Jimmy Garrison

VARIOUS ARTISTS / “Wise One Mixtape”

breath of life (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009

What majestic music this is from Trane and what majestic music Trane inspires others to create when they perform Trane’s compositions.

Now on TheRoot.com: Loud and In Living Colour

Bold As Love (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009

The profile I wrote on Living Colour ran this morning on TheRoot.com. Here's a taste: “When they play together, I’ll put them onstage with anybody, in any genre of music,” says cultural critic and longtime friend Greg Tate who, along...

The Kids Are Alright

Destination: Out (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009

UNIVERSAL CONSCIOUSNESS OH ALLAH Alice Coltrane Universal Consciousness Impulse : 1971 AC, organ and harp; Leroy Jenkins, violin; John Blair, violin; Julius Brand, violin; Joan Kalisch, violin; Jimmy Garrison, bass; Jack DeJohnette, drums. String arrangements by AC; transcription by Ornette Coleman. “Is jazz dead? That all depends on what you know.” –Lester Bowie “A higher consciousness...

Timelessness

McDuff's Food & Wine Trail (Free subscription) | 09/04/2009

This one goes out to an old friend.... John Coltrane, performing "Naima" with McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones and Jimmy Garrison. Recorded while I was in the womb, it remains -- and always will be -- beautifully visceral music. ---------- Original content published at McDuff's Food & Wine Trail . All work copyright David McDuff and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NC-ND Works 3.0...

Heaven's Open Thread

Atlas Shrugs (Free subscription) | 08/15/2009

I sadly noted the passing of Les Paul. He was a master. Another great, another master passed yesterday. Rashied Ali RIP. In this video, an unreleased recording. AKA "The Father The Son and the Holy Ghost." That's Pharoah Sanders on tenor saxophone, John Coltrane, Alice Coltrane, Jimmy Garrison, Rashied Ali.

Rashied Ali, 1935–2009

{ feuilleton } (Free subscription) | 08/14/2009

The death this week of guitar pioneer Les Paul is already receiving considerable attention; less will be given to the passing of drummer Rashied Ali. The latter means more for me as a musician since I’m listening to his work all the time. Ali famously (and to some, controversially) replaced drummer Elvin Jones as John [...]

Another Member of the Coltrane Legacy Passes

The Rehearsal Studio (Free subscription) | 08/14/2009

The death of Les Paul may be receiving all the attention (to the point of receiving air time on BBC World Service Television News); and his memory certainly deserves that attention. However, William Grimes recently reported another significant death on the ArtsBeat blog of The New York Times : Rashied Ali , whose expressionistic, free-jazz drumming helped define the experimental style of John Coltrane’s...

Model 'Trane

The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 07/17/2009

Mostly Coltrane What makes this a success is how Kuhn and Lovano, with David Finck (bass) and Joey Baron (drums), take ownership of music fraught with memories of John Coltrane and his classic quartet, with McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison and Elvin Jones.

Dedicated to Hugh...

Some Came Running (Free subscription) | 06/08/2009

Sad news today about Hugh Hopper, the bassist and composer who made his name with the ground-breaking group Soft Machine; Jazzwise magazine has an article on his death at aged 64, announced in Britain yesterday. One of the first really...

John Coltrane - The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings (Impulse, 1961, 1997)

Jazz & Blues Music Reviews (Free subscription) | 03/09/2009

Tenor and soprano saxophonist John Coltrane had recently signed with the newly formed Impulse! record label and settled on what wold be his greatest band featuring pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Jimmy Garrison and drummer Elvin Jones when these epochal recordings were committed to tape in 1961. Coltrane's friend and colleague Eric Dolphy sits in on several performances on alto saxophone and bass clarinet,...

ALLABOUTJAZZ.COM: Jazz Musician of the Day: Jimmy Garrison

All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 03/03/2009

All About Jazz is celebrating Jimmy Garrison's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Jimmy GarrisonJimmy Garrison acoustic bass (1934 - 1976) Bassist Jimmy Garrison was the anchor in the classic John Coltrane Quartet, from 1961-\'66, which recorded all of its well-known albums on Impulse. Garrison\'s big, blunt sound... more...

Old School Friday - Jazz

A Slant Truth (Free subscription) | 11/21/2008

It’s Friday! It’s payday! And as ZZ Top would say, “I got a pocket full of change.” Happy Old School Friday! This week’s theme is Jazz. I cannot express enough to you how much I love Jazz. Whenever I’m feeling a creative funk, out come the Jazz records. Feeling down, play some Jazz. Feeling up, [...]

Come out to hear Kurt Elling on October 19th in Jazz for the Park (for less...)

Jazz@Rochester (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008

Grammy-nominated Kurt Elling, winner of multiple DownBeat and JazzTimes critics’ polls, will be appearing on October 19th at 7:00 pm at the Eastman Theatre at the annual Jazz for the Park concert to benefit the Wilson Commencement Park in Rochester....

FESTIVAL/CRUISE: Other Places: Detroit and Philly Basses

All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 08/31/2008

The Detroit Jazz Festival is playing this Labor Day Weekend. One reason the four-day event is subtitled "A Love Supreme: The Detroit-Philly Connection" is the powerful legacy of bassists from those cities. In a sidebar piece leading up to the festival, Mark Stryker of The Detroit Free Press writes about their importance...

• Other Places: Detroit & Philly Basses - Rifftides

Detroit International Jazz Festival: Detroit & Philly: A brotherhood of bass players

Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 08/24/2008

Bassists from Detroit and Philadelphia have influenced nearly every stylistic development in jazz since the '50s, from hard bop through post-bop, jazz-rock and today's mainstream. Here are some of the primary moves and shakers, with insights and a CD recommendation from McBride.

• FESTIVAL/CRUISE: Detroit and Philadelphia: A Brotherhood of Bassists - All About Jazz