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| Mads Tolling (2009) | |
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| Notwithstanding his youth—still under 30 years old—Danish-born violinist Mads Tolling has not just one Grammy under his belt, but two. After growing up in Copenhagen, he came to the US at 20 to pursue jazz studies at Berklee College of Music in Boston. Berklee evidently suited him: not only did he graduate summa cum laude, but fellow-violinist Jean-Luc Ponty recommended him to bassist Stanley Clarke, who called him “the most exciting musician I’ve come across in the past ten years”. Mads joined Stanley’s band, and toured the world.
Later, while enrolled at the Thelonious Monk Institute, Mads was recruited by the Turtle Island Quartet, with whom he’s won both his Grammys. Now a Bay Area resident, he leads an eclectic and creative quartet, which will be making another recording in the summer of 2009. |
| Pick | Artist | Album | Song | Label |
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| # 1 | Miles Davis | Birth of the Cool | Budo | (Capitol) |
| # 2 | John Coltrane | A Love Supreme | Part 2: Resolution | (Impulse) |
| # 3 | Shakti | A Handful of Beauty | La Danse de Bonheur | (Columbia) |
| # 4 | Pat Metheny, Dave Holland and Roy Haynes | Question and Answer | Change of Heart | (Geffen) |
| # 5 | Keith Jarrett | Whisper Not | What Is This Thing Called Love? | (ECM) |
| # 6 | Wayne Shorter | Alegria | Angola | (Verve) |
| # 7 | Svend Asmussen | Fit As a Fiddle | Latino | (Dacapo) |
| # 8 | Bill Frisell | Gone, Just Like a Train | Godson Song | (Nonesuch) |
| Book | Tom Robbins, "Jitterbug Perfume" | |||
| Luxury Item | Bose noise-canceling headphones | |||
| Gilad Atzmon
12 Jun Carolyn Brandy 19 Jun Stuart Brinin 16 Oct Ralph Carney 04 Sep India Cooke 20 Feb Ronald Davis 23 Oct Mark Feldman 27 Mar Herb Gibson 06 Mar Nancy Gilliland 29 May | Jon Hendricks
16 Jan Laurence Hobgood 10 Jul Bill Horvitz 13 Nov Nat Johnson 01 May Tom Madden 13 Mar Charlie McCarthy 06 Nov Don Neely 25 Sep Nathan Oliveira 28 Aug Ed Reed 24 Jul | Walter Savage
14 Aug Adam Theis 21 Aug Mads Tolling 17 Apr Hristo Vitchev 22 May Paul van Wageningen 10 Apr Nancy Wright 20 Nov Jim Zimmerman 06 Feb |