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1992 In Jazz
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1992. Events April * 10 – The 19th Vossajazz started in Voss, Norway (April 10 – 12). May * 20 – The 20th Nattjazz started in Bergen, Norway (May 20 – 31). June * 5 – The 21st Moers Festival started in Moers, Germany (June 5 – 8). July * 2 – 26th Montreux Jazz Festival started in Switzerland (July 2 – 18). * 10 – The 17th North Sea Jazz Festival started in The Hague (July 10 – 12). August * 13 – The 9th Brecon Jazz Festival started in Brecon, Wales (April 13 – 15). September * 18 – The 35th Monterey Jazz Festival started in Monterey, California (September 18 – 20). Album releases *Jane Ira Bloom: ''Art and Aviation'' *Maria Schneider: ''Evanescence'' *Geri Allen: ''Maroons'' *Wynton Marsalis: ''Citi Movement'' *Joe Lovano: ''Universal Language'' *Terence Blanchard: ''The Malcolm X Jazz Suite'' *Sergey Kuryokhin: ''Some Combination of Fingers and Passion'' *Medeski Martin & Wood: '' Notes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chick Corea
Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea (June 12, 1941 – February 9, 2021) was an American jazz composer, pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, and occasional percussionist. His compositions "Spain", " 500 Miles High", "La Fiesta", "Armando's Rhumba", and "Windows" are widely considered jazz standards. As a member of Miles Davis's band in the late 1960s, he participated in the birth of jazz fusion. In the 1970s he formed Return to Forever. Along with McCoy Tyner, Herbie Hancock, and Keith Jarrett, Corea is considered one of the foremost jazz pianists of the post-John Coltrane era. Corea continued to collaborate frequently while exploring different musical styles throughout the 1980s and 1990s. He won 27 Grammy Awards and was nominated more than 60 times. Early life and education Armando Corea was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts on June 12, 1941, to parents Anna (née Zaccone) and Armando J. Corea. He was of southern Italian descent, his father having been born to an immigrant from Albi co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art And Aviation
''Art and Aviation'' is an album by American saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom that was recorded in 1992 and released on the Arabesque label. Retrieved May 17, 2018. Reception The review by David R. Adler said: "''Art & Aviation'' is not only one of Jane Ira Bloom's finest albums, it is also a remarkably successful (and fairly early) attempt to bring electronic influences to bear on acoustic jazz. Bloom's writing is strongly infused with a straight-ahead jazz aesthetic. But she veers left on many cuts, altering her soprano sax sound with live electronics ... While most tracks still sound very much like jazz, the electronics, while never becoming obtrusive, giv ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Notes From The Underground (Medeski Martin & Wood Album)
''Notes from the Underground'' is the debut album by experimental jazz fusion trio Medeski Martin & Wood. Track listing #"Hermeto's Daydream" (John Medeski, Billy Martin) – 7:11 #"The Saint" (Medeski) – 6:58 #"La Garonne" (Medeski) – 5:51 #"Orbits" (Wayne Shorter) – 4:25 #"Uncle Chubb" (Medeski, Martin, Wood) – 7:04 #"Rebirth" (Medeski, Martin, Wood) – 6:28 #"Otis" (Medeski) – 4:44 #"United" (W. Shorter) – 8:29 #" Caravan" ( Duke Ellington, Juan Tizol, Irving Mills) – 8:18 #"Querencia" (Medeski) – 12:48 Performers *John Medeski – piano *Billy Martin – drums, percussion * Chris Wood – acoustic bass * Steven Bernstein – trumpet *Bill Lowe – tuba, trombone *Curtis Hasselbring – trombone *Thomas Chapin – alto saxophone, alto flute *Doug Yates – bass clarinet Credits *Horn arrangements by John Medeski *Recorded by David Baker and Roger Teltzman *Mixed by David Baker and John Siket at Sound on Sound, NYC New York, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medeski Martin & Wood
