A night of explorations: Miles in ’73 Dave Liebman is featured in this excerpt from a live performance of the Miles Davis band in 1973. Liebman is on flute and sax. With Peter Cosey, Reggie Lucas, Michael Henderson, Al Foster, and James Mtume Forman. Calypso … Continue reading
Guitarist Larry Eugene Carlton was born March 2, 1948 in Torrance, California. When he was six years old, Carlton began studying guitar with Slim Edwards. Larry Carlton’s own musical story began in Southern California. He picked up his first guitar when he … Continue reading
Multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, and bandleader Ralph Towner was born in Chehalis, WA in 1940, moved to Oregon at age five and grew up there. He began to improvise at the piano at age four, imitating recordings from the WW II era. … Continue reading
Stan Getz – “The Sound” Pioneer of Cool, Bossa Nova & Modern Jazz Jazz saxophonist Stanley Getz was born February 2, 1927 in Philadelphia, PA. He was born to Polish immigrants who came to the US from the Ukraine. The family later moved to the Bronx. An … Continue reading
Happy Birthday, Sonny Stitt! Jazz saxophonist Sonny Stitt Edward Boatner, Jr. was born on February 2, 1924 in Boston, Massachusetts. He grew up in Saginaw, Michigan and was born into a very musical family. His father was a singer composer and college professor. His brother was … Continue reading
Gibson Jazz Party In 1977, the annual jazz party given in Denver and Aspen, Colorado by Dick and Maddie Gibson gave us this amazing record of some of the greatest musicians on the planet. For most younger … Continue reading
Antônio Carlos Jobim, often known as Tom Jobim, is widely regarded as one of the most important songwriters of the 20th century. Many of Jobim’s songs are jazz standards. American jazz singers Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra prominently featured Jobim’s … Continue reading
Nine years ago today we lost what one of the greatest post-Coltrane saxophonist of all time. Michael Brecker was among the most influential musicians in jazz since the 1960 For a time, Mr. Brecker seemed nearly ubiquitous. His discography — it … Continue reading
The Paris Concert Born Michael Sedgwick, guitarist Mike Stern was born January 10, 1953 in Boston, Massachusetts. Stern is the surname of his stepfather, Henry Dwight Sedgwick. During the late ’70s, Stern studied guitar and jazz at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, during … Continue reading
After contributing to several key British groups of the early 1960s McLaughlin made Extrapolation, his first album as a bandleader, in 1969. He then moved to the USA, where he played with Tony Williams’s group Lifetime and then with Miles … Continue reading