Jazz music heard at the Carnegie Hall, April 23, 1941.
THREE COMPACT MIRACLES: JIMMY RUSHING SINGS, DONALD LAMBERT PLAYS
(Wallace’s Tavern, West Orange, New Jersey, c. 1958-62)
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Without further ado: three location recordings of Jimmy Rushing with Donald
Lambert at the piano, recorded some time in the late Fifties or early
Sixties a...
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Chopin is still being turned into fertile material for jazz improvisation: I'm writing the notes for the Diva Jazz Trio's wonderful CD, NEVER NEVER LAND, featuring Sherrie Maricle, Tomoko Ohno, and Noriko Ueda, and they do a rewarding reinvention of a Chopin nocturne that keeps some of the original romanticism but adds a soft samba beat. Most engaging!
ResponderEliminarAnd thanks for Coltrane on Ben; like all the tenor players of that generation, Ben played a wide-open mouthpiece and kept his lower jaw very loose, which (along with native genius) produced that immense sound. Information courtesy of tenor player Sam Parkins, who also said that this way of playing requires enormous physical strength. Cheers! Michael
HOY DIA EL POSIBLEMENTE MEJOR MUSICO DE ARMONICA DEL MUNDO -SI NO CONTAMOS A TOOTS THIELEMANS- EL ESPAÑOL ANTONIO SERRANO, TOCA ALGUN TEMA DE CHOPIN EN JAZZ. SE LO HE OIDO RECIENTEMENE EN DIRECTO, EN MADRID.
ResponderEliminarUN AFECTUOSO SALUDO
JUAN JOSE GONZALEZ