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Allan Wilkinson on Ed Cherry…
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There’s a cleanliness in Ed Cherry’s guitar style, an immaculate delicacy that is never allowed to stray into the clinical precision of a smoother kind of jazz. On IT’S ALL GOOD, Cherry’s playing breathes its soul out in whispers, often tackling some rather complex melodies and improvisations with a lightness that prompts you to get as close as you ...Read More
Critical Jazz agrees that with Ed Cherry “It’s All Good”…
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My regulars know I am a sucker for an organ trio, an even bigger sucker for a guitarist that can swing without venturing off that self indulgent cliff…Meet Ed Cherry and his first release on Posi-Tone which is appropriately titled “It’s All Good” featuring Byron Landham on drums ( Joey DeFrancesco ) and B3 dynamo Pat Bianchi who has played with everyone ...Read More
Dan Bilawsky confirms “It’s All Good” with Ed Cherry…
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Guitarist Ed Cherry is best known for his lengthy, decade-plus tenure with trumpet titan Dizzy Gillespie, but his work with another heavyweight of a different ilk—organist Big John Patton—is a more obvious influence on It’s All Good. Cherry played the important role of Patton’s guitar-playing foil during some of the legend’s ’90s comeback session ...Read More
Ed Cherry is on the October Hot List….
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Ed Cherry
It’s All Good
Posi-Tone
PR8102
On this all-standards program, guitarist Ed Cherry leads a crack trio (including the great organist Pat Bianchi and drummer Byron Landham) through a nice variety of tunes both familiar (“You Don’t Know What Love Is,” “In a Sentimental Mood”) and less so (Duke Pearson’s “Christo Redentor,” Wayne Shorter’s “Deluge” ...Read More
Lucid Culture on Ed Cherry “It’s All Good”…
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Sweet Soulful B3 Grooves from Ed Cherry and Pat Bianchi
It’s unusual that a month goes by without a B3 album on this page at some point. For some people, funky organ grooves can be overkill; others (guess who) can’t get enough of them. Veteran guitarist Ed Cherry knows a little something about them, considering his association with the guy who might have been the ...Read More
Bruce Lindsay writes up Ed Cherry “It’s All Good”…
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Guitarist Ed Cherry has been playing professionally since the early ’70s, as a sideman to musicians such as Tim Hardin, Jimmy McGriff, Henry Threadgill andJimmy Smith. Most famously, he spent over fifteen years in Dizzy Gillespie’s band, remaining with the group until the trumpeter’s death in 1993. Perhaps because of his busy career as a sideman his disco ...Read More
Dom Minasi interviews Ed Cherry for AAJ…
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Guitar great Ed Cherry, who earned his bones working with Dizzy Gillespie, has something to say, too.
DM: The illusive “they” are always talking about moving the music forward. Do you think by adding electronics such as wah-wahs, loops, distortion etc. is helping do that?
Ed Cherry: If it’s done with taste, restraint and good sound, then I’m all for ...Read More
The Jazz Breakfast on Ed Cherry “It’s All Good”…
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Guitarist Ed Cherry played in Dizzy Gillespie’s last band, and since then has also worked with Hamiett Bluiett, Henry Threadgill, Oliver Lake and Steve Coleman among others.
Those names might suggest an avant-garde approach, but for his first disc on Posi-Tone Cherry chooses to play it mainstream in an organ trio format with the guitar on top.
Pat Bianchi is on organ and Byr ...Read More
The Jazz Word on Ed Cherry “It’s All Good”…
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Veteran guitarist Ed Cherry, a longtime sideman with Dizzy Gillespie, swings with streetwise finesse on It’s All Good for Posi-Tone Records. The subtleness of Cherry, along with Pat Bianchi on organ and drummer Byron Landham create a club-like vibe caught in the studio. The trio captures the lyrical essence of 1960s Wayne Shorter with two of the saxophonists compos ...Read More
lucid culture reviews Jared Gold “Golden Child”…
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Jared Gold Pushes the B3 Envelope
In a way, organist Jared Gold is to the Posi-Tone label what Willie Dixon was to Chess: he seems to be on practically all their records. And why not? He’s a good player, and he’s literally never made a bad album. His fifth as a bandleader, Golden Child, has been out for a few months: fans of organ jazz who’re looking for some ...Read More