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Mike Dillon is a versatile vibraphonist and percussionist who was originally from San Antonio, Texas and is currently based in Kansas City.
He has appeared in settings ranging from funk and soul jazz to free improvisations and has been a member of Critters Buggin, Les Claypoo’s Fancy Band and Garage A Trois, leading groups of his own (including Mike Dillon’s Go-Go Jungle), and working with Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe and with a trio called “The Dead Kenny G’s.”
Bassist James Singleton has long been a major fixture in the New Orleans music scene, being a member of the Astral Project and working with John Scofield, John Medeski, John Abercrombie, Ellis Marsalis, Eddie Harris, Lionel Hampton, Arnett Cobb, Banu Gibson, Chet Baker, James Booker, and many others.
In this intriguing set of free improvisations (the first one lasts 33 minutes), a LiveStream from July 19, 2010, Mike Dillon switches constantly between his percussion and vibes while James Singleton provides a strong forward momentum and often hard-swinging lines while reacting constantly to Dillon’s playing, even playing a little bit of trumpet.
The spontaneous music holds one’s interest throughout.
– Scott Yanow
Archived streams
July 19, 2020
July 30, 2020
June 20, 2020
June 13, 2020
June 12, 2020
June 11, 2020
June 10, 2020
June 09, 2020
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Livestream, Video
You can follow Steve Washington here.
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October 02, 2020
July 31, 2020
June 12, 2020
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You can follow Luis Perdomo here.
Review:
This is the one hundred seventieth in a series of special Jazz on the Tube reviews of live stream performances.
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Pianist Luis Perdomo was born in Caracas, Venezuela and developed so quickly as a musician that when he was just 12, he was already playing on television and radio.
When he was 22 in 1993, Perdomo moved to New York and began studying at the Manhattan School of Music where he graduated in 1997; along the way he also studied with Harold Danko and Sir Roland Hanna.
Since that time, the pianist has appeared on over 200 records, worked with such notables as Miguel Zenon, Dave Douglas, David Sanchez, Tom Harrell, Steve Turre, Ray Barretto, Brian Lynch, and Conrad Herwig, and been a member of the Ravi Coltrane quartet for ten years.
On his LiveStream of June 27, 2020, Luis Perdomo (on electric piano) plays duets with bassist Mimi Jones (who has been a significant force as a player and the head of her own label during the past 20 years) on a Horace Silver blues and a few originals, taking a sophisticated ballad as a solo piece on keyboard.
The music is straight ahead and swinging yet modern, helping to define the mainstream of jazz today.
– Scott Yanow
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June 27, 2020 – With Mimi Jones
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Livestream, Video
You can follow Tracy Cruz here.
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June 11, 2020
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Livestream, Video
You can follow Aruán Ortiz here.
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This is the hundredth and twenty-sixth in a series of special Jazz on the Tube reviews of live stream performances.
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Aruán Ortiz, who was born in Cuba, has been an important part of the avant-garde jazz scene in New York ever since moving to the United States 15 years ago.
He is as well-known as a composer as he is a pianist and has worked along the way with Wadada Leo Smith, Don Byron, Greg Osby, Wallace Roney, Nicole Mitchell, William Parker, Andrew Cyrille, Henry Grimes, Marshall Allen, Hamiet Bluiett, and Oliver Lake among others.
On his LiveStream from June 11, 2020, Aruán Ortiz at first creates an introspective piano solo that builds up slowly, gingerly exploring the piano, utilizing a repeated note as he improvises melodic if unexpected ideas, and ending peacefully.
His second improvisation is more dissonant and freer if just as logical while his third is atmospheric and based around a repeated note in the lower register.
Aruán Ortiz’s moody and thought-provoking music is fun to watch develop.
– Scott Yanow
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June 11, 2020
June 17, 2020
June 10, 2020
May 27, 2020
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You can follow The Shook/Russo Quartet here.
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June 11, 2020
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