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Ray Brown was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and had piano lessons from the age of eight. After noticing how many pianists attended his high school, he thought of taking up the trombone, but was unable to afford one. With a vacancy in the high school jazz orchestra, he took up the double bass. A major early influence on Brown's bass playing was the bassist in the Duke Ellington band, Jimmy Blanton. As a young man Ray Brown became steadily more well known in the Pittsburgh jazz scene, with his first experiences playing in bands with the Jimmy Hinsley Sextet and the Snookum Russel band. After graduating from high school, hearing stories about the burgeoning jazz scene on 52nd Street, in New York City, he bought a one way ticket to New York. Arriving in New York at the age of twenty, he met up with Hank Jones, with whom he had previously worked, and was introduced to Dizzy Gillespie, who was looking for a bass player
Frantisek Uhlir: Coming Home
by Edward Blanco
Czech jazz double-bassist Frantisek Uhlir, a composer, educator and leader of the Frantisek Uhlir Team & Strings (F.U.T.), based in Prague, presents the highly acclaimed Coming Home album of original music penned especially for his band, founded back in 1987. Considered one of the finest bass players on the European jazz scene today, Uhlir has recorded ...
John Scofield & Dave Holland: Memories Of Home
by Ian Patterson
"Jazz is best when it's completely carefree. The only problem is when you care about the music more than anything in the world--how do you get carefree?" John Scofield raised the conundrum in a a 2023 interview, though you suspect he has been working out the riddle his entire career. Ditto bassist Dave Holland. On Memories ...
John Scofield Dave Holland: Memories Of Home
by Jack Kenny
This album is fundamentally about rapport, deep listening, and a shared musical history that traces back to Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, and the quartet with Joe Lovano and Al Foster. John Scofield's distinctive guitar style seamlessly integrates post-bop, fusion, funk, and roots-based influences. His dry, idiosyncratic tone and subtle inflections have helped redefine modern ...
Marilena Paradisi, Bob Nieske: Here and Now
by Neri Pollastri
Il duo tra voce e contrabbasso è una delle formazioni tradizionali del jazz e ha tra i suoi interpreti artisti come Ella Fitzgerald e Ray Brown o Sheila Jordan e Cameron Brown. In questo lavoro sono la cantante romana Marilena Paradisi, autrice e ricercatrice giunta al suo nono album, e il contrabbassista bostoniano Bob Nieske, artista ...
John Scofield, Dave Holland: Memories Of Home
by Giuseppe Segala
Saldato da una serie di tour che hanno toccato l'Italia in momenti diversi, l'ultimo dei quali si si è svolto poche settimane prima di questa registrazione, Memories of Home rievoca una sequela di suggestioni, e nuove ne aggiunge, a chi era presente alle esibizioni dal vivo. Bologna, Teatro Duse nel novembre 2021 e Merano Jazz Festival, ...
WDR Big Band featuring John Goldsby and Bob Mintzer: Big Band Bass
by Artur Moral
What better way to bid farewell to a long, fruitful relationship than with a mutual gift? That is the decision John Goldsby and the extraordinary WDR Big Band made after 30 years of intense collaboration. Extended partnerships are perhaps not too frequent in today's jazz landscape, even in the more conducive orchestral realm: well-known are the ...
Dave Anderson: Plays with Gusto
by Dean Nardi
Gusto! Vigorous and enthusiastic. Implies doing something with great spirit and energy. From the Spanish, gusto indicates taste, pleasure or liking, and that, friends, wraps and puts a bow around what you hear from New York-based soprano and tenor saxophonist Dave Anderson on his uplifting In Lieu of Flowers album (Label1, 2025). Anderson needed ...
Take Five with Pianist & Guitarist Justin Fitzgerald
by AAJ Staff
Meet Justin Fitzgerald I think of myself primarily as a composer, and jazz is my favorite form of music to write. I've always been surrounded by music--my mother was an opera singer before I was born, my wife is a singer, and her father was a skilled guitarist.I used to perform in restaurants and ...
Ignasi Terraza: With Respect To Oscar And Niels
by Artur Moral
Exceptionalism is often presented with a spectacular surface. However, it also hides itself behind multiple layers of deep discretion. This is true with pianist, composer, educator and record producer Ignasi Terraza. His uniqueness is based on several facts: being the first blind person in Spain to earn--a mid-1980s achievement, without today's technology--a degree in Computer Engineering; ...
