Winifred Knights and Mary Heilmann (born in California in 1940) only overlap by seven years and might seem to have nothing in common – Heilmann is an abstract painter – but they both go their own way, pushing hard at tradition.
His brilliant technique, his dedication to acoustic jazz (rather than fusion or R&B), and his ability to excel in both jazz and classical music (winning Grammy Awards in both categories in 1984) generated headlines, and he became the unofficial leader of the "Young Lions"—new players who updated the hard bop tradition.
While playing on a popular idea of a lazy, short-termist 21st-century generation which fails to respect the hard work, tradition and generosity of their elders, the joke doesn't reflect what's really happening in modern Britain, where more than three million family businesses are going strong and uniquely well placed to ride out the recession.
Fellow Australians Airbourne's début album Runnin' Wild (2007) followed in the hard riffing tradition of AC/DC.
Highlighted by the works of Roy Ayers, Herbie Hancock, and Donald Byrd, jazz-funk also emerged in response to the growing popularity of funk, leading to a trend of funk rhythms among jazz musicians formerly of the hard bop tradition as an attempt to reconnect with their African-American audience.
"When you have a really hard-core tradition of unities of time and place and action, it's hard to imagine slippages of time, for instance," he said.
We just need to push a little bit harder against tradition.
"Completion of Proof" (Truth Revolution), released last year, further establishes their link to the hard-bop tradition, with help from established mentors like the trumpeter Brian Lynch.
Hubbard's own dates as a leader, most of them for Blue Note, stuck close to the hard-bop tradition of harmonically intricate reframings of the blues.
(Chinen) Christian McBride and Inside Straight (Friday through Sunday) On "Kind of Brown," released on Mack Avenue in 2009, Mr. McBride, an effortlessly charismatic bassist, focuses on his steamrollering version of the hard-bop tradition.
