Legend McCoy Tyner jazzed about joining forces Nov 21, 2008
In addition, he has guested on albums by such luminaries as Eric Dolphy, Wayne Shorter, Milt Jackson, Lee Morgan and George Benson. Yet while he is focused on future projects, Tyner is happy to discuss his work with Coltrane in a quartet that helped reshape jazz in the 1960s. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Billy Bang Brings His Sound To Toro... Oct 15, 2008
Influenced by the sound of John Coltrane, Eric Dolphy, Ornette Coleman, he was soon caught up in the liberating vibe of the free jazz movement and armed with the wisdom of his teacher Leroy Jenkins, he quickly became a part of the bustling dynamic New York avant-garde scene of the seventies. He has worked with many of the giants of the scene, mainly in New York and Chicago. (Suite101.com)
'Motown jazz' helping turn Franz into a festival Oct 14, 2008
Belgrave's career has also intersected with such artists as Ella Fitzgerald, Charles Mingus, McCoy Tyner, Eric Dolphy, Joe Henderson, Aretha Franklin (1968-1970), Dowagiac visitor Clark Terry and Marvin Gaye. Belgrave said Mingus cracked he'd have "the greatest band in the world if I could get Marcus Belgrave out of Detroit.". (Dowagiac News, MI)
Travis Sullivan's idea: jazz meets Bjork Apr 18, 2008
"The first jazz I got into was Albert Ayler, Eric Dolphy, Ornette Coleman," Sullivan recalls. "I can't say I understood that music then, but I know it hit me in a certain way." He discovered jazz largely on his own. (Boston Globe)
Jazz's Barry Bonds Mar 30, 2008
"I lived with (saxophonist) Eric Dolphy for a year and a half," Hubbard says. "(Pianist) McCoy Tyner lived down the block." He ticks off the name of his neighbors: "(Bassist) Paul Chambers, (pianists) Cedar Walton, Bobby Timmons, Kenny Barron, Wynton Kelly.". (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Come Full Circle Mar 23, 2008
But the young saxophonist quickly fell into a jazz scene that included drummer Billy Higgins and saxophonists Ornette Coleman and Eric Dolphy. He got hired by Los Angeles stalwart bandleader Gerald Wilson - now still quite active at 89 - then by Chico Hamilton, with whom he made several classic albums, including "Man From Two Worlds" and "Passin' Thru.". (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
The Air This Week Mar 4, 2008
5:30 p.m. Jazz Library/Alyn Shipton: Eric Dolphy (BBC Radio 3). 8 p.m.-midnight Jazz from Studio Four/Steve Schwartz: pianist James Williams, saxophonist George Coleman (WGBH). (Boston Globe)
Scientist Of Sound Feb 18, 2008
And then I thought, 'OK, I better go back and listen to Eric Dolphy a bit. And then I said, 'Hmm, I better pull out these Ornette Coleman records. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Jazz Composer Charles Mingus Jan 16, 2008
The band that Mingus put together included such stalwarts of the Ellington Orchestra as trumpeter Clark Terry, and trombonist Britt Woodman, plus be-pop baritone saxist Pepper Adams, and play-anything tenorman Zoot Sims, all of whom were teamed-up with the new avant-garde reed kid on the block Eric Dolphy. A combination that created hard, edgy, under rehearsed, yet extremely powerful music. (Suite101.com)
What's new on video Dec 18, 2007
The three Mingus concerts, recorded within eight days, are memorable not only because of Mingus, but also for multi-instrumentalist Eric Dolphy, performing just a few months before his death. Ellington is captured in only one concert, in Holland in '58, but it's a tour de force, showcasing such greats as Johnny Hodges, Paul Gonsalves and Clark Terry, with vocals by Ozzie Bailey and Ray Nance, on such classics as "Mood Indigo," "Caravan" and "Don't Get Around Much Anymore." The discs can be... (Scripps Howard News Wire)
Haynes, the elder statesman of jazz, plays Yoshi's first S.F. show Nov 27, 2007
"A Life in Time: The Roy Haynes Story," a three-CD, one-DVD career retrospective issued last month by Dreyfus Jazz, compiles his work as a sideman with such greats as Lester Young, Bud Powell, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Sarah Vaughan, Thelonious Monk, Eric Dolphy, Stan Getz, John Coltrane, Alice Coltrane and Chick Corea, along with a dozen tracks featuring Haynes' own groups. Unfortunately, there were no recordings made during the week in 1946 when he toured the South with Louis... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Great jazz festival on Jara Island Sep 16, 2007
This man from Memphis, this musician who has played with B.B. King, Howlin' Wolf, Billy Higgins -- his soulmate, the jazz drum master, with whom he made the classic two-CD work, Which Way is East -- and others like Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy, Gerald Wilson, and the Beach Boys. This artist has come to Korea for the first time; he tours only rarely, but is always making music. (Korea Herald, Korea)
Max Roach, Pioneer of Modern Jazz, 1924-2007 Aug 19, 2007
