Will Calhoun

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Drummer Will Calhoun graduated from the Berklee College of Music, and then became famous as the drummer of the innovative rock group Living Colour.

Calhoun has also worked with many top names in jazz and rock including Pharoah Sanders, Jaco Pastorius, Wayne Shorter, Marcus Miller, B.B. King, Herb Alpert, Dr. John and Public Enemy, in addition to leading a few albums of his own.

On the first piece on his LiveStream from May 25, 2000, Will Calhoun is a one-man band, creating an electronic drone and playing over it with a horn that sounds like an electrified flute.

The bulk of the performance is a colorful and creative drum solo that he creates while interacting with some electronics to achieve an unusual variety of sounds.

-Scott Yanow

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May 25, 2020

May 13, 2020 – Drumset Set-up by Will Calhoun

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Eric Alexander

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This is the Sixty seventh in a series of special Jazz on the Tube reviews of live stream performances.

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A major tenor-saxophonist since the 1990s, Eric Alexander was usually featured before the world shut down in a quartet (he worked for years with the late pianist Harold Mabern) or larger groups.

While one can trace his style at times to John Coltrane, Sonny Stitt, Dexter Gordon and other jazz greats, Alexander has his own musical personality in jazz’s modern mainstream.

On this LiveStream from May 25, 2020, Alexander performs a ballad on piano and then, after the camera is straightened out, performs a set of unaccompanied tenor solos including “Misty,” “On A Clear Day,” a lowdown blues that he punctuates with some piano chords, “Four,” “Lover,” “Giant Steps,” and other pieces, often explaining what he is doing, giving listeners a bit of a lesson.

-Scott Yanow

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May 25, 2020

January 28, 2021

November 12, 2020

August 13, 2020

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