Elvin Jones' Jazz Machine - Live at JazzOpen Stuttgart Festival.

Format:

Video

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States and Canada.

Post-Bop.

Hard-Bop.

African Americans.

Local Subjects:

United States and Canada.

Post-Bop.

Hard-Bop.

African Americans.

Genre:

Performance

Physical Description:

1 online resource (59 minutes)

Place of Publication:

Paris, Ile-de-France : Qwest TV, 1991.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

Drummer Elvin Jones’s Jazz Machine toured Europe in 1991 with Sonny Fortune (tenor saxophone, flute), Chip Jackson (bass), Willie Pickens (piano), and Ravi J. Coltrane (tenor and soprano saxophones). This show was captured at the Theaterhaus in Stuttgart, Germany. Elvin Jones, who was 64 at the time of the concert, had lost none of his energy or the precision of his rhythmic placements. Quite the contrary. With his face marked by a strength as intense as his sound, the drummer offers us a solo (at the 13th minute) that has almost melodic phrasing, a secret cultivated during his long career. The brother of pianist Hank Jones and trumpeter Thad Jones, Elvin Jones was soon noticed playing in the legendary John Coltrane quartet in the 1960s. It is another Coltrane who joins the drummer for this concert, offering solos of exceptional virtuosity, matching that of the pianist and dialoguing on compositions by Thad Jones ("Ray El") and Chip Jackson ("Is There a Jackson in the House?"). Floriane Esnault

Notes:

Performed Theaterhaus Stuttgart

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