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I don't get out much anymore...
Gary Bartz is the only name I recognise!
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...though I've never heard her play. Kinda dug her Beyonce story though. After Bartz, the others are new on me as well.
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She's a Howard University jazz program grad, winner of their Golson Prize a couple-few years ago, and professor at Berklee College of Music. She has several albums out on Mack Avenue. I heard her play at her Golson Prize concert with the HUJE. She is definitely worth a listen or more.
"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture." ― Thelonious Sphere Monk
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Isn't Tia a Detroit girl? I may have assumed so. Her sister is married to Rudy Royston and Tia is married to Sean Jones.
I saw him at the Chicago Jazz Festival with Louis Moholo Moholo and later with Chicagans Makaya McCraven, Tomeka Reid, and Junius Paul. His group Sons of Kemet has been receiving what passes for a lot of press in the jazz world but more in England than in the U.S.
I realize these musicians were asked to talk about Parker, and so they
did, but not one of them seems to realize that Bird came from Lester
Young, or at least chooses not to mention it. There's also Coleman Hawkins, who was Bird's predecessor in bebop, but no one mentions him in
that context either.
If you want to hear something instructive, listen to the jam session that
Norman Granz recorded in the early 50s with Parker, Hodges, and Carter.
It's an ear opener, if you listen closely.
Whether or not you can observe a thing depends upon the theory you use. It is the theory which decides what can be observed. - Albert Einstein
Back Home Again in Indiana, Jay McShann.
While the rhythm section chunks along in the typical 30's style,
Bird sounds like he just materialised form another Universe altogether.
Not just the notes, he streamlined the sound and phrasing.
Lester influenced a lot of Tenor Players for sure, Stan Getz for one.
But Lester and Hawkins sounded very 30's.
Bird looked WAY ahead.
To me Lester and Hodges had Their own thing,
reflecting the older styles, but also transcending them.
Lester played some Magical Lines with Basie!
Hodges influenced Phil Woods, as much as Bird.
Edits: 11/20/20 11/20/20
I've got some Lester Young from the mid 40s on which he sounds very
boppish. I was astounded when I first heard it.
Hawk never let the grass grow under his feet musically. He stayed current
with trends in jazz right up until his death. He was an amazing musician.
Here's a good essay on the origins of bebop.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bebop#Early_recordings
Whether or not you can observe a thing depends upon the theory you use. It is the theory which decides what can be observed. - Albert Einstein
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