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Randy Weston: Spirit! The Power of Music
by AAJ Staff
One name is just not enough, and neither is one culture. The full performance credits for Spirit! reflect this record's international cast and bode well for its outcome. Jazz piano icon and longtime African music devotee Randy Weston may formally lead the date (recorded live in September 1999), but his African Rhythms Quartet plays more than ...
Randy Weston: Spirit! the Power Of Music
by Rex Butters
With Randy Weston’s longtime involvement with African music and culture, it seems odd he has recorded so little with traditional African ensembles. While percussion masters like Babatunde Olantunje have augmented his groups, his guest appearance on the Musicians of Morocco’s 1992 Seventh Splendid Master Gnawa marked one of the few times Weston worked with traditional African ...
Randy Weston: Mosaic Select 4
by AAJ Staff
Through all the changes that have characterized pianist Randy Weston's career, one common thread has tied everything together. In the context of large groups, vocalists, trios, solos, African percussion ensembles, and many other permutations, Weston has always emphasized the connections that relate his music to the jazz continuum (and, of course, emphasizing his own vision of ...
Randy Weston African Rhythms Quintet: Spirit! The Power of Music
by Todd S. Jenkins
Ever since Ornette Coleman and journalist Robert Palmer ventured to Joujouka in the late 1970s, traditional Moroccan musicians have had sporadic, generally fruitful meetings with American jazzmen. Many of those projects -- Coleman’s Dancing In Your Head and Pharoah Sanders’ Trance of the Seven Colors come straight to mind -- have leaned heavily towards the traditional ...
A Fireside Chat with Randy Weston
by AAJ Staff
In my youth, a television news magazine aired a feature on how the map of the world we, as kids, were taught in school was in fact, biased. In reality, Europe and America are not nearly as vast as they seem in the Thomas Guide and Africa and Asia, not nearly as insignificant. South Africa, for ...
Randy Weston: African Rhythms
by AAJ Staff
While most talented jazz players continue to evolve, very few enter into a revolution. That's what happened four decades ago with Randy Weston. Weston (b. 1926) made a series of recordings in the '50s, including a streak of early bop records on Riverside. His early association with Thelonious Monk obviously shaped his musical vocabulary, as did ...
Randy Weston: Ancient Future
by AAJ Staff
Randy Weston is a Brooklyn born pianist, with Caribbean and African influences, as suits this scholar with earthy roots. His earliest recordings on Riverside date from the mid-'50s, and his fingers have since taken him around the world. He's appeared on as many labels as one can label the man himself, yet there is a constant: ...
Solo, Duo & Trio
By Randy Weston
Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 2000
Track listing: Sweet Sue, Just You*
