Donald Smith

Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes: Expansions

by Chris May
June 17, 2020

If ever a first wave jazz-funk album deserved a 180gm vinyl reissue in 2020 it is this near masterpiece. It was originally released in 1975 on Flying Dutchman, the label Bob Thiele set up after he left Impulse!. Jazz-funk divided the jazz world in the 1970s as much as free-jazz had done a decade earlier. And with reason. Much of it was crap. Just like a lot of jazz-rock was crap. More or less desperate attempts by ...

Album Review

Billy Parker's Fourth World: Freedom Of Speech

Read "Freedom Of Speech" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
April 27, 2018

Drummer Billy Parker's 1975 album only tangentially connects to Fourth World music, the pancultural style which was given its name five years later by Jon Hassell on Fourth World Vol. 1: Possible Musics (Editions EG, 1980), the trumpeter's first collaboration with Brian Eno. Parker's Fourth World is the name of the band heard on Freedom Of Speech, which, Parker says in his sleeve note, “was born out of the need to preserve and develop on a tradition brought to these ...

Event

Classic Jazz Duets: Donald Smith and Tulivu-Donna Cumberbatch at House of Art Gallery on November 14

Source: RICHARD BEAVERS
November 4, 2012

Wednesday, November 14, 2012 7:00pm - 10:00pm Admission: $10.00 Donald Smith and Tulivu-Donna Cumberbatch have had long standing performing, touring and recording careers that span over sixty years combined. They have worked together for twenty years. Musically, they breathe together. His virtuosity on piano is unparalleled and her voice is exhilarating yet sublime. Not since Wynton Kelly and Dinah Washington has there been such a profound musical love affair between these two instruments - piano and ...
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Performance / Tour

Antoinette Montague and the Bill Easley Quartet, featuring Donald Smith Sunday, March 24 at The Bacchus Room

Source: All About Jazz
March 22, 2006

Antoinette Montague and the Bill Easley Quartet featuring Donald Smith on piano Date: Sunday, March 24, 2006 Show Times: 8:00 pm & 11:00 pm Location: The Bacchus Room Bonafide Restaurant 60 Second Avenue (bet. 3rd and 4th Street) NYC 212-777-2840 Two drink minimum per set Master reed player, band leader and renowned session player Bill Easley is joined by Antoinette Montague, a Jazz singer ...
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