(Chinen) ERNEST RANGLIN (Saturday and Sunday) Mr. Ranglin is a jazz guitarist with substantial reggae roots — or vice versa, depending on your outlook.
In a lifetime that spanned a substantial portion of the history of jazz, Wilson's combination of articulate composition skills with a far-reaching creative vision carried him successfully through each of the music's successive new evolutions.
But his influence on fellow jazz musicians has been subtle and substantial.
The contributions of those jazz musicians to popular music are substantial and stunning--in fact, in some of the most artistically and commercially successful popular music of all time, we find jazz musicians in the foreground and in the background, in various roles, providing their expertise as performers, composers, arrangers, and producers.
Our choice of music genres (table 1) aimed to capture only mainstream genres across both continents but some stars of, for instance, folk, country and jazz that were not included have substantial popular followings (eg, Damien Rice).
(Chinen) Jazz Meets Flamenco (Friday and Saturday) The connections between jazz and flamenco, which are subtle but substantial, illuminate this double bill featuring the guitarists Doug Wamble and Niño Josele, each with his respective band and an affiliated dancer.
Mr. Barth sounds excellent here, fully committed to the tunes: three standards (real standards, like "Out of Nowhere," not geeky modern-jazz-musician standards) and seven originals, substantial and thoughtful.
Its two universities both have substantial arts departments, and one is famous for its jazz school.
During his nearly six-decade career, Motian (pronounced like "motion") spent a substantial amount of time with two of the finest jazz pianists: Evans and Keith Jarrett.