" Though not the first bop drummer (Kenny Clarke earns that distinction), Roach was widely acknowledged as the most influential and at times the most controversial. His musical imagination, like his flying hands, never stood still from his earliest days in gospel bands to experiments with the drum ensemble M Boom to his late career interests in hip hop and rap.Maxwell Lemuel Roach was born in Newland, NC, and moved with his family to the Bedfrd-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn at age four.... (Jazz Police)
Obituary: Max Roach Aug 18, 2007
Little's partnership with the reedsman Eric Dolphy, a double-act that thrived on extremes of emotional contrast, works to perfection on Tender Warriors, from another classic Roach album, Percussion Bitter Suite. Their successors, trumpeter Cecil Bridgewater and saxophonist Odean Pope, appeared in a number of Roach's groups during a period of 20 years. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
Charles Mingus recording strikes a chord Jul 19, 2007
July 18, 2007, 12:16 PM EDT Here's a prediction you can bank: This year will yield no more important and exhilarating archival discovery for jazz fans than "Cornell 1964" (Blue Note), a live concert by the Charles Mingus Sextet, featuring the legendary reed player Eric Dolphy. It is being released this week. (Newsday -- Entertainment)
A whirl through the old and new Jun 3, 2007
Mingus hadn't recorded much since the 1964 death of his longtime flutist and alto saxophonist, Eric Dolphy, and this date brought him out of hiding. Charles McPherson filled the alto chair, joined by tenor saxophonist Bobby Jones, trumpeter Eddie Preston, drummer Dannie Richmond, and pianist Jaki Byard, who plays here with astonishing urgency. (Boston Globe -- Living)
More of this story May 8, 2007
There is more vault Charles Mingus on the way, however: A 1965 gig with Eric Dolphy that Sue says is the best of the shows recorded from the legendary tours of that year, which was one of Dolphy s last before his death. The recordings will be out later this year on Blue Note. (Brockton Enterprise, MA)
Andrew Hill; Jazz Composer Stretched Boundaries Apr 22, 2007
Signed by Blue Note Records in 1963, he recorded several influential albums, including "Point of Departure," "Black Fire" and "Grass Roots," with such prominent musicians as Joe Henderson, Woody Shaw, and Eric Dolphy. When the records didn't sell, Mr. Hill moved in the 1970s to , where he taught at Colgate University for two years. (Washington Post)
Can Rumi save us now? Apr 2, 2007
" Scores of concerts and events will mark the anniversary, including a celebration on Thursday and Friday in San Francisco that features Coleman Barks, the retired University of Georgia professor widely credited with popularizing Rumi in the United States. Go to Borders, Barnes or any neighborhood bookstore, and you're likely to find many more Rumi titles than books by Robert Frost or Walt Whitman. Besides poetry shelves, Rumi is prominent in bookstores' calendar, religious and music sections.... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Opinion)
Perfect Pitch Feb 26, 2007
As a 25-year-old I lurked in used record stores, I read Charles Mingus's "Beneath the Underdog," I made untutored sallies into the work of Eric Dolphy and Bud Powell. I could barely tell a saxophone from an oboe, but I kept going, and a fumbling, superficial familiarity with jazz was achieved; I am grateful for it now, because it is precisely this narrow layer of non-ignorance, this dilettante's veneer, that is irradiated when I read the prose of Whitney Balliett. (Boston Globe)
On the Street Feb 7, 2007
To quickly understand their credentials, know that Bennick played with the legendary Eric Dolphy and Doyle played with the extraterrestrial Sun Ra Group. The pairing of these two musicians is a first on stage and it came together through the hard work and promotion of local artist Ben Judson, with his organization heavy Denim () and 91. (San Antonio Current, TX)
Lots of drumrolls for Haynes Feb 6, 2007
The quartet opened with a scorching version of the Harold Arlen/Johnny Mercer standard "My Shining Hour." Shaw's solo gave a personalized tour of the history of the alto saxophone, evoking by turns Parker's astonishing flights, Jackie McLean's stark cries, and the zig-zag dissonances of Eric Dolphy. Bejerano's piano solo was fleet and inventive. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Before the Law Jan 24, 2007
A renowned jazz bassist in his day, Davis provided supple low end to everyone from Sarah Vaughn and Eric Dolphy to Igor Stravinsky and Van Morrison. And while that group's dynamic focused on spontaneous interplay, Cougar sought to refine such playing "into ideas that were actually set, but as fulfilling as improvisation. We wanted very immediate hooks and smooth transitions, but quick songs." With a pedigree in jazz, Cougar crafts intricate, instrumental explorations both low-key and dynamic,... (City Pages)
more » Jan 17, 2007
A versatile, well-schooled musician, Woode was the bassist of choice for many luminaries, including Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan, and was artistically in tune even with such radically different stylists as traditionalist Albert Nicholas and the iconoclastic Eric Dolphy. Monteiro's godfather and longtime friend is trumpet great Clark Terry. (CTNow.com)
