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John Lewis

  • Hour 5: Presenting Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra

    Sep 1st, 2020 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Carlos Henriquez, Christopher Crenshaw, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, John Lewis, Jon Batiste, Paul Simon, Sherman Irby, Ted Nash, Wynton Marsalis

    Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra To many, Wynton Marsalis’s big band, Jazz at Lincoln Center, founded in 1987, is the face of jazz. With an international touring schedule, they have kept alive the tradition of big band jazz while recording an admirable series of discs. Yes, they record their share of classic jazz, but more […]

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 74: The Avant-Garde (1960 – 1966)

    Aug 17th, 2018 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Albert Ayler, Archie Shepp, Billy Higgins, Cecil Taylor, Charlie Haden, Ed Blackwell, Jimmy Lyons, Joe Harriott, John Lewis, Ornette Coleman, Scott LaFaro

    Albert Ayler Nurtured in the seminal recordings of Ornette Coleman and Cecil Taylor in the mid to late 1950s, the jazz avant-garde came into its own in the 1960s with their continuing creations, those of John Coltrane already featured in this program and those of next generation players, Joe Harriott and Albert Ayler. Defining statements […]

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 55: The Modern Jazz Quartet and the Third Stream (1956 – 1961)

    Mar 30th, 2018 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Connie Kay, John Lewis, Milt Jackson, Modern Jazz Quartet, Percy Heath, Wes Montgomery

    The Modern Jazz Quartet: Percy Heath – Connie Kay – John Lewis – Milt Jackson As the Modern Jazz Quartet, members of which were once Dizzy Gillespie’s rhythm section in the 1940s, moved into the 1960s, they continued to swing in their own quiet way, even as their music director, pianist John Lewis, explored the […]

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 34: Miles and Friends – The “Birth” of the Cool (1947 – 1950)

    Oct 20th, 2017 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Birth of the Cool, Charlie Parker, Chet Baker, Gerry Mulligan, Gil Evans, JJ Johnson, John Lewis, Kai winding, Lee Konitz, Max Roach, Miles Davis, MJQ, Modern Jazz Quartet

    Miles Davis – Lennie Tristano – Gerry Mulligan The torrid pace of bebop improvisations reached a point in the late 1940s that prompted a musical reconsideration and Miles Davis was there at the conception. Davis had been with the Charlie Parker Quintet since 1945, when he began to woodshed with composer/arrangers John Lewis, Gerry Mulligan […]

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 25: Yardbird – The Savoy and Dial Recordings of Charlie Parker (1945 – 1948)

    Aug 18th, 2017 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, jazz at 100, JJ Johnson, John Lewis, Max Roach, Miles Davis

    Charlie “Yardbird” Parker – Miles Davis Emerging from the Jay McShann Orchestra from Kansas City and relentlessly curious about how to play the new music he heard in his head, Charlie Parker found sympathetic players in New York, especially Dizzy Gillespie. In November of 1945, Bird, as he was universally known, began to record with […]

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