Today’s Jazz Pick: Joe Locke Geoffrey Keezer Group – The King (for T.M.) http://amzn.to/cdjSYk
Update: Another performance from Germany here: http://bit.ly/a3dGbP
Today’s selection is from the celebrated vibraphonist Joe Locke, performing as the Joe Locke Geoffrey Keezer Group at the 2005 Ballard Jazz Festival in Seattle. Amongst the selection of tracks from the ‘Live in Seattle’ album, ‘The King (For T.M.)’ stands out as being one of the highlights from the concert.
The line up is Joe Locke on vibraphone, Geoffrey Keezer on piano, Terreon ‘Tank’ Gully on drums, and bass played by Mike Pope. Joe Locke puts in a legendary performance on the vibes, moving at incredible pace with absolute accuracy. The track is fast moving, with several changes of rhythm; most noticable when the track moves back to the head or into the various solos from each musician in turn. Geoffrey Keezer’s sharp piano solo gets everything off to a fine start at 1:40, swiftly followed by Joe Locke’s blistering vibes solo at 2:34, capping everything off with a drum solo from Terreon Gully which makes your hair stand on end. ‘The King (for T.M.)’ is an outstanding track, which showcases the talents of all the musicians who played in the group at the Ballard Jazz Festival. Their efforts were appropriately rewarded in receiving the 2005 Concert of the Year Golden Ear Award for their performance.
Joe Locke is arguably the most prominent mallet and percussion musician in Modern Jazz, taking the recognition of both his own work and the use of mallet instruments to a new level. Locke was awarded the “Mallet Instrumentalist of the Year” Award in 2006, 2008 and 2009 presented by the Jazz Journalist Association (JJA).
“Not only has he mastered an instrument that has catapulted only a handful of players to the forefront of modern jazz – but he has done so in a way that transcends mere technique and establishes him as a unique and adventurous musical voice.” —Derk Richardson, San Francisco Bay Guardian.
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Blogging tip. Use more generic tabs as well – jazz, jazz music, along with specific ones, like things actually mentioned in the post. You will quite surprised how people will find you – also join things like blog aggregating sites – blog catalog comes to mind.
Not sure if you have linked your Facebook and Twitter accounts, but if you do you can post on Facebook, and it will show on twitter, and the other way around.
Hi Helen,
yes I have linked FB and Twitter; in fact I mainly post through bit.ly as it shortens my link, twitters it, then twitter pops it on my Facebook profile.
I’ll have to chat with you about ‘generic tabs’ etc as I don’t quite understand it all just yet.
Thanks for sharing the music and the wonderful comments on the music.
Best,
Tom Marcello (T.M.)
Manager / Joe Locke
woot, thankyou! I finally came to a site where the webmaster knows what they’re talking about. Do you know how many results are in Google when I search.. too many! It’s so annoying having to go from page after page after page, wasting my day away with thousands of people just copying eachother’s articles… bah. Anyway, thankyou very much for the info anyway, much appreciated.