Tuesday, July 2, 2013

DownBeat Magazine

When pianist Gerald Clayton was pondering the name of his next album, he kept coming back to the word “gathering” as a unifying theme for what he wanted to do in his music. One day he mentioned that to his father, bassist John Clayton, who said, “Hey …  
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“Interesting,” Muhal Richard Abrams said over the phone upon receiving the news of his election to DownBeat’s Hall of Fame. After a pause, he said it again.
Arrangements were made to speak the following day, and, in conversation at the midtown …  
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Baby Dodds: The Pulse
Published 8/1/2010
A number of important jazz artists who are no longer living clearly deserve to be included in the DownBeat Hall of Fame. Our Veterans Committee, designed specifically to rectify that situation, votes in the annual DownBeat Critics Poll to induct h …  
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