LP Cover Lover (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Here’s a beautiful cover and rare record on Charles Mingus’ Debut Records. Debut Records Presents Hazel Scott “Relaxed Piano Moods” with Max Roach on Drums and Mingus on Bass. This was recorded in 1955 and is considered her most enduring jazz recording. Scott was born in Trinidad, trained at Julliard , played at Carnegie Hall, [...]
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Arthur (Art) Blakey (October 11, 1919–October 16, 1990), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Also known as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina, he was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. Along with Kenny Clarke and Max Roach, he was one of the inventors of the modern bebop style of drumming. He is known as a powerful musician and a vital groover; his brand of bluesy, funky hard bop was (and remains) profoundly...
Popdose (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
M. Ward - Outta My Head from Transfiguration of Vincent (2003) 10cc - Sand In My Face from The Complete UK Recordings (2004) Zoot Sims - Someone To Watch Over Me from Zoot Sims And The Gershwin Brothers (1975) Max Roach - Freedom Day from We Insist! - Freedom Now Suite (1960) Madness - Tiptoes from The Rise and [...]
undomondo (Free subscription) | 11/09/2008
Been quite some time since I last did a recap of what’s happening on our videotumblr. You can use the videos button on the menu to check it daily. We’ve got videos from Aaron Parks & Terence Blanchard, The Last Poets, a great quality Max Roach session, Philip Glass on Sesame Street, interview & docu [...]
breath of life (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
International week: Joe Zawinul from Austria, Sexto Sentido from Cuba and 14 versions of the Juan Tizol (Puerto Rico) and Duke Ellington composition featuring: Duke Ellington Orchestra, Tessa Souter, Chucho Valdez, Andy Bey, Martial Solal, Duke with Charlie Mingus & Max Roach, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Ray Barretto, Rene Marie, Rabih Abou-Khalil, Dizzy Gillespie and Mark [...]
WPKN Today (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008
8:00 a.m. - Pat Hennessey Fill-in host Pat Hennessey interviews Peter Phillips, a jazz and classical composer and performer who has worked with Max Roach, Ornette Coleman and other musical giants. Phillips' brother is Barre Phillips, the famed ECM jazz bassist who appeared on many of that label's classic 1970's albums. Technorati tags: WPKN , radio
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
With the tragic deaths of Clifford Brown and pianist Richie Powell in 1956, Max Roach's first great quintet literally lost two of its members. Kenny Dorham and Ray Bryant would replace Brown and Powell and Max's new group was called the Max Roach Plus Four, and it featured the tenor saxophone talents of none other than Sonny Rollins. By 1958 it proved too difficult to keep a band with this many individual...
Sisyphus (Free subscription) | 23/08/2008
This is the Max Roach Quintet (Booker Little trumpet, Max Roach drums, Ray Draper tuba, George Coleman tenor saxophone, and Art Davis bass) performing Cole Porter’s “ Love for Sale ”. The video is poor but the audio is a good example of the hard bop style of jazz during the height of its popularity during the 1950’s and 1960’s. The date of this video clip is unknown but it appears to be a television...
Austinist (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
Photo by Mamoru Kobayakawa AARON PARKS What’s the Deal : Remember back when jazz was cool? Well, you probably don’t, unless you happen to be in your '60s or '70s. Miles, Thelonious, Freddie Hubbard, Art Blakey, Max Roach, Sonny Rollins (still pumping it out), and countless others made jazz cool, but somewhere along the way it got lost, and it was replaced by genres like dancey post-punk. Luckily,...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
an you tell an Art Blakey drumbeat from a Max Roach? How about bebop John Coltrane from hard bop Coltrane? Know the difference between ragtime and stride? If not, Jazz at Lincoln Centers Swing University may be just for you. The school recently announced its fall course load, which is led by Phil Schaap (pictured), Lewis Nash, Vincent Pelote and more...
Sequenza21/ (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
My accidental disk jockey gig on WBGO is scheduled for this Thursday at 2 pm. Live and in full color on the Internets at wbgo.org Here’s my playlist: Back Water Blues - Dinah Washington (live version, Max Roach et al) 4:42 I’ll Remember April - Concert by the Sea – Erroll Garner [...]
Electric Roulette (Free subscription) | 29/07/2008
Times Online (Free subscription) | 24/07/2008
One of the most widely recorded pianists in jazz from the 1950s to the 1990s, Ronnie Mathews worked with all the great names in the hard bop style, including Art Blakey, Roy Haynes, Max Roach, Freddie Hubbard and Woody Shaw. Yet his own name seldom occurs in jazz history books, because although he was a perfect complement to those bandleaders and to scores of other musicians, he was not an innovator...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Pianist Ronnie Matthews died June 28 of pancreatic cancer, in New York. He was 72. Matthews was a hard bop stylist who performed and recorded with Dexter Gordon, Freddie Hubbard, Roy Haynes, Woody Shaw,, Lee Morgan, Art Blakey, Max Roach, Johnny Griffin, T.S. Monk, and many others. A benefit and tri...
wordsandmusic (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
I promised a commenter some more Francis 'Scrapper' Blackwell – so here's the man giving out 'Blue Day Blues.' He really is one of the missing links between twenties country blues and later urban styles – introducing more linearity via the single-string breaks, for example. No mean singer either... From his 1967 album 'Blackjack,' this is Donald Byrd heading up a septet on 'Pentatonic.' Sonny Red solos...
