Results for "Rufus Reid"

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Ben Allison, Ron Horton, Frank Kimbrough: A Collective Trio

by Ludovico Granvassu
June 22, 2019

Ben Allison, Ron Horton and Frank Kimbrough have been collaborating for more than a quarter century, including as members of the influential Jazz Composers Collective. During these years they have established themselves as stalwarts of the New York jazz scene and developed their own instantly identifiable sounds, solidifying their international reputations as leading voices ...

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Jeff Chambers' Chosen Alternative: The Therapies of Tijuana

by Arthur R George
May 31, 2019

Jeff Chambers, long a go-to San Francisco Bay Area bassist, looked at death closely and decided it was not yet his time. In 2017 his medical chart revealed Stage IV prostate cancer, commonly and fearfully an endgame diagnosis. Prostate cancer affects African-American men with almost twice the frequency as other races, and is almost twice as ...

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Best of 2018: Il Mixtape

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 7, 2019

Il 2018 è stato un altro anno di grande rilievo per la musica che amiamo. Abbiamo chiesto ai nostri redattori di condividire le loro preferenze. Ecco che cosa ne è venuto fuori. Buon ascolto, con l'augurio che il 2019 ci porti almeno altrettanta musica di alto livello! Michael Leonhart “Music ...

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Monk's Dreams: The Complete Compositions of Thelonious Sphere Monk

By Frank Kimbrough

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: CD 1: Thelonious; Light Blue; Played Twice; Ba-Lue Bolivar Ba-Lues-Are; Ask Me Now; Humph; Bright Mississippi; Reflections; Bemsha Swing; Teo; Blue Sphere.

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CD 2: Crepuscule with Nellie; Think of One; 52nd St. Theme; Eronel; Bluehawk; Little Rootie Tootie; Two Timer; Ruby, My Dear; Boo Boo's Birthday; San Francisco Holiday; Functional; I Mean You.

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CD 3: Shuffle Boil; Monk's Dream; Evidence; Misterioso; Four in One; Brake's Sake; Pannonica; Bye-Ya; North on the Sunset; Introspection; We See; In Walked Bud.

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CD 4: Nutty; Trinkle Tinkle; Blues Five Spot; Round Midnight; Jackie-Ing; Well You Needn't; Sixteen; Locomotive; Gallop's Gallop; Children's Song; Blue Monk; Friday the 13th.

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CD5: Criss Cross; Raise Four; Let's Call This; Who Knows; A Merrier Christmas; Stuffy Turkey; Monk’s Point; Work; Brilliant Corners; Off Minor; Hackensack; Oska T.

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CD 6: Let’s Cool One; Hornin’ In; Coming on the Hudson; Straight No Chaser; Monk’s Mood; Green Chimneys; Rhythm-A-Ning; Ugly Beauty; Skippy; Something in Blue; Epistrophy.

Article: Album Review

Frank Kimbrough: Monk's Dreams: The Complete Compositions of Thelonious Sphere Monk

by Victor L. Schermer
November 27, 2018

Thelonious Monk, though controversial in his time, was a brilliant, innovative pianist and composer with a unique way of conceiving the music that was yet remarkably simpatico with standard forms. Many of his compositions (they are much more than “tunes," though I'll use that word here as shorthand) have become a regular part of the jazz ...

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Matt Wilson: Honey And Salt

by Angelo Leonardi
February 26, 2018

Questo disco è talmente ricco di episodi e significati, denso di motivi e relazioni con la storia del connubio tra jazz e poesia, che una recensione dovrebbe trasformarsi in un saggio. Il nono album per la Palmetto di Matt Wilson è ispirato per intero dall'opera di Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) il grande poeta statunitense che è stato ...

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Rufus Reid: Terrestrial Dance

by Karl Ackermann
January 8, 2018

Rufus Reid is one of a handful of true renaissance figures in the arts. The bassist and composer has been an active presence in the jazz world since the 1970s and has recorded more than a dozen albums as a leader and in groups with Dexter Gordon, Andrew Hill, The Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Quartet, ...

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Terrestrial Dance

By Rufus Reid

Label: Newvelle Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: Side A: This I Ask of You; It’s Time to Shout it Out; Tippin’; Transcape; Side B: Celestial Dance; You Make Me Smile; Falling in Love; Cedar’s Blues.

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Rufus Reid at Mezzrow Jazz Club and Dizzy's Club Coca Cola

by David Hadley Ray
November 17, 2017

Rufus Reid and Glenn Zaleski Mezzrow Jazz Club New York, NY August, 20, 2017 Mezzrow's is an intimate space situated in the heart of Greenwich Village. A great little after-hours haunt in the city that never sleeps. The club space is narrow, but it's well suited for solo ...

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Five Women XII – Gabriele Trancina, Rondi Charleston, Julie Benko, Sarah Jerrom, Carol Welsman

by C. Michael Bailey
November 1, 2017

Gabriele Trancina Of Sailing Ships and the Stars in Your Eyes Rainchant Eclectic Records 2017 Polyglot would be an appropriate descriptor for a German-born, Parisian chanteuse, with Brazilian stylings, who is considered a cross between Ute Lemper and Tania Maria. This is what we have in Gabriele Trancina, whose fourth release ...