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Whatever instrument you are playing, you should study the history of the instrument from the very beginning. Many drummers think jazz drumming started with Elvin Jones and Jeff Watts. You have to find out where theses people learned from and go upstream from there. You can’t put student before the teacher. You have to start at the origin. Listen to Roy Haynes with Lester Young and Bud Powell. Listen to Art Taylor comp with his left hand like Bud Powell. - Joe Farnsworth
 
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Barbara Morrison and Poncho Sanchez this Weekend at Steamer's in LA Print E-mail
Written by Ronaldo Oregano   
Sunday, 13 September 2009
Less than a week after her star-studded 60th birthday celebration at the John Anson Ford Theatre, Barbara Mossison returns to Steamers on Friday, September 18th and Saturday, September 19th.Then on Sunday, September 20th the the great Poncho Sanchez returns to Steamers with his Latin Jazz Band. Conguero Poncho Sanchez is widely respected as one of the top percussionists of our time.
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Barbara Morrison ©Andrea Canter. Poncho Sanchez ©Concord Picante
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LA Beat: Libbie Jo Snyder Group at Hollywood Studio Bar and Grill Print E-mail
Written by Glenn A. Mitchell, LA Jazz Scene   
Wednesday, 02 September 2009

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(L-R).: Jane Getz, Bill Markus, Libbie Jo Snyder and Paul Cohen©Glenn A. Mitchell
 

Flautist and vocalist Libbie Jo Snyder presented an excellent show Saturday evening, August 8th, 2009 at Hollywood Studio Bar and Grill to a fully packed audience.  Their room is very good sound-wise.  Snyder is an accomplished musician, playing flute, alto flute, bass flute and piccolo.  Classically trained, she also plays first chair flute in the Los Angeles Lawyers Philharmonic.    

For this particular evening – a two and a half hour show, Snyder decided to dedicate the first set to legendary songstress, composer and pianist, the late Blossom Dearie.  She got the inspiration from a dream she had about taking a walk with Dearie a few days before this gig and talking to her about her composition “Bye, Bye Country Boy,” that Snyder likes a lot.   

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LA Beat: Bruce Forman Trio at Steamers Print E-mail
Written by Glenn A. Mitchell, LA Jazz Scene   
Wednesday, 02 September 2009

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(L-R) Bruce Forman, Jake Reed and Joe Bagg©Glenn A. Mitchell
 

Guitar great Bruce Forman made a memorable concert experience at Steamers, Friday, August 14, 2009.  This jazz trio played exceptionally well-- their instrumentation of guitar, organ and drums has a big sound.  Forman has been a mainstay as a jazz guitarist and educator for two decades or better.  He is a newly appointed staff member at U.S.C.’s Thornton School of Music.   

Foreman’s trio included Joe Bagg on a new Nord Z-1 organ along with a fantastic young drummer, Jake Reed – only (24) years old—and, of course, Forman on an unbelievably gorgeous guitar.  Some of Forman’s musical influences are Wes Montgomery, Barney Kessel, sax great Charlie Parker and pianists Wynton Kelly and Bud Powell.  He had a great musical credit in recent times doing all the featured guitar work throughout Clint Eastwood’s Academy Award-winning film, Million Dollar Baby.   

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Jazz legend Pharoah Sanders at Catalina's in Hollywood 8/27-30 Print E-mail
Written by Ronaldo Oregano   
Sunday, 23 August 2009
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Pharoah Sanders will perform at Catalina's in Hollywood on Thursday, August 27th through Saturday, August 29th Ferrell Sanders was renamed "Pharoah" by Sun Ra when he joined Ra's Arkestra. Then Sanders joined the cadre of avant-garde saxophone pioneers of the time: Coltrane, Albert Ayler, Archie Shepp. Pharoah Sanders possesses an instantly identifiable tone that is thick and harmonically rich and heavy with overtones- a sound that can be as aggressive and raspy as Peter Brotzman. Coltrane's later style was strongly influenced by Sanders. Sanders first really captured the publics attention while playing with expressionistic and wide-open free jazz in John Coltrane's late ensembles of the mid-'60s. Sanders' later music has become more lyrical and soulful while continuing to explore new harmonic terrain.

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