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JAZZ SAXOPHONIST AZAR LAWRENCE TRIUMPHANT RETURN TO SEA BIRD LOUNGE
story posted by Robert J. Carmack In the almost 40 years plus of playing music, producing and writing about music especially Jazz, I have seen many triumphant returns. In the last 40 years , there have been only three major triumphant returns to greatness in Jazz, early 1970s, Jug Gene Ammons, the mid 70s return…
HIPSTER RETRO-JAZZ SERIES: POINT OF DEPARTURE * ANDREW HILL
POINT of DEPARTURE -Andrew Hill posted by Justin Scoville Andrew Hill (1931-2007) was a masterful jazz pianist and composer whose impact on jazz is only beginning to be understood and appreciated. Largely overshadowed during his early career by both the monumental contributions of Miles Davis’s “Second Quintet” and John Coltrane’s cosmic forays…
CHARLIE HADEN KEPT IT SWINGIN’ 1937 – 2014 RIP
posted by Robert J. Carmack #@blues2jazzguy Charles Edward Haden was a Jazz bassist. He’s best known for his long association with saxophonist , Ornette Coleman, pianist Keith Jarrett, and his Liberation Music Orchestra. This group was co-led with pianist Carla Bley. born-August 6 1937 ** died-July 11 2014. …
Greatness Having Fun!
Legendary Drummer Elvin Jones & the Eclectic reedman, Eric Dolphy circa 1960s