Randy Weston Dies at 92 |
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Posted: 02 Sep 2018 at 10:23am |
Randy Weston, an esteemed pianist whose music and scholarship advanced the argument now broadly accepted that jazz is, at its core, an African music, died at his home in Brooklyn on Saturday. He was 92. His death was confirmed by his lawyer, Gail Boyd, who said the exact cause was still being determined. On his earliest recordings in the mid-1950s, Mr. Weston almost fit the profile of a standard bebop musician: He recorded jazz standards and galloping original tunes in a typical, small-group format. But his sharply cut harmonies and intense, gnarled rhythms conveyed a manifestly Afrocentric sensibility, one that was slightly more barbed and rugged than the popular hard-bop sound of the day. Early on, he exhibited a distinctive voice as a composer. Hi-Fly, which he first released in 1958 on the LP New Faces at Newport, became a standard. And he eventually distinguished himself as a solo pianist, reflecting the influence of his main idol, Thelonious Monk. But more than Monk, Mr. Weston liked to constantly reshape his cadences, rarely lingering on a steady pulse. from www.nytimes.com Edited by snobb - 02 Sep 2018 at 10:24am |
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