March 2017

Features

• Ingrid & Christine Jensen

  ‘Our Gift Is What We Do’

  By Phillip Lutz

  Trumpeter Ingrid Jensen and her sister, saxophonist Christine Jensen, have collaborated on a new album, Infinitude, which features guitarist Ben Monder.

• Charlie Haden

  Pursuing Liberation

  By Josef Woodard

  DownBeat presents excerpts from Josef Woodard’s book Conversations with Charlie Haden, which compiles his interviews with the late bassist, who is a member of the DownBeat Hall of Fame.

• Rudy Royston

  ‘Just Play’

  By Dan Ouellette

  Drummer Rudy Royston is already a revered accompanist, but he has also steadily built a sterling reputation as a bandleader, thanks to projects such as his new album, Rise Of Orion.

Blindfold Test

Greg Osby was tested on the following tracks for the Blindfold Test:

• Will Vinson: “The Clock Killer” from Perfectly Out Of Place (5Passion)
• Trio 3 + Geri Allen: “Long Melody” from At This Time (Intakt)
• Rudresh Mahanthappa: “I’ll See You When I Get There” from Mauger (Clean Feed)
• Heads of State: “Soulstice” from Search For Peace (Smoke Sessions)
• Tim Berne: “Scanners” from Snakeoil (ECM)
• Greg Ward: “Daybreak” from Touch My Beloved’s Thought (Greenleaf)
• Bunky Green: “It Could Happen To You” from Another Place (Label Bleu)
• Jeff “Tain” Watts: “uh-UH!!” from Blue, Vol. 2 (Dark Key)

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