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Electrifying Track: Junka

June 5, 2018

Sonny Clark was an elegant jazz pianist who recorded in the hard bop era and was influenced primarily by Bud Powell, though there's a touch of Horace Silver in his punctuation. Clark was a sideman on many important albums, including recordings by Buddy DeFranco, Serge Chaloff, Frank Rosolino, Sonny Criss, Howard Rumsey, Sonny Rollins, Hank Mobley, ...

Album

The 45 Session

By Bennie Green

Label: Your Servant Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: It's Groovy ; On The Street Where You Live ; Can't We Be Friends; Ain't Nothin' But The Blues; Bye Bye Blackbird; Minor Revelation; Why Do I Love You; Encore;

Album

A Swingin' Affair

By Dexter Gordon

Label: Blue Note
Released: 2017
Track listing: Soy Califa; Don't Explain; You Stepped Out Of A Dream; The Backbone; Until The Real Thing Comes Along; McSplivens;

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The 1960 Sessions with George Duvivier and Max Roach

By Sonny Clark

Label: Tompkins Square
Released: 2017
Track listing: Minor Meeting; Nica; Sonny's Crip; Blues Mambo; Blues Blue; Junka; My Conception; Sonia; Nica (take 2); Sonia (take 3); Minor Meeting (take 10); Junka ( take 1); Nica (take 4); Minor Meeting ( take 9).

Article: Album Review

Sonny Clark Trio: The 1960 Sessions with George Duvivier and Max Roach

Read "The 1960 Sessions with George Duvivier and Max Roach" reviewed by Jakob Baekgaard

by Jakob Baekgaard
November 1, 2017

Jazz history tends to favor the great musical innovators whose stylistic leaps have formed the ever-changing vocabulary of jazz: the improvisational wonder of Louis Armstrong, the free flight of Charlie Parker, the chameleon-like transformations of Miles Davis, and the singular piano world of Thelonious Monk. For long a time, Monk, along with Bud Powell, has been ...

Article: Book Review

Conversations with Charlie Haden

by Angelo Leonardi
September 5, 2017

Conversations with Charlie Haden Josef Woodard & Charlie Haden 235 Pagine con 24 foto in bianco e nero ISBN: #978-1-935247-15-9 Silman-James Press 2017 Pubblicato negli Stati Uniti all'inizio di quest'anno, Conversations with Charlie Haden raccoglie 17 interviste del critico Josef Woodard al grande contrabbassista scomparso; alcune sono state ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Sonny Clark

July 21, 2017

All About Jazz is celebrating Sonny Clark's birthday today! Conrad Yeatis “Sonny" Clark was an American jazz pianist who mainly worked in the hard bop idiom. Contents Clark was born and raised in Herminie, Pennsylvania, a coal mining town southeast of Pittsburgh. At age 12, he moved to Pittsburgh. When visiting an aunt in California at ...

Article: Album Review

Benny Green: Happiness!

Read "Happiness!" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
April 3, 2017

Happiness is listening to Benny Green. He brings joie de vivre to the piano keys with his Herculean chops, in-the-pocket soulfulness, and tight arrangements, all of which can be heard in spades on this live date. The scene for this spirited recording was the Kuumbwa Jazz Center--a gem of a venue in California ...

Article: Bailey's Bundles

Trios – Free Nelson Mandoomjazz, Organic Trio, Ben Rosenblum, Peter Erskine; Julia Hulsmann

by C. Michael Bailey
March 12, 2017

Jazz Trios. A variety of flavors... Free Nelson Mandoom Jazz The Organ Grinder RareNoise Records 2016 Free Nelson Mandoomjazz is not exactly your posterchild for traditional jazz trios, nominally comprised of wind player Rebecca Sneddon, bassist Colin Stewart and drummer Paul Archibald. <em>Organ Grinder</em> is a recording ...

Article: Multiple Reviews

Lee Morgan On Music Matters

by Greg Simmons
March 6, 2017

Somewhere up in the sky there's a pantheon of jazz legends. Lee Morgan rightfully has a seat in the top tier, and the jam must be extraordinary. Morgan hit the scene in 1956, an obvious prodigy who'd scored two triumphs at the tender age of eighteen: a standing gig in Dizzy Gillespie's big band ...