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Kurt Elling: Don't Measure the Limbs
by R.J. DeLuke
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs. --Pablo Picasso At a time when the music scene in the United States is in a funk, and the recording industry, ...
Kenny Barron: Pianist Who Opens Eyes and Ears
by R.J. DeLuke
Kenny Barron's piano playing has delighted fans--and other pianists--for many years now. Every time he sits at the keyboard, his lyricism and crisp, clean style, whether lightning fast or soulfully soft, is one of the great pleasures of jazz. When Kenny Barron plays, it's like the old E.F. Hutton commercials. People are going to listen. The ...
Terell Stafford: Pushing Music and Community
by R.J. DeLuke
Terell Stafford plays the trumpet with remarkable technique, a great sense of melody and swing, and a lot of heart -- a combination that makes him stand out on today's scene and a reason it's easy to find him performing with people like Cedar Walton, the Clayton Brothers, Kenny Barron, Matt Wilson, the Carnegie Hall Jazz ...
Ravi Coltrane: His Own Man, His Own Thing
by R.J. DeLuke
OK. We all know Ravi Coltrane is the son of legendary musician John Coltrane, who was not only a saxophonist for the ages but one of the most brilliant and influential musicians ever. He's Coltrane influenced, but name one saxophonist in the last 20 years--no, 30 years--who isn't. Now let it go. Ravi Coltrane, ...
Joey DeFrancesco: Organ Master meets Crooner
by R.J. DeLuke
Joey DeFrancesco is rightfully known as an incredibly talented organ player. He's got an array of solid CDs that document his rise to the top. He can fit into any setting, from hard bop to the electronic funk of 1980s Miles Davis. He can swing a room of lead balloons. This affable Italian can even croon ...
Dave Ellis: Talented Tenor on the March
by R.J. DeLuke
Why Not? So many jazz musicians have been heralded as the next “big thing" since the 80s it's hard to keep track. It can cause one, after a while, to cast a sideways glance at the next pronouncement. But when a saxophonist creeps up on you with a lively, burnished tone and a swagger ...
Chick Corea's Spirit of Creativity
by R.J. DeLuke
Turbulent times, these are. Times of bloodshed and fear that touch not only far-off lands, but the heart of the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave, from Maine to El Paso, and from Miami to Seattle. People's minds are cluttered by apprehension and concern. In such an atmosphere, it must be hard ...
Skip Heller: Inviting You In to his Musical World
by R.J. DeLuke
Where do you start with Skip Heller, a self-taught guitarist, composer, arranger who's been playing bars and clubs since his high school days, everything from blues to rock to rockabilly to bluegrass to folk and on and on. He knows Mahler and Dave Douglas. He knows Louis Jordan and Henry Mancini. He may be the world's ...
Chasin' James Carter
by R.J. DeLuke
Think of Django Reinhardt and you probably think of delicate phrasing, swing, music that fits the 1930s, maybe even the gypsy's sweet couplings with violin legend Stephane Grappelli. There were moments of swing at The Egg, that exquisite hall in Albany, NY, on January 17, when sax firebrand James Carter blew into town with his Chasin' ...
