Word: saxophonist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...since then the record has sold more than 500,000 copies and won a Grammy as well as two naacp Image Awards, and other jazz-rap bands, like US 3, have followed in Planets' wake. Meanwhile, some of the most respected musicians in jazz -- from Harvard summa cum laude saxophonist Joshua Redman to veteran trumpeter Lester Bowie -- have recorded songs combining jazz with hip-hop. Both Miles Davis and Quincy Jones experimented with rap-jazz fusion in the '80s, but a decade later it is becoming a staple. How broad is its acceptance? Well, Digable Planets is featured...
...brilliant Stolen Moments is an openly contentious album. Most of the songs deal with aids, and each of the tunes pairs rappers with jazz performers -- rapper Guru with Donald Byrd, the spoken-word group the Last Poets with saxophonist Pharaoh Sanders, Digable Planets with guitarist Wah Wah Watson and trumpeter Lester Bowie. Age is coupled with youth, cool with anger, and the result is music with a caustic beauty...
Unlike Marsalis, who devotes equal time to classical music, Blanchard turned himself fully to jazz. He recorded five albums with saxophonist Donald Harrison (beginning with New York Second Line in 1984) and then two others leading his own quintet (Terence Blanchard and Simply Stated, both released in 1991). In the New York City club scene, he established himself as a composer and soloist with a silvery tone and a gift for majestic phrasing...
...weakest link throughout is saxophonist Shorter, whose searching, jerky sound is beautiful and haunting when set against a rhythm section that isn't quite so busy itself. In "So What," Shorter quotes liberally from Monk and other Miles tunes, using the fast pace of the composition to build continuity between sparsely connected phrases. At times, the result can be dynamic, as in Shorter's quoting of Monk's "Bemsha Swing" near the beginning of "So What;" in other places, Shorter's decisions seem arbitrary and his thinner, reedier sound falls short next to Roney's full bodied and equally intense...
...praise is well deserved. On her album she is almost a one-person band, playing drums, keyboards, guitar and bass in addition to singing. Plantation Lullabies also has some impressive guest performers, including Joshua Redman, a summa cum laude graduate of Harvard who is the young jazz saxophonist-of-the-moment...