Azar Lawrence Band & Surprise Special Guest - 50th Anniversary of `A Love Supreme' - Azar Lawrence, Tenor & Soprano Saxes featuring Alphonse Mouzon, Drums; Theo Saunders, Piano & Henry 'The Skipper' Franklin, Bass
December 9, 2014 marked the 50th year anniversary of John Coltrane's A Love Supreme, a masterpiece of hard bop, free jazz, and soulful spirituality.
As part of the year long recognition and commemoration taking place worldwide, Friday, February 27, 2015 The Mint Los Angeles will present Azar Lawrence Band - 50th Anniversary of `A Love Supreme'
Azar will be performing this show throughout the year that began December 9, 2014 at the Jazz Standard, New York, NY....
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Azar Lawrence Band & Surprise Special Guest - 50th Anniversary of `A Love Supreme' - Azar Lawrence, Tenor & Soprano Saxes featuring Alphonse Mouzon, Drums; Theo Saunders, Piano & Henry 'The Skipper' Franklin, Bass
December 9, 2014 marked the 50th year anniversary of John Coltrane's A Love Supreme, a masterpiece of hard bop, free jazz, and soulful spirituality.
As part of the year long recognition and commemoration taking place worldwide, Friday, February 27, 2015 The Mint Los Angeles will present Azar Lawrence Band - 50th Anniversary of `A Love Supreme'
Azar will be performing this show throughout the year that began December 9, 2014 at the Jazz Standard, New York, NY.
Azar on tenor & soprano saxes will be joined by his fellow hard hitting band members, featuring Alphonse Mouzon, drums; Theo Saunders, piano & Henry 'the Skipper' Franklin, bass.
Listen to NPR's 50 Years Of John Coltrane's 'A Love Supreme'
http://www.npr.org/2014/12/07/369191157/50-years-of-coltranes-a-love-supreme
“To hear Mr. Lawrence upshift through his improvisations, honoring a song's rhythm and harmony and then breaking free of it, is one of jazz's current thrills, and he understands this music as well as anyone.” Ben Ratliff - New York Times
AZAR LAWRENCE
“Lawrence has been compared to John Coltrane his whole working life, but he is not a replica. He plays Coltrane's instruments but not his licks and patterns. Even Lawrence's sound is a variant. On soprano saxophone he is somewhat more rounded, and has slightly more vibrato on tenor. What he shares with Coltrane is an intensity of passion that overwhelms everything in its path.
The Seeker hits like a sledgehammer from the opening track, 'Gandhi.' Lawrence writes elemental declamatory anthems that serve as launchpads. Their titles convey his understanding of music as a spiritual quest: 'Spirit Night,' 'The Seeker,' 'Venus Rising.' For all his fervor, there is logic and clarity in his onslaught of ideas. When he reenters for a second solo, like on 'Gandhi,' he can jolt you out of your chair.”
Thomas Conrad, Jazz Times - September 2014
HENRY FRANKLIN
Henry Frankliln was with Roy Ayers & wrote and recorded Grazin In the Grass with Hugh Masakela. Henry also published a method book for all bass players entitled, Bassically Yours. There are more than 100 albums on which Henry appears, many under his leadership. They include: The Skipper and The Skipper at Home (Black Jazz label), Three Card Molly, Bassic Instincts, The Hunter, Bass Encounters (Resurgent Music label), Colemanology, Ears Wide Open, Three Worlds, A Musical Tribute to Gene Harris featuring Three More Sounds, and more.
ALPHONSE MOUZON
Alphonse Mouzon's musical associations read like a veritable Who's Who of Modern Jazz and Pop Music. His talents cover a broad range of musical disciplines and philosophies. He was the rhythmic foundation for the far reaching musical explorations of pianist McCoy Tyner. He was a charter member along with keyboardist Joe Zawinul and saxophonist Wayne Shorter, of the group Weather Report. Along with guitarist Larry Coryell, MOUZON was co-founder of The Eleventh House, the seminal fusion band of the seventies. Mouzon and Coryell still tour together in a trio and with the Eleventh House.
THEO SAUNDERS
A native New Yorker, Theo Saunders has lived in California since 1985, but his musical career remains international in scope. Saunders' musical odyssey has taken him to four continents and more than twenty countries.Growing up in NYC, he played with Pharoah Sanders in the 1960s, and in 1971 (at age 24), at the Village Vanguard with the likes of Jimmy Garrison and Jack DeJohnette in a group led by guitarist Sonny Greenwich. Appearing on more than 40 recordings as a sideman, he has accompanied everyone from Sonny Fortune and Charles Lloyd to Freddie Hubbard and Ray Mantilla, and has six recordings as a leader.
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The MINT
6010 W. Pico Blvd, LA, CA 90035
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