Medeski Martin & Wood (or MMW) is an American jazz fusion band formed in 1991, consisting of John Medeski on keyboards, Billy Martin on drums, and Chris Wood on bass. The band is influenced by musical traditions including funk and hip hop and is known for an unconventional style sometimes described as "avant-groove". MMW has found moderate mainstream success, often working with guitarist John Scofield and touring on the jam band circuit. History The band members were introduced to each other by jazz drummer Bob Moses, who had performed with Medeski and Wood, and was Martin's instructor. Medeski Martin & Wood's first performances together were at the Village Gate, a popular New York jazz club. Though they started out with a more-or-less straightforward piano-bass-drums jazz setup, the threesome expanded their sound with unusual configurations. Their first album, '' Notes from the Underground'', is a record of their entirely-acoustic era, but Medeski soon added electric piano ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergey Kuryokhin
Sergey Anatolyevich Kuryokhin (russian: Серге́й Анато́льевич Курёхин, also transliterated as Sergei Kuriokhin, Sergei Kurekhin, Sergueï Kouriokhine, Sergey Kuriokhin, etc.; nicknamed "The Captain"; 16 June 1954 – 9 July 1996) was a Russian composer, pianist, music director, experimental artist, film actor and writer, based in St. Petersburg, Russia. Former keyboardist for the rock band Aquarium. Biography Kuryokhin began his performing career as a piano and keyboard player with a school band in Leningrad. After playing with professional jazz bands, as well as popular rock musicians, Kuryokhin went through several stages in his career and eventually became one of the most recognisable names and faces in Russia during the 1980s and 1990s. By the end of his life, he had emerged as an avant-garde film composer, performance artist, and film actor. Outside Russia, he is primarily known as a jazz and experimental musician, through his works released since 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Malcolm X Jazz Suite
''The Malcolm X Jazz Suite'' is a studio album by American jazz trumpeter Terence Blanchard. The album was released on April 20, 1993 via Columbia. Background Blanchard acted as the composer and orchestrator for Spike Lee's last two films: '' Jungle Fever'' and Malcolm X. Blanchard took the strongest themes from the latter movie and rearranged them for the present jazz quintet sessions. Bassist Tarus Mateen, tenor saxophonist Sam Newsome, pianist Bruce Barth, and drummer Troy Davis each also participated in the original ''Malcolm X'' project. In 1994, the album was nominated for Soul Train Music Award for Best Jazz Album. Critical reception Scott Yanow of Allmusic stated "Trumpeter Terence Blanchard continues to grow and develop with each year. He wrote the score for Malcolm X and this set finds him exploring 11 of his themes from the movie with his quintet... Many moods are explored and the fresh material really invigorates the quintet. Newsome's Trane-isms blend well with Bl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terence Blanchard
Terence Oliver Blanchard (born March 13, 1962) is an American trumpeter and composer. He started his career in 1982 as a member of the Lionel Hampton Orchestra, then The Jazz Messengers. He has composed more than forty film scores and performed on more than fifty. A frequent collaborator with director Spike Lee, he has been nominated for two Academy Awards for composing the scores for Lee's films ''BlacKkKlansman'' (2018) and ''Da 5 Bloods'' (2020). He has won five Grammy Awards from fourteen nominations. From 2000 to 2011, Blanchard served as artistic director of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz. In 2011, he was named artistic director of the Henry Mancini Institute at the University of Miami, and in 2015, he became a visiting scholar in jazz composition at the Berklee College of Music. In 2019, the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), named Blanchard to its Endowed Chair in Jazz Studies, where he will remain until 2024. The Metropolitan Opera in New York staged ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Universal Language (Joe Lovano Album)
''Universal Language'' is an album by the American jazz saxophonist Joe Lovano recorded in 1992 and released on the Blue Note label.Joe Lovano discography accessed July 21, 2011 Reception The review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine stated: "''Universal Language'' is one of Joe Lovano's most ambitious and successful albums, an attempt to prove the cliché that music is indeed the universal language... It's an unabashedly adventurous and risky project, and it works frighteningly well".Erlewine, S. TAllMusic Review ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Lovano
