Tag Archives: Don Pullen

Although he didn’t record under his own name until 1998, Olu Dara enjoyed a reputation among the jazz avant-garde’s leading trumpeters in the mid-’70s on. Early-’80s information and performances using the David Murray Octet as well as the Henry Threadgill Sextet uncovered Dara to be always a daring, roots-bound soloist, …

Organist Melvin Rhyne’s best popularity was his involvement on 4 Wes Montgomery Riverside classes (including Montgomery’s initial and last record for the label). Thankfully, Rhyne survived lengthy more than enough, after some low fat years, to come back towards the major-league jazz picture and record some CDs of his personal. …

Inspired to change from piano to organ by Jimmy Smith, Don Patterson was among the Hammond B-3’s most bop-rooted players, in a position to enjoy bluesy soul-jazz grooves or use from the pocket for a few nimble, sharply described single lines. Though he led many recording schedules for Prestige and …

Affected by his coach Don Pullen, D.D. Jackson helped the ailing Pullen full his final function, “Globe Eagle First Group,” in 1995. Jackson began within the piano when he was six and, after developing up in Canada, he gained degrees through the Manhattan College of Music (in jazz) and Indiana …

Although not really a free jazz musician, by itself, Kuhn continues to be an avant-gardist; he started trying a fusion of modern traditional components with jazz extremely early in his profession. Kuhn’s extreme virtuosity is usually a representation of his teaching. He studied traditional structure and piano for 12 years, …

An extremely original pianist who shows her gospel root base when she has organ or sings, Amina Claudine Myers began learning music when she was seven. She sang with gospel groupings in college. After shifting to Chicago, Myers trained in the general public schools, used Gene Ammons and Sonny Stitt, …

Experimental pianist Sergei Kuryokhin was among the leading lighting from the Russian avant-garde until his death in 1996. Relocating between many experimental rock organizations and much more classically affected materials, Kuryokhin was a questionable shape in his period, once showing up on Russian tv to demonstrate that Lenin had not …

Yamashita studied piano as a kid and it has played professionally because the age group of 17. He went to Kunitachi University of Music in Tokyo from 1962-1967 and performed for a while with saxophonist Sadao Watanabe. Yamashita shaped a bassless trio in 1969; his Costs Evans-influenced style extended to …

Because the mid-’60s, pianist Dave Burrell is a quality sideman on several free jazz recordings led by famous brands Archie Shepp, Pharoah Sanders, and Marion Brown. Burrell’s tone of voice combines the complete background of jazz from Dixieland to free of charge, though it really is as an inside/outside participant …

This Atlanta-based keyboardist prefers progressive music; he’s burning when playing the Hammond B-3 body organ. He is able to groove or function in the stratosphere.