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Yusef Lateef: An Alternative Top Ten Albums Blowing Cultural Nationalism Out Of The Water
by Chris May
A pioneer of global and modal jazz, the multi-instrumentalist and composer Yusef Lateef is only beginning to have his importance in the history of the music properly acknowledged. After languishing off-catalogue for decades, much of his output is being made available once more. A treasure trove of great jazz is out there waiting to be rediscovered. ...
Stratusphunk: The Life and Works of George Russell By Dr. Duncan Heining Available through Amazon Worldwide
Stratusphunk is the story of remarkable musician and a remarkable man. Through his ideas and music, composer, theorist and musician George Russell joins the dots in modern jazz from bebop, though modal and free jazz and into jazz rock. It is hard to imagine another artist, who was both so influential but also so misunderstood. For ...
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Ricky Ford
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Tenor Saxophonist Ricky Ford was born 4 March 1954, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Ford started to play drums, and then changed to tenor saxophone at the age of 15, inspired by Rahsaan Roland Kirk. Ran Blake heard him playing in a Boston Club and persuaded him to study music at the New England Conservatory. (Blake later invited him to play on several albums too, including “Rapport,” “Short Life Of Barbara Monk” and “That Certain Feeling”). In 1974 Ford joined the Duke Ellington Orchestra under the leadership of Mercer Ellington and in 1976 he replaced George Adams in the Charles Mingus group, recording on “Three Or Four Shades of Blue” and “Me Myself An Eye.” In the late 70s and early 80s he played with Dannie Richmond, Mingus Dynasty, George Russell, Beaver Harris, Lionel Hampton and Adbullah Ibrahim’s Ekaya group
The Very Singular Mr. Ran Blake
by Duncan Heining
There have been few American composers and musicians, with the ability to encapsulate their country's music in all its racial and ethnic complexity. We might perhaps point to Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, Charles Ives and perhaps, in their own distaff ways, Harry Partch and Steve Reich. In jazz, their number is fewer still--Duke Ellington and George ...
Ran Blake: Chabrol Noir
by Alberto Bazzurro
Notoriamente appassionato di cinema, Ran Blake ci regala una delle sue opere più significative e appassionate esplorando l'universo di uno dei suoi grandi amori, Claude Chabrol, di cui fin dalla copertina, scopertamente hitchcockiana, il disco rievoca abilmente l'universo espressivo. L'album ha come persino scontato filo conduttore il pianoforte di Blake, senza accompagnamento alcuno ...
Cocktails At Dusk (A Noir Tribute To Chris Connor)
By Ran Blake
Label: Impulse! Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: Ten Cents A Dance; All Around Ronnie; Fine And Dandy; Why Can't I; Where Are You?; I Get A Kick Out Of You;
Moon Ride; Go 'Way From My Window; Almost Like Being In Love; Hallelujah I Love Her So; Speak Low; Anything Goes;
Driftwood.
Daniel Herskedal and Marius Neset: Neck Of The Woods
by Bruce Lindsay
Saxophonist Marius Neset and tubist Daniel Herskedal have crafted an unusual and fascinating debut album, combining their chosen instruments and occasionally, the human voice, to create some atmospheric and intriguing sound-worlds on Neck Of The Woods.Although both musicians are Norwegian, the pair met while studying at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen, an institution ...
Balaena
By Ricky Ford
Label: Jazz Friends Productions
Released: 2000
Track listing: Pie Crust; Cable Waltz; Blues Work; Song For Pres; Blues in Fourths; Balaena; Blues a Hoy; In Walked Bish
[Balaena]
By Ricky Ford
Label: Jazz Friends Productions
Released: 2000
Track listing: Pie Crust; Cable Waltz; Blues Work; Song For Pres; Blues In Fourths; Balaena; Blues A Hoy; In Walked Bish. (Total Time: 74:31)