Joseph Salvatore Lovano (born December 29, 1952)"Joe Lovano." ''Contemporary Musicians''. Vol. 13. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 1994. Retrieved via ''Biography in Context'' database, May 5, 2017. is an American jazz saxophonist, alto clarinetist, flautist, and drummer. He has earned a Grammy Award and several mentions on ''Down Beat'' magazine's critics' and readers' polls. His wife, with whom he records and performs, is singer Judi Silvano. Lovano was a longtime member of drummer Paul Motian‘s trio with guitarist Bill Frisell. Biography Early life Lovano was born in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, to Sicilian-American parents; his father was the tenor saxophonist Tony ("Big T") Lovano. His father's family came from Alcara Li Fusi in Sicily, and his mother's family came from Cesarò, also in Sicily. In Cleveland, Lovano's father exposed him to jazz throughout his early life, teaching him the standards, as well as how to lead a gig, pace a set, and be versatile enough to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Citi Movement (Griot New York)
''Citi Movement (Griot New York)'' is an album by jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis that was released in 1992. Track listing Personnel * Wynton Marsalis – trumpet, arranger, liner notes * Wycliffe Gordon – trombone * Wessell Anderson – alto saxophone * Todd Williams – soprano and tenor saxophone * Eric Reed – piano * Reginald Veal – double bass * Herlin Riley – drums * Herbert Harris – tenor saxophone * Marthaniel Roberts – piano Production * Ron Carbo – conductor * George Butler – executive producer * Delfeayo Marsalis – producer * Les Stephenson – engineer * Patrick Smith – engineer, mixing * William Johnson – assistant engineer * Marian Conaty – assistant engineer * Major Little – assistant engineer * Earl Martin – assistant engineer * Stanley Crouch Stanley Lawrence Crouch (December 14, 1945 – September 16, 2020) was an American poet, music and cultural critic, syndicated columnist, novelist, and biographer. He was known for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is an American trumpeter, composer, teacher, and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. He has promoted classical and jazz music, often to young audiences. Marsalis has won nine Grammy Awards, and his ''Blood on the Fields'' was the first jazz composition to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. He is the only musician to win a Grammy Award in both jazz and classical during the same year. Early years Marsalis was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on October 18, 1961, and grew up in the suburb of Kenner. He is the second of six sons born to Dolores Ferdinand Marsalis and Ellis Marsalis Jr., a pianist and music teacher.Stated on ''Finding Your Roots'', PBS, March 25, 2012 He was named for jazz pianist Wynton Kelly. Branford Marsalis is his older brother and Jason Marsalis and Delfeayo Marsalis are younger. All three are jazz musicians. While sitting at a table with trumpeters Al Hirt, Miles Davis, and Clark Terry, his father jokin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maroons (album)
''Maroons'' is an album by pianist Geri Allen recorded in 1992 and released on the Blue Note label. Reception AllMusic awarded the album 4½ stars, stating, "This excellent recording is easily recommended to her fans and potential new devotees".Nastos, M. G.Allmusic Reviewaccessed July 1, 2014 In an article for Jazz Times, Michael J. West praised "Number Four," writing that Allen "anticipates Belgrave's every melodic and rhythmic move—at times sticking-and-moving, a la Earl Hines with Armstrong. She picks up his pathways on her solo... but turns them in her own direction, as if his improvised figures were the written material on which she was improvising. It's a remarkable achievement, one deserving of close attention within her catalogue." Track listing ''All compositions by Geri Allen except as indicated'' # "Feed the Fire I" - 1:33 # "No More Mr. Nice Guy" - 7:05 # "And They Partied" - 5:29 # "Number Four" (Lawrence Williams) - 4:35 # "A Prayer for Peace" - 5:43 # "Mad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
