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| | John Stevens - index page - Free MP3 downloads, CDs, Bio Info, Tour Dates, Lyrics and More!" |
 | | John’s performances include a unique blend of original songs as well as cover songs of artists from a wide range of the music genre. | | | John and David Lindgren collaborated on five other songs on this CD and they continue to write and shop their music in Nashville. | | | John also released a two song “party” CD titled “I’ll Do Anybody But You” in 1998. |
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| | John Stevens, dead since some years, was with his Spontaneous Music Ensemble one of those who created new grounds for British improvised music. | | | John Stevens, fondatore dello Spontaneous Music Ensemble in cui hanno suonato i più noti improvvisatori radicali inglesi, su questo live utilizza una batteria ridotta al minimo indispensabile, ricavandone uno swing insolito per uno abituato a ben altri tipi di suoni. | | | Although Stevens is the nominal leader of the band, the hallmark of this record is Osborne's prowess (especially on the 23-minute closer, 'MO Recapitulations', an improvisation which takes into account a number of classic hard bop themes). |
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| | www.jazzweekly.com Reviews |
| | Stevens, who for 30 odd years until his death directed various versions of the Spontaneous Music Ensemble (SME), one of the seminal experiments in defining BritImprov, was a famously irascible character. | | | Two of the most fervent of England's first generation free jazz/improvised music experimenters, drummer John Stevens (1940-1994) and alto saxophonist Mike Osborne (b.1941) aren't as well known as they should be for a variety of reasons. | | | A chameleon who could be playing super sensitive near soundless improv with partners like saxophonist John Butcher or trumpeter Kenny Wheeler one day and raucous jazz rock with lesser musicians the next, Stevens managed to alienate as many players as he inspired. |
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| | Thankful, Stevens persisted, and the end resulted is that Wheeler also became one of the most distinctive and original musicians on the free music scene as well. | | | Fortunately there are many recordings of Stevens, both issued and unissued, so that his music will live on, and his importance can be appreciated for time immemorial. | | | Back in London in the mid-1960s, Stevens became one of the leading young jazz drummers, much in awe of the immensely talented Phil Seamen. |
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http://www.shef.ac.uk/~ps/efi/mstevens.html
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| | EMANEM 4117: JOHN STEVENS QUARTET |
| | Nigel Coombes, a former member of John Stevens' Spontaneous Music Ensemble, was fond of a story of the dance band led by Chick Webb. | | | The applause and John's announcements have been retained in addition to all of the music. | | | John played with him often - they made a beautiful duo album together - and the loss of Dudu still clearly affects him. |
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http://www.emanemdisc.com/E4117.html
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| | BBC - Radio 3 - Jazz on 3 - Wolfgang Muthspiel Trio and Tribute to John Stevens |
| | Stevens was a great instrumentalist and improviser, but he is best remembered as a huge motivating force on the domestic music scene from the late 60s to the early 90s. | | | The gig was a sell out, mainly because Muthspiel's drummer is the great Brian Blade, who is more usually seen on the stages of large concert halls rather than the intimate surroundings of a small club. | | | Also in the programme, Jez presents a tribute to British drummer John Stevens, who died ten years ago this week. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/jazzon3/pip/v8iv5
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| | www.jazzweekly.com Reviews |
| | Stevens' salute reminds the listener that one of saxophonist Ornette Coleman's 1965 milestone album AT THE GOLDEN CIRCLE was recorded in Sweden, close to Gjerstad's homeland. | | | This tune and "Complex Area Persisting", a salute to drummer Stevens, are spacey enough to leave room for percussion. | | | As a matter of fact, the longest tune, "Becoming Cyclonic" honors drummer Tony Williams, whose history encompassed hard bop, freebop, modal sounds and the origin of jazz/rock fusion -- no doubt influencing Stephens. |
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| | Allan Holdsworth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Allan Holdsworth ranks with Jimi Hendrix and John McLaughlin as one of the key figures in the history of the electric guitar. | | | Some of his notable instrumental work in the 70's can be heard on Lifetime's 'Believe It' album, and the first two (Bill) Bruford Band albums ('Feels Good To Me' and 'One Of A Kind'). | | | Holdsworth is felt by many to be one of the most significant figures in the development and evolution of the electric guitar in the modern era, and has been described as "the guitarist's guitarist". |
