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Mabern's Grooveyard
''Mabern's Grooveyard'' is an album by pianist Harold Mabern. It was recorded in 1996 and released by DIW Records two years later. Recording and music The album was recorded on August 20 and 21, 1996, at Avatar Studios in New York. It was produced by James Williams and Kazunori Sugiyama. The personnel are Harold Mabern (piano), Christian McBride (bass), and Tony Reedus (drums). The material is "a set of off-the-beaten track tunes", plus "AON", an original. The first three tracks "progress in tempo and feeling from medium groove to hurtling groove". Mabern plays "Jeanine" "with pulsing, light-fingered percussiveness, from the treble repeat in the head through a riff-laden and unusually fitting fade-out". "East of the Sun" has a bossa nova arrangement. Release and reception ''Mabern's Grooveyard'' was released by DIW Records in 1998. In that year, critic Gary Giddins wrote of Mabern's album that it was "perhaps his most satisfying to date". Track listing #"Grooveyard" #"Ladybir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Mabern
Harold Mabern Jr. (March 20, 1936 – September 17, 2019) was an American jazz pianist and composer, principally in the hard bop, post-bop, and soul jazz fields.Feather, Leonard; Gitler, Ira (2007) ''The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz''. p. 425. Oxford University Press. He is described in ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings'' as "one of the great post-bop pianists". Early life Mabern was born in Memphis, Tennessee on March 20, 1936. He initially started learning drums before switching to learning piano. He had access to a piano from his teens, after his father, who worked in a lumber yard, saved to buy him one. Mabern learned by watching and emulating pianists Charles Thomas and Phineas Newborn Jr. Mabern attended Douglass High School,. before transferring to Manassas High School;Johnson, David Brent (March 18, 2011"A Few Miles from Memphis: Harold Mabern, the Early Years" Indiana Public Media. he played with saxophonists Frank Strozier, George Coleman and trumpeter Booker ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |