JazzWatch #43 | Terence Blanchard

July 11, 2015 by jazzwatch in JazzWatch Blog Posts, JazzWatch Podcast and tagged album, art blakey, bam, bamboozled, band, barber shop, black american music, black or white, branford marsalis, cadillac records, California, CD, clockers, composer, concert, conversation, crooklyn, discussion, Eddie Harris, film, herbie hancock, improv, improvisation, Indie, interview, ivan lins, jazz, jazz messengers, jazz standard, jungle fever, label, long form, love and basketball, LP, malcolm x, manager, mccoy tyner, mo better blues, movies, music, nashville, national music scene, new york, new york city, npr, pianist, piano, podcast, primal fear, quartet, Smalls, Smoke, Smoke Jazz Club, soundtrack, spike lee, thelonius monk jazz institute, trio, trumpet, web series, webisode, Wynton Marsalis | Leave a comment

Terence Blanchard is a jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, arranger, and film score composer.

Since Blanchard emerged on the scene in 1980 with the Lionel Hampton Orchestra and then shortly thereafter with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, he has been a leading artist in jazz. He was an integral figure in the 1980’s jazz resurgence, having recorded several award-winning albums and having performed with the jazz elite.

He is known as a straight-ahead artist in the hard bop tradition but has recently developed an African-fusion style of playing that makes him unique from other trumpeters on the performance circuit. It is as a film composer that Blanchard reaches his widest audience. His trumpet can be heard on nearly fifty film scores; more than forty bear his compositional style.

Greg Bryant recently spoke with him about the release of his latest project, “Breathless” backstage at the Jazz Standard before his CD release show.

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JazzWatch #21 | John Coltrane Live in ’65 (Special Edition)

January 5, 2015 by jazzwatch in JazzWatch Blog Posts, JazzWatch Podcast and tagged afro blue, album, avante garde, bam, band, black american music, blue note, blues, bootleg, chim chim chiree, coltrane bootleg, concert, conversation, discussion, drummer, drums, elvin jones, episode, free jazz, gold record, gospel, greg bryant, half note, impressions, improv, improvisation, impulse records, Indie, interview, jazz, jazz club, jimmy garrison, label, live in seattle, long form, lush life, manager, mccoy tyner, music, nashville, new york, new york city, npr, nyc, pharoah sanders, podcast, quartet, r&B, saxophone, seattle, Smalls, solo, soul, soundcheck, trio, watchman, watchman music, web series, webisode | Leave a comment

In perhaps his most prolific period, John Coltrane was documented several times at his probing best in 1965. The master saxophonist recorded no less than ten albums’ worth of material in that year alone. In this special edition of JazzWatch, Greg spotlights rare Coltrane Quartet performances from The Half Note in NYC (March 19, 1965) and at Seattle, Washington’s Penthouse (September 30, 1965). As the Half Note served as Coltrane’s New York “home” performance venue in the mid 60s, the latter date and location is notable for bringing us the recordings that were issued as Coltrane’s “Live in Seattle.”

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