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Jazzset with Dee Dee Bridgewater
Tuesdays at 8 PM
Dee Dee Bridgewater
Photo Credit: 2007 NPR by Philippe Pierangeli
JazzSet delivers rhythm... melody...
harmony... improv... every week since 1992.
Each week, host Dee Dee Bridgewater brings you
music in performance, sweet and hot. With her fine,
friendly voice, the 2008 Grammy nominee introduces
sets from coast to coast, and beyond.
JazzSet's quality recordings capture the
legends, today's top bands, and promising new
talent. Occasionally, the program dips into its
archives and Dee Dee shares a moment that's too good
not to share.
Congratulations to 2011 Grammy Award winners Dee Dee
Bridgewater for Best Jazz Vocal Album, and the Mingus
Big Band for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album, featuring a
set that was originally live on Toast of the Nation
and later on JazzSet.
NPR Music cites Mark Turner's "floating chromaticism,
rhythmic mindfulness and lightness of tone." He's the
tenor saxophonist in last week's Abbey Lincoln tribute
on JazzSet, leading his wide age-range quartet
with newcomer pianist David Virelles from Cuba, Ben
Street on bass, and the late Paul Motian (1931-2011) on
drums, on this JazzSet.
O'Farrill is making his big dreams for Afro-Latin jazz
come true. This set from Newport presents three
generations of composers, from Arturo O'Farrill's father
Chico to Arturo himself to Dafnis Prieto and Gabriel
Alegrķa from Cuba and Peru respectively, and one big
exuberant ensemble to play them.
Bebop met chamber music at the 1949 Charlie Parker with
Strings recording session. Steve Wilson brings a fresh,
original take to this classic material, including a
piece or two that did not get recorded. He beamingly
calls his string quintet "the crown jewels" with his
working group -- Bruce Barth, Michael Bowie and Lewis
Nash -- at the KC Jazz Club.
Charles Mingus (1922-79) wrote, ". . . it is time our
children were raised to think they can play bassoon,
French horn, English horn, full percussion, violin,
cello. If we so-called jazz musicians who are composers,
the spontaneous composers, started including these
instruments in our music, it would open everything up."
This acoustic concert, held on the weekend of the annual
Charles Mingus High School Competition in New York,
effectively follows through on his premise.
After visiting Ethiopia in 2004 and 2011, the
adventurous E/O (together since 1985) now improvises in
the modes and rhythms of the country's music, on this
multi-part suite. As an appetizer, Gershon adapts songs
by Nerses Nalbandian, an Armenian who left a strong
imprint on Ethiopian music. Thanks to Chamber Music
America's New Jazz Works program, funded by the Doris
Duke Charitable Foundation.
The guitarist stepped off nightly TV, released the album
Zen Food, and toured throughout the year in
2011. They loved him at the Amphitheatre stage in
Detroit. Ross Davis wrote in JazzTimes that
Eubanks "featured his own fine lines and plenty of room
for his band mates to shine, most especially saxophonist
Bill Pierce."
Born March 13, 1925, Haynes worked with Lester Young,
Charlie Parker, Sarah Vaughan and John Coltrane, and
continues to set the pace on the drums to this day.
"He's so loose-limbed, writes JazzSet producer
Mark Schramm. "There's not a trace of strain in any part
of his body. Whether he's playing softly with brushes,
or swinging with his trademark ride cymbal rhythm, or
leaning in and driving the group, it's all done as if he
were dancing at the drums." With Jaleel Shaw, Martin
Bejerano and David Wong as the youth.
The Sanskrit word Triveni translates as "the place where
three sacred rivers meet." With Drew Gress and Eric
Harland, bass and drums, trumpeter Avishai opens on Don
Cherry's "Art Deco," tips his hat to Ornette Coleman and
Charles Mingus, then welcomes his sister Anat on
clarinet for the second half of a wonderful set.
In her continuing project Reverse Thread, MacArthur
Fellow Regina Carter weaves a group sound from African
melodies on her violin with accordion, the harp-like
kora, bass and drums. The group interprets music from
Mali and Madagascar and dedicates a piece to New
Orleans. Will Holshouser, Yacouba Sissoko, Chris
Lightcap and Alvester Garnett are the band. NPR Music
calls this set from Newport "a bright, vibrant show."
Pianist Renee says when she's onstage at the Village
Vanguard, she turns to the left and sees a jazz fan a
few feet away, and the same to the right and over her
shoulder. The intimacy inspires a beautiful late night
set from Renee's quartet. Steve Nelson on vibes, Peter
Washington on bass, and Lewis Nash on drums.
The Kennedy Center is the home of the low blow tonight,
as five-time DownBeat baritone sax poll winner
Gary Smulyan joins the committed, brilliant pianist
Benny Green. Listen for rhythmic energy, quirky
Thelonious Monk melodies, humor, and the Washingtons --
Peter and Kenny (no relation) -- ideal on bass and
drums. Benny Green's birthday is April 4.
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