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In the same way that Roy Hargrove's Earfood (Emarcy, 2008) updated Lee Morgan's Cornbread (Blue Note, 1965), so Jeremy Pelt's November updates Miles Davis' Miles Smiles (Columbia/Legacy, 1966). If creativity and art can be evaluated on both the vertical and horizontal, Morgan's and Davis' offerings represent horizontal progressions of the art of jazz into new areas, where Hargrove's and Pelt's are...
A friend points out that Lee Morgan would have been 70 last week. Here he is with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, remembering Clifford. (Thanks: DB.)
Clifford Brown Oct. 10, 1930-June 26, 1956 Unless you really follow the history of jazz, you’ve probably never heard of Clifford Brown. That’s your loss. Clifford Brown was a genius, one of the greatest trumpet players of all time. He burst on the jazz scene in the early 1950’s, at a time when the [...]
This is Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers (Lee Morgan, Benny Golson, Bobby Timmons, and Jymie Merritt) performing the jazz standard, “I Remember Clifford” in 1958. Lee Morgan (1938 – 1972) is the soloist on the trumpet. “ I Remember Clifford ” was written by Benny Golson in honor of Clifford Brown , the influential jazz trumpeter who died at the age of 25 in 1956, Brown had a considerable influence...
Steeplechase 31639 Apparently far from empty, the Steeplechase Jam Session archive unveils another pair of multiple-horn conclaves, one familiar in instrumentation the other singular. Triple trumpet team-ups aren�t a new development in the series, though Marcus Printup and Joe...
John Coltrane Stardust (RVG Edition) Prestige-Concord 2007 Dexter Gordon Clubhouse Blue Note 2008 Freddie Hubbard is part of the most concentrated group of trumpet talents in jazz history, born on Apr. 7th, 1938, just five days after Booker Little and three months before Lee Morgan. His brassy sound, confident attack and fluid lines mark a host of the finest recordings of the '60s, including John Coltrane's...
One of four themed, double-CD compilations from the Blue Note vaults released in the same month--the others are New York Is Our Home (dealing with emergent hard bop), The Funk Jazz Brothers (early 1970s funk-jazz) and On The Corner (early 1970s fusion)--African Rhythms brings together 17 tracks recorded by Blue Note artists between 1957-70 which paid homage to Africa...
Wow! No…wait…Holy Cow! How about ZOMG!!!11!!!1!! The show was phenomenal. There’s no two ways about it. I’ve seen some great shows at LACMA, but I have never seen people dancing during the entire show. NEVER. The Jazz on the Latin Side All Stars opened the show with Lee Morgan's Caramba. Nice and easy way to greet Opening Night [...]
As expected by the German organisers of the DTM, the huge grandstands of the Lausitzring were invaded by 80,000 spectators. While most of them were mainly there to watch another duel between Audi and Mercedes (won by Paul Di Resta’s Class C Mercedes), many stayed until the end of the meeting to follow the track performance of the Superkarts.
Perhaps the biggest news coming out of the now-suspended second round of the Sybase Classic is that Hee-Won Han and Karen Stupples have withdrawn from the tournament (after shooting an opening-round 75 and dealing for months now with being on the road a hemisphere away from her infant son, I don't blame Han, and Stupples is travelling with her relatively newborn baby, so why not get more quality time?)....
