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Wednesday: Rising vibist Goodman makes his debut with a fine band: saxist Ole Mathison, pianist Sarah Cion, Bassist Ken Rich and Drummer Marty Richards. 9 p.m. Tickets...
...Workshop the only thing the audience will be yelling is "more, more, Milt, Milt," because Milt is so great. Milt Jackson, probably the foremost vibist in jazz today, got his start with the Dizzy Gillespie big band in the '40s. He was part of a rhythm section which included John Lewis on piano, Kenny Clarke on drums, and Ray Brown on bass. Clarke, Lewis, and Milt, with Percy Heath pickin' bass later went on to form the Modern Jazz Quartet (MJQ). But, before the group acquired that famous name, it was called the Milt Jackson Quartet (still MJQ). Milt...
McCOY TYNER, TIME FOR TYNER (Blue Note). The former Coltrane pianist here plays in a quartet that includes Vibist Bobby Hutcherson. Tyner's composition African Village is a free fall into the heart of rhythms that pound and shift as McCoy and Bobby superimpose eddying patterns. May Street moves along with jaunty strut, shadowed, however, by a tension of eerie chords. As for standard tunes, Tyner does a pensive I Didn't Know What Time It Was and then zooms off in The Surrey with the Fringe...
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