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The Memphis Mafia: Mabern, Strozier, Coleman and Little

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2008-01-16 05:12:27 by David in WFIU: Night Lights Jazz Blog
...Mabern gained such notice among their wider-world colleagues that they were eventually dubbed the Memphis Mafia (a jocular jazz appropriation of the nickname for Elvis Presleys rather notorious entourage George Coleman, who paid some of his musical dues playing with B.B. King in the 1950s, told Neil Tesser decades later that The environment...
 
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Freddie Hubbard: Blue Spirits (1965)

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2007-10-25 03:22:00 by souljazz in Great music! That's all...
...Mabern, Larry Ridley, Clifford Jarvis, and conga player Big Black hold down the rhythm. Maberns funky, gospel-tinged piano punctuation is especially noticeable. The same group also cut the fourth track, Cunga Black, a Latin blues number The second group heard here recorded their session a week after the above tunes were cut. Here Hubbard and...
 
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Wes Montgomery

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2007-11-27 11:13:00 by Michael McCaw in like rain whispers mist
 
...Mabern on piano, Arthur Harper on bass and Jimmy Lovelace on drums, Wes' outfit of the time that toured and recorded extensively throughout Europe. Special note to the programme's host, Humphrey Lyttelton, a great British trumpet player and media personality with a career spanning several decades
 
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Celebration in honor of Cecil Payne, Jan 20

2007-12-27 03:59:47 by Shyam Sundar in The LION 90.7fm
 
...Mabern, John and Joe Farnsworth, Eric Alexander, Joe Rotundi, John Weber and others, mostly at Smoke and the Kitano Hotel on Park Avenue. He was survived by his sister Carvil Payne, his niece Nia Mathis and his cousin Marcus Belgrave Last year Cecil said, I want to go home. He said he was tired and ready. He said, Its time to go. On November...
 
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Grant Stewart: Young at Heart

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2008-03-18 08:16:34 by Marc Myers in JazzWax
...Mabern, drummer Joe Farnsworth and bassist Nat Reeves Grant's picks: Among Grants favorite Sonny Rollins albums are Work Time, Freedom Suite, Sonny Rollins and the Contemporary Leaders and Three Little Words. Grant also listens extensively to two tracks off Sonny Side Up The Eternal Triangle and I Know What You Know Two other influential...
 
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Too Little, Too Soon: Booker Little

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2008-03-31 04:05:07 by David in WFIU: Night Lights Jazz Blog
...Mabern and saxophonists George Coleman and Frank Strozier; like several of these men, he would move to Chicago in the late 1950s, where he studied at the Chicago Conservatory, met Sonny Rollins, and eventually joined Max Roachs hardbop group Little began his career under the sway of trumpeter Clifford Browns sound, eventually forging his own...
 
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Interview: Benny Golson (Part 5)

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2008-09-12 08:37:01 by Marc Myers in JazzWax
...Mabern on pianois a rush Given what would follow in the years after 1962, the Jazztet is in many ways the last pure jazz ensemble before the music became the message
 
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Interview: Creed Taylor (Part 13)

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2008-11-06 07:38:42 by Marc Myers in JazzWax
...Mabern. Tasty, right? Arthur Harper is on bass and Jimmy Lovelace is on drums
 
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DJ Andy Smith - Diggin In The BGP Vaults

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2008-12-01 12:00:00 by The Dynamic Hamza 21 in Domeshots and Fat Laces
...Mabern Just A Groove In G - Wilbur Bascomb Let A Woman Be A Woman Let A Man Be A Man - Dyke & The Blazers Brand New Girl - Billy Garner Soul Brothers' Testify - Chester Randle's Soul Senders Itch & Scratch Pt 2 - Rufus Thomas Skunk Juice - Pazant Brothers Sunshine Of Your Love - Spanky Wilson I'm A Good Woman - The Generation Chicken Tracks -...
 
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