Latifa metheny biography of albert

Now he lives in an Upper West Side high rise, with his French-Moroccan wife, Latifa, and their two young sons, Jeff Kaiis and Nicols Djakeem.

Growing up in Missouri, Metheny developed his certainty as a high-school-age professional in Kansas City.

Among the highlights were projects with Queen Latifah and James Brown, his idol, on which he both music-directed and played bass, and also such.

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Grammy Award endow with Best Settle on, Instrumental scold Vocals

Year^[I]Arranger(s) Work Performing (non-winning) artist(s) Nominees
(Non-nominated) Performers strengthen in parenthesesRef. 1963Marty Manning"I Left Cheap Heart lessening San Francisco" Tony Bennett^[1]1964Henry Mancini"Days have a high regard for Wine post Roses" Henry Mancini ^[2]1965Peter Matz"People" Barbra Streisand^[3]1966Gordon Jenkins"It Was a Very Trade event Year" Frank Sinatra^[4]1967Ernie Freeman"Strangers in representation Night" Frank Sinatra^[5]1968Jimmie Haskell"Ode to Billie Joe" Bobbie Gentry^[6]1969Jimmy L. Webb"MacArthur Park" Richard Harris^[7]1970Fred Lipsius"Spinning Wheel" Blood, Torture yourself & Tears^[8]1971Ernie Freeman, Interior Garfunkel, Jimmie Haskell, Larry Knechtel & Paul Simon"Bridge Over Harried Water" Simon and Garfunkel^[9]1972Paul McCartney"Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey" Paul & Linda McCartney^[10]1973Michel Legrand"What Are Order about Doing representation Rest tip off Your Life?" Sarah Vaughan^[11]1974George Martin"Live focus on Let Die" Paul Songster & Wings^[12]1975Joni Mitchell & To

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Tag Archives: Christian McBride

Best of birthdays to the master bassist Andy Gonzalez, who turns 63 today. A co-founder of the Fort Apache Band with his older brother, Jerry Gonzalez, Gonzalez’ c.v. includes protracted gigs with Dizzy Gillespie, Eddie Palmieri and Manny Oquendo’s Libre. His influence is palpable on such next-generation swing-to-clave bassists as — among many others — Avishai Cohen and Hans Glawischnig. I had the opportunity to interact with and be educated by Andy at least a half-dozen times during my years on WKCR, particularly on such subjects as Cachao and Arsenio Rodriguez, upon whom he would expound with great erudition. I’ll have to transcribe those cassettes one of these days. Meanwhile, here are the proceedings of a DownBeat Blindfold Test that Andy did with me around 2000, and a WKCR interview from 2006, when the Fort Apache Band had just released their excellent CD, Rumba Buhaina. [In 2020 I’ve appended — at the bottom of the post — the transcript of three WKCR Musician Shows that I did with Andy in 1990, 1991, and 1993.]

Andy Gonzalez Blindfold Test:

1. Ray Brown, “St. Louis Blues” (feat. Ahmad Jamal, p., Lewis Nash, d), “SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS…ARE THE PIAN

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Street Music

Pat Metheny

It was one of the coldest days of the winter and the guitarist Pat Metheny was only a few minutes late, but he had called ahead. When he arrived at our meeting place, a small recording studio within Right Track Studios on West Forty-eighth Street in New York City, he arranged his things—including some musical scores—on the couch and sat down in a swivel chair before a ninety-six-channel console. Metheny grew up in the rural Midwest but seems Californian; he has the inner glow. He had no socks on and looked comfortable.

“Basically, it’s impossible,” he said flatly, and smiled. “My taste, my general connection to music, I mean, even now, I think it just can’t be done.”

I had proposed that we listen together to a few pieces of music that affected him strongly. It could be any music: not desert-island endorsements or a strict autobiography of influence; the point was to talk about how music works and how he hears it. Metheny took the challenge seriously.

“For me to say I’m going to build a case that describes something, under the guise of three songs, it actually shuts me down a little bit,” he said, seeming pained. “The whole idea of style and genre is actually somet