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Giacomo Gates' Vocalese Takes a New Turn
Randy Weston and his African Rhythms Sextet, with master drummer Lewis Nash joining the aggregation on traps, closed out the month of January with a splendid week at Dizzy's Club. The occasion was in part a celebration of Randy's latest release The Storyteller for the Motema label. Numerous good folks were on hand to join in ...
Seeking the Essence of Freddie Hubbard: Suzanne Pittson "Out of the Hub"
Vocalist Suzanne Pittson previously accepted the challenge of lyrically interpreting John Coltrane's opus “Resolution" from “A Love Supreme." With Alice Coltrane's consent she did so with all due humility... and with gusto! Her latest effort is a loving tribute to an artist whose legend appears to be growing slowly in ancestry, the late NEA Jazz Master ...
Remembering the Jazz Ambassador: Billy Taylor
On Monday, January 10 Dr. Billy Taylor was given a rich, warm send-off totally befitting one of the classiest musicians and people jazz music has ever produced. Dave Brubeck wrote of “The Real Ambassadors," Dr. Billy Taylor was the most REAL Ambassador of all. Here's a man responsible for introducing the beauties and wonders of jazz ...
Berklee and the Pat Patrick Collection
One of the sweeter stories from 2010—on more than one front—was Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick's donation of his father's collection to Berklee College of Music. Saxophonist Pat Patrick, who passed on to ancestry in 1991, came of age musically in Chicago's rich jazz cauldron. He's one of several mighty saxophonists who matriculated through the legendary Captain ...
From Timbuktu to the Mississippi Delta PT. 2
Guitarist-educator-author-jazz club impressario Pascal Bokar Thiam, who is of Senegalese descent, continues our conversation on the origins of blues & jazz and how that story has been distorted down through history. What was your ultimate mission in writing the book “From Timbuktu to the Mississippi Delta" To share with the African American community that we are ...
Moody's from Heaven
Anyone who has experienced the joy of hearing the great NEA Jazz Master James Moody's hilarious turnaround on the old Tin Pan Alley tune “Pennie's From Heaven," which he re-cast as “Bennie's From Heaven" can appreciate that this fabulous man has ascended on a one-way ticket to heaven. While it is with great sorrow that we ...
From Timbuktu to the Mississippi Delta (PT. 1)
Guitarist-educator, and now author, Pascal (Bokar) Thiam aims to broaden the historical timeline of blues and jazz well beyond the romantic notion of 'up the Mississippi from New Orleans...' Though I had the pleasure of spinning Pascal's in-performance '07 CD Savannah Jazz Club on radio, I didn't have the opportunity to meet him until about two ...
Swing and the Blues: Still Essential Skills and Wisdom for Successful Jazz Musicians?
In what we anticipate will be a series of commentaries from young jazz musicians (in this case we're talking 20 and 30something artists). Our first respondent is the very thoughtful and grounded pianist Aaron Goldberg. Born & raised in Boston, Goldberg's advanced music studies began at age 17 at the New School for Jazz and Contemporary ...
Jazz Radio Commentaries: Rusty Hassan PT. 2
Rusty Hassan has a kind of mystery about his look in this photo, but though he is indeed a nuanced gentleman, there seems little mystery about this thoughtful, even-tempered man-about-jazz; he remains one of DC's go-to guys when it comes to the history of the music and his weekly program on WPFW is a pillar of ...
Ain't but a Few of Us: Author Karen Chilton
Several weeks ago at a Brooklyn book signing at the MoCADA gallery for native son Randy Weston and our new book African Rhythms (Composed by Randy Weston, Arranged by Willard Jenkins published by Duke University Press; see elsewhere in The Independent Ear) I had the pleasure of meeting author and thespian Karen Chilton. Most recently she ...
