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☆ 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Don Cherry
  + stars: | 2024-03-06 | by ( Marcus J. Moore | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
Of all the musicians we’ve featured in this series, Don Cherry might be the most adventurous. Though with Cherry, there was a sense that he didn’t want to shift the genre as a whole. Cherry grew up in a musical family; his grandmother played piano for silent films, and his mother played piano at home. Though Cherry earned favor as a member of Coleman’s band and a featured player on the albums “Something Else!!! Then, on the 1985 album “Home Boy (Sister Out),” Cherry turned his attention to Paris.
Persons: we’ve, Don Cherry, Ornette Coleman, Cherry, Coleman, Coleman’s, ”, NPR’s Terry Gross, Leonard Bernstein, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, “ Brown Rice, ” Cherry Organizations: Plantation, Atlantic Records, ” Locations: Tulsa, Okla, Los Angeles, Sweden, Paris
☆ Five Minutes That Will Make You Love Thelonious Monk
  + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( Marcus J. Moore | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +4 min
I was just smiling and thinking about being at Zinc Bar in the West Village, talking to someone special. It’s become a beautiful mainstay in my vault of “deeper cuts” and I often head over to the “Thelonious Alone in San Francisco” album to listen to it. Listen on YouTube◆ ◆ ◆Andrew Winistorfer, writer and reissue producer“Ugly Beauty”Listening to Thelonious Monk sometimes feels like listening to Monk listening to Monk; he spent much of his recorded output reworking, rerecording and recontextualizing his masterwork compositions like “Ruby, My Dear” and “Crepuscule With Nellie” across multiple albums. The Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall is otherworldly. In contemporary music, I compare Dilla to Monk because of his placement of samples, challenging our idea of rhythm and hesitation.
Persons: Arooj Aftab, It’s, Andrew Winistorfer, Monk, Crepuscule, Nellie ”, Charlie Rouse, Monk’s, it’s, ”, ◆ King Britt, John Coltrane, Charlie Rouse’s, Dilla Organizations: YouTube, Carnegie Hall Locations: West, San Francisco, Japan
☆ Jazz’s Hancock Competition Returns, Crowning an Electrifying Rising Star
  + stars: | 2023-10-17 | by ( Giovanni Russonello | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
Jazz’s future — actually, its present — looks brighter than it has in at least 50 years. In April 2022, Jon Batiste cleaned up at the Grammys, becoming the first jazz musician below retirement age in decades to win album of the year. Young improvisers like him seem less intimidated than ever by jazz’s gloried history, and are dumping their energies into fusions and multimedia projects. For much of Saturday afternoon, when 11 pianists under 30 competed in the semifinals, there was cause to wonder. At one point I started to wonder if there was a rule against bringing in your own original tunes.
Persons: —, Jon Batiste, Young improvisers, jazz’s, Wayne Shorter, Thelonious Monk, George Gershwin, Carl Allen Organizations: Hancock
☆ Teju Cole Knows His New Novel Resembles Autofiction. Please Don’t Be Tempted.
  + stars: | 2023-10-16 | by ( Anderson Tepper | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
“I don’t think there is any way of discussing Teju Cole’s aesthetic without putting front and center this idea of his relentless inventiveness,” the writer Amitava Kumar wrote by email. Cole calls his new novel “a reiteration of my faith in fiction.” But it didn’t come easily or quickly. After “Open City,” Cole began to conceive of a big work of nonfiction on Lagos, his hometown, in the vein of Suketu Mehta’s book “Maximum City,” about Mumbai. (Cole, who often borrows from his own biography in his books, was born in Kalamazoo, Mich. and raised in Nigeria. I think I had to realize that what I have to offer is something else, closer to the bone and more personal.”
Persons: Amitava Kumar, “, Thelonious Monk, Kumar, Cole, ”, ” Cole, that’s Locations: Lagos, ”, Mumbai, Kalamazoo, Mich, Nigeria, United States
☆ Ambrose Akinmusire Learned to Let Go (With Help From Joni Mitchell)
  + stars: | 2023-09-10 | by ( Giovanni Russonello | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +3 min
A product of the academic age in jazz, Akinmusire’s creative life has been intertwined with the Hancock institute nearly from the start. “I don’t want any part of this.” So he moved to Los Angeles, where the jazz scene is smaller and more spread out, and did some hibernating. She told him she’d made everyone in the dressing room stop talking during his set; she’d loved his playing. They started spending afternoons together, taking rides in his Honda Civic to pick up Italian food or playing music at her place. Akinmusire began to see a future for himself that might exist both in and outside of jazz.
Persons: Hancock, Steve Coleman’s, Fats Navarro, Lee Morgan, Terence Blanchard, “, Herbie Hancock, Akinmusire, ambassadorship, Glistening ”, ”, Mitchell, he’d, she’d, ” Akinmusire, ” Mitchell, Joni, Michelle Mercer’s, Joni Mitchell’s, Dylan ”, Friedrich Nietzsche Organizations: Monk Institute of Jazz, “, Honda Civic Locations: New York, Los Angeles, “ Jericho
☆ ‘Your Mother Should Know: Brad Mehldau Plays the Beatles’ Review: All You Need Is Jazz
  + stars: | 2023-02-08 | by ( Martin Johnson | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +1 min
Since his emergence on the jazz scene in the early ’90s, pianist Brad Mehldau has become well known for a supple touch on the keyboard and unique, spiky compositions, but much of his stellar reputation is built on his choice of other repertoire. Shortly after he began recording as a leader, he surprised jazz aficionados with exceptional covers of songs by Radiohead, Soundgarden, Massive Attack and many others from rock and electronic music. He made this material sound like a natural part of jazz, presenting it alongside more conventional fare such as the music of Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane and Antônio Carlos Jobim and other standards. After several recent releases that focus more on original material, he’s returned to other people’s music with his latest recording, “Your Mother Should Know: Brad Mehldau Plays the Beatles” (Nonesuch, Feb. 10 release), and it showcases a dramatic change in his approach.
☆ ‘From the Dancehall to the Battlefield’ by Jason Moran Review: Tribute to a Jazz Forefather
  + stars: | 2023-01-21 | by ( Martin Johnson | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
During the past 25 years, Jason Moran has established himself as one of the most cutting-edge pianists and composers in jazz, but some of his most compelling work has been historical in nature. In 2007, he produced the live performance “In My Mind,” a reconsideration and exploration of the work of Thelonious Monk and that jazz great’s iconic 1959 Town Hall concert. In 2011, he presented “Fats Waller Dance Party,” which celebrated the stride-piano master and legendary raconteur and led to a recording three years later. His latest project focuses on an oft-overlooked pioneer of jazz, James Reese Europe (1881-1919), a composer and bandleader who mentored such vital early 20th-century musicians as Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle and whose early work prefigured jazz.
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