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Not only did I feel that Newton was an outstanding musician and arranger, I believed that many of his sidemen (including violinist John Blake, alto saxophonist Arthur Blythe, cornetist Olu Dara, vibraphonist Jay Hoggard, and drummer Pheeroan akLaff) would also become major innovators.
Arthur Murray Blythe (May 7, 1940 – March 27, 2017) was an American jazz alto saxophonist and composer. He was described by critic Chris Kelsey as displaying "one of the most easily recognizable alto sax sounds in jazz, big and round, with a fast, wide vibrato and an aggressive, precise manner of phrasing" and furthermore as straddling the avant garde and traditionalist jazz, often with ...
In JazzTimes, Bill Bennett wrote: "Working here in (and out of) a quartet setting, Blythe dances deftly between what we know and what he wants to show us". Track listing. All compositions by Arthur Blythe except where noted "Hardly" – 7:29 "Besame Mucho" (Consuelo Velázquez, Sunny Skylar) – 5:47 "Blue Monk" (Thelonious Monk) – 6:09
16 de abr. de 2017 · Blythe, a native Angeleno, first appeared as the lone horn on Horace Tapscott’s The Giant Is Awakened. And his discography is filled with seminal records on which Blythe played a supporting role, including Julius Hemphill’s ‘Coon Bid’Ness , Lester Bowie’s The 5th Power and African Children , and Jack DeJohnette’s Special ...
29 de mar. de 2017 · Arthur Blythe, whose brawny alto saxophone sound and independent spirit made him a standard-bearer of the New York jazz avant-garde in the late 1970s, died on Monday at a retirement home in...
28 de mar. de 2017 · Arthur Blythe, whose bracing, gusty sound on alto saxophone was an essential feature of the New York loft scene in the 1970s, and a proud fixture of the post-bop vanguard in subsequent decades, died on Monday in Lancaster, California. He was 76.
The African Flower (The Music of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn), an Album by James Newton. Released in 1986 on Blue Note (catalog no. CDP 7 46292 2; CD). Genres: Post-Bop, Jazz. Rated #939 in the best albums of 1986.
