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Basketball and Jazz: The Art of Improvisation, Part 1

By Ludovico Granvassu | Mondo Jazz
June 18, 2024
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This time we felt like exploring the interplay of basketball and jazz, focusing in particular on a great jazz advocate like Kareem Abdul Jabbar, on the soundtrack of the HBO series The Winning Time, on an oneiric game played with a basketball fish, and on

Stanley Clarke

bass
b.1951

" data-original-title="" title="">Stanley Clarke's tribute to this sport, to which he devoted as many hours as he did to the study of the bass, while growing up in Philadelphia.

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bass, acoustic
b.1966

" data-original-title="" title="">Ben Allison "Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00

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Robert Glasper

piano
b.1978

" data-original-title="" title="">Robert Glasper "Training Camp (Palm Springs)" The Winning Time Sessions: Season One (HBO? Original Series Soundtrack) (Lake George Music Group) 0:16

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Jeff Beal

trumpet
b.1963

" data-original-title="" title="">Jeff Beal, Robert Glasper "Money Ball" The Winning Time Sessions: Season 2 (HBO Original Series Soundtrack) (WaterTower Music) 3:31

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bongos
b.1951

" data-original-title="" title="">Poncho Sanchez feat.

Tito Puente

drums
1923 - 2000

" data-original-title="" title="">Tito Puente "Chile con Soul" Chile con Soul (Concord Picante) 8:00

Steve Lacy

saxophone, soprano
1934 - 2004

" data-original-title="" title="">Steve Lacy,

Don Cherry

trumpet
1936 - 1995

" data-original-title="" title="">Don Cherry "Evidence" Evidence (Prestige) 13:05

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trumpet
1938 - 2008

" data-original-title="" title="">Freddie Hubbard "Theme from Kareem" Super Blue (Columbia/Legacy) 20:44

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" data-original-title="" title="">Kris Allen "Sunlight" June (Trrcollective) 26:46

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" data-original-title="" title="">The Jazz Passengers "Basketball Fish" Deranged & Decomposed (Les Disques Du Crepuscule) 34:31

Stanley Clarke

bass
b.1951

" data-original-title="" title="">Stanley Clarke "Basketball" Hideaway (Epic) 39:46

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