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| | CD Baby: GAIL ANN DORSEY: I Used To Be... |
| | John Stevens introduced Gail Ann to his son Richie Stevens, whose soul/funk band Well Red was signed to a major label. | | | She signed with WEA Records in December 1987, and in 1988, released her first solo album titled, 'The Corporate World'. | | | She recalls one of her highlights as being the guest vocalist in the original lineup of the 33-piece Charlie Watts Big Band, drummer for The Rolling Stones. |
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http://www.cdbaby.com/gailanndorsey
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| | BRADFORD, Bobby : MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music |
| | Bobby Bradford And John Stevens: Spontaneous Music Ensemble '71 made in London with Trevor Watts (alto sax), Ron Herman (bass), Julie Tippetts (vocals, guitar), drummer John Stevens; session was partly issued on Black Lion, Freedom, etc; later complete in two vols on Nessa. | | | Played with Ornette Coleman (albums Science Fiction, Broken Shadows '71), John Carter, Quincy Jones; own LPs incl. | | | Played on albums by trombonist Michael Vlatkovich, composer Vinny Golia (three-disc limited edition Compositions For Large Ensemble '86), Comin' On '88 on hat Hut by the Bradford/Carter Quintet; Tandem 1 and Tandem 2 '79--82 on Emanem had just Bradford and Carter in duo. |
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http://www.musicweb-international.com/encyclopaedia/b/B220.HTM
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| | SFBG Arts and Entertainment |
| | This is the last recording Bailey made with drummer John Stevens before Stevens's death in 1994, and it is an incredible testament to the musical relationship the two maintained (on and off) for nearly 30 years. | | | From 1963 to 1965, in the relative isolation of northern England, Joseph Holbrooke's music evolved from jazz tunes to an early version of freely improvised music. | | | The Little Theatre, a small music venue not unlike Beanbender's or Venue Nine, served as a home to a scene that centered around drummer John Stevens and his ever-changing Spontaneous Music Ensemble (SME), which usually included saxophonist Evan Parker. |
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| | Kenny Wheeler at jazzcds |
| | The same critics, however, have tended to be less vocal in their support for the trio Azimuth (Wheeler, John Taylor and Norma Winstone) whose ECM albums are distinguished by their subtlety and require repeated close listening for full appreciation. | | | He consequently came to be one of the major solo voices in the Dankworth orchestra, and during the end of his stay recorded his first album as a leader Windmill Tilter (Fontana), which featured compositions for big band based on Cervantes’ Don Quixote stories. | | | He also took part in the Beethoven Fest 2002 in Bonn together with John Taylor.With John Taylor he recorded two albums in 2001: the first one for EGEA, Moon, with the participation of the clarinet-player Gabriele Mirabassi; the second one for the French label Sketch together with the Italo-French double-bass player Riccardo Del Fra. |
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| | Polestar Music Gallery: Frode Gjerstad Trio |
| | His relationship with the great British improvising drummer John Stevens, which started in 1981 and lasted up until Stevens's death in 1994, was of great importance on both musical and personal levels. | | | The Circulasione Totale Orchestra is at the moment a 7-piece band with two drummers, two acoustic basses, guitar, trumpet and Gjerstad on sax. | | | The orchestra presented a comissioned work at the Molde Festival in 1989 with a 13-piece band combining free improvisastions and compositions, along with rapping and scratching. |
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| | Ragbaby Stevens -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article |
| | "Ragbaby" was of the best regarded hot drummers with (Click link for more info and facts about Papa Jack Laine) Papa Jack Laine's Reliance band in New Orleans in the early years of the (Click link for more info and facts about 20th century) 20th century. | | | After the Kelly Jazz Band won greater approval from the crowds at a "Battle of the Bands" Ragbaby found his drum head's slashed, and he took the next train back to Chicago and never again headed east. | | | [Categories: United States musicians, New Orleanians, Jazz musicians, Jazz drummers, 1927 deaths, 1887 births] |
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| | EMANEM 4065: FRODE GJERSTAD / JOHN STEVENS / DEREK BAILEY |
