Tag: Jazz
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Charles Mingus: The Art Of Composed Politics
Last September, I happened upon Michal Levy’s brilliant computer animation of the Coltrane classic, Giant Steps. After reading John Amato’s latest musical post on John Coltrane, I figured John and his audience would dig it. Thanks for the h/t, John. Now, if you’re truly a political head, yet only a casual a fan of jazz,…
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Grind To The Back
So what do you do when the grind of the city commute smacks you in the face? You find a comfy spot in the back of The Jazz Gallery and let Steve Coleman’s workshop grab ahold of your soul. Coleman wasn’t on my radar before tonight, but leave it to Jonathan to introduce me to…
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Buddy Guy: I’ve Got Dreams to Remember
The improv of jazz blows me away, especially the type that occurs across a large group of musicians as with Mingus Big Band. Factor in the unique, layered compositions of a Charles Mingus, with his political lyrics of the 50’s and 60’s, and you have a textured mix of jazz structure and improv with the…
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live
ah yeah feel that dive straight back into the hive alive with a high five line language with spaces in between the mean whole the slick sixteenth the ebony and ivory dream twinkle fingers on the horizontal ladder making the bassist groan deeper making the drummers beat badder coming together like siameese twins dropping out…
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Mingus Big Band And Smalls
So I was hanging out with my bud JD last night at the Fez, checking out Mingus Big Band as I usually do every other Thursday night, when news through the player’s grapevine hit me like a left hook. Smalls is closing saturday night. Smalls! I’ve been going to this club for almost 7 years…
Sean Patrick Coon 