Wednesday, November 6, 2013

DownBeat ….

Quiet as it’s kept, Houston Person is among the most steadily employed players on the jazz scene.
“We haven’t been off for the last three years,” he says, without a trace of smugness. “Working with a trio (organist Jimmy Watson, who’s been with …  
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From outward appearances, Pat Metheny and Charlie Haden might not seem to have a lot in common. Guitarist Pat (b. 1954) has a bushel of hair and a tan that won’t quit. Bassist Charlie (b. 1937) is pale, with closely cropped hair. But closer examinati …  
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“My kid brother is nuts!” —Musician Charlie Palmieri, from the cover of younger brother Eddie’s first LP.
Above all, Eddie Palmieri is nuts about music, specifically the marvelous Cuban music which made Havana of the ’30s–’50 …  
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Somewhere in Africa, an American soldier sat down to write a letter to his pal, Bill Spanier, back home. And this is what he wrote: “At present I’m listening to Paul Whiteman’s record of ‘Rhapsody In Blue,’ and I just heard Woody Herman do one of tho …  
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