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Slobokan's Site O' Schtuff (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago
Johnny Griffin, 80, among the finest jazz tenor saxophonists to develop after World War II and whose robust style — along with his modest height — earned him the title the Little Giant, died today at his home in Availles-Limouzine, a village about 150 miles southwest of Paris. No cause of death was reported. The Chicago-born [...]
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Lerterland (Free subscription) | yesterday
And just after I mentioned him in my Ronnie Mathews post . All I can say is: Wes Montgomery's Full House and Thelonious Monk's Misterioso . Some of the scariest, most perfectly realized tenor sax playing ever. Thankfully I caught him at the Vanguard in the early '00s, with Michael Weiss on piano. I seem to remember "Just One of Those Things" at a tempo that couldn't be believed. And Griffin was well...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | yesterday
Johnny Griffin, Jazzman Who Played With Coltrane, Monk, Dies By Mark Schoifet July 25 (Bloomberg) -- Johnny Griffin, the jazz musician who was once billed as the "world's fastest saxophonist" and played alongside Thelonious Monk, Lionel Hampton and John Coltrane, has died. He was 80. Griffin died today at his home in the village of Mauprevior, in southwest France, said his agent, Helene Manfredi. The...
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The mental_floss Blogs (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Music icon Miles Davis has long been revered as a jazz pioneer — but what exactly did he pioneer? To some purists, jazz music can be broken into two distinct eras: Before Miles and After Miles. A student and bandmate of Bebop legends Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker, Miles’ musical education took place [...]
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Used, but not abused (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
By Hrayr Attarian The discovery of an obscure, previously unknown, recording from a master musician is often but not always a source of celebration. Unfortunately the new release by Rare Live Recordings of pianist Thelonious Monk’s In Philadelphia 1960 with Steve Lacy is one of those occasions when it is not. MORE
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Shiraz Socialist (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
“We misspelled the first name of the pianist and composer Thelonious Monk as Thelonius in a CD review of Cecil Taylor’s Jazz Advance (page 10, Film& Music, July 11). We referred to a composition of Monk’s as Bemsha Monk; we meant Beshma Swing.” - Guardian Corrections and clarifications, July 1 8. “Thelonious Monk wrote Bemsha Swing, [...]
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Harmony's Weblog (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
Jazz albums have crept into my other lists here and there (Abbey Lincoln, Don Byron) and will no doubt make it onto other lists. But here’s a list specifically of my favorite jazz albums, on the occasion of getting the Ken Burns Jazz DVD set and re-watching it. And finishing Ross Russell’s Charlie Parker bio [...]
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Geezer Music Club (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Once again we’re paying a visit to Concord’s tribute to long-time producer Orrin Keepnews, the Keepnews Collection, a series of 24-bit reissues of a number of timeless jazz recordings. (Previously: Wes Montgomery, Coleman Hawkins, Nat Adderley.) In this review, we’re covering Freedom Suite, Sonny Rollins’ 1958 classic. Unlike most of the legends in the series, tenor [...]
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Monterey Jazz Festival Records, in collaboration with the Concord Music Group, will issue the second wave of six never-before-released, archival live recordings taped on the Arena stage of the world-famous Monterey Jazz Festival. The releases are slated for August 5, 2008, seven weeks prior to MJF's celebration of its 51st annual presentation of world-class jazz, September 19-21, 2008...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Pianist Frank Kimbrough, who is very active in the Maria Schneider Orchestra and his own projects like the Jazz Composers Collective and the Herbie Nichols Project, relates in the notes to his intensely personal and introspective solo album, Air, that one of his first gigs in New York City was a solo gig on Bleecker Street in Greenwich village from 1985 through to 1990...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
Mark Weinstein scored a Best Latin Jazz Flautist Grammy honor for Con Alma (Jazzheads, 2007). To follow that up, he turns to bebop with Straight, No Chaser, a mix of original and cover tunes, including some composed by such jazz icons as Wayne Shorter, Sonny Rollins and Thelonious Monk. Weinstein was a trombonist and composer for many years, performing with Chick Corea, Cal Tjader, Tito Puente, Lionel...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
The 4th and installment of the "Real. Live. Music." series at Galapagos Art Space in Williamsburg will be taking place on Wed, 7/16 with: MARCO BENEVENTO TRIO Marco Benevento - keys (Benevento/Russo Duo) Marc Friedman - bass (The Slip) Adam Deitch - drums (Lettuce, Wyclef Jean, Talib Kweli) BLAST OFF!!! feat. MIKE GAMBLE Adam Schatz - sax Sam Levin - drums Mike Gamble - guitar...
