The performance features the improvisational masterpiece The Genetic Method and its live companion Chest Fever.
By Nate Todd Aug 2, 2021 • 1:49 pm PDT
Today marks Garth Hudson’s 84th birthday. The renowned multi-instrumentalist for The Band was born on August 2, 1937 in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. An innovative, multi-talented musician, Hudson’s time in The Band saw him practically creating the blueprint for the modern keyboard player: a wizard surrounded by a number of magical instruments. In a 1983 profile,
Keyboard Magazine called him, “the first true rock keyboard virtuoso” and
Time dubbed him “the most brilliant organist in the rock world.”
While he is also a skilled saxophonist, Garth’s primary instrument was the Lowery organ. Hudson’s adoption of the Lowery beginning with his time in Ronnie Hawkins and The Hawks and continuing as a backing musician for Bob Dylan and into The Band was somewhat rare as most keyboardists preferred the Hammond organ
A Room That Echoes - Night 1 - Suzanne Ciani, Jim-S, Flo Wilson Etc
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A Room That Echoes - Night 1 - Suzanne Ciani, Jim-S, Flo Wilson Etc - Audio Foundation, Auckland
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Written by Emily Morrow on April 1, 2021
If legendary jazz
musicians were collected together in one giant jigsaw puzzle and each musician
was one piece – Thelonious Monk’s individual piece would be impossible to cut
out. As a singular artist, his shape or place in jazz is too uniquely
non-conforming.
From a musical and historical standpoint, he is recognized as one of the first
creators of modern jazz and a major influence on the later development of the
Bebop movement. He influenced all its key players, along with helping mentor
both John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins in his 1940s quartet.
An innate