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Sonny Red

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Sonny Buxton: Strayhorn’s Last Drummer, A Radio Master Class Mid-Day Saturdays

Read "Sonny Buxton: Strayhorn’s Last Drummer, A Radio Master Class Mid-Day Saturdays" reviewed by Arthur R George


Sociologist, anthropologist, historian: storyteller, raconteur, entrepreneur and griot, in the guise of a deejay. Registrar, dean, professor: The jazz class of Sonny Buxton is barely concealed as entertainment within his weekly radio program every Saturday 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Pacific time on San Francisco Bay Area FM station KCSM 91.1, streaming live on kcsm.org.

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Article: Album Review

Various Artists: Innerpeace: Rare Spiritual Funk And Jazz Gems

Read "Innerpeace: Rare Spiritual Funk And Jazz Gems" reviewed by Chris May


It took a few years for producer Bob Shad's newly formed Mainstream Records to nail its direction in the 1960s. A less than auspicious start was releasing the first singles by the latter-day Trump-boosting halfwit Ted Nugent. A better move, given hindsight, was releasing the debut album by Janis Joplin's Big Brother & The Holding Company. ...

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Article: Reassessing

Donald Byrd: Slow Drag

Read "Donald Byrd: Slow Drag" reviewed by Greg Simmons


Donald ByrdSlow DragBlue Note2011 (1967) In 1967 trumpeter Donald Byrd was a busy guy, teaching or lecturing at no fewer than four universities. It's a wonder he had time to play, let alone record. Fortunately, he did find the time, and the resulting Slow Drag takes an ...

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Sonny Red.

Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 2001
Track listing: Moon River, I Like The Likes Of You, Super-20, Bye, Bye Blues, The Mode, Never, Never Land, Ko-Kee, Images, Blues For Donna, Dodge City, Blue Sonny, The Rhythm Thing, Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered.

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Sonny Red: Sonny Red.

Read "Sonny Red." reviewed by Ron Meyers


Sonny Red is not your household name when it comes to alto sax players. Although Red played with Blakey, Curtis Fuller, Paul Quinichette, Donald Byrd, Grant Green and Blue Mitchell, to name a few, he still never became well known and this is a shame because he adds a unique voice to the alto. He died ...

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Red, Blue & Green

Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 2000
Track listing: Moon River/ I Like the Likes of You/ Super-20/ Bye, Bye Blues/ The Mode/ Never, Never Land/ Ko-Kee/ Images/ Blues For Donna/ Dodge City/ Blue Sonny/ The Rhythm Thing/ Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered.

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Article: Album Review

Sonny Red: Red, Blue & Green

Read "Red, Blue & Green" reviewed by Derek Taylor


Sylvester “Sonny Red” Kyner, Jr. was part of the fruitful exodus of Detroit jazzmen to New York in the late 1950s. Though his style was steeped in the deft architectures of Bebop his sound and approach also incorporated a healthy fascination with earlier traditions. This disc dusts off two of his sessions for the Jazzland label ...

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Sonny Red

Label: Milestone Records
Released: 1971

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Images

Label: Milestone Records
Released: 1962


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