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After contributing six decades of musical direction and genius, Randy Weston remains one of the world's foremost pianists and composers today, a true innovator and visionary. Encompassing the vast rhythmic heritage of Africa, his global creations musically continue to inform and inspire. "Weston has the biggest sound of any jazz pianist since Ellington and Monk, as well as the richest most inventive beat," states jazz critic Stanley Crouch, "but his art is more than projection and time; it's the result of a studious and inspired intelligence...an intelligence that is creating a fresh synthesis of African elements with jazz technique". Randy Weston, born in Brooklyn, New York in 1926, didn't have to travel far to hear the early jazz giants that were to influence him
Dizzy, Eri Yamamoto, Cecil Payne
by David Brown
This week, we'll check in with some late '60s, early '70s Dizzy Gillespie, then a set of new quartet and solo works from pianist Eri Yamamoto. Two new works from Blue Note records follow with an archival release pairing McCoy Tyner and Joe Henderson live at Slugs Saloon 1966 followed new music by the all-star collective ...
T. K. Blue: Planet Bluu
by Dan McClenaghan
Is T.K. Blue the coolest name for a jazz artist? Only “Thelonious Monk" competes in the category. Blue (aka Talib Kibue) a New Yorker of Trinidad and Jamaican descent who boasts a wide-ranging career--involvements with saxophonist Sam Rivers and pianist Randy Weston (he plays on Weston's 1991, Verve Records masterpiece, The Spirits Of Our Ancestors)--showcases a ...
Take Five With Pianist And Vocalist Kelly Green
by AAJ Staff
Meet Kelly Green Kelly Green is a renowned pianist and vocalist based in Queens, New York. A Florida native, she began her musical journey early, studying piano from age seven and diving into jazz at eleven. She earned her Bachelor in Jazz Studies from the University of North Florida, where she was awarded the Outstanding Musician's ...
Geof Bradfield: Colossal Abundance
by Dan Bilawsky
In the summer of 2023, saxophonist Geof Bradfield and trumpeter Chad McCullough launched Calligram Records--a label focusing on the Chicago creative music scene and its branches. The first batch of albums was strong, with showcases for each of the label heads' respective combo projects, trumpeter Russ Johnson's chordless quartet, and newcomer tenorist Arman Sangalang. A wide ...
Multi-Cultural AfroBlueGrazz Guitarist Pascal Bokar's 'I Can Tell' Drops Today
An award-winning jazz composer, guitarist and vocalist, Dr. Pascal Bokar Thiam presents a global musical banquet from his native France to his Senegalese and Malian roots. Anchored in bebop, he has performed with Dizzy Gillespie, Donald Byrd, Donald Bailey and Donald Brown. Pascal is the “father” of the funky, jazzy, bluesy, bluegrass-y, joyous and thoroughly infectious ...
Amina Figarova & Matsiko World Orphan Choir: Suite For Africa
by Dan McClenaghan
Happenstance played a hand in two of pianist Amina Figarova's finest recordings. The first time around it was September Suite (Munich Records, 2005). Though based in the Netherlands at the time, Figarova was staying in New York City when the planes flew into the World Trade Center buildings on September 11th, 2001. The music for the ...
Cubana Be, Cubana Bop - Play Misty for Me
by David Brown
This week, we start things off with some Afro-Cuban sounds from Bud Powell, Zaccai Curtis and Dizzy Gillespie. Next, a celebration of the birth of pianist Erroll Garner who would have been 103 today. Large band orchestral works from Toshiko Akiyoshi, Jihye Lee and Count Basie will follow before we check out some African sounds from ...
Johnny M. Dyani: African Bass
by Alberto Bazzurro
Inciso allo studio Barigozzi nel novembre 1979 e uscito su LP di lì a pochi mesi, rivede oggi la luce, ancora su LP nonché su CD, questo singolare album di Johnny M. Dyani (la M. sta per Mbizo), esponente di punta di quella colonia di jazzmen sudafricani emigrati in Inghilterra (tendenzialmente a Londra) e diventati ben ...
OJC's Big Guns: Art Blakey, Cannonball Adderley, and Ron Carter
by C. Andrew Hovan
Although they were somewhat late to the vinyl renaissance game, Craft Records has made up for lost time by tapping a wide range of music. From the Latin strains of Fania Records to the so-called acid jazz that B3 organ masters churned out for Prestige Records in the late '60s, Craft boasts a huge vault that ...
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