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Pisces Calling
''Pisces Calling'' is an album by pianist Harold Mabern. It was recorded in 1978 and was released by Trident Records. Recording and music The album was recorded at Blank Tapes Studio, New York City, in June 1978. The musicians were Mabern on piano, electric piano and synthesizer, Jamil Nasser on bass, and Walter Bolden on drums. All of the compositions were written by Mabern, with the exception of the title track, which was written by Keno Duke, a drummer with whom Mabern played in the 1970s. "Edward Lee" refers to trumpeter Lee Morgan, with whom Mabern played. On "Too Late to Fall Back Baby", Mabern uses a synthesizer to add horn sounds to his electric piano playing. Release and reception ''Pisces Calling'' was released by Trident Records on LP, and was reissued on CD in Japan in 2009. Crtiic Marc Myers wrote: "Throughout ''Pisces Calling'', Mabern's fingering is commanding and lyrical. His chords aren't merely played but hurled like fistfuls of darts, and there's an urgent snap ... [...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] |
Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major form of musical expression in traditional and popular music. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, complex chords, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation. Jazz has roots in European harmony and African rhythmic rituals. As jazz spread around the world, it drew on national, regional, and local musical cultures, which gave rise to different styles. New Orleans jazz began in the early 1910s, combining earlier brass band marches, French quadrilles, biguine, ragtime and blues with collective polyphonic improvisation. But jazz did not begin as a single musical tradition in New Orleans or elsewhere. In the 1930s, arranged dance-oriented swing big bands, Kansas City jazz (a hard-swinging, bluesy, improvisationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greasy Kid Stuff!
''Greasy Kid Stuff!'' is the fourth album led by pianist Harold Mabern which was recorded in 1970 and released on the Prestige label. accessed April 11, 2013 Reception awarded the album 3 stars, calling it "Excellent advanced hard bop music that hints at fusion".Yanow, SAllmusic listing accessed April 11, 2013 Track listing All compositions by Harold Mabern except where noted # "Greasy Kid Stuff" - 8:20 # "I Haven't Got Anything Better to Do" ( ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joy Spring (Harold Mabern Album)
''Joy Spring'' is a solo piano album by Harold Mabern. It was recorded in 1985 and released by Sackville Records. Recording and music The album was recorded in concert at Cafe des Copains in Toronto in 1985, while pianist Harold Mabern was in residence there."Harold Mabern: Joy Spring" Delmark. Retrieved October 29, 2017. The music was broadcast on the radio.Yanow, Scot "Harold Mabern: Joy Spring" AllMusic. Retrieved October 29, 2017. Most of the tracks are jazz standards; two are Mabern originals; and one is |
Jamil Nasser
Jamil Nasser (born George Joyner, June 21, 1932 – February 13, 2010) at and also credited on some of 's recordings as Jamil Sulieman, was an American musician. He played , , and |
Lee Morgan
Edward Lee Morgan (July 10, 1938 – February 19, 1972) was an American jazz trumpeter and composer. One of the key hard bop musicians of the 1960s, Morgan came to prominence in his late teens, recording on John Coltrane's '' Blue Train'' (1957) and with the band of drummer Art Blakey before launching a solo career. Morgan stayed with Blakey until 1961 and started to record as leader in the late '50s. His song "The Sidewinder", on the album of the same name, became a surprise crossover hit on the pop and R&B charts in 1964, while Morgan's subsequent recordings found him touching on other styles of music such as post-bop and avant-garde jazz as his artistry matured. Soon after ''The Sidewinder'' was released, Morgan rejoined Blakey for a short period. After leaving Blakey for the final time, Morgan continued to work prolifically as both a leader and a sideman with the likes of Hank Mobley and Wayne Shorter, becoming a cornerstone of the Blue Note label. Morgan died at the a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Myers
Marc Myers (born September 4, 1956) is an American journalist, author of five books and a regular contributor to ''The Wall Street Journal'', where he writes on music, the arts and celebrities. In 2007, he founded ''JazzWax'', a leading daily jazz blog that has won three Jazz Journalists Association "Blog of the Year" awards. Early life Myers was born in Manhattan and grew up in New York City and Cortlandt Manor, New York. He studied journalism at Northeastern University (undergraduate) and U.S. history at Columbia University (graduate). Career ''New York Times'' He began his writing career at ''The New York Times'' in the late 1970s as a college intern, joining the newspaper full-time in 1980 in the sports department. In 1985, he left to become an associate editor at ''Adweek'', where he wrote about advertising and marketing, helping to launch ''Brandweek''. For a time, he was business editor at ''Working Woman'' magazine, where his responsibilities included editing cover ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York Daily News
The New York ''Daily News'', officially titled the ''Daily News'', is an American newspaper based in Jersey City, NJ. It was founded in 1919 by Joseph Medill Patterson as the ''Illustrated Daily News''. It was the first U.S. daily printed in tabloid format. It reached its peak circulation in 1947, at 2.4 million copies a day. As of 2019 it was the eleventh-highest circulated newspaper in the United States. Today's ''Daily News'' is not connected to the earlier '' New York Daily News'', which shut down in 1906. The ''Daily News'' is owned by parent company Tribune Publishing. This company was acquired by Alden Global Capital, which operates its media properties through Digital First Media, in May 2021. After the Alden acquisition, alone among the newspapers acquired from Tribune Publishing, the ''Daily News'' property was spun off into a separate subsidiary called Daily News Enterprises. History ''Illustrated Daily News'' The ''Illustrated Daily News'' was founded by Patters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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