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Nov
23rd

Wed

“Circle Dance”

The Paul Motian Quartet, 25 August 2010
The Village Vanguard, New York

Personnel: Paul Motian (dr, leader)
Tony Malaby (ts)
Mark Turner (ts)
Bill Frisell (g)

Paul Motian, Jazz Drummer, Is Dead at 80

Mr. Motian, a drummer, bandleader, and composer of grace and abstraction, was one of the most influential jazz musicians of the last 50 years….

Mr. Motian was a link to groups of the past that informed what jazz sounds like today. He had been in the pianist Bill Evans’s great trio of the late 1950s and early 1960s and in Keith Jarrett’s so-called American quartet during the 1970s. But it was in the second half of his life that Mr. Motian found himself as a composer and bandleader, with work that could be counterintuitive or straightforward, runic or crowd-pleasing.

Stylish and alert — he wore sunglasses in the dark and laughed often and loudly — he worked steadily for decades, and for the last six years or so almost entirely in Manhattan. He had the support of the record producers Stefan Winter and Manfred Eicher, who released his music on the labels Winter & Winter and ECM, and of Lorraine Gordon, the proprietor and presiding spirit of the Village Vanguard, who booked him many times a year, either in his own groups or those of others. (In his 70s he grew tired of traveling, and anyway, he said, he preferred the sound of his drum kit at the Vanguard.)

Aug
17th

Wed

Aug
15th

Mon

via jazzchannel:

So What

from The Pizza Tapes with Jerry Garcia, David Grisman, & Tony Rice

funkthisjazz:

Lonnie Smith - People Sure Act Funny (by OriginalSamples)

From American Routes:

From today’s Featured Archive Spotlight, check out our interview with Creole banjo player Don Vappie. Vappie plays traditional jazz on his banjo, reworking Jelly Roll Morton charts, and collaborating with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.

Aug
14th

Sun

Jazz On A Summer’s Day, A Film By Bert Stern.

Filmed at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival

1962 Newport Jazz Festival

nprfreshair:

All these years later, Burton’s old country and rock associations leave a mark on his new quartet.

Aug
11th

Thu

Newport Jazz Festival 2011 Highlights

Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue via NPR

Regina Carter’s Reverse Thread

Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue

Rudresh Mahanthappa And Bunky Green

Charles Lloyd’s Sangam Trio

Ravi Coltrane Quartet

theimpossiblecool:

Davis.

(via kylehenry)

Jul
24th

Sun

A great interview by public radio’s American Routes of the saxophonist and Detroit native Yusef Lateef. If you’re not listening to this program every week, you’re missing one of the very best things that can be found on the American radio dial anywhere.

What Was It You Wanted?

First the Bob Dylan Original, then an instrumental cover by The Jamie Saft Trio.

americanroutes:

Missed the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and the Del McCoury Band on Letterman?

Here’s the video from last night — they performed “I’ll Fly Away”, with each band trading verses and then coming together at the end. Hear more jam sessions from Del and the Pres Hall Band on our 4th of July show.

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May
27th

Fri

nprfreshair:

Kevin Whitehead reviews Ambrose Akinmusire’s second album When the Heart Emerges Glistening: With strong melodies and an ace band, the trumpet player doesn’t have to strain to impress. His music speaks for itself.