Making music to make ends meet
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 05/30/2008
Bass player Butch Warren was once Blue Note's go-to man; now, at 68, he has to play music just to stay off the streets.
Billy Higgins
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BOBBY HUTCHERSON - SOLO / QUARTET
Orgy in Rhythm (Free subscription) | 04/24/2008
Bobby Hutcherson for Contemporary from 1982. Bobby Hutcherson (vib, mar, perc); Herbie Lewis (b); McCoy Tyner (p); Billy Higgins (d) This is one of vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson's most unusual and interesting releases. The first half of the set features Hutcherson all by himself although, by utilizing overdubbing, he almost sounds like Max Roach's M'Boom ensemble. Hutcherson is heard on vibes, marimbas,...
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ADELE SEBASTIAN - DESERT FAIRY PRINCESS
Orgy in Rhythm (Free subscription) | 04/19/2008
Adele Sebastian for Nimbus West from 1978. Adele Sebastian-Flute.Vocals ;Billy Higgins-Drums,Gembreh ;Roberto Miranda-Bass ;Bobby West-Piano ;Rickey Kelley-Marimba ;Daa'oud Woods-Percussion Terrific album of spiritual jazz - another one for the flute freaks ! From the liner notes: Adele Sebastian joined the Pan Afrikaan Peoples Orchestra in the early 70s as a teenager.She played in the band until her...
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Tuesday Jazz — Sonny Rollins and Don Cherry
Zuky (Free subscription) | 04/15/2008
Sonny Rollins on sax, Don Cherry on trumpet, Billy Higgins on drums, and Henry Grimes on bass, live in Rome in 1963:
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PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Winard Harper Honors Jazz Appreciation Month with California Lineup and Billy Higgins Tribute
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 04/04/2008
Drummer honoring personal legacy to celebrate jazz appreciation by making California appearances in Larkspur, San Diego, Los Angeles, San Pedro, and Cambria. (Detroit, MI) -- Exalt Entertainment Group, premiering jazz and spoken word artists internationally announced today that Winard Harper will appear with his sextet at several California venues to celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month during April....
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Reissue Desires: Azar Lawrence’s Bridge Into The New Age
The Allmusic Blog (Free subscription) | 04/03/2008
What do Miles Davis, McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones, Horace Tapscott, Earth, Wind & Fire, Frank Zappa, Busta Rhymes, Billy Higgins, Chuck Jackson and the lost funk group Chameleon all have in common? Los Angeles saxophonist Azar Lawrence, that’s what. Released in 1974 on Prestige, Bridge Into The New Age was the first of three albums [...]
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CLIFFORD JORDAN QUARTET- GLASS BEAD GAMES
Orgy in Rhythm (Free subscription) | 04/02/2008
"In all beginnings...a mystical,magic force, What course ,what destiny...determined in time" Time for just one more then .....Strata East in full effect on this fabulous spiritual modal opus from Clifford Jordan with a double quartet line up from 1974. Forst posted here 09/06. Here's a great write up about this classic double lp by Kevin Moist from the superb www.dreamgeo.com/Strata-East. One of the...
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Classic Match: Hibs 3 - 5 Hearts, Sept 5, 1964
Edinburgh Evening News (Free subscription) | 03/24/2008
An Alan Gordon-inspired Hearts hit five to record one of their greatest wins at Easter Road
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SATHIMA BEA BENJAMIN / “Something To Live For”
breath of life (Free subscription) | 03/17/2008
Though not a superstar, Sathima has been super-strong in producing and propagating the music.
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HAROLD LAND - XOCIA'S DANCE
Orgy in Rhythm (Free subscription) | 02/29/2008
Harold Land for Muse from 1981. Harold Land (ts); Bobby Hutcherson (vib); George Cables (p); Oscar Brashear (tp); John Heard (b); Billy Higgins (d); Ray Armando (perc) Maybe best known for his 1959 Contemporary album The Fox, tenor saxophonist Harold Land spent the '50s and '60s rebuking the stereotype of the West Coast sound being all wafer-thin with his robust and intense work as both a solo artist...
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REVIEW: Piers Lawrence Quartet - Stolen Moments
Geezer Music Club (Free subscription) | 02/27/2008
There’s something very satisfying about sitting down and listening to four talented jazz pros combining to provide a smooth and cohesive sound. It's a task that is far more difficult than it sounds (making the music — not listening to it) but the Piers Lawrence Quartet has nailed it on the group’s new album, Stolen [...]
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Tell Me a Story
Destination: Out (Free subscription) | 02/11/2008
CAL MASSEY JOHN COLTRANE Clifford Jordan Glass Bead Games Strata East [Dolphy series] : 1974 CJ, tenor sax; Stanley Cowell, piano; Bill Lee, bass; Billy Higgins, drums. It's hard to relate music history without the notion of progress getting in there somehow. As in: be-bop begat hard bop begat modal begat freedom. This can be presented in the upward arc of [...]
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Chris Anderson, 81, Influential Jazz Pianist, Is Dead
New York Times (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
Mr. Anderson was a jazz pianist whose sophisticated and personal approach to harmony made him a pronounced influence on many other players, notably Herbie Hancock.
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Bill Perkins Octet... Steve Lacy/Don Cherry... Polly Bradfield... Peter Brotzmann
wordsandmusic (Free subscription) | 01/31/2008
I knew this title originally from the wonderful Jack Teagarden version – this is the Bill Perkins Octet from 1956 doing a smooth cool school take on 'A hundred years from today.' Velvet arrangement wrapped round Perkins tenor with memories of the 1949 Miles Davis Nine somewhere in the background... Rather beautiful... Steve Lacy served part of his apprenticeship with Thelonious Monk and throughout...
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Footnotes to "Oscar Peterson and Miles Davis"
Do the Math (Free subscription) | 01/29/2008
Footnote one: A Partial List of Distinctive "Rhythm Changes" Compositions and Performances. There are many more than listed here. Lester Young + Count Basie "Lester Leaps In" Kansas City riffs Ben Webster + Duke Ellington "Cotton Tail" awfully modern for...
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