| | John left a vast catalogue of recordings behind when he died in 1994, and recordings of his vary varied music have been released after his death. | | | "The late John Stevens may have been the most intrepid of British improvisers, first into the gap as leader of the Spontaneous Music Ensemble and with a tremendous dedication to the absence of forethought. | | | Frode's reeds, Bailey's amplified guitar and John's crisp percussives mesh together flawlessly, in a dance of free fantasy that will open the listener's mind up to possibilities never before imagined. |
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| | John Stevens (drummer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In 1967 their first album, Challenge, was released. | | | The SME continued to play, the last time being in 1994 with a group including John Butcher. | | | Stevens then became interested in the music of Anton Webern, and the SME began to play generally very quiet music. |
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| | freejazz.org - Freedom in music |
| | They also have a talented drummer in their band. | | | The drummer was outstanding, driving the band with pulsating rhythms. | | | I haven't seen nor heard of a drummer that could play as well as Tony Williams did when he was a teenager. |
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http://www.freejazz.org/stories.php?story=02/02/01/1198913&offset=7
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| | WATTS, Trevor : MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music |
| | Watts returned to the Spontaneous Music Ensemble replacing Evan Parker, and Face To Face '73, reissued on an Emanem CD, was a duo with Stevens, Watts's work more raw and abstract than the lyricism he soon turned to. | | | Played rock and blues early '60s, then became a free improviser with a penchant for linear melodicism and a leaning towards a folkish sound, the most effective British disciple of Ornette Coleman. | | | Paapa J. Mensah; the Moir Music Trio '95 on Intakt with McKenzie and Mensah was stripped-down freshness and sparkling fun. |
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| | Derek Bailey, MP3 Music Download at eMusic |
| | This specific collection of players recorded as the Spontaneous Music Ensemble, which served as a crucible for the sort of egalitarian, collective improvisation that Bailey was to pursue from then on. | | | Bailey's guitar is much like John Cage's prepared piano; both innovations enhanced the respective instrument's percussive possibilities. | | | As a youngster living in Sheffield in the '40s, Bailey studied music with C.H.C. Biltcliffe and guitar with George Wing and John Duarte. |
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| | Obituary of Bill Eyden, the AWSoP drummer |
| | He collected his standard Musicians’ Union session fee and left, only to read shortly after that the disc had rocketed to No 1 in the charts and that Harrison’s share of the royalties was likely already to amount to £10,000. | | | Although the many years he spent with Tubby Hayes and Ronnie Scott made him a legendary figure among British jazz fans, the drummer Bill Eyden’s most famous recording took place on a single afternoon in 1967, for which he was paid the princely sum of 15 guineas. | | | Bill Eyden, jazz drummer, was born on May 4, 1930. |
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| | Grydeland has played and recorded with British drummer Tony Oxley, Bailey's old confrere from the dawn of the close-knit London improvised music scene. | | | It’s another report on the talents of a highly inventive drummer; a supplementary CD of the underrecorded Gjerstad’s work; and as a reminder that no matter how many sessions he plays, when faced with improvisations --and improvisers -- at his level Bailey will pilot his work up to yet another level. | | | Wheeler had already played free music with drummer John Stevens and was soon to begin an association with experimenters like American reedist Anthony Braxton and the German-based Globe Unity Orchestra. |
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| | www.stluciajazz.org - St. Lucia Jazz 2003 |
| | The brooding vocal track "Children Of The Ghetto" (with Sousaye Greene) became a chart hit, and the sheer energy produced by these musicians as they grabbed their moment is still thrilling to hear today. | | | The flavour of club music was well to the fore now, but the presence of "Lady Day And John Coltrane" suggests that Pine has never lost touch with his jazz roots. | | | He was awarded the OBE in 2000 and the same year released Back In The Day, which used studio mixing techniques in a highly creative way. |
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| | * Dusted Reviews - John Stevens Quartet * |
| | It focuses on drummer John Stevens’ ability to “blow” quasi-trad jazz with the best of ’em, proving himself to be both a perceptive listener and an incisive leader in a fresh context. | | | Steve Beresford’s liners to the original issue compare Stevens to 1930s drummer and big band leader Chick Webb, a point of reference as accurate as it is insightful. | | | It is fascinating to hear one of the pillars of free improvisation swing, which he does with taste and energy throughout the disc. |
