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...antics that he stomped offstage. Yet on this night of May 15, 1953, at Toronto's Massey Hall, the musicians, along with drummer Max Roach, somehow pulled together to give an incandescent, unforgettable performance. Captured in a low-fi taping by Mingus and Roach, the concert showed what bebop--and live jazz--was all about...
...weekend, he returns to his college town—only this time he’ll be playing across the Charles in Cambridge’s Regattabar Jazz Club. After leaving school, Rosenwinkel toured internationally with famed vibraphonist Gary Burton. He later joined Paul Motian’s Electric Bebop Band, where he flourished throughout the early 90s. Since then, Rosenwinkel has established himself as an original sound—not such an easy thing to do in a jazz scene crammed with guitarists and appraised by critics who claim that Pat Metheny and John Scofield have already closed...
BEATS AND BEBOP LOCATION: Lowell Lecture Hall DATE: Nov. 12 PRESENTED BY: The Harvard Undergraduate Drummers and the Sunday Jazz EnsembleAlthough “Beats and Bepop” was nominally a joint presentation by The Sunday Jazz Ensemble (SJE) and The Harvard Undergraduate Drummers (THUD), it was, effectively, a night of two concerts with remarkably different musical approaches. Only a final piece by the SJE included collaboration with THUD as percussionists...
Until about five years ago, I always thought “monk” was a subgenre of jazz, like bebop or swing. After finding out the truth I filed this away as an amusing anecdote, until I heard this recording, and realized that Thelonious Monk actually is his own subgenre...
...Blue Train,” released the same year. This is not the cathartic, redemptive Coltrane of “A Love Supreme;” Coltrane, who obviously is inspired by the beauty of Monk’s music, acts as an extension of Monk. He, unlike many bebop players of that time, “gets” Monk, and his solos, while essentially Coltrane, reflect Monk’s accompaniment (and vice-versa) perfectly...