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Tony Williams Lifetime

Jazz Retrospective: The Indelible Impact of “Emergency!” by the Tony Williams Lifetime

If you don’t know those 1969 originals, get them and listen to them. And if you know the recordings well, listen to them again. No matter how familiar this 50-year-old music is to you, you’ll be struck by its timelessness.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Carla Bley, Cindy Blackman Santana, Emergency!, John McLaughlin, Khalid Yasin, Larry Young, Slugs', Spectrum Road, Steve Elman, Tony Williams, Tony Williams Lifetime, Trio of Doom

Jazz Remembrance: You Don’t Know Jack—From Glasgow to New York

Jack Bruce performing in 1972

“With Cream I and Ginger could play free jazz as a rhythm section, while Eric played the Ornette Coleman role. However, we didn’t tell Eric that!”

By: J. R. Carroll Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Jazz, Music, Rock Tagged: Carla Bley, Cream, Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, Graham Bond, Jack Bruce, John McLaughlin, Michael Mantler, samuel-beckett, Tony Williams Lifetime

Coming Attractions in Jazz: March 2010

By J. R. Carroll March is the month for Elder Statesmen—and drummers. Bassist Buster Williams has played and recorded with, well, damn near everyone, and currently leads his own Something More Quartet; they’ll be coming to Scullers on March 2 at 8 p.m. Photo by Mandy Hall, available under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Drummer […]

By: J. R. Carroll Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Jazz, Music Tagged: Acton Jazz Cafe, Amazing Things Arts Center, Arsenal Center for the Arts, Berklee Performance Center, Boston Jewish Music Festival, Buster Williams, Cindy Blackman, Don Byron, Hankus Netsky, Harvey Diamond, Honeyboy Edwards, Jim Repa, Joe Hunt, John Scofield, Jorge Perez-Albela, Judy Bressler, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Kenny Werner, Klezmer Conservatory Band, Lily Pad, Marc Benno, Oscar Castro Neves, Paul Combs, Rebecca Cline, Regattabar, Respect Sextet, Roy Haynes, Ryles, Scullers, Steve Langone, Sun Ra, Tadd-Dameron, Tony Williams Lifetime, Toots Thielemans

Coming Attractions in Jazz: February 2010

There may not be any Lester Young tributes scheduled for Presidents’ Day, but the entire month of February is nothing less than a valentine to jazz piano. By J. R. Carroll Pianist Jason Moran hasn’t yet encountered a piece of music (or even raw sound) that he couldn’t transform into a jaw-dropping improvisation. Johannes Brahms, […]

By: J. R. Carroll Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Jazz, Music Tagged: Acton Jazz Cafe, Alex Alvear, Allan Holdsworth, Beehive, Berklee College of Music, Brad Mehldau, Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, Dan Moretti, Eliane Elias, Fred Hersch, Hip Hop, Iron Horse Music Hall, Jason Moran, Jazz Marauders, Jazz Underground, Kenny Barron, Kurt Elling, Leo Blanco, Lionel Loueke, Lisa Thorson, Mango Blue, Marc Rossi, Marta Gomez, Nando Michelin, New England Conservatory, Ramona Borthwick, Regattabar, Regina Carter, Robert Glasper, Russell Malone, Ryles, Sanders Theatre, Scullers, Tony Williams Lifetime

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