The Smoking Section (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Last week while hanging out with my dad, the topic turned to jazz after he heard me playing a Donald Byrd album he’d never heard before. After looking through my iTunes and asking where I got it from (TSS obviously) he asked me what else could I get? My answer: “With an album [...]
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Seattle's Spectrum Dance Theater introduces striking new works by Donald Byrd, Amy O'Neal and Zoe Scofield — and revives a frenzied, sexy 1990s classic by Byrd.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
Some of Seattle's most exciting choreographers are working at Spectrum Dance Theater. There's Donald Byrd, of course, the company's artistic...
JamsBio (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
It was 1970, and jazz was poised for another stylistic revision. During the previous decade jazz had been freed from the obligation to be danceable or popular. It was music to move your sentiments, not your ass. Herbie Hancock and Donald Byrd would eventually reverse the process.
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
Pianist Roy Assaf and bassist Eddy Khaimovich are true musical soul mates. Much like the legendary partnerships of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, Donald Byrd and Pepper Adams, or Chick Corea and Gary Burton, Assaf and Khaimovich share unique similarities in their approach to playing and composing, perhaps as a result of their shared cultural heritage. On Andarta, the two New York-based, Israeli...
Pound for Pound (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
Donald Byrd and 125th Street, N.Y.C., "Love Has Come Around" ( YSI link ) It's Friday afternoon, the weekend is upon us, time to take things up a notch. Did you think I was joking about only wanting to hear songs about love and happiness? Oh, my friends, we don't joke about these things. We are deadly serious about those things right now. I'm also deadly serious about this song, Donald Byrd and 125th...
The Smoking Section (Free subscription) | 08/24/2008
The release notes tell the story of this one… Classic single from DJ Jazzy Jeff on which he cuts up the following records: Marvin Gaye - “T Plays It Cool”, Donald Byrd - “Change (Makes You Want To Hustle”, Bob James “Westchester Lady”, Bobbi Humphrey - “Harlem River Drive” and Grover Washington Jr.’s -”Mister Magic”. On [...] ShareThis
The Smoking Section (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
The mix is basically 70’s funk/fusion/Sample Clearance/Jaycee, that’s the best way i can explain it and i hope you enjoy. a lotta this stuff should be very recognizable, and if not then just rock with it anyway… And if you’re wondering, “the Mizell Edition”? The Mizell Brothers were a highly influential production team in the 1970s, [...] ShareThis
Jahsonic (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
“Cristo Redentor” by Donald Byrd The omnologist anglophone blog Uncertain Times[3] brings American voice actor and spoken word artist Ken Nordine[4] to my attention[5], from there it is a small step to American Space Age musician Fred Katz (one-time soundtrack maker for Roger Corman[6]) and American sound artist and humorist Henry Jacobs[7]. From there we [...]
Cloudland Blue - A Diary (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
Playlist King Crimson – A-Z The National – Boxer Donald Byrd – Slow Drag Camel – Lunar Sea Rained all day again today... More King Crimson music wise – rather apt as I made my way to FOPP to purchase Tangerine Dream’s “Atem” and “Zeit” for Crimson biographer and current video diarist on the band’s 40th Anniversary American Tour, Mr Sid Smith... Managed to get the last copy of “Zeit” in the shop...
Destination: Out (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
SPRING OF TWO BLUE-J’S Cecil Taylor Spring of Two Blue-J’s Unit Core : 1974 CT, piano. I. A hand and a piano Are one A hand and a piano and a Blue-J Are one. II. Recorded at a Town Hall concert, this album features Cecil Taylor solo on side one and with Jimmy Lyons, Sirone, and Andrew Cyrille on the second side. Both tracks share the same title. We’re highlighting the entire 16-minute [...]
Some Velvet Blog (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
Somethings old and somethings new: New In The New Year - The Walkmen (via Spinner ) Alphabets - GZA (via The Fork) Old Farther On Down The Road - Taj Mahal The Congregation - Johnny Griffin Let The Four Winds Blow - Robert Plant Misterio Uruguayo - Juana Molina You & Music - Donald Byrd
LP Cover Lover (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
“Jazz Eyes” Regent Records (a division of Savoy). Jazz by John Jenkins, Donald Byrd, Curtis Fuller, Tommy Flanagan, Doug Watkins and Art Taylor. Supervised by Ozzie Cadena. Recorded by Rudy Van Gelder. Album designed by Portrait Productions.
Cloudland Blue - A Diary (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Playlist Alice Cooper – Pretties For You Alice Cooper – Easy Action Alice Cooper – Love It To Death Alice Cooper – Killer Alice Cooper – School’s Out Donald Byrd – Fuego Françoise Hardy – Tant des Belles Choses Dio – Master of the Moon Alice Cooper – Along came a Spider A day of early Alice Cooper – amazing to think they released their quartet of classic albums, “Love it to Death”, “Killer”, “School’s...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
ARC Dance opened its summer mixed repertory program Thursday night at Kreielsheimer Theatre.
