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| Sonny Fortune: 'You and the Night and the Music' A truly legendary jazz saxophonist, Sonny Fortune has played with the biggest names in jazz including Elvin Jones, McCoy Tyner, Nat Adderley, Dizzy Gillespie, Buddy Rich and Miles Davis. Fortune has had an acclaimed recording career as a leader, including several celebrated sessions with Blue Note in the 1990's. You and the Night and the Music (18th & Vine Records) is Fortune's first recording as a leader since 2003, and captures the spontaneity and thrilling energy of his recent acclaimed live dates. His partners in this project - George Cables, piano; Chip Jackson, double bass; Steve Johns, drums. Pianist George Cables gained recognition during stints with Joe Henderson, Sonny Rollins, Freddie Hubbard, Dexter Gordon and Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. One of New York's top drummers, Steve Johns has played with such luminaries as Donald Byrd, Nat Adderley, the Count Basie Orchestra, Lou Donaldson and others. He was the drummer for NPR's Billy Taylor's Jazz at the Kennedy Center, in which he recorded seventy-five shows with guests including Wynton Marsalis, Nancy Wilson and Arturo Sandoval. Bassist Chip Jackson, based in New York, is a longtime member of the Billy Taylor Trio and performs that the Time Caf with the Mingus Big Band. His style was shaped during his long association in the eighties with drummer Elvin Jones. 18th & Vine is an adventurous new jazz label based in Portland, Oregon. The label's name is a reference to the intersection that was the heart of the rich Kansas City jazz scene of the 1920s, 30s and 40s; at one time there were 60 jazz clubs within six blocks of 18th & Vine. But 18th & Vine isn't a historic jazz label; rather, it pays homage to the heart and soul and energy of those classic jazz scenes of the golden age by working with the top artists of today that share that same spirited and joyful approach to jazz. In frequent partnership with Grammy-Award winning producer Jack Kreisberg, 18th & Vine is committed to releasing exciting new projects from the veteran lions of the jazz scene, as well as fresh new voices that bring new life and a 21st century approach to the classic sound. write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Jazz News :: home page |