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Fes Jazz Festival: Introducing Swinging Sounds to Moroccans
by AAJ Staff
Fes Jazz Festival 2008Fes, MoroccoNovember 14-16 For various reasons, Fes, Morocco isn't the most obvious place to stage a jazz festival. Unlike Moroccan cities like Tangier, Casablanca and Marrakech, Fes' charms are more ancient than modern or cosmopolitan, as any traveler will discover by visiting the bazaar section of Fes el Bali, one ...
2008 Beantown Jazz Festival Line Up
Saxophone Summit: The original summiteers were Joe Lovano, Dave Liebman, and the late Michael Brecker. Since Brecker's passing, Ravi Coltrane has joined the unit, helping push it ever further in adventurous directions. Sept. 24-25, Regattabar. 617-395-7757, Randy Weston: At 82, Weston is the foremost authority on the piano's percussive possibilities; his work manifests both Eastern rhythmic ...
The Randy Weston African Rhythms Trio at Birdland
by Martin Longley
The Randy Weston African Rhythms Trio Birdland New York, New York October 3, 2007 The extremely tall Weston hunkers over his dwarfed piano, looking years younger than his eight decades ought to allow. He's in relaxed mode for this intimate late-night gathering on the opening night of his residency. ...
Zep Tepi
By Randy Weston
Label: Random Chance Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Blue Moses; African Sunrise; Berkshire Blues; Route of the Nile; Ballad for T; Portrait of Frank Edward Weston; High Fly; Tamashi; The Healer; Love-the Mystery of.
Randy Weston & His African Rhythms Trio: Zep Tepi
by Bill Bennett
Randy Weston returns to the trio format for the first time in over thirty years with Zep Tepi. Poised to enter his eighth decade on the planet, Weston is an elder in every sense of the term. His distinctively percussive attack, yard-wide chords, criss-crossing rhythms and idiosyncratic melodies remain sui generis. Both literally (he's 6'9") and ...
Randy Weston's African Rhythms Trio: Zep Tepi
by Joel Roberts
There's no better argument for the notion that jazz keeps you young than Randy Weston. Appearing last month at the Blue Note in support of Zep Tepi, the Brooklyn-born Weston showed that at eighty he remains one of the most vital and creative forces in jazz, as well as one of its most charismatic figures.
African Rhythms
By Randy Weston
Label: Comet Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: African Cookbook; A Night In Medina; Jajouka; Marrakech Blues; Con
Alma; Afro-Black; Little Niles; Niger Mambo; C.W. Blues; Pam's Waltz;
Hi-Fly; Penny Packer Blues; Waltz for Sweet Cakes; Out Of The Past.
Spirit! The Power of Music
By Randy Weston
Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Receiving the Spirit (Origin / Receiving the Spirit); Introduction to Hag
Spirit! the Power Of Music
By Randy Weston
Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Receiving the Spirit, Introduction to Hag
Mosaic Select 4
By Randy Weston
Label: Mosaic Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Disc One: Earth Birth - 2:52; Little Susan - 3:24; Nice Ice - 2:55; Little Niles - 6:00; Pam's Waltz - 3:15;
Babe's Blues - 6:58; Let's Climb a Hill - 5:53; Hi Fly [live] - 7:21; Beef Blues Stew [live] - 5:00; Star
Crossed Lovers [live] - 5:09; Spot Five Blues [live] - 10:42; Lisa Lovely [live] - 4:38; Where [live] -
5:57;
Disc Two: Earth Birth - 5:12; Nobody Know the Trouble I've Seen - 3:16; Saucer Eyes -
4:21; I Got Rhythm - 5:24; Gingerbread - 2:57; Coctails for Two - 3:37; Honeysuckle Rose - 6:30; Fe-
Double-U Blues - 5:37; Portrait of Patsy J - 4:09; Uncle Nemo - 5:01; Cry Me Not - 5:19; Honk Honk -
2:03; Saucer Eyes - 4:24; 204 - 6:34; C.B. Blues - 4:58;
Disc Three: Introduction: Uhuru
Kwanza - 2:35; First Movement: Uhuru Kwanza - 5:49; Second Movement: African Lady - 8:27; Third
Movement: Bantu - 8:07; Fourth Movement: Kucheza Blues - 8:03; Caban Bamboo Highlife - 2:46;
Nigger Mambo - 5:03; Zulu - 4:42; In Memory Of - 7:46; Congolese Children - 2:34; Blues to Africa -
6:23; Mystery of Love - 7:41.
