Tag: Cecil Taylor

• Top 40 Over 40.30: Duke Ellington, 1962

  

  One of the things I admire about the jazz tradition is the fluidity with which musicians move from being leaders to sidemen. Take an album like Conference of Birds by Dave Holland. I mostly knew Dave as a sideman for Anthony Braxton and Miles Davis. But then Braxton turns around and plays sideman for Holland’s…

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  January 4, 2021

  Folk Implosion, Music, Record Reviews, Top 40 Over 40

  A Sailboat in the Moonlight, Anthony Braxton, Barney Bigard, Blackstreet, Cabride, Cecil Taylor, Charles Mingus, Conference of the Birds, Cootie Williams, Dave Holland, Didgeridoo, Duke Ellington, Duke Ellington & John Coltrane, Echoes of Harlem, Excursion on a Wobbly Rail, Fats Waller, Fleurette Africaine, Folk Implosion, In a Sentimental Mood, Jazz, John Coltrane, Johnny Hodges, Looking Ahead!, Max Roach, Mosaic Records, My Little Brown Book, Never No Lament: The Blanton Webster Band, No Diggity, Piano, Rex Stewart, Stompy Jones, The Afro-Eurasian Eclipse, The Duke's Men: Small Groups Volume 1, The Money Jungle, Top 40 Over 40, Very Special, Wig Wise, You'll Never Get to Heaven if you Break My Heart

• Top 40 Over 40.10: Bill Dixon

  In this series of posts on artists who inspired me to start recording again by doing first-rate work on or after their 4oth birthday, Bill Dixon is an anomaly.  Most of the folks I’ve written about were known for an early body of work done in their 20’s, and managed a “return to form” after…

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  November 11, 2012

  Music, Record Reviews, Series of posts, Top 40 Over 40

  Bennington College, Bill Dixon, Cecil Taylor, Digital vs. Analog, Films, Jazz, Jean-Luc Godard, Music, Record Reviews, Tony Oxley, Top 40 Over 40