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...pure, muscular, sparkling, straight-ahead jazz—Blake shone throughout the night, but here he produced an especially lively, just ahead-of-the-beat, sound interspersed with snapping rolls and cymbal brushes that propelled the frenetic tune along. Kitagawa, with his calm demeanor and walrus mustache, evoked a Mingus-like sprightliness in his bass playing, switching between slow and fast in a messed-up blues solo. Barron himself remained a steadfast leader throughout, grounding the trio with bluesy riffs and rippling over the higher range of notes in a frenzy...
According to Everett, Ellington, Charles Mingus and Sun Ra—who all pushed the boundaries of the musical forms they played—have all had some significant influence on Ho. “With Fred, it’s unpredictable. There’s no formula,” Everett says, citing the 11/4 meter in which one of the movements in “Take the Zen Train” is written. But Ho does not only draw on jazz for musical inspiration, he lists his influences as “everything, from Chinese opera to Korean...
...Charles Mingus play when you were in the White House. Are you still a jazz fan? -Gary Robinson, Moreno Valley, Calif. That was the best jazz concert the White House has ever seen. Whenever we visit New Orleans or St. Louis or Chicago, we go out of our way to attend a jazz concert or nightclub...
...Charles Mingus play when you were in the White House. Are you still a jazz fan? -Gary Robinson, Moreno Valley, Calif. That was the best jazz concert the White House has ever seen. Whenever we visit New Orleans or St. Louis or Chicago, we go out of our way to attend a jazz concert or nightclub...
...session with the great Miles Davis. How big of an influence is music in your life? -Kyle Lauterer, Saint Charles, IL It had an extraordinary influence. I led disparate lives as a teenager. I would spend weekends down in the [Greenwich] Village or at the Five Spot with Charlie Mingus. I would watch Bill Evans and after college - particularly after I became more well known - I used to drive him home from his gigs, finding out later that he had a [depression] problem. You can understand how they could have fallen into a state of depression. Too many of them...