As John Coltrane continued his journey into freer forms of pure, ecstatic expression, he would not be accompanied by the musicians with whom he had forged such an indelible bond during the span of five remarkable years. The music grew so wild that pianist McCoy Tyner and drummer Elvin Jones [...]
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Wednesday, August 19th, 2009British-born guitarist Peter White is as soft-spoken as his renowned acoustic riffs. Over the past couple of decades, he’s quietly recorded a dozen solo albums that appeal to a crowd attuned to Earl Klugh and the gentler side of Pat Metheny. White’s latest release, Good Day (Peak Records), is a [...]
Read more >>Lester Young’s Centennial
Friday, August 14th, 2009Were Lester Young still alive today, he would be a couple weeks short of his 100th birthday. As it is, the trailblazing tenorman died just over 50 years ago, in March 1959. Still, the very fact that the saxophonist would’ve turned 100 on August 27 was reason enough for the [...]
Read more >>Jimmy Greene’s Suite
Monday, August 10th, 2009Nu Jazz Entertainment is a label founded by Jerald Miller, who began his career as a jazz musician, having studied under Ellis Marsalis in New Orleans. Subsequently Miller switched to the business side of jazz, working variously at EMI, RCA/BMG, Sony Music and at Spike Lee’s film company, Forty Acres [...]
Read more >>Jazz Giant George Russell Dies
Thursday, July 30th, 2009By Ellen Pfeifer George Russell, author of the “Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization” that undergirded the pioneering modal experiments of John Coltrane and Miles Davis, died on July 27 in Boston at age 86. He had been affiliated with New England Conservatory from 1969 when then-President Gunther Schuller invited [...]
Read more >>Bandleader Gerald Wilson Salutes Detroit
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009Ever wonder how you’ll celebrate your 91st birthday? Ever wonder if you’ll even be around for your 91st birthday? Yeah, well, composer and bandleader Gerald Wilson will turn 91 on September 4, and he plans on ringing it in with a very melodious bang before a large audience at the [...]
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