JAZZ REVIEW: noviembre 2008

lunes

ALLIGATOR BOOGALOO - LOU DONALDSON (LIVE @ NORTH SEA JAZZ 08)

PART 1/2
Lou Donaldson Quartet featuring Dr. Lonnie Smith:'Alligator Boogaloo' live @ North Sea Jazz 2008

Lou Donaldson (alto sax); Randy Johnston (guitar); Dr. Lonnie Smith (Hammond B3 organ); Fukushi Tainaka (drums)

ALLIGATOR BOOGALOO - LOU DONALDSON (LIVE @ NORTH SEA JAZZ 08)

PART 2/2
Lou Donaldson Quartet featuring Dr. Lonnie Smith:'Alligator Boogaloo' live @ North Sea Jazz 2008

Lou Donaldson (alto sax); Randy Johnston (guitar); Dr. Lonnie Smith (Hammond B3 organ); Fukushi Tainaka (drums)

WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD - LOU DONALDSON (LIVE @ NSJ 08)

Lou Donaldson Quartet featuring Dr. Lonnie Smith:'What a Wonderful World' live @ North Sea Jazz 2008

Lou Donaldson (alto sax); Randy Johnston (guitar); Dr. Lonnie Smith (Hammond B3 organ); Fukushi Tainaka (drums)

CHRIS POTTER WITH THE DAVE HOLLAND QUINTET

Dave Holland Quintet featuring Chris Potter solo on the Chris Potter composition Vicissitudes. The Quintet includes Steve Nelson, Robin Eubanks, Dave Holland, and Nate Smith. Dave Holland is playing the Czech-Ease Acoustic Road Bass (www.czech-ease.com).

EYE OF THE HURRICANE (1980) - MEL LEWIS BIG BAND

Clip from Montreux Switzerland.

NOT THE LAST WALTZ - GORDON BECK KENNY WHEELER QUINTET

Stan Sulzman - soprano sax; Tony Oxley - drums.

domingo

MINGLE IN THE MINCING-MACHINE - ESBJÖRN SVENSSON TRIO

Esbjörn Svensson Trio - Live at The Blue Note, Poznan, Poland, February 11, 2006

Seven days of Falling / Mingle in the mincing-machine

Esbjörn Svensson / piano
Dan Berglund / double bass
Magnus Öström / drums

WHAT THOUGH THE WAY MAY BE LONG - ESBJÖRN SVENSSON TRIO

BELIEVE BELEFT BELOW - ESBJÖRN SVENSSON TRIO

Jazz baltica 2003 with schleswig holstein chamber orchestra, pat metheny and nils landgren.

ROUND MIDNIGHT - ESBJÖRN SVENSSON TRIO

We will miss you so much, Esbjörn. Let our love be your Viaticum now! God bless you and rest in peace...

FROM GAGARIN'S POINT OF VIEW - ESBJÖRN SVENSSON TRIO

SERENADE FOR THE RENEGADE - ESBJÖRN SVENSSON TRIO

Esbjörn Svensson Trio performing "Serenade for the Renegade" live at Jazz à Juan Les Pins festival in France July 19 2003.

DODGE THE DODO - ESBJÖRN SVENSSON TRIO

SUN KING - DAVID LIEBMAN

MY FAVORITE THINGS DAVID LIEBMAN

http://www.davidliebman.com presents

David Liebman - Soprano Saxophone, Joey Calderazzo - Piano, Dave Holland - Bass, Jack DeJohnette - Drums

David Liebman was born in Brooklyn, New York on September 4, 1946. He began classical piano lessons at the age of nine and saxophone by twelve. His interest in jazz was sparked by seeing John Coltrane perform live in New York City clubs such as Birdland, the Village Vanguard and the Half Note.

Throughout high school and college, Liebman pursued his jazz interest by studying with Joe Allard, Lennie Tristano and Charles Lloyd. Upon graduation from New York University (with a degree in American History), he began to seriously devote himself to the full time pursuit of being a jazz artist.

In the early 1970s, Liebman took the leading role (as President) in organizing several dozen musicians into a cooperative, Free Life Communication which became an integral part of the fertile New York "loft" jazz scene in the early 1970s and was funded by The New York State Council of the Arts and the Space for Innovative Development.

After one year spent with Ten Wheel Drive, one of the early jazz fusion groups, Liebman secured the saxophone/flute position with the group of John Coltrane's drummer, Elvin Jones. Within two years, Liebman reached the zenith of his apprenticeship period when Miles Davis hired him. These years, 1970-74, were filled with tours, recordings and the incredible experience gained by being on the band stand with two masters of jazz. At the same time, Liebman began exploring his own music-first in the Open Sky Trio with Bob Moses and then with pianist Richie Beirach in the group Lookout Farm. This group recorded for the German based ECM label as well as A&M Records while touring the U.S., Canada, India, Japan and Europe. Lookout Farm was awarded the number one position in the category "Group Deserving of Wider Recognition"in the 1976 Downbeat Magazine's International Critics' Poll.

In 1977, Liebman did a world tour with pianist Chick Corea followed up the next year by the formation of the David Liebman Quintet with John Scofield, Kenny Kirkland and Terumasa Hino as featured sidemen. After several world tours and recordings by the quintet over three years, he reunited with Richard Beirach. They began performing and recording as a duo, as well as creating the group Quest in 1981. Beginning with bassist George Mraz and drummer Al Foster, the group solidified when Ron McClure and Billy Hart joined in 1984. Through 1991, Quest recorded seven CDs, toured extensively and did many workshops with students worldwide.

Liebman's present group formed in 1991 includes guitarist Vic Juris, bassist Tony Marino and drummer Marko Marcinko. With these musicians he has pursued an eclectic direction in recording projects that has ranged from jazz standards to Puccini arias, original adaptations from the John Coltrane and Miles Davis repertoires, original compositions in styles ranging from world music to fusion, always maintaining a repertoire that balances the past, present and future.

Over the past several decades, Liebman has often been featured with top European musicians such as Joachim Kuhn, Daniel Humair, Paolo Fresu, Jon Christensen, Bobo Stenson and in the World View Trio with Austrian drummer Wolfgang Reisenger and French bassist Jean-Paul Celea. His reputation in Europe has led to big band and radio orchestra performances, such as with the WDR in Koln, Germany, the Metropole Orchestra of the Netherlands and the new music Klang Forum in Vienna, Austria playing music specially commissioned to feature Liebman's unique soprano saxophone style. He has consistently placed among the top finalists in the Downbeat Critics' Poll since 1973 in the Soprano Saxophone category. As of the present, David Liebman has been featured on nearly 300 recordings, of which he has been the leader and/or co-leader on nearly 100. Well over 200 original compositions have been recorded. His artistic output has ranged from straight ahead classic jazz to chamber music; from fusion to avant garde.