“The Jazz Score” 11/23/10 – James P. Johnson
Last night on “The Jazz Score” I featured one of the greats of the jazz piano canon, the father of Stride piano James P. Johnson. It was an interesting playlist as I wanted to give a full picture of Johnson’s compositional work and therefore ventured into his orchestral and classical repertoire a bit as well [...]
“The Jazz Score” 11/15/10 – George Russell
Yesterday on “The Jazz Score” I featured a fascinating musician and theorist, the great George Russell, whose theories of harmony were uniquely important to the development of modern jazz. He was one of the first to propose a close relationship between scales and chords and therefore help to spark the “modal jazz” revolution, and his [...]
“The Jazz Score” 11/8/10 – John Coltrane
Yesterday on “The Jazz Score” I featured the music of the great John Coltrane. I found myself concentrating a bit more on his later period than usual, especially as far as compositions go. I think this was partially as a result of the fact that he developed as a player considerably earlier in his career [...]
“The Jazz Score” 11/1/10 – Indian/Pakistani Influence
Yesterday on “The Jazz Score” I featured the work of four New York-based musicians of varied backgrounds who are integrating traditional classical Indian and Pakistani music into their jazz compositions: Rudresh Mahanthappa, Vijay Iyer, Rez Abbasi, and Dan Weiss. Here’s the playlist: – Chakradar 1 / Dan Weiss (Now Yes When – An Introduction to [...]