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...During the summer of 2000, they decided to bring a number of these musicians together for a single tour. From that tour, they produced the new album, Live at the Quick. The album unites the deft musicianship of Fleck and his Flecktones with the unique talents of artists like saxophonist Paul McCandless, bassoonist Paul Hanson and Congo ol’Ondar, a Tuvan throat singer capable of simultaneously singing different pitches. Combined with Fleck’s electric banjos and Future Man’s drumitar, the collection of musicians produce unique instrumentations and texures which are unlikely...
...city comes through all the same. George Gershwin?s instrumental piece "Rhapsody in Blue" doesn?t have to mention Manhattan to evoke the city?s soul. The opening clarinet winds its way up like morning light hitting an apartment building, the brass instruments sound like crosstown traffic. Saxophonist John Coltrane?s "Central Park West" also wordlessly captures the moody allure of the streets and sidewalks...
DIED. JOE HENDERSON, 64, lyrical modern-jazz saxophonist and composer; of heart failure; in San Francisco. Henderson, who started out in his high school band, made his recording debut in 1963 on trumpeter Kenny Dorham's Una Mas, now a Blue Note classic. He went on to play with pianists Horace Silver and Herbie Hancock, and recorded a string of his own successful albums. In the 1990s, Henderson won four Grammy awards, two for best jazz instrumental solo for Lush Life and Miles Ahead...
...breakthrough came after she met alto saxophonist Steve Coleman, the guru of a group of young musicians in Brooklyn who were trying to find new ways of playing. Coleman got his followers interested in African music, in unusual harmonies and novel forms of organization. "From Steve Coleman," Wilson says, "I learned to tear a piece of music apart and get away from standard approaches. I learned about cycles of rhythm, being able to hear cues in the rhythms instead of chords. And I learned to hear the layering of rhythms. Before that, I had been only studying chords and standard...
Some great ideas are so obvious that nobody thinks to carry them out. Songbird Karrin Allyson, for example, is the first jazz vocalist ever to record a CD devoted to the songs performed by master saxophonist John Coltrane on Ballads, his classic 1961 album. Hers is a deliciously moody collection of still-fresh standards like It's Easy to Remember, in which Allyson's slender, sunny voice is dappled with dark shadows of rue. Perfect for late-night listening, with or without a like-minded companion...