Martin Johnson
speaker
72 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 11 Jun
Martin Johnson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Appearances
The idea of a young trumpet player making his mark on the scene is one of the cherished narratives in jazz, but Adam O'Farrell's different from his predecessors.
He's not a flashy player who stuns audiences with his flamboyance.
Instead, he's a more introspective player whose solos insinuate themselves to listeners rather than blow them away.
This, too, has a lineage, from Booker Little to Ron Miles.
Adam O'Farrell's the next virtuoso on this path, and his new recording, Elephant, is
allows more space than any of his others to showcase his style, which occasionally employs electronic distortion, as he does here on Bibo No Azara.
As is the case with many young musicians, O'Farrell is eager to integrate what he hears in other genres into his music.
The beat on Eleanor's dance here might be as germane to a nightclub as it would be to a dance studio, but the trumpeter and his band of young up-and-comers navigate like old pros.
After a decade of typically being one of the youngest members of any band, in Elephant O'Farrell's mentoring some players younger than he, most notably pianist Yvonne Rogers, a brilliant stylist who is still new to the scene.
She's capable of matching the range of styles in O'Farrell's arsenal and tangling with them in the thorny parts as they do on a section of C triptych, which is dedicated to the great novelist Iris Murdoch.
It shows that O'Farrell is as adept at matching wits with his peers and elders as he is nurturing his protégés.
Elephant could be the start of a pivotal group in jazz.
That's drummer Jack DeJeanette kicking off Miles Davis' 1971 classic, Jack Johnson, one of the highlights of the legendary trumpeter's electric period.
DeJeanette was the perfect drummer for that era.
He combined the power of rock and funk with the finesse of jazz.
His thunderous rhythms could match the power of an electric guitar, but his delicate shadings could elevate a familiar standard into a new listening experience, as he does here on I Fall in Love Too Easily.
Dijonet was born in Chicago in 1942.
Originally, he played piano, an instrument he returned to on many occasions during his career.
He switched his focus to drums when he was 13 years old, and he was playing professionally a year later, making the gig in rhythm and blues bands, jazz ensembles, and even some of the early avant-garde groups.
He moved to New York in 1966, and later that year, he played with the saxophonist Joe Henderson and the pianist McCoy Tyner at Slug's Saloon in Manhattan.
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