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All you've got to do is watch this--https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BaslaOWJzc--to see why Kendrick Scott is my favorite drummer. Having seen him with in diverse settings from backing singers Kurt Elling & Luciana Sousa to keeping the rhythm behind pianist Gerald Clayton's Motorco concert two years ago, I plan to see him again at AOCF with his group Oracle.
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I like Derrick Hodge. Having learned from the revered, low-profile pianist Mulgrew Miller, bassist Hodge has become his own man. I've seen him live playing improvised funk jazz that made our seats dance at the Casbah one night, & I've watched this YouTube from the Kennedy Center--https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHj5sOcG0qU--that shows where he's at now.
Whatever he plays, we will be jazzed... Drummer Otis Brown III is not a household name, even if he's been heard often as a sideman. His 2104 CD, "The Very Thought of You" defines his post-millennial hard bop style. Translation: It's another modern take on the jazz of the '50s, '60s, & '70s, something most straight-ahead jazz fans can dig.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWqhdcu1308 is a good example from that CD. There's more where that comes from on YouTube, including this balanced verbal review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy_7oh4_kXw. I will go to his performance at AOCF.... |
AuthorPeter Burke has liked jazz since he was in high school. Having lived & worked in exotic places with & without local jazz scenes, he has also led a Guide To Local Jazz class in the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at Duke. Archives
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