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Drummer Ferit Odman Releases 'Dameronia With Strings' on New Equinox Music CD [REVIEW]

Tadd Dameron [1917-1965] came out of Cleveland a piano-playing teenager and was soon writing and arranging in New York City for Count Basie. It's his "Hot House" that helped make Charlie Parker famous, and he also greatly helped and inspired Dizzy Gillespie. He co-led a 1949 band with Miles Davis in Paris. In 1956, he recorded "Mating Call" and gave an unknown sax player named John Coltrane his big break. 'Dameronia With Strings' (Equinox Music & Entertainment) is the brainchild of drummer Ferit Odman, from Istanbul, Turkey.
By Mike Greenblatt

  • MPS Exhumes Marvin Peterson's 1976 Thrill Ride 'Hannibal In Berlin' [REVIEW]

    Texas trumpeter Marvin "Hannibal" Peterson, 67, gained a name for himself in the early 1970s by performing and recording as part of the Gil Evans Orchestra, and in the bands of Roy Haynes and Pharoah Sanders. By 1976, he was fronting his own combos with a curious mixture of tradition and totally avant-garde squeaks, freaks, blips, beeps, grunts, honks, squeals and any other possible sound he could think of. That year he performed at the Berlin Jazz Festival and went wild. The set was preserved for posterity and re-released in 2015 as 'Hannibal In Berlin' by MPS Records out of Germany. The dude's a killer on this thrill ride of an album!
    By Mike Greenblatt

  • 15 Greatest Blues Musicians of All Time: Stevie Ray Vaughan

    One could easily rank the fifteen best blues musicians of all time but then the onus would be on the number rather than the stories they told or the lives they lead, so this list will not be burdened by numbers. Instead, it will be all about the musicians and the music they created. Next is Stevie Ray Vaughan.
    By Thomas Swan
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