Massachusetts Berkshires Jazz, Inc., has presented its first Living Legend award to the NEA Jazz Master pianist, Randy Weston. After a “meet the media" panel, which preceded Weston's concert in Pittsfield on May 29, 2010, Berkshires Jazz President Edward Bride presented the pianist with an engraved granite ...
