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TG is a master of Indian music, tabla, percussion, and Western drumming: he plays a unique hybrid East-West drum set up. He is also a visionary composer whose musical adventurousness has led him to creative fusions of Indian music with jazz, rock, classical, and ethnic music from all over the world. Gurtu’s eclectic […]
أنور ابراهم
Encouraged by his music-loving father, Brahem began studying the oud, at the age of ten, when he enrolled at the National Conservatory of Music. For nearly a decade, he studied with influential oud player Ali Sitri. By the age of fifteen, he was playing well enough to perform […]
•→Charlie Christian: Swing to Bop [1941]
¤ Pat Metheny first burst onto the international jazz scene in 1974. Over the course of his three-year stint with vibraphone great Gary Burton, the young Missouri native already displayed his soon-to-become trademarked playing style, which blended the loose and flexible articulation customarily reserved for […]
Nicholas Payton
•→ http://nicholaspayton.wordpress.com/←
•→···«Struttin’ With Some Barbeque» ←[w/ Airmen of Note, 2008]
♦ Vitoria/Gasteiz_2002 ↓
Roy Haynes + Nicholas Payton + Dave Kikoski + Kenny Garrett + Christian McBride
♦ Nicholas Payton Trio_[May, 2014] ⇓
w/ Vicente Archer & Adonis […]
¤ James Carter
Born in Detroit, Michigan (January 3, 1969), he learned to play under the tutelage of Donald Washington, becoming a member of his youth jazz ensemble Bird-Trane-Sco-NOW!! On May 31, 1988, at the DIA (Detroit Institute of Arts), Carter was a last-minute addition for guest artist Lester Bowie which turned […]
John Coltrane – Sonny Rollins – Pharoah Sanders – Archie Shepp – Joe Lovano John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman ↓ ‘My Only Love’ ⇐(G Wood & R Mellin)
The very thought of you makes my heart sing Like an April breeze on the wings of spring And you appear in […]
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Deeply rooted in the jazz tradition, Diana Krall‘s repertoire is not much different than what Ella or Sarah were singing a generation ago. This may sound like the safe choice, but it isn’t.
A thousand vocalists have ended up on the boulevard of broken dreams by trying […]
¤ Geri Allen (1957-2017) was the quintessence of a present-day mainstream jazz pianist. Well-versed in a variety of modern jazz styles from bop to free, Allen steers a middle course in her own music, speaking in a cultivated and moderately distinctive voice, respectful of, but not overly impressed with, the […]
¤ ‘All That Jazz, From New Orleans to New York’
←An anthology of Jazz music which prior to the popular swing era of the 1930s and ’40s is often referred to as «early jazz.» Through its origins before the turn of the 20th century, jazz had evolved from a regional […]
∇ ‘Paid in full’ ⇓ [Eric B. & Rakim, 1987]
Credited as a benchmark album of golden age hip hop. Rakim‘s rapping, which pioneered the use of internal rhymes in hip hop, set a higher standard of lyricism in the genre and served as a template for future rappers. […]
As Blues lovers know: there is only one place in the world to experience the finest Blues seven nights a week, enjoy southern Cajun soul food, and behold a major archive of Blues memorabilia. That joint is in Chicago, of course: Buddy Guy’s Legends at 700 S. Wabash! A mecca for the Blues.
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Jimi was always one of Bob Dylan’s greatest admirers. His mates used to take him the piss for looking up to a white folk singer. Here’s the result: simply brilliant! Bob must have got fascinated with the result; it didn’t take him long to go electric himself, despite all the booing and rejection…
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¤ Guy Davis ←
The son of the noted actors, directors, and activists Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, he was born in New York City on May 12, 1952; though raised in the city, Davis was frequently regaled with stories of Southern country life as a child, and over time became so enamored […]
¤ Jeff Beck [1944-2023] ◊ Red White & Blues ⇓ [at the White House]
Jeff Beck & bassist Rhonda Smith (formerly of Prince) and Veronica Bellino (drums) Booker T Jones (Musical Director/»Green Onions») lay down a blues groove on «Brush with the Blues» at The White House Feb 21, 2012.
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¤ Mac Rebennack a.k.a. Dr John [1941-2019]
Although he didn’t become widely known until the 1970s, Dr. John had been active in the music industry since the late ’50s, when the teenager was still known as Mac Rebennack. A formidable boogie and blues pianist with a lovable growl of a voice, his […]
♦ FREDDIE KING [1934-1976]
Although Freddie King, “The Texas Cannonball”, was born and raised in Texas, he matured as a musician in Chicago. His guitar style combined country and urban influences. As a child, King grew up on the music of such legendary country blues guitarists as Blind Lemon Jefferson, Lightnin’ Hopkins, […]
¤ Harmonica Blues → http://www.bluesharp.ca/legends/ ← ¤ Sonny Boy Williamson [1912-1965]
Why Alex ‘Rice’ Miller took the name Sonny Boy Williamson is a mystery. John Lee ‘Sonny Boy’ Williamson had already made a name for himself in the early 40s as a harp master and blues idol, only to be murdered in 1948. Miller adopted the […]
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