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Gang Starr - Jazz Thing

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“Tom Petty” by American artist Robert Hurst.

R.I.P., Tom Petty (October 20th, 1950 – October 2nd, 2017).

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2025-11-11 Kris Davis Trio - Trondheim Jazzforum, Dokkhuset

2025-11-11 Kris Davis Trio - Trondheim Jazzforum, Dokkhuset

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Kris Davis Trio, Run The Gauntlet

On her new album Run The Gauntlet, Kris Davis celebrates the women pianists that have had the most influence on her creative journey and life. Arguably an unsung hero of avant-garde jazz piano in her own right, Davis’ new offering demonstrates how groundbreaking and influential her music has been in the last three decades. The list of pianists the Canadian-born composer pays tribute to on this…

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Paul McCartney: Kisses On The Bottom

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Hear Music/MPL/Concord/Universal HRM-33598-01

Released: February 3, 2012

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In Walked Bud

Robert Hurst

Rafael Statin – sax Ian Finkelstein – keyboards Robert Hurst – bass Kayvon Gordon – drums

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Jazziversaries October 4th

Robert Hurst III (bass) 1964 ::Many happy jazziversary returns to Robert Hurst. Robert Hurst is an American jazz bassist.

Hurst played guitar early in his career before concentrating on bass. He worked with Out of the Blue in 1985 and also did work with musicians such as Tony Williams, Mulgrew Miller, Harry Connick Jr., Geri Allen, Russell Malone, and Steve Coleman. From 1986 to 1991 Hurst played in Wynton Marsalis’s ensemble, and played with Branford Marsalis in the early 1990s. He was also a member of The Tonight Show Band.

His debut as a leader, 1993’s Robert Hurst Presents, reached #13 on the Billboard Top Jazz Albums chart. He currently teaches jazz bass at the University of Michigan.

Steve Swallow (bass) 1940 :: Jazziversary greetings to Steve Swallow. Steve Swallow is a jazz double bassist and bass guitarist and composer noted for his numerous collaborations.

One of the leading bassists in jazz, Swallow is noted for collaborations with Jimmy Giuffre, Gary Burton and Carla Bley. He was also one of the first acoustic bassists in jazz to switch entirely to electric bass guitar, on which he has a distinctively nimble sound.

As a child, Swallow studied piano and trumpet before turning to the double bass at age 14. While attending a prep school, he began trying his hand in jazz improvisation. In 1960, he left Yale, where he was studying composition, and settled in New York City, playing at the time in Jimmy Giuffre’s trio along with Paul Bley. After joining Art Farmer’s quartet in 1964, Swallow began to write. It is in the 1960s that his long-term association with Gary Burton’s various bands began.

In the early 1970s, Swallow switched exclusively to electric bass guitar, of which he prefers the 5-string variety. Along with Monk Montgomery and Bob Cranshaw, Swallow was among the first jazz bassists to do so (with much encouragement from Roy Haynes, one of Swallow’s favorite drummers). He plays with a pick (made of copper by Hotlicks), and his style involves intricate solos in the upper register; he was one of the early adopters of the high C string on a bass guitar.

In 1974-76 Swallow taught at the Berklee College of Music. It is often speculated that he had an influence on the contents of the “Real Book,” which includes a fair number of his early compositions. He later recorded an album of the same name, with the picture of a well-worn, coffee-stained Real Book on the cover.

In 1978 Swallow became an essential and constant member of Carla Bley’s band. He has been Bley’s romantic partner since the 1980s. He toured extensively with John Scofield in the early 1980s, and has returned to this collaboration several times over the years.

Swallow has consistently won the electric bass category in Down Beat yearly polls, both Critics’ and Readers’, since the mid-80s. His compositions have been covered by, among others, Jim Hall (who recorded his very first tune, “Eiderdown”), Bill Evans, Chick Corea, Stan Getz and Gary Burton.

Leon Thomas (vocalist) 1937-1999 :: Amos Leon Thomas, Jr. was an American avant-garde jazz singer from East St. Louis, Illinois.

Thomas studied music at Tennessee State University. In the 1960s he was a vocalist for Count Basie and others.

In 1969, he released his first solo album for the prestigious Flying Dutchman label.

However he made an earlier album that is still unreleased even now.

He was largely forgotten until a resurgence of interest in soul jazz. Several of his tracks have been sampled in hip-hop and downtempo records. He changed his name to Leone in 1974 because of an interest he had in numerology at the time. He did not legally change his name and he reverted to Leon shortly thereafter.

Thomas is best known for his work with Pharoah Sanders, particularly the 1969 song “The Creator Has a Master Plan” from Sanders’ Karma album. Thomas’s most distinctive device was that he often broke out into yodeling in the middle of a vocal. This style has influenced singers James Moody, Tim Buckley and Bobby McFerrin, among others. He said in an interview that he developed this style after he fell and broke his teeth before an important show.

Thomas toured and recorded as a member of the band Santana in 1973.

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