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...challenges of interacting with such a complex, larger-than-life personality are magnified in a musical setting. The WHRB orgy will feature interviews with six of Taylor's former sidemen, including such well-known saxophonists as Steve Lacy, Archie Shepp, and David Murray, who discuss their experiences and struggles working with Taylor. When asked whether it was difficult to play with Taylor, Lacy answered simply, "It was impossible. He was so fast, and so way beyond everybody that I had heard." The piece de resistance of the orgy will be the taped interview with The Maestro, as Taylor is often...
...years later, we have Altered Beast, a 14-song album that features many of the same stellar sidemen who served on Girlfriend (most notably Robert Quine on guitar), as well as Mick Fleetwood and keyboardist Nicky Hopkins. Like its predecessor, the album alternates winsome ballads with bare-knuckled rockers that resurrect and update rock's blustery past with born-again conviction...
...great bands. This is due partly to the high level of competition among the up-and-comers and partly to their inexperience in the art of collective improvisation. Trumpeter ROY HARGROVE, in his third Novus album, The Vibe, manages to offset both factors by teaming up with outstanding sidemen -- alto-sax player Antonio Hart, pianist Marc Cary, drummer Gregory Hutchinson and bassist Rodney Whitaker -- who stitch a vibrant tapestry around his own fat sound. At 22, Hargrove has the tone, sensitivity and power to emerge as his generation's man to beat on the golden horn. Fortunately, he also...
...Shaw called the combo he occasionally assembled around him, these 20 tracks were laid down only months before he retired. Some were fleetingly available on LP years ago; the rest were never released. They are sublime chamber jazz -- close-knit yet relaxed, subtle, pulsing with the interplay of brilliant sidemen like pianist Hank Jones and guitarist Tal Farlow...
Monday: The Sidemen's Ball...