Results for "Ted Brown"

Ted Brown

Monika Herzig, Joe Fonda, and Ben Kono

by Jerome Wilson
February 12, 2025

This show features music from Monika Herzig, Terri Lyne Carrington, Joe Fonda, McCoy Tyner, and Ben Kono. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 Jonathan Powell “Inner Urge" from Mambo Jazz Party (Circle 9) 00:52 Anthony ...

Lennie Tristano Personal Recordings, 1946-1970

by Peter Rubie
February 24, 2022

They called it the Cool School, but what's in a name?In this case, quite a lot as it happens. The Cool School included musicians like Chet Baker, John Lewis and the Modern Jazz Quartet, and Dave Brubeck. Under the guidance of arranger and composer Gil Evans, it established itself in an unquestionable way with ...

Whit Dickey/Kirk Knuffke: Drone Dream

by Mark Corroto
September 3, 2019

If the duo of drummer Whit Dickey and cornetist Kirk Knuffke were a baseball team, their signature style would be small ball, the opposite of towering home runs and 100 mph fast balls. They would win games like they sound here with tight efficient playing. They lay down perfect bunts and easily turn the double play ...

To Dream the Impossible Dream: the quest for a music education

by Peter Rubie
May 22, 2019

I've been thinking a lot about how jazz is taught recently. I realize now, my search for a real musical education was not a simple thing, but a series of life changing moments. My son, on the other hand, is planning to study music in college after he finishes high school. Though it would fill his ...

Jon De Lucia Octet + Ted Brown Live at the Drawing Room

By Jon De Lucia

Label: Gut String Records
Released: 2018

Ted Brown: Live at Trumpets

August 23, 2017

Inspired by pianist Lennie Tristano, tenor saxophonist Ted Brown came up in what we now call the cool school of jazz. Saxophonists who played in this style tended to blow in dryer, pastel tones while keeping a rigid sense of time and unspooling long ribbons of improvised lines. Though Brown studied with Tristano, he is in ...

Ted Brown Quartet -Live at Trumpets

By Ted Brown

Label: Cadence Jazz Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: Somebody Loves Me Relaxin' at Camarillo Love Me or Leave Me Broadway When You're Smiling The Best Thing for You Pennies from Heaven Anthropology

Ted Brown: Preservation

by Derek Taylor
January 10, 2004

As one of the last surviving original Tristanoites, Ted Brown’s reputation is surprisingly the least prominent of his peers. Though he shared the frontline with Warne Marsh on Jazz of Two Cities (1957), his discography since that seminal date has been a checkered affair with plenty of protracted holes, mostly due to a gig as an ...