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Earlier this week, on December 14, the jazz world marked what would have been the 10oth birthday of trumpeter Clark Terry if he had not passed away in 2015. Through his long career, Terry exhibited both musical talent and the kind of class that was hard to resist whether he stood in front of his own big band or the Tonight Show Orchestra or helping the development of young musicians on their way to fame as was the case with singer Dianne Reeves who he heard performing with her high school band during a convention performance in Chicago.
Terry invited the young Denver singer to sing with him and before too long, she was recording for Blue Note Record and picking up Grammy Awards with great regularity on her way to 2018 recognition as an NEA Jazz Master. In addition to Reeves, Terry also has ties to another Denverite, trumpeter Bob Montgomery, who played with Terry’s big band and appeared in the Terry documentary,
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While keyboardist Adam Bodine knows his way around a variety of genres, from rock, funk, country, bluegrass and electronica to classical, his past three albums, including his November release
Scenes of Changery, fall under the jazz umbrella. But that doesn t mean he s not playing with genres. Bodine shifts styles within each song.
Take the new album s opener, “Mount Magnanimous.” It starts with a slower Charles Mingus feel before launching into an intricate Frank Zappa-esque passage fueled by Greg Harris’s vibraphone; that s followed by a section recalling Herbie Hancock’s ’70s jazz-funk fusion.
Although Mount Magnanimous doesn’t physically exist, Bodine says the song is about his relationship with music and how the more he puts into it, the more he gets out of it. “The compositional energy and the time and work that I put into piecing that all together, it was like this challenging mountain where I wanted to learn and to grow.”