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Sometimes it's not a good thing to get branded too early in your career. Called "the young Django" by Charles Mingus and operating in the same fusion sphere as John McLaughlin and Larry Coryell, Belgian Philip Catherine was pegged in the '70s as a firebrand guitarist, albeit an unabashedly lyrical one. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but Catherine's career, now nearing its sixth decade,...
Jimmy Scott & friends (as previously posted) Jimmy Scott's career has spanned nearly sixty years, and in that time he has performed with a list of artists that read like a history of jazz music in that time, including Charlie...
DCA PRESENTS THE MINGUS BIG BAND FOR TWO CONCERTS AS PART OF THE "CHARLES MINGUS - SON OF WATTS - MUSICAL CARAVAN PROJECT" Please join DCA for The Mingus Big Band concerts celebrating the music of Charles Mingus: Friday, October 3, 2008 at 8:00 p.m. Madrid Theatre: 21622 Sherman Way, Canoga Park, CA 91303 Tickets for the Madrid Theatre concert are available for purchase at 818.347.9419...
As Congress debates the finishing touches of the $700 billion bailout of the financial industry, its worth revisiting another bold action taken by our federal government on this date, September 24, half a century ago. While intervention by the feds...
Kidz Bop. Lil Wayne. Lollipop. This should also be nominated for the “WTF 2008″ award. I would have paid to be a fly on the soundproof wall in the studio where it was recorded, just to watch the kids trying to memorize the lines. Cause you know their parents sat there helping them, correcting them and [...]
Baltimore pianist Lafayette Gilchrist has a style which satisfyingly combines two very different aesthetics: the funky and the sophisticated. He's been compared to keyboardists and composers Andrew Hill and Sun Ra, but his approach is more closely rooted in bassist Charles Mingus' work as a leader. Where Mingus' rhythmic and emotional foundation for composition and arrangement borrowed from gospel...
Department of Cultural Affairs Announces Grand Opening of the Charles Mingus Youth Arts Center Los Angeles, CA - A new art facility specifically dedicated to young people and named in honor of Charles Mingus will be inaugurated by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) on September 28, 2008, at 1:30 p.m. Program activities will begin with the grand opening of the Charles Mingus...
Thelonious Dub is a Glendale-based instrumental trio that plays a jammy mishmash of jazz, reggae and pop, often featuring covers of Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, and Charles Mingus – in between their original compositions and a few other surprises. “T-Dub” draws inspiration from groups and artists like Bill Frisell, John Scofield, Massive Attack, Thievery Corporation and Sly & Robbie. The band was...
Jazz saxophonist Bob Mover has an intriguing resume. A protege of Phil Woods, he was playing professionally at age 16 and subsequently performed alongside many stars, including Charles Mingus, Chet Baker, and one my favorites, alto sax legend Lee Konitz. It was an impressive beginning. Mover also spent some time leading his own group, but over [...]
When I think of the jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus (1922–79), the word "canvas" comes to mind, for a couple of reasons. Non-visual artists who create works broad in scope are often said to work "on a large canvas,"...
A new youth arts center in Watts run by the city's Department of Cultural Affairs will have its grand opening later this month during a weekend when two festivals will be happening. Named after the famous jazz musician and past local resident, the Charles Mingus Youth Arts Center will expand space for youth arts programs. The new building, which is next to the Watts Towers Arts Center, will bring...
From the YouTube listing: A color documentary that examines the creation of the Watts Towers and the Sicilian immigrant and visionary Sabato Rodia who realized them. This film contains intriguing footage of mid-1950’s Watts, the neighborhood where greats like Charles Mingus grew up.
Legendary bassist Henry Grimes has a rerelease on ESP-Disk, of the one and only disc he has been a leader on named “The Call” . For all those who need a recap about his extraordinary life story, Grimes was one of the most sought after bass players in the 50s playing with Albert Ayler, Coleman [...]
Originally published August 8, 2005 CHICAGO - Armed with a portable CD player and a small stack of discs, I set up shop in Charles McPherson's hotel suite here in the Windy City, where the veteran Detroit-bred alto saxophonist is in the midst of a recent weeklong stand at the Jazz Showcase.
