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Interview with Abraham Ravett
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Ken McCarthy’s Jazz on the Tube interviews filmmaker Abraham Ravett about his film “Forgotten Tenor: A Tribute to Tenor Saxophonist Wardell Gray.”
Tenor saxophone giant Wardell Gray was born February 13, 1921, in Oklahoma City. OK. He was a graduate of the Cass Technical High School, a Detroit school that also lists Donald Byrd, Lucky Thompson, and Al McKibbon as distinguished alumni.
You can order a DVD copy of the film “Forgotten Tenor: A Tribute to Saxophonist Wardell Gray” direct from the filmmaker by writing to aravett AT hampshire DOT edu
Wardell is the soloing tenor on this Count Basie performance
You can order a DVD copy of the film “Forgotten Tenor: A Tribute to Saxophonist Wardell Gray” direct from the filmmaker by writing to aravett AT hampshire DOT edu
– Ken McCarthy
Jazz on the Tube
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Afro-Cuban culture, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Video
Filmed in 1975.
Ray Barretto with vocalists Humberto “Tito” Gómez and and Rubén Blades. Composition by Rubén Blades.
Posted to YouTube by Salserodel70.
Click here to learn more about Abakuá
Lyrics:
Se escucha el sonar de tambores
Anuncian la misa pa’l que tenga fe
Y en medio de la noche oscura
Avanzan los fieles con rumbo al bemb
Se oye el repique’l tamb
Ecos de un viejo cantar
Olofi, Lofi y Vilat
En medio e’la oscuridad
Y sigue vibrando la noche
Al compas bolero del coquioyamba
Los negros se agarran las manos
Repitiendo a coro
El viejo cantar
Se oye el repique del oyamba
Van cantando los niches de madruga
Oye mi canto abacua
Ay, a prisa negro que la misa va a empezar
Oye mi canto abacua
Yo por eso le canto porque yo se que el santo me pue’ayudar
Oye mi canto abacua
Le pedimos la libertad
Oye mi canto abacua
Campanas, campanas, campanas llamando estan
Oye mi canto abacua
Abasi vigila en la oscuridad.
Coro 2
Abasi es tambores abacua
Cantando de madruga
Abasi es tambores abacua
Se escucha el misterioso cantar
Abasi es tambores abacua
Son los niches que te vienen a rezar
Abasi es tambores abacua
Mis tambores abacua
Abasi es tambores abacua
Abasi
Abacua
Abacua
Abacua
Abacua
Abacua
Abacua
Abacua
Abacua
Abacua
Este es mi canto abacua
Coro 1
Oye mi canto abacua
Ay, tambores de madruga
Oye mi canto abacua
Ayofi venme a ayudar
Oye mi canto abacua
Oye mi canto abacua
Oye mi canto abacua
Great news!
You can now watch this video – and all Spanish language videos – with English subtitles. It’s free!
Click here for instructions on how to turn on English subtitles.
– Ken McCarthy
Jazz on the Tube
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Go to Cuba with Jazz on the Tube as your guide:
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Blog, Cuba, Latin Jazz, Puerto Rico, Video
Salsa Meets Jazz at the Village Gate…
One of the great shining episodes of American music history came to an abrupt end in 1993 when the Village Gate could not maintain in the ferocious Manhattan real estate market (such is the fate of so many creative venues in NYC.) .
When exactly it started is hard to say, but in the early 60s “Symphony Sid” Torin and Jack Hooke teamed up with Art D’Lugoff’s The Village Gate for a series called “Monday Nights at the Gate” that presented straight Latin music performances.
Then in 1965 the Tico All Stars made the scene at the Gate producing one of the greatest Latin jam sessions every recorded – and the rest, as they say, is history. With this crew, how could it fail? Israel Cachao Lopez, Ray Barretto, Johnny Pacheco, Cándido Camero, Joe Cuba, Jose “Cheo” Feliciano, and the Palmieri brothers (Charlie and Eddie.)
Finding good info about this important but little documented series has been tricky.
Then in a recent conversation with Bobby Sanabria I discovered the marvelous web archive work of artist and photoprapher Francisco Molina Reyes II.
You want photos?
He’s got photos.
You want the history?
He’s got the history.
You want music?
He’s got MUSIC!
Enjoy!
What? You haven’t clicked yet?
How about these greats together live?
Eddie Palmieri, Monto Santamaria, Tito Puente, Mario Bauza, Paquito D’Rivera, Gracila, Ray Mantilla, Ray Barretto, James Moody, Roy Ayers, Bobby Sanabria, Hilton Ruiz, Daniel Ponce, Patato Valdes, Chico O’Farrill, Dave Valentin, Johnny Pacheo, and more.
– Ken McCarthy
Jazz on the Tube
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Blog, Video
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Check out the line up for the 2019 winter cruise while there are still seats to be had: TheJazzCruise.com
Earlier this year, I had the great good fortune to go on this cruise.
Not only is this the greatest jazz festival at sea, it’s one of the great jazz festivals of the world. Period.
Remember the good old days when you could walk club to club and hear great musicians all playing within a short distance of each other?
That’s what this cruise is like…with great food…with a fantastic and focused audience of fellow jazz fans…with fresh sea air…and with warm balmy weather to cut the winter chill.
Literally as much great music as you can handle…in a wide variety of settings from a beautiful theater to intimate club spaces…all with world class sound systems and techs that do the music justice.
As if that weren’t enough, you can stay on the boat for a second week and catch even more music with Blue Note at Sea.
If I had the job of naming the thing, I’d just call it “Jazz Heaven” and leave it at that.
Check out the line up for the winter 2019 cruise while there are still seats to be had: TheJazzCruise.com
– Ken McCarthy
Jazz on the Tube
Ornette, Video
For more Remembering Ornette podcasts click here
The poster for the original event at Artists House. Courtesy of Jim Eigo
Ornette’s Prince Street experience (Artists House, the space – not the label) was very important to him. Being removed from that creative space was traumatic. His purchase of the Rivington Street school building in December of 1980 was motivated by a desire to recreate and expand on his original Artists House concept.
An excellent article on this important and under reported chapter in Ornette’s career:
Click here for “Ornette at Prince Street” by Brent Hayes Edwards and Katherine Whatley
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