I'm spending this morning's coffee with the Jazz Masters 23 track Milt Jackson & Lucky Thompson recording. This compilation of the magical music-making of Milt Jackson, his vibraharp, Lucky Thompson, his tenor saxophone, and Hank Jones, his piano; has a Detroit vibe going on, a Detroit rhythmic pulse to it. It's the magic-thing that one finds in the music Detroit's finest musicians; in its pianists, saxophonists, trumpeters, double-bassists, drummers, and vocalists. I feel like naming them all here - Pepper Adams through Abe Woodley and Kiane Zawadi; I won't name names. A catalogue of names, venues, dates, and much else appears in Lars Bjorn's and Jim Gallert's beautiful book, Before Motown - A History of Jazz in Detroit, 1920 - 1960. Mark Stryker, the Detroit Free Press arts writer, is preparing a book, Made in Detroit: Jazz From The Motor City for publication by University of Michigan Press. See Mark Stryker's Dispatches From Detroit below:
http://dothemath.typepad.com/dtm/dispatches-from-detroit-by-mark-stryker.html
P.S. This year's Detroit Jazz Festival - August 30 - September 2 - has an outstanding lineup. See you there.
http://www.detroitjazzfest.com/
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