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Roy Haynes - Live at SFJazz
One can only bow to the master. Drummer Roy Haynes has played with a who's who of jazz greats over the course of his long career: Lester Young, Bud Powell, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Sarah Vaughan, Sonny Rollins, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Stan Getz, Chick Corea. Now 85, he shows no signs of slowing ...
Kenny Barron - Live at SFJazz
I recently saw Kenny Barron in performance during the San Francisco Jazz Festival. He is an elegant and melodic player and was in top form on October 24th. Barron was born in Philadelphia in 1943 and was already playing piano professionally as a teenager. After moving to New York City, he was hired by tenor saxophonist ...
Another Cause for Celebration: Harry "Sweets" Edison
While October 10th is rightly honored for the birth of Thelonious Monk, I want to celebrate another jazz musician who shares his birthdate, trumpeter Harry “Sweets" Edison. Edison was born in Columbus, Ohio, in 1915, and spent part of his childhood in Kentucky, where an uncle introduced him to music. As a teenager, he played trumpet ...
Happy Birthday, Jimmy Blanton!
Bassist Jimmy Blanton was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on this date in 1918. He was the first great innovative jazz double bassist, known mainly for his recordings with Duke Ellington from 1939 to 1941. Before Blanton, the bass was used primarily to lay down the beat and provide the harmonic underpinnings for a tune. Blanton played ...
Jazz Poetry - "Copacetic Mingus"
Copacetic Mingus by Yusef Komunyakaa “Mingus One, Two and Three. Which is the image you want the world to see?" —Charles Mingus, Beneath the Underdog Heartstring. Blessed wood & every moment the thing's made of: ball of fatbacklicked by fingers of fire. Hard love, it's hard love. Running big hands down the upright's wide hips, rocking ...
