Monday, August 10, 2026

Dave Pike • Bossa Nova Carnival



El vibrafonista, Dave Pike inició sus estudios a los ocho años, tocando primero la batería y después el vibráfono, instrumento con el que desarrollaría su carrera profesional. Debutó a mediados de los años cincuenta, formando parte de los grupos del pianista, Elmo Hope, y del contrabajista, Curtis Counce. Con una bien ganada reputación entre sus colegas, en 1957 emprendió una larga y fructífera colaboración con el el pianista Paúl Bley, con el que obtuvo el reconocimiento del publico y de la critica especializada.





Cuando finalizó su colaboración con Bley, Dave Pike la inició con Dexter Gordon y Harold Land, antes de que formara, en 1961, su propio grupo, cosa que hizo junto al flautista, Herbie Mann y que permaneció unido hasta 1964. Participó en 1968 en el Festival de jazz de Berlín, vivió cinco años en Europa donde formó su propio cuarteto con músicos alemanes. Antes de volver a los Estados Unidos formó parte del proyecto de bigband europeo mas importante de aquélla época, cuando se unió a la de Kenny Clarke y Francis Boland. De vuelta a los Estados Unidos, reorganizó su grupo con el que actuó con mucha frecuencia en el sur de California. Pionero del vibráfono amplificado, Dave Pike pertenece a una generación de solistas que trató con éxito en los sesenta, de renovar el lenguaje del vibráfono en el jazz, dominado desde hacia mas de una década por el extraordinario maestro, Milt Jackson.
Fuente: http://www.apoloybaco.com/davepikebiografia.htm




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Artist Biography by Scott Yanow
Dave Pike has been a consistent vibraphonist through the years without gaining much fame. He originally played drums and is self-taught on vibes. Pike moved with his family to Los Angeles in 1954 and played with Curtis Counce, Harold Land, Elmo Hope, Dexter Gordon, Carl Perkins, and Paul Bley, among others. After moving to New York in 1960 he put an amplifier on his vibes. Pike toured with Herbie Mann during 1961-1964, spent 1968-1973 in Germany (recording with the Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland big band), and then resettled in Los Angeles, playing locally and recording for Timeless and Criss Cross.



  

Sunday, August 9, 2026

The Jazz Image Seeing Music through Herman Leonard's Photography

 



Typically a photograph of a jazz musician has several formal prerequisites: black and white film, an urban setting in the mid-twentieth century, and a black man standing, playing, or sitting next to his instrument. That's the jazz archetype that photography created. Author K. Heather Pinson discovers how such a steadfast script developed visually and what this convention meant for the music.
Album covers, magazines, books, documentaries, art photographs, posters, and various other visual extensions of popular culture formed the commonly held image of the jazz player. Through assimilation, there emerged a generalized composite of how mainstream jazz looked and sounded. Pinson evaluates representations of jazz musicians from 1945 to 1959, concentrating on the seminal role played by Herman Leonard. Leonard's photographic depictions of African American jazz musicians in New York not only created a visual template of a black musician of the 1950s, but also became the standard configuration of the music's neoclassical sound today. To discover how the image of the musician affected mainstream jazz, Pinson examines readings from critics, musicians, and educators, as well as interviews, musical scores, recordings, transcriptions, liner notes, and oral narratives.




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A Latin American Music Reader Views from the South

 


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Iggy Pop: Open Up And Bleed: The Biography

  


Iggy Pop's life has been one of extraordinary highs and terrifying lows. Infamous for his wild ways, he is also a towering figure of the rock scene - hugely influential, charismatic and provocative. Every 'mad, bad, dangerous to know' rock star owes a debt to him, and the stories of his shocking behaviour are legendary. But Iggy Pop is also, to a large extent, a construct, the alter ego of the quietly spoken and intriguing Jim Osterberg: the kid voted 'Most Likely to Succeed' by his classmates. So what turned this charming, well-mannered, straight-A student into a poster child for rock 'n' roll debauchery?

Iggy Pop: Open up and Bleed reveals the truth behind the myths. Former MOJO editor Paul Trynka tracked down the star's friends, family, lovers and fellow musicians, conducting over two hundred and fifty interviews, unearthing countless new stories about Iggy's rollercoaster life, his music and his often misunderstood friendship with David Bowie. From this impeccable research he creates a fascinating portrait of a man at war with the world and with himself. The book also features dozens of never-before seen photos.

 

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Stevie Ray Vaughan • The Real Deal Greatest Hits

 



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