Search results for "Ed Blackwell"

Ed Blackwell: Pentahouve (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music June 23, 09

Blackwell rarely got to record as a leader, and the 1992 live recordings at Yoshi's that were released on two CDs—Wha...

John Coltrane & Don Cherry: The Blessing (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music November 14, 08

The Avant-Garde is John Coltrane's most literal encounter with the music of Ornette Coleman. It features several of O...

Jane Ira Bloom: I Got Rhythm But No Melody (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music May 06, 09

The talented and self-reliant Jane Ira Bloom emerged in the late '70s, producing and releasing albums on her own Ou...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: A SHORT HISTORY OF THE SOPRANO SAX

           Soprano Sax and Piano      Fab...

Dewey Redman: Thren (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music November 27, 07

I fell in love with Dewey Redman's big, open sound after hearing his work on Pat Metheny's 80/81. Going back in music...

Dewey Redman: Dewey Square (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music May 28, 09

Joshua's dad flaunts his bebop chops, with just a hint of the harmonic and rhythmic freedom that once served him well...

Old and New Dreams: Dewey's Tune (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music April 07, 09

Comprised of Don Cherry, Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden and Ed Blackwell, this group of Ornette Coleman alumni convened ...

This track review is included in: DESERT ISLAND DOZENS: FRANK KIMBROUGH

Not many jazz musicians have had a stronger revitalizing and sustaining impact on the everyday NYC jazz scene over ...

Ornette Coleman: What Reason Could I Give? (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music July 01, 08

Ornette Coleman's groups in the 1960s and early '70s that included Don Cherry, Charlie Haden, Ed Blackwell, Billy Hig...

This track review is included in: DESERT ISLAND DOZENS: BEN ALLISON

Ben Allison, recently featured in an interview and concert review on jazz.com, now participates in our "Desert Islan...

Ornette Coleman: First Take (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music June 11, 08

It is certainly no coincidence that the development of the rhythm section coincides with the progression of the great...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: HISTORIC RHYTHM SECTIONS

            The Rhythm Section, artwork by Suzanne Cerny ...

Ornette Coleman: Beauty is a Rare Thing (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music December 16, 08

John Millington Synge once noted that for poetry to become human again, it must first learn to be brutal. Forget for...

Eric Dolphy (featuring Booker Little): Bee Vamp (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music December 19, 08

Booker Little's "Bee Vamp" is an exercise in chordal suspension containing a back-and-forth between two short ch...

David Murray: Ming's Samba (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music January 06, 09

As remarkably prolific a recording artist as David Murray has been since his debut in 1976, it took 13 years before M...

Eric Dolphy & Booker Little: Fire Waltz (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 25, 07

Trumpeter Booker Little would be dead from uremia less than three months after this celebrated recording, a promising...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE TRUMPETERS YOU NEED TO KNOW ON A FIRST NAME BASIS

We all know about Dizzy & Miles, Louis & Wynton, Bix & Brownie. Some trumpeters are so famous, that even a single na...

John Coltrane & Don Cherry: Bemsha Swing (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music November 17, 08

John Coltrane never cared much for what other people thought. He must have had doubts, at least occasionally—he was h...

Ornette Coleman: Embraceable You (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music December 09, 07

I'm still waiting for them to release Ornette Plays the George Gershwin Songbook. But in the meantime, I can co...

Yoko Ono (with Ornette Coleman): Aos (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music February 08, 09

This is a summit meeting of sorts between two of the best-known figures of the avant-garde. For most of the song, Yok...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: WHEN JAZZ CATS MEET ROCKERS

Jazz musicians performing sidemen roles on recording dates of non-jazz performances is a practice nearly as old as ja...

Blackwell, Ed (Edward) posted in Encyclopedia July 18, 08

When saxophonist Ornette Coleman was once asked which drummer best fit his quartet, he replied: “Blackwell, who playe...

In Conversation with Joe Lovano posted in Features and Interviews May 25, 09

By Stuart Nicholson                ...

Redman, Dewey (Walter) posted in Encyclopedia December 16, 08

Saxophonist Dewey Redman was the most influential and innovative of the "Texas Tenors:" he combined the avant-garde t...

Drury, Andrew (Mowat) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Drury, Andrew (Mowat), drumset, percussion, composer, educator; b. Bellevue, WA, 4 December 1964. His mother is Eliza...

Abdullah, Ahmed (Leroy Bland) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Abdullah, Ahmed [Leroy Bland] , trumpeter, composer; b. Harlem, NY, 10 May 1947. His father was Lubia Bland (died 10/...

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