Freedom Suite
adminThe history of Sonny Rollins’ jazz classic by Marshall Bowden In 1956 Sonny Rollins was one of the best-known tenor saxophonists in jazz, released two classic jazz albums, Saxophone Colossus…
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1956 was a hell of a year for Sonny Rollins. Having already recorded a number of memorable dates for the Prestige label, both as a leader and a sideman, ’56…
Read MoreThree by Cannonball Adderley
Cannonball Adderley Takes Charge In 1963 Julian “Cannonball” Adderley moved from the Riverside label, where he had recorded some fifteen albums of material, to Capitol Records, where he would find…
Read MoreCannonball Adderley: Cannonball Plays Zawinul
Cannonball Adderley encouraged Joe Zawinul to write for his band, and was receptive to the progressive sounds that Zawinul came up with. The result was a musical partnership that was…
Read MoreSons of Kemet: Your Queen Is a Reptile
by Marshall Bowden In the acknowledgments of his book Cut ‘N Mix: Culture and Identity in Carribean Music, Dick Hebdige notes that “In his book There Ain’t No Black In…
Read MoreSun Goddess
How the paths of Ramsey Lewis and Maurice White led to the recording of this quiet storm classic by Marshall Bowden Ramsey Lewis was one of the more popular jazz…
Read MoreOld Wine in New Bottles
Esbjorn Svensson Trio: Leukocyte (2008) Amazon | Spotify Medeski Martin & Wood: Radiolarians (I–III) (2008/2009) Amazon | Spotify by Marshall Bowden Reinvention is the name of the game in music,…
Read MoreStan Getz: Captain Marvel
By the time Stan Getz recorded the album Captain Marvel with Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, Tony Williams, and Airto Moreira, he had been in the music business for nearly thirty…
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