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Roy Haynes Performs at Central Brooklyn Jazz Festival
Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium (CBJC) presents The Roy Haynes Fountain of Youth Band on Saturday, April 4, 2009 at Brooklyn Tech Auditorium, 29 Fort Greene Place, Fort Greene, Brooklyn as part of the 10th Annual Central Brooklyn Jazz Festival - “A Decade of Keeping Our Music Alive". This concert will benefit the not for profit arts ...
Pianist/Arranger Bill Cunliffe Revisits a Jazz Classic with "The Blues and the Abstract Truth, Take 2"
With his new album, The Blues and the Abstract Truth, Take 2, pianist Bill Cunliffe doesn’t so much reinvent a modern jazz classic as open it for incisive interpretation. Working with clean, uncluttered arrangements and a stellar cast of improvisers, Cunliffe explores Oliver Nelson's beloved 1961 album for Impulse! And the results are consistently riveting. Putting ...
10th Annual Central Brooklyn Jazz Festival Set For Month of April
Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium (CBJC) presents its 10th Annual Central Brooklyn Jazz Festival from April 1 thru 30, 2009. This month long celebration of an American original art form Jazz, will be held in venues throughout Brooklyn, New York. Some of the musicians and events scheduled include: legendary jazz drummer Roy Haynes, Dave Valentin, Houston Person, ...
A Life in Time: The Roy Haynes Story
By Roy Haynes
Label: Dreyfus Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: CD1: Ding Dong - Lester Young; Bouncin' With Bud - Bud Powell; My Little Suede Shoes - Charlie Parker; Morpheus - Miles Davis; Down - Miles Davis; I Know - Sonny Rollins; I'll Walk Alone - Charlie Parker; Two Brothers - Nat Adderley; Shulie-A-Bop - Sarah Vaughan; How High The Moon - Sarah Vaughan; Reflection - Roy Haynes; Rhythm-A-Ning - Thelonious Monk Quartet; Don't Go To Strangers - Etta Jones; Green Dolphin Street - Eric Dolphy; I'm Late, I'm Late - Stan Getz; Stolen Moments - Oliver Nelson; Long Wharf - Roy Haynes. CD2: Snap Crackle - Roy Haynes; Esoteric - Jackie McLean; After The Rain - John Coltrane; Black Fire - Andrew Hill; Poppa Daddy and Me - Jack DeJohnette; Matrix - Chick Corea; Transfiguration - Alice Coltrane; Little Peace in C for U - Stephane Grappelli & Michel Petrucciani; Question and Answer - Burton/Metheny/Corea/Holland/Haynes; My Favorite Things - John Coltrane. CD3: James; Equipoise; After Sunrise; My Heart Belongs To Daddy; Vistalite; Water Children; Brown Skin Girl; Greensleeves; Hippidy Hop (Drum Solo); Segment.
The Creative Genius of Pat Metheny
by Lloyd N. Peterson Jr.
There may not be another contemporary composer whose music better reflects the time in which we live, yet remains so misunderstood. Imitators may have watered, and smoothed down his rich, complex and innovative art form, but the creative genius of Pat Metheny lies deep beneath the surface, a place of heartfelt passion and beauty, of melodic ...
Pat Metheny & Anna Maria Jopek: Upojenie
by John Kelman
A cult favorite amongst Pat Metheny fans, Upojenie--originally released by “Anna Maria Jopek & Friends with Pat Metheny" in the singer's native country of Poland by Warner Music in 2002--has been long overdue for greater international availability. The Nonesuch edition hasn't been remastered (it doesn't need it), but will still be of interest to Metheny fans ...
Pat Metheny w/ Dave Holland and Roy Haynes: Question and Answer
by Chris May
Question and Answer is the second in a glittering, altogether too infrequent series of albums guitarist Pat Metheny has recorded in acoustic trio settings, usually on the hoof and with little post-production, which act as a counterweight to his more elaborate work with larger line-ups. Recorded in 1989 and originally released on Geffen, it's been immaculately ...
Pat Metheny w/ Dave Holland & Roy Haynes: Question and Answer
by John Kelman
As Nonesuch's remaster/reissue program of guitarist Pat Metheny's Geffen-era discography draws to a close, one of the best discs from that period, Question and Answer, finally sounds the way it should, revealing itself to be deserving of even greater accolades than it received when first released in 1990. Better known for his flagship Pat ...
Bill Cunliffe: The Blues and the Abstract Truth, Take 2
by C. Michael Bailey
Bill Cunliffe The Blues and the Abstract Truth, Take 2 Resonance Records 2008Oliver Nelson (1932-1975) was a saxophonist, arranger, and composer who seemed everywhere in the 1960s. In popular culture, Nelson is best remembered for his television scoring for shows including Ironside, Night Gallery, Columbo, The Six Million ...
Roy Haynes and The Fountain of Youth Band at Scullers, Boston
by Michael Epstein
Roy Haynes and The Fountain of Youth Band Scullers Boston, Massachussetts July 25, 2008 On Friday, July 25th Roy Haynes and The Fountain of Youth Band played to an enthusiastic crowed at Boston's own Scullers Jazz Club. It was hard to believe that Haynes, who recently won Down Beat's ...
