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Tony Reedus
Tony Reedus (22 September 1959 – 16 November 2008) was an American jazz drummer. Reedus first gained attention performing in Woody Shaw's band during the 1980s. He played with Dave Stryker, Mulgrew Miller, Art Blakey, Mike Nock, Kenny Garrett, James Williams, and Anthony Wonsey, among others, and recorded three albums as a leader. He died of a pulmonary embolism at Kennedy Airport at the age of 49. He had just returned from a tour in Italy with pianist Mike LeDonne. Discography As leader * ''The Far Side'' (Jazz City, 1988) * ''Incognito'' (Enja, 1989) * ''Minor Thang'' ( Criss Cross, 1996) * ''People Get Ready'' (Sweet Basil, 1998) As sideman With Joanne Brackeen *'' Power Talk'' (Turnipseed, 1994) With Robin Eubanks & Steve Turre * '' Dedication'' ( JMT, 1989) With Kenny Garrett * ''Introducing Kenny Garrett'' (Criss Cross 1985) * ''Garrett 5'' (Bellaphon 1989) * ''African Exchange Student'' (Atlantic Jazz 1990) With Benny Golson *'' Benny Golson Quartet Live'' (Dre ... [...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] |
Dedication (Robin Eubanks & Steve Turre Album)
''Dedication'' is an album by trombonists Robin Eubanks and Steve Turre which was recorded in 1989 and released on the JMT label. Reception The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow stated "Eubanks and Turre had worked together on and off for nearly four years at this point and their familiarity with each other's playing shows. Add to the two trombones a strong and flexible rhythm section and the result is a stimluating and varied set of modern jazz".Yanow, S.Allmusic Reviewaccessed October 7, 2014 The Chicago Tribune's Jack Fuller wrote "Robin Eubanks and Steve Turre are two of the best younger trombonists, but on this album their approach is surprisingly conservative".Fuller, J.Chicago Tribune Review November 26, 1989 Track listing ''All compositions by Robin Eubanks except as indicated'' # "The New Breed" - 6:22 # "V.O." (Steve Turre) - 6:11 # "Red, Black and Green Blues" - 6:33 # "Trance Dance" (Steve Turre) - 6:43 # "Perpetual Groove" - 5:03 # "Especially for You" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronnie Mathews
Ronald Mathews (December 2, 1935 in New York City – June 28, 2008 in Brooklyn) was an American jazz pianist who worked with Max Roach from 1963 to 1968 and Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. He acted as lead in recording from 1963 and 1978–79. His most recent work was in 2008, as both a mentor and musician with Generations, a group of jazz musicians headed by veteran drummer Jimmy Cobb. He contributed two new compositions for the album that was released by San Francisco State University's International Center for the Arts on September 15, 2008. Critics have compared him to pianists Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell, and McCoy Tyner. Biography In his twenties, Mathews toured internationally and recorded with Roach, Freddie Hubbard and Roy Haynes. He was also a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers in the late 1950s through the 1960s. By thirty, he began teaching jazz piano and led workshops, clinics and master classes at Long Island University in New York City. Besides Dexter Gordon and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maya With Love
''Maya with Love'' is an album by pianist Harold Mabern which was released by DIW Records in 2000. Recording and music The personnel are Harold Mabern (piano), Christian McBride (bass), and Tony Reedus (drums). This trio had recorded the album ''Mabern’s Grooveyard'' in 1996. "To Maya Glenne with Love" is for Mabern's granddaughter. Release and reception ''Maya with Love'' was released by DIW Records in 2000.Corroto, Mark (June 1, 2000"Harold Mabern: Maya with Love" All About Jazz. accessed March 12, 2018 The reviewer concluded that Mabern's album was "a supreme performance that is full of joy and makes this artist's relative obscurity seem criminal."Proefrock, Staci [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
With Our Own Eyes
''With Our Own Eyes'' is a studio album by American jazz pianist Mulgrew Miller with bassist Richie Goods and drummer Tony Reedus. The album was released in December 1993 by Novus Records. This is Miller's second record for Novus and tenth overall. Reception Scott Yanow of Allmusic wrote "The consistent pianist Mulgrew Miller leads his trio ... through a set dominated by his originals but also including "Body and Soul" and Michel Legrand's "Summer Me, Winter Me." The McCoy Tyner influence will probably always remain a significant part of Miller's style but he is such a powerful player in his own right that one really does not mind. His originals on this set range from the modal 6/4 piece "Somewhere Else" and the thoughtful "Dreamin'" to the melancholy "Carousel." As with all of Mulgrew Miller's releases thus far, this one is well worth picking up". Reviewers of ''Billboard A billboard (also called a hoarding in the UK and many other parts of the world) is a large outdoor adv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Keezer
