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Oleo

By Grant Green

Label: Blue Note
Released: 2015
Track listing: Oleo; Little Girl Blue; Tune Up; Hip Funk; My Favorite Things;

Article: Album Review

Mostly Other People Do the Killing: Mauch Chunk

Read "Mauch Chunk" reviewed by Mark Sullivan

by Mark Sullivan
October 21, 2015

Mostly Other People Do the Killing, the bad boys of jazz, don't quite turn in a straight ahead hard bop album with Mauch Chunk, but it's as close as they are likely to get. The new quartet has pianist Ron Stabinsky in place of longtime trumpeter Peter Evans--which seems to ground the group sound--and there's less ...

Article: My Blue Note Obsession

Bennie Green: Soul Stirrin’ - 1958

by Marc Davis
August 26, 2015

In the 1950s, Blue Note was a reliable bastion of hard bop. Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers set the tone, and dozens of artists--some famous, some not--followed. But Blue Note also had small oases of not-bop, often by artists you've never heard of. Bennie Green is one of those guys, and if you ...

Article: Profile

James Clay: Texas Tenor, Second Generation

by David Perrine
August 13, 2015

The term “Texas tenor" was originally coined to describe the sound and style of such swing era players as Herschel Evans, Illinois Jacquet, Buddy Tate, Budd Johnson, Arnett Cobb and others, and has subsequently been applied to second generation players from Texas that included James Clay, David Fathead" Newman and Marchel Ivery. What these players had ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Sonny Clark

July 20, 2015

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: My Blue Note Obsession

Dexter Gordon: Our Man in Paris – 1963

by Marc Davis
July 16, 2015

For some reason, Dexter Gordon doesn't immediately leap to my mind when I think of A-list bop saxmen. He should. Our Man in Paris is all the evidence you need. Gordon made a bunch of terrific records for Blue Note from 1961 to 1964. Some say Go! from 1962, with pianist Sonny Clark, is ...

Article: Interview

Jon Batiste: Staying Human

by Bob Kenselaar
June 7, 2015

Jon Batiste was named the bandleader of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (related news). This interview was originally published in January 2013. Nearly everything about Jonathan Batiste is steeped in New Orleans--from the way he talks, walks, and claps his hands to the way he plays the piano, composes, and leads his Stay ...

Article: My Blue Note Obsession

Sonny Clark: Cool Struttin’ – 1958

by Marc Davis
May 27, 2015

Blue Note Records was many things in the 1950s and '60s, but it was never the home of cool jazz. Yes, it was ground zero for hard bop in the '50s. And yes, it was the capital of soul-jazz in the '60s. But to release an album in 1958 (one year after Miles Davis' Birth of ...

News: Video / DVD

Gryce and Byrd's Jazz Lab

April 21, 2015

In the early 1950s, as the 10-inch LP began rolling out, leaders of jazz recording sessions were given top billing followed by the size of their ensemble. Hence the Miles Davis Quintet, the Thelonious Monk Quartet and the Sonny Clark Trio. As the decade continued, jazz supergroups formed with multiple star soloists. Names were either created ...

Article: Album Review

Hyungjin Choi: Tales of a Dreamer

Read "Tales of a Dreamer" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
April 2, 2015

È un delizioso debutto questo di Hyungjin Choi, pianista coreana dal 2008 a New York dove ha perfezionato i suoi studi alla New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music. Dopo aver collaborato con artisti di rilievo come Reggie Workman, Charlie Persip, Billy Harper o Sam Yahel, ha coronato il sogno d'incidere un disco da leader con ...