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| | VH1.com : Tony Oxley : Biography |
| | The group's relative isolation from other currents in British free music -- drummer John Stevens' London-based Spontaneous Music Ensemble was a contemporary -- purportedly helped the band develop a unique approach. | | | He continued to play and record with a number of European new music stalwarts, including saxophonist John Surman and trumpeter Tomasz Stanko for the ECM label. | | | After the members of the band moved to London in 1967, Oxley became house drummer at Ronnie Scott's, a famous mainstream jazz club. |
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| | CMT.com : Trevor Watts/Moire Music... : Biography |
| | In early 1968, Watts was back in the SME fold, and this time he and Stevens remained the core of a rotating cast for the next eight years. | | | Although Trevor Watts is usually associated with abstract and free music, the '80s and '90s found him leading a number of groups (under the Moiré Music moniker) that focus more on composition and world rhythms. | | | in the Spontaneous Music Ensemble and in other projects with drummer John Stevens. |
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| | DMG Search |
| | John Stevens, which were originally released as separate albums: the incredible 'Re-Touch' | | | to drummers Eddie Blackwell and Billy Higgins for their contribution to jazz music. | | | Ensemble, led by drummer John Stevens and including alto saxist Trevor Watts. |
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| | Earshot Jazz Monthly Publication Archive |
| | They were drummer John Stevens and saxophonist Trevor Watts. | | | They were all written tunes by John, Trevor, and myself. | | | I walked in and heard just one sort of plug full of it and ‘Christ almighty, what is that!?’ I bought this thing and took it back to John and Trevor and said ‘listen to this,’ and that was it.” |
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| | Through Stevens, he was also able to play with free jazz improvisers like Even Parker, Billy Bang, Borah Bergman, Derek Bailey and so on. | | | The trio has toured Scandinavia and has recorded two CDs and now they are touring North America. | | | He also operates his own record label Circulasione Totale which has enabled him to record extensively over the past fifteen years. |
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| | Marc Sabatella's Jazz Improvisation Primer: Post Modern Jazz |
| | On the other extreme are musicians like saxophonist John Zorn and guitarists Sonny Sharrock and Fred Frith, who engaged in a frenetic form of free improvisation sometimes called energy music. | | | Some of the more successful of the European improvisers include saxophonists Evan Parker, John Tchicai, John Surman, and Jan Garbarek, trumpet players Kenny Wheeler and Ian Carr, pianist John Taylor, guitarists Derek Bailey and Allan Holdsworth, bassist Eberhard Weber, drummer John Stevens, and arrangers Mike Westbrook, Franz Koglman, and Willem Breuker. | | | Their music tended to emphasize compositional elements more sophisticated than the head-solos-head form. |
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| | * Dusted Reviews - Frode Gjerstad & Derek Bailey * |
| | The pair first collaborated on a handful of concerts back in 1992, the last of which was recorded and found release as Hello, Goodbye, also on Emanem. | | | Nearly a D continues the story at Bailey’s London flat this past summer, minus the presence of now-deceased drummer John Stevens. |
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| | NEWCITYCHICAGO.COM: Street Smart Chicago |
| | The Beatles had begun investigating Indian music and the exploits of the SME were in full swing: "Yoko Ono got to know us. | | | A group of fanatics experimented in the RAF band hut after duties, rehearsing straighter music. | | | There was a big happening at Cambridge, with Dudu Pukwana, Evan Parker, Brotzmann, Breuker, Bennink, myself and John involved. |
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| | VH1.com : Trevor Watts/Moire Music... : Artist Main |
| | He is perhaps best known for his involvement in the Spontaneous Music Ensemble and in other projects with drummer John Stevens. | | | British saxophonist Trevor Watts has been associated with the British free jazz and improvised music scene since the mid-'60s. |
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| | Music Forum - Greatest Jazz Drummer |
| | There are so many fabulous drummers in the Jazz world that to cite one above all the rest would be rediculous, so let's just list some of our personal favorites. | | | When you listen to him you can imagine a whole forest around you! | | | 06-16-2004 04:20 PM I think Elvin Jones, MISTER Elvin Jones, is a great great great drummer. |
