Kirk Lightsey's guest appearances

Kirk Lightsey

Jazzlive

Mondo Jazz

The Jake Feinberg Show

Cazın Büyüsü

Joe Lovano

David Murray

Louis Hayes

Bheki Mseleku

Kenny Burrell

Eddie Henderson

Steve Kuhn

Roger Kellaway

Mike Nock

Jimmy Heath

Wynton Marsalis

Gregory Porter

George Benson

Lonnie Smith

Miguel Zenón

OwlTail

Ce soir on vous emmène au Sunside, rue des Lombards à Paris pour applaudir l'un des grands saxophonistes de cette génération qui a émergé dans les années 70' : Ricky Ford. Partenaire d'Abdullah Ibrahim, Roy Hargrove, McCoy Tyner et même de Charles Mingus sur son célèbre "Three or Four Shades of Blues" de 1977, le ténor originaire de Boston retrouve pour l'occasion un vieil ami avec qui il avait enregistré plusieurs albums au milieu des années 80, le pianiste Kirk Lightsey ! Avec Peter Giron à la contrebasse et Chris Henderson à la batterie pour compléter le quartet, ce concert sera à vivre en direct dans Jazzlive à partir de 21h30.Ricky Ford : Saxophone ténorKirk Lightsey : PianoPeter Giron : ContrebasseChris Henderson : Batterie

Ricky Ford & Kirk Lightsey en direct du Sunside

Marc Cary

Kazemde George

Two main themes in the second parts of this week's edition of Mondo Jazz. Jazz players of Caribbean heritage (Arturo O'Farrill--Cuba, Cynthia Abraham--Guadeloupe, Kazemde George--Haiti), and remarkable piano jazz (Marc Cary, Kirk Lightsey, Scott Spivak &amp; Frank Kimbrough, Irène Schweizer, Chick Corea]Detailed playlist at https://spinitron.com/RFB/pl/14221029/Mondo-Jazz (from "Despedida in Lion Struggles and Strugglets" onwards)Happy listening!

Two main themes in the second parts of this week's edition of Mondo Jazz. Jazz players of Caribbean heritage (Arturo O'Farrill--Cuba, Cynthia Abraham--Guadeloupe, Kazemde George--Haiti), and remarkable piano jazz (Marc Cary, Kirk Lightsey, Scott Spivak &amp; Frank Kimbrough, Irène Schweizer, Chick Corea]Detailed playlist at <a href="https://spinitron.com/RFB/pl/14221029/Mondo-Jazz" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://spinitron.com/RFB/pl/14221029/Mondo-Jazz</a> (from "Despedida in Lion Struggles and Strugglets" onwards)Happy listening!

Cynthia Abraham, Kirk Lightsey, Marc Cary, Kazemde George & Other New Releases [Mondo Jazz 172-2]

In the late sixties and early seventies many of the cats who were playing improvisational music were trying to add on to the musical thesaurus that was John Coltrane. A spinning wheel of scales and rudiments played within different scales and modalities. Expanding consciousness and spirituality in that people got to witness these performances live. Maybe it was at a bar with 9 people but this music the music of Train and Dizzy, Miles and Charlie Parker affected every musician of the next generation. Rock players, blues players, southern Dixie -  you knew if you could or could not play that kind of music but inherently the respect that was garnered across the board is a testimate to the authenticity of these players. My guest today is one of the cats who borrowed from the masters and then added his own individual voice. For any pure jazz session my guest got the call, playing with Roland Haynes, Joe Henderson, Herbie Lewis, The Skipper Henry Franklin, Charlie Owens, Calvin Keys and Carl Burnett. But reading of names and record dates does not do justice to my guest playing which comes through him. It is his ability to leave his physical body and transcend that allows the music to be spiritual. Like Randy Weston and Ellis Marsalis and Thelonius Monk my guest was closer to the source of the music and was able to gofarther back in the lineage to see where the music came from, how it was cultivated and where it had changed. He played with the great Yogi Rudolph Johnson and was smokin' with Roy Brooks in the Chet Baker Quintet.

In the late sixties and early seventies many of the cats who were playing improvisational music were trying to add on to the musical thesaurus that was John Coltrane. A spinning wheel of scales and rudiments played within different scales and modalities. Expanding consciousness and spirituality in that people got to witness these performances live. Maybe it was at a bar with 9 people but this music the music of Train and Dizzy, Miles and Charlie Parker affected every musician of the next generation. Rock players, blues players, southern Dixie -  you knew if you could or could not play that kind of music but inherently the respect that was garnered across the board is a testimate to the authenticity of these players. My guest today is one of the cats who borrowed from the masters and then added his own individual voice. For any pure jazz session my guest got the call, playing with Roland Haynes, Joe Henderson, Herbie Lewis, The Skipper Henry Franklin, Charlie Owens, Calvin Keys and Carl Burnett. But reading of names and record dates does not do justice to my guest playing which comes through him. It is his ability to leave his physical body and transcend that allows the music to be spiritual. Like Randy Weston and Ellis Marsalis and Thelonius Monk my guest was closer to the source of the music and was able to gofarther back in the lineage to see where the music came from, how it was cultivated and where it had changed. He played with the great Yogi Rudolph Johnson and was smokin' with Roy Brooks in the Chet Baker Quintet.

The Kirk Lightsey Interview 