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Masabumi Kikuchi: Hanamichi (The Final Studio Recording Vol. II)
How does the well-taught, technically-sound pianist develop his or her voice? Keith Jarrett reportedly took some inspiration from his brother Chris’s teenage assaults on the piano (‘I remember hearing him play some things that affected me greatly. They were highly charged – a direct product, he tells me, of his crises at the time. He […]
Rescued From The Vaults: Greg Osby’s Season Of Renewal (1989)
Of all the musical scenes that emerged during the 1980s, M-BASE – a Brooklyn-originated fusion of jazz and funk with many other influences thrown in – may be the least understood/remembered. The term was co-authored by saxophonists Greg Osby and Steve Coleman. The M stands for ‘Macro’, BASE is an acronym for ‘Basic Array of […]
Geri Allen 1957-2017
Pianist, composer and educator Geri Allen, who has died at the age of 60, had her own sound. Her close-interval chord voicings and sparkling single-note lines couldn’t be anyone else. Influenced by Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner, Monk, Tommy Flanagan, Bud Powell and Cecil Taylor, she explained her style to writer Howard Mandel in 1993: ‘A […]
Sounds Of Surprise 