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| | DMG: Newsletter 70- Reviews of July 2002 Releases |
| | Rosenberg and Dan Plonsey on saxes, John Shiruba on guitar and Mr. | | | JOHN CAGE - Roaratorio (Mode 28/29) This is Volume 6 of Mode's John | | | Melis, drummer Jacques Thollot as well as cellist Irene Aebi. |
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| | Drums Etc. - "The Drummer's Pro Shop" |
| | They have recorded two albums since he joined the band and they have opened concerts for B.B. King, Tower of Power, Herbie Hancock and Spyro Gyra. | | | Between 1965 and 1978, he toured the continental United States and Canada with numerous show groups and bands. | | | John Peifer began his dedication to music at a very young age. |
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| | SEE Magazine: January 27, 2000 |
| | A major factor limiting Gjerstad’s exposure was his 13-year musical collaboration with British drummer John Stevens, a driving force in improvised music. | | | The trio he will bring to the Yardbird Suite on Saturday, Jan. 29 includes Chicago drummer Hamid Drake and New York bassist William Parker, currently two of the most prominent musicians in jazz. | | | While Gjerstad credits Stevens with being his main musical inspiration, he also reflects on how that friendship may have stunted his solo career. |
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| | Jazz Artist Interview - Frode Gjerstad's Fountain of Youth@ jazzreview.com |
| | As Gjerstad searches the soul of his instrument and Drake and Parker awaken the silence behind him, the three achieve a primal squawl that not only echoes the raging beauty of John Coltrane, but, at times, the raw and ancient glory of the Master Musicians of Jajouka. | | | I had played with (bassist) William Parker in New York while visiting Borah Bergman and Peter Brotzmann had told me to look up (drummer) Hamid Drake whenever I had the chance.” | | | He was my drummer.” Stevens had also introduced the saxophonist to the cliquish European jazz circle and following his death, fellow musicians were very supportive of Gjerstad. |
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| | Woodland Pattern > Gallery Info |
| | He moved to London in the mid 1970s, playing in drummer John Stevens' Spontaneous Music Ensemble (SME) with, among others, Kenny Wheeler, Paul Rutherford, and Derek Bailey. | | | In the late 60s he worked regularly with guitarist Derek Bailey as a duo and in the Music Improvisation Company. | | | At 16 he concentrated his studies (after listening to |
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| | Chamber Music America: 2001 National Conference - Speakers List |
| | I remained in England, teaching in secondary schools where I played a minor part in the revolution in music teaching of the 60s, attended rock concerts and festivals, and made halting attempts to play jazz under the tutelage of the drummer John Stevens, just about the finest musician and teacher I have ever known. | | | His other research interests include aspects of jazz, ragtime, the philosophy of music, and music therapy. | | | Horwitz has won twelve ASCAP awards and written the lyrics for John Harbison's opera, the Great Gatsby, which received its premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1999. |
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| | CMT.com : Courtney Pine : Biography |
| | Pine went back to the jazz root, studying Sonny Rollins' and John Coltrane's improvising styles while participating in drummer John Stevens' jazz workshops before he became a part-time member of the Charlie Watts Orchestra. | | | Pine left to tour with both George Russell and Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers before recording his debut album, Journey to the Urge Within for Antilles. | | | He cut his jazz teeth with the hard bopping Dwarf Steps, before leaving to tour and record with reggae stars General Saint and Clint Eastwood. |
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| | Browse by Artist: SMITH/JOHN STEVENS, GARY |
| | This presents the young UK free guitarist Smith alongside the late, legendary Spontaneous Music Ensemble drummer Stevens (also found briefly on mini-trumpet, in what unfortunately will have to be remembered as one of his final studio dates). | | | A series of seven improvisations for electric guitar and drums, recorded live to DAT in a London studio in 1993. | | | The whole thing coalesces with beautiful fragility, adding a new sub chapter to the contemporary world of non-metered improv. |
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| | 6 DEGREES OF GAY HISTORY: MAGAZINE COVERS SHOT BY JACK FRITSCHER |
| | The terminally-ill Keith Ardent expressed that his one unrealized fantasy was to be on the cover of Drummer. | | | Approximately ninety days before this March 1997 cover appeared, Tom of Finland arrived in America (November 1976) and was hosted in San Francisco by Drummer Art Director, Al (A. Jay) Shapiro and Drummer editor-in-chief, Jack Fritscher. | | | Editor of issue for Drummer #25: Jack Fritscher. |
