wordsandmusic (Free subscription) | 02/02/2010
I had a request for some re-ups from the other week so here they are... Original post is here... Evan Parker Evan Parker (ts) Barry Guy (b) Paul Lytton (d) Geometry Download Buy Gene Ammons/Richard Groove Holmes Gene Ammons (ts) Richard Holmes (org) Gene Edwards (g) Leroy Henderson (d) Exactly like you Download Buy Ornette Coleman Ornette Coleman (as, tp, vln) David Izenzon (b) Charles Moffett (d)...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 02/02/2010
Chicago is a historic capital of early jazz and post-World War II blues, but in the 1950s and early 60s it also had a thriving hardbop scene. While jazz luminaries such as Gene Ammons, Eddie Harris and Johnny Griffin all emerged from this scene, it also featured numerous talented players who achieve...
wordsandmusic (Free subscription) | 01/10/2010
A belated happy new year to everyone... and three trios plus an organ and tenor combo to greet 2010... Evan Parker Trio and 'Geometry.' Starts off busy, fragments of saxophone and bass running round each other as the drums lay out a broad sweep underneath to carry them. Dropping back to solo drums, intricate use of space and silence, a sparseness that builds back into more layered and complicated rhythms...
the central shaft (Free subscription) | 01/10/2010
Interview: Creed Taylor (Part 10) When Creed Taylor last spoke with JazzWax in July ( Parts 5-9 ), the legendary record producer and I talked about his years at ABC Paramount from 1956 to 1961. His many jazz coups at the label included launching Impulse Records, signing and recording John Coltrane, and establishing a design formula that revolutionized album packaging. Such innovations included laminated...
Cool-Mo-Dee (Free subscription) | 01/04/2010
Various - Classic Reggae Mastercuts (posted at Avaxhome) - Do you like the Reggae? Jah man. Link Man - Revelation (1968) (posted at Oldish Psych & Prog) - a nice lossless psychedelic album post. Link John Coltrane - Side Steps (2009) (posted at Grateful Alive) - John Coltrane's legendary Prestige recordings as a sideman to a host of jazz luminaries including Gene Ammons, Tadd Dameron, Red Garland,...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
On Uptown, his fifth album as a leader, the impressive 34-year-old tenor saxophonist {Wayne Escoffery employs an old-fashioned soul jazz lineup of sax, Hammond B-3 organ, electric guitar and drums. But don't expect to hear the sort of bluesy "uptown" jams associated with classic soul jazz tenors like {{Gene Ammons = 3405}}, {{Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis = 6127}} or {{Stanley Turrentine...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
Composer, pianist and singer Amina Claudine Myers is a part of the first generation of the famed Chicago collective the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). Coming north from her native Blackwell, Arkansas, she was an unusual presence in the organization--not just as one of the few female members, but as a singer and songwriter willing to, at times, employ traditional song...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Jazz saxophonists had a field day with the bossa nova in 1962. The jazz-Brazilian folk experiments first undertaken by alto saxophonist Bud Shank and guitarist Laurindo Almeida in the early and late 1950s became a winning formula for jazz in the spring of 1962. With Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd's Jazz Samba LP racing up the charts, many established jazz saxophonists took a shot at the new beat with great...
Crooks and Liars (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Title: Listen Here (Live Montreux) Artist: Eddie Harris (tenor sax), Jodie Christian (piano), Melvin Jackson (bass) and Billy Hart (drums) Two major distinguishing factors that make Eddie Harris an innovator had to do with his teacher at DuSable High School in Chicago, and his use of the Varitone Saxophone. It’s a pickup for saxophone. If you look closely at the video, you’ll see he’s...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
All About Jazz is celebrating Houston Person's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Houston PersonHouston Person wears the Boss Tenor crown, worn so long by Gene Ammons. Mr. Person is busy working his own gigs; booking his tours, finding new clubs, having phone numbers for every major concert promoter on every continent... more...
Jazz & Blues Music Reviews (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander is one of the busiest musicians on the mainstream scene, recording many albums as a leader and a sideman. On this album he confidently charges into the fray again, aided by Harold Mabern on piano, Nat Reeves on bass and Joe Farnsworth on drums. His strong and agile tone recalls Dexter Gordon and Gene Ammons and is well suited to this collection of standards and bluesy...
Jazz & Blues Music Reviews (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Disc Five of this collection of tenor saxophonist John Coltrane's recordings as a sideman for the Prestige label is the final one in this package, beginning with a very interesting album under the leadership of the tuba player Ray Draper. During the days of early jazz, tuba was a common instrument until it was displaced by the upright bass in the 1930's. Draper was far from a dusty relic, he was a...
Casa Valdez Studios (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
(From Rico's Facebook with Rico artist Tim Price) In this lesson, I’ve taken an in-depth approach to give you all some information, new ideas, ear training, and fresh approaches to this form. http://www.saxontheweb.net /Price/Blues1.html Pick out a few licks that you like and that lay well for you that you can hear. Now, think of how your favorite player such as Sonny Rollins might play this...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
If the name {{Bernt Rosengren = 3919}} doesn't ring a bell, it probably would if you lived in Sweden. Rosengren, an unabashed champion of such implacable hard-boppers as {{Gene Ammons = 3405}}, {{Hank Mobley = 9478}}, {{Dexter Gordon = 7127}} and {{Johnny Griffin = 7239}}, has been one of that country's leading tenor saxophonists for more than half a century, and as his latest CD affirms, he's still...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
Side Steps the third and final set in a series of Coltrane Box Sets, hits stores today via Prestige Records. The 5-CD set captures Coltrane in a supporting role, as a sideman to leaders like Sonny Rollins, Gene Ammons, Red Garland, Tadd Dameron and others. The collection of 43 tracks represents the entirety of Coltrane’s session work as a Prestige sideman, from mid-1956 to early 1958, with...
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