Geoffrey Keezer (born November 20, 1970) is an American jazz pianist. Keezer was playing in jazz clubs as a teenager, playing piano for Art Blakey at age 18 and touring with Joshua Redman, Benny Golson and Ray Brown in his 20s. He has toured with David Sanborn, Chris Botti, Joe Locke and Christian McBride and worked with vocalist Denise Donatelli, receiving Grammy Award nominations, and releasing albums influenced by Hawaiian, Okinawan, and Afro-Peruvian folk traditions. His 2009 album ''Áurea'' was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album; in 2010 he was nominated for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) for " Don't Explain" on Denise Donatelli's album ''When Lights Are Low''. In 2013 Keezer released his first solo piano album in 13 years, ''Heart of the Piano'' (Motéma Music). Early life Born in Eau Claire, the son of Mary Ann Graham, a professional French Horn player, and Ronald Willard Keezer, a composer/percussionist and member of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benny Green (pianist)
Benny Green (born April 4, 1963) is an American hard bop jazz pianist who was a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. He has been compared to Bud Powell and Oscar Peterson in style and counts them as influences. Biography Green was born in New York City. He grew up in Berkeley, California, and studied classical piano from the age of seven. He was also interested in jazz from an early point, as his father was a jazz tenor saxophone player. Benny Green was "discovered" by Faye Carroll, and while still in his teens worked in a quintet led by Eddie Henderson. Green attended Berkeley High School, and participated in the school's jazz ensemble. In the later years of his high school career, he had a weekly trio gig at Yoshi's, which was his entrance to the world of professional jazz. After high school, he spent time in San Francisco, but became more successful on his return to New York. Green joined Betty Carter's band in April, 1983, and since 1991 he has led his own trio. He ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Remember Miles (Benny Golson Album)
''I Remember Miles'' is an album by saxophonist/composer Benny Golson, featuring compositions associated with or inspired by Miles Davis, that was recorded in 1992 and originally released by the Japanese Alfa Jazz label before being reissued in the US on Evidence Music in 1996. Reception The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow said "There are a few remarkable recreations on tenor-saxophonist Benny Golson's tribute to Miles Davis, particularly "'Round Midnight" and parts of "So What" and "Bye Bye Blackbird." Trumpeter Eddie Henderson (especially when muted) comes very close to duplicating not only the sound but the spirit of Davis while Golson sometimes discards his own strong musical personality to do close impressions of John Coltrane ... This heartfelt tribute album has enough unique moments to make it easily recommended". On All About Jazz, C. Michael Bailey observed "Golson's ''I Remember Miles'' covers five of the Miles Davis book standards and four Golson originals, the latter bei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Domingo (Benny Golson Album)
''Domingo'' is an album by saxophonist/composer Benny Golson that was recorded in Paris in 1991 and released on the French Dreyfus label. accessed March 22, 2019 Reception The review by Scott Yanow said "Tenor-saxophonist Benny Golson reunites with his longtime associate Curtis Fuller for this enjoyable set of hard bop ... Golson and Fuller both sound very much in their musical prime. The tenor's sound at this point had become quite a bit harder than previously, at times fairly close to 's, but he swung as hard as ever ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benny Golson Quartet
''Benny Golson Quartet'', also released as ''Up, Jumped, Spring'', is an album by saxophonist/composer Benny Golson that was recorded in 1990 and originally released by the LRC Ltd. label. accessed March 22, 2019 Reception The review by Scott Yanow said " the music is excellent ... Golson is heard throughout in top form, stretching himself on Freddie Hubbard's "Up Jumped Spring" (listed as an original called "Up, Jump, Spring!"), Kenny Barron's "Voyage" and his own "Stable Mates." On the latter, Golson plays an effective and intense duet with drummer Reedus. 61 at the time, Benny Golson is heard here at the peak of his powers".[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
