Search results for "Evan Parker"

Evan Parker: Breath and Heartbeat 3 (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music May 06, 09

Evan Parker is probably the most influential out of a group of superb British soprano saxophonists (which also incl...

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

           Soprano Sax and Piano      Fab...

Claude Thornhill: Yardbird Suite (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music November 23, 07

Once the Swing Era expired like a lapsed subscription to The Saturday Evening Post, many big-name bandleaders became ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JAZZ FOR THE BIRDS

It's only fitting. Since birds inspire us with their songs, composers return the favor, dedicating music in every gen...

Peter Brotzmann: Machine Gun (Rating: 75/100) posted in Music October 25, 07

Machine Gun is the most frightening album in jazz. Hands down. It was in 1968, and it still is today. Only a few othe...

Spontaneous Music Ensemble: Karyobin, Part 1 (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music November 16, 07

Collective improvisation takes many forms, from the brazen “energy music” of a Peter Brotzmann to Ornette Coleman's F...

Charlie Parker (with Miles Davis): Milestones (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music March 04, 08

This session is significant for three reasons: Miles Davis is the leader and composer, Bird is playing tenor sax rath...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: CHARLIE PARKER'S OVERLOOKED GEMS

There are no bad Charlie Parker recordings. Everything Bird recorded had the blues and soul baked right in. So to ass...

Gil Evans: Bird Feathers (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music January 06, 09

Gil Evans has long had the well-earned reputation as jazz's supreme orchestral colorist. There was, however, a lot mo...

Gil Evans with RMS: Little Wing (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music May 11, 08

After gaining recognition with bandleader Claude Thornhill, arranger Gil Evans worked with Miles Davis, Charlie Parke...

Bill Evans: My Foolish Heart (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music January 14, 08

"My Foolish Heart" is another landmark performance from the June 25, 1961 live recording at the Village Vanguard. Th...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL BILL EVANS

Bill Evans’s career as a jazz pianist started with little fanfare. His first leader date, New Jazz Conceptions fro...

Parker, Evan posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Parker, Evan, tenor and soprano saxophones; b. Bristol, 5 April 1944. Evan Parker started to play (alto) saxophone...

Evans, Gil (Ian Ernest Gilmore Green) posted in Encyclopedia January 19, 09

Arranger and composer Gil Evans made his mark on modern jazz by taking the sometimes-rough edges of bebop and smoothi...

Late Period Bill Evans: Genius or Decline? posted in The Jazz.com Blog June 17, 09

Here is a jazz paradox. Most great jazz artists make their best music before the age of 40. Yet—and here is the...

Monk in Morse Code; Bill Evans with Hiccups posted in The Jazz.com Blog July 03, 08

Stuart Nicholson is the Indiana Jones of jazz, constantly on the prowl for hot music in hidden places. In recent...

Lateef, Yusef Abdul (William Evans) posted in Encyclopedia March 31, 08

Saxophonist and flutist Yusef Lateef is a prolific iconoclast who doubles on a number of instruments from around the ...

Davies, Hugh (Seymour) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Davies, Hugh (Seymour), composer, instrument inventor, performer (primarily on his own invented instruments); b. Exmo...

Barnett, Anthony (Peter John) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Barnett, Anthony (Peter John), author, percussionist, publisher, record producer; b. London, England, of Polish and L...

Ali, Rashied (Robert Patterson Jr.) posted in Encyclopedia August 14, 09

Drummer Rashied Ali dedicated his career to enhancing the voice of the drums in the modern jazz ensemble. Best known ...

Lacy, Steve (Steven Norman Lackritz) posted in Encyclopedia November 19, 08

Soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy’s curiosity and ability took him from Dixieland through bebop into the avant-garde and...

McPhee, Joe (Joespeh J. McPhee, Jr.) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

McPhee, Joe [Joespeh J. McPhee, Jr.], saxophones, alto clarinet, trumpet, valve trombone, composer; b. Miami, FL, 3 N...

Braxton, Anthony posted in Encyclopedia January 19, 09

Multireedist Anthony Braxton has demonstrated a consistent ability to defy categories as a musician, bandleader, and ...

Davies, Rhodri (John) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Davies, Rhodri (John), harpist b. Aberystwyth, Wales, 19 December 1971. Davis studied with Frank Sternefeld a...

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