The Quarantined Jazz Voyager
In The Now is an album by the accomplished percussionist and drummer Cindy Blackman recorded on November 18, 1997 by engineer Rudy Van Gelder at Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. It was released on the HighNote label on May 19, 1998.
The producer on the date was Don Sickler, the art direction performed by Wendi Horowitz with photography by Carl Posey. The liner notes were written by Chip Stern.
Track List | 63:23 All compositions by Cindy Blackman except where noted
- In The Now ~ 6:45
- A Banana for Ron ~ 3:22
- Passage ~ 6:40
- A King Among Men ~ 15:00
- Sophia ~ 7:24
- Prince of Darkness (Wayne Shorter) ~ 7:13
- Happy House (Ornette Coleman) ~ 4:34
- A Strawberry for Cindy ~ 4:30
- Let Love Rule (Lenny Kravitz) ~ 7:55
- Cindy Blackman ~ Drums
- Ravi Coltrane ~ Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone
- Jacky Terrasson ~ Piano, Fender Rhodes
- Ron Carter ~ Bass
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Daily Dose Of Jazz…
Paul Desmond was born Paul Emil Breitenfeld on November 25, 1924 in San Francisco, California. His father was a pianist, organist, arranger, and composer who accompanied silent films in movie theaters and produced musical arrangements for printed publication and for live theatrical productions. He started his study of clarinet at the age of twelve and continued while at San Francisco Polytechnic High School. During high school he developed a talent for writing and became co-editor of his high school newspaper.
As a freshman at San Francisco State College he began playing alto saxophone, however, he was drafted into the U.S. Army, where he spent three years in the Army band stationed in San Francisco. After his discharge in 1946 he legally changed his name to Desmond. Working in the San Francisco Bay Area as a backing musician, occasionally with Dave Brubeck.
Following a breakup and a reunion with Brubeck, the quartet became especially popular with college-age audiences, often performing in college settings like on their ground-breaking 1953 album Jazz at Oberlin at Oberlin College. The group played until 1967, when Brubeck switched his musical focus from performance to composition and broke the unit up. During the 1970s Desmond joined Brubeck for several reunion tours, with Brubeck’s sons Chris, Dan and Darius.
He worked several times during his career with baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan, guitarist Jim Hall, Chet Baker, and Ed Bickert. Alto saxophone and composer Paul Desmond, who was one of the most popular musicians to come out of the cool jazz scene, passed on May 30, 1977, not of his heavy alcohol habit but of lung cancer, the result of his longtime heavy smoking.
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Gary Winston Boyle was born November 24, 1941 in Patna, Bihar, India. He attended the Leeds College of Music in the early 1960s and then joined the folk-rock band Eclection. He also played in The Echoes, Dusty Springfield’s band in the mid-1960s, and recorded with Brian Auger and Julie Driscoll.
In the early 1970s he worked as a session musician with musicians Keith Tippett, Mike Gibbs, Mike Westbrook, Stomu Yamashta, Bert Jansch and Norma Winstone.
In 1973, Boyle founded the jazz fusion band Isotope with bassist Jeff Clyne, keyboardist Brian Miller and drummer Nigel Morris. This line-up gigged around the United Kingdom extensively. Fusion guitarist Gary Boyle continues to perform and record.
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Three Wishes
The question was posed to Kenny Burrell related to three wishesand he told the Baroness Pannonica:
- “No race prejudice.”
- “Much less emphasis on materialistic values.”
- “Ample opportunity for and encouragement of individual expression of humanistic values.”
*Excerpt from Three Wishes: An Intimate Look at Jazz Greats ~ Compiled and Photographed by Pannonica de Koenigswarter
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Alan Lawrence Turnbull was born November 23, 1943 in Melbourne, Australia and after taking drum lessons from Graham Morgan he commenced his professional career at the age of 14. He played with top local jazz musicians such as Graeme Lyall, Keith Hounslow and Brian Brown while filling in for drummer Stewart Speer at Horst Liepolt’s Melbourne jazz venue, Jazz Centre 44.
Moving to Sydney in the late 1960s, Turnbull soon became very active in the jazz scene and worked regularly as a freelance musician, including a number of years with the Don Burrows quartet which worked regularly at various clubs, concerts, festivals and other venues throughout Australia and in the United States.
His partnership of drums/double bass with American double bassist Ed Gaston set a new standard for swing jazz rhythm sections in Australia that would influence Australian rhythm sections for decades.
In the following years he worked with the likes of Milt Jackson, Joe Henderson, Gary Burton, Sonny Stitt, Barney Kessell, Richie Cole, Cleo Laine, Billy Eckstine, Cab Calloway, Billy Field, and Neil Sedaka as well the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and the Australian Pops Orchestra.
Appearing on numerous recordings, including those of Don Burrows, Rolf Stube’s Jazz Police, Graeme Norris Band, The Jazz Co-op, The Two with Paul Macnamara, Neil Sedaka and Billy Field, drummer Alan Turnbull, who was also a freelance professional musician, passed away on August 28,2014.
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