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New Directions: New Directions
by C. Michael Bailey
The New Groove. New Directions was the promotional brainchild of Blue Note Records president Bruce Lundvall. Lundvall, in an effort to further promote an already well established collaborative spirit among the Blue Note stablemates, asked alto saxophonist Greg Osby to pull together a group of the younger players signed to the label rooster. The plan was to assemble several notable players, have them work up new performances of the Blue Note Canon. They would then take the show on the ...
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by David Adler
These four cutting-edge players did some recent touring under the name New Directions. Their self-titled studio debut consists mainly of short and to-the-point reworkings of Blue Note classics. Altoist/leader Greg Osby remarks that the group limited itself primarily to the boogaloo and funk side of Blue Note, feeling that the more cerebral and avant-garde stuff was too sacred to touch. Yet in the hands of players like these, boogaloo and funk becomes cerebral and avant-garde in exciting, unexpected ways. A ...
read moreBill Le Sage: New Directions in Jazz
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
If British pianist, vibraphonist, arranger, composer and bandleader Bill Le Sage had an American counterpart, that musician would probably be Mundell Lowe. Like Mundy, Le Sage (pronounced like massage) was exemplary on his instruments, and he arranged and composed for groups of all sizes and wrote for TV and the movies. Le Sage was so busy with projects that he didn't get around to recording as a leader until 1963, when he was 36. He directed a group called New ...
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Teddy Charles: New Directions
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Vibraphonist Teddy Charles was playing free jazz nearly as early as Lee Konitz, Lennie Tristano, Billy Bauer and Gil Melle. In 1951, '52 and '53, Teddy recorded a series of three 10-inch LPs for Prestige in the trio, quartet and quintet formats. I was thinking of Teddy yesterday and gave them a listen, finding the material to be as interesting today as it must have been back then. Joining Teddy on the trio recordings were by Don Roberts (g) and ...
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Travis Sullivan - New Directions (Posi-Tone, 2011)
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Music and More by Tim Niland
Saxophonist, composer and educator Travis Sullivan has an appealing sound and develops strong melodic mainstream jazz here, with an intelligently mixed program cookers, mid-tempo numbers and ballads anchored by his strong playing on saxophone. He is accompanied by Mike Eckroth on piano, Marco Panascia bass, and Brian Fishleron drums. While Jamia's Dance" is a medium tempo opener with a fine flowing saxophone solo, Autumn in new Hampshire" is a particularly poignant ballad, more dark toned and elegiac, reflecting the autumn ...
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Jack DeJohnette: New Directions (ECM 1128)
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Between Sound and Space - An ECM Records Resource
Jack DeJohnette New Directions
Jack DeJohnette drums, piano John Abercrombie guitar, mandolin Lester Bowie trumpet Eddie Gomez bass Recorded June 1978 at Talent Studio, Oslo Engineer: Jan Erik Kongshaug Produced by Manfred Eicher
This album was indeed a new direction for drummer Jack DeJohnette, by then an ECM mainstay who with this effort flirted with the free-flowing atmospheres then characteristic of the label's popular European projects. ...
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Monday Night Jazz in Bushnell Park, Hartford, CT - New Directions!
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All About Jazz
Prudential Financial Presents The Hartford Jazz Society's Monday Night Jazz. A series of FREE concerts in Bushnell Park, Hartford curated by Joe Morris. Following each concert, musicians will reconvene for a jam session at Black-eyed Sally's (350 Asylum Avenue - within walking distance of the Park). ------------------- July 7th - 6 pm Roy Campbell's TAZZ Roy Campbell - trumpet, flugelhorn Andrew Bemkey - piano Michael T.A. Thompson - drums Chris ...
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Monday Night Jazz in Bushnell Park, Hartford, CT - New Directions!
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All About Jazz
Prudential Financial Presents The Hartford Jazz Society's Monday Night Jazz. A series of FREE concerts in Bushnell Park, Hartford
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July 7th - 6 pm Roy Campbell's TAZZ Roy Campbell - trumpet, flugelhorn Andrew Bemkey - piano Michael T.A. Thompson - drums Chris Sullivan - bass
8 pm Matthew Shipp Trio Matthew Shipp - piano Whit Dickey - drums Joe ...
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