Posted in Jazz Notes on Nov 5th, 2008
Check out Jason Crane’s election-day interview with tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins. And whatever one’s political affiliations or ideology, it should be noted that president-elect Barack Obama is a jazz lover, listing Miles Davis and John Coltrane as two of his musical favorites on his Facebook page. Now there’s a bipartisan position Americans can all get behind, don’t you think?
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Posted in Shows on Sep 22nd, 2008
“Jackie and Lee: a Hardbop Dynamic Duo” features the mid-1960s Blue Note recordings of alto saxophonist Jackie McLean and trumpeter Lee Morgan. Both veterans of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, McLean and Morgan joined in the studio on several occasions to produce some of the most searing hardbop records Blue Note ever put out.
Posted in Shows on Feb 19th, 2005
On this edition of Night Lights it’s “Meet the Jazztet,” a program of recordings taken from the recent Mosaic collection of Benny Golson and Art Farmer’s work for the Argo and Mercury labels between 1960 and 1962. Some of the players who passed through the Jazztet included McCoy Tyner, Harold Mabern, Cedar Walton…
Posted in Shows on Aug 21st, 2004
In December 1962 Jackie McLean went to play a gig in Boston with a local rhythm section. That local section included a 17-year-old drummer named Tony Williams, who would return with McLean to New York a week later to begin a phenomenal career that would include a long stint with Miles Davis’ 1960s quintet. McLean also joined forces with Grachan Moncur, a trombonist who had played with both the Jazztet and Ray Charles…
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