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This is the eleventh in a series of special Jazz on the Tube reviews of live stream performances.
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Keith Davis has been a top-notch jazz pianist for 40 years. He attended Berklee, studied with many major jazz artists (including trumpeter Kenny Wheeler), and worked along the way with both the Glenn Miller and Artie Shaw orchestras, David “Fathead” Newman, Donald Byrd, Pat LaBarbera, Jamie Baum, Wallace Roney and Javon Jackson among others.
Based in Greenville, South Carolina where he teaches, Davis works regularly with his trio and has three CDs out as a leader including the recent But Were We.
On this performance from Mar. 16, 2020, Keith Davis shows that he is also a fine solo pianist; he plays his original “Freewheeler” which is dedicated to the late Kenny Wheeler, developing the piece as it evolves and providing not only an enjoyable listening experience but making the case for his placement as a major modern mainstream jazz pianist.
Jazz on the Tube interviews Jacob Goldberg author of “Swingin’ the Color Line.”
Music is a calling – but it’s also an occupation.
Fair pay, unrestricted job opportunities, good working conditions, the need for benefits like health care and retirement support…all these are issues for musicians too.
African-American musicians played an important role in reforming Local 802, the New York City musicians union, and their actions had widespread ramifications not only for New York-based musicians, but musicians – and workers – everywhere.
Unfortunately, the audio quality has some problems in spots, but this a very eye opening story.
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Music credit: The Jazz on the Tube podcast theme song is “Mambo Inferno” performed by The Manhattan School of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra conducted by Bobby Sanabria from the CD ¡Que Viva Harlem!
Jazz on the Tube interviews Mark Stryker, author of the book “Jazz from Detroit.”
I put an exclamation point on this one.
Why?
Because if you don’t know the Detroit jazz story, it’s going to shock you.
But don’t take it from me…
“There is no other city like Detroit: the musicians, the vibe, the people.” – Sonny Rollins
“No city has meant more to American musical culture than Detroit.” – Pat Metheny
You want names?
How about Donald Byrd, Wardell Gray, Paul Chambers, Ron Carter, Howard McGhee, Major Holley, Gerald Wilson, Alice Coltrane, Al McKibbon, Billy Mitchell, Geri Allen, Lucky Thompson, and Kenny Burrell.
And that’s the short list from just one Detroit high school.
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Music credit: The Jazz on the Tube podcast theme song is “Mambo Inferno” performed by The Manhattan School of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra conducted by Bobby Sanabria from the CD ¡Que Viva Harlem!
Three high schools – one in Detroit, one in Chicago, and one in Fort Worth – did a truly epic job in keeping the jazz genius pipeline full in the middle 20th century.
We’re almost certainly missing important schools in Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and New York City and probably some other places are well.
If you’ve got a high school list, please send it to us and we’ll add it to this page. Send to ken AT jazzonthetube DOT com
DuSable High School – Chicago
Clifford Jordan
Dinah Washington
Dorothy Donegan
Eddie Harris
Fred Hopkins
Gene Ammons
Jerome Cooper
John Gilmore
Johnny Griffin
Johnny Hartman
Joseph Jarman
Julian Priester
Leroy Jenkins
Muhal Richard Abrams
Nat King Cole
Red Holloway
Richard Davis
Ronnie Boykins
Sonny Cohn
Von Freeman
Walter Perkins
Wilbur Ware
Cass Technical High School – Detroit
Al McKibbon
Ali Jackson
Alice Coltrane
Artie Fields
Billy Mitchell
Della Reese
Donald Byrd
Dorothy Ashby
Doug Watkins
Frank Rosolino
Gerald Wilson
Geri Allen
Howard McGhee
Hugh Lawson
J. C. Heard
Kenny Burrell
Lucky Thompson
Major Holley
Paul Chambers
Regina Carter
Ron Carter
Wardell Gray
I.M. Terrell High School – Fort Worth
Charles Moffett
Cornell Dupree
Dewey Redman
John Carter
Julius Hemphill
King Curtis
Ornette Coleman
Prince Lasha
Ray Sharpe
Ronald Shannon Jackson
– Ken McCarthy
Jazz on the Tube
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