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| | He played with drummer John Stevens in the ‘80s, formed the Jazz Warriors a few years later and began leading his own groups. | | | He played with reggae and funk bands in school and always had an interest in many types of music. | | | Known for his virtuosity and fluency on tenor and soprano, the saxman continues to reshape and push the boundaries with this self-produced album, which also features sitar player Sheema Mukhurjee of Trans Global Underground fame. |
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| | BBC News MUSIC Pine turns jazz ambassador |
| | "I started off doing community music when I was 19, with drummer John Stevens - and his thing was about sharing the joy of jazz music with people of all abilities," he told BBC News Online. | | | It is a challenge for Pine, 37, but a rewarding one. |
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| | Guardian Amalgam, Samanna |
| | Last year saw an FMR reissue from the freebop and freefunk British band Amalgam's Innovation - a 1974 version of a significant UK improv/fusion band including the great British drummer John Stevens and a young Keith Tippett on piano. | | | Some of Watts' best work on record, though this version of Amalgam depends on his capacity for variety to a pretty taxing degree. | | | This Amalgam set is from three years later and finds the group moving closer to an independent take on unconventional 1970s fusion as pioneered by Ornette Coleman's Prime Time, with two electric basses, electric guitar and the exciting Liam Genockey on drums in addition to the Ornette Colemanish leader Trevor Watts on alto sax. |
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| | New Releases 4/20/2001 |
| | The resourecful and diverse international cast included Derek Bailey on el.guitar, Min Xiao-Fen on pipa, John Zorn on alto sax, Joey Baron on drums, Annie Gosfield on sampler, Jennifer Choi on violin, Simon Fell on 5 string contrabass, Rhondri Davies on acoustic harp, Mark Wastell on cello and Will Gaines tapdancing!!! | | | 3.JOHN STEVENS-MIKE OSBORNE-PAUL ROGERS-Live at the Plough (Ayler 7) Obviously an historic recording since both SME leader and great drummer John Stevens and incredible British alto sax flame thrower Mike Osborne are both no longer with us. | | | Simon Fell's trio IST of bass-harp-cello also played their own set earlier this week and did numerous naughty things to their traditional instruments getting sounds both strange and wonderful! |
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http://www.dtmgallery.com/Main/news/20010420.htm
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| | Armorel Weston |
| | In London, along with the drummer John Stevens, she founded the Little Theatre Club, the first home for ‘free jazz&; in the UK, and a hothouse for many of Britain’s finest improvisers, like Evan Parker, Trevor Watts, Paul Rutherford, Derek Bailey, Barry Guy, Eddie Prevost, Kenny Wheeler, Marcio Mattos. | | | In 1992, she began to sing again, working in partnership with John Gibbens in The Children, composing, arranging and performing entirely original material. | | | The glitter of that night-club grind just wore right off, though, so she cut off her hair and sailed straight away for a wilder North country where she could not go wrong… |
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http://www.touched.co.uk/phono/armbio.html
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| | The Squid's Ear |
| | As for the music contained on this side, it is about as loose and informal as one can get. | | | Its drummer, Terry Day, may have been its most central figure, a kind of leader by default who actually did rally a number of musicians around him in its early stages. | | | Unlike their contemporaries, this motley crew of musical explorers did not really have a ring master, or a real take-charge type of person with a definite ideological mindset. |
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http://www.squidco.com/cgi-bin/news/newsView.cgi?newsID=456
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| | Claire Dowie |
| | Previously he studied music, theatre and dance in Japan and devised and directed Dulcima for Novella Theatre Company. | | | He went on to devise and direct A Little Cabaret for Bertold Brecht and A Strindberg Play with cabaret performers, directed an improvisation research project with jazz drummer John Stevens, before beginning his longstanding collaborations with Claire Dowie in 1986 and Ken Campbell in 1988. | | | Since then he has collaborated with both these writer/performers on all their theatre shows. |
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http://freespace.virgin.net/colin.watkeys/index-page6.html
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