Jazz music heard at the Carnegie Hall, April 23, 1941.
IMPASSIONED COOL: THE DAN BLOCK QUARTET (DANNY TOBIAS, SEAN SMITH, BEN
ZWEIG) at BIRDLAND, July 27, 2025.
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Some marvelous music was created yesterday, late afternoon into evening, at
Birdland in New York City by the Dan Block Quartet. That’s Dan, tenor
saxophone...
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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