normblog (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
I don't wish to come across like a reader of the Daily Telegraph, but this report signals another step along the road towards the end of civilization as we know it. Public libraries are to be jazzed up: not just...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Never forget that the drums can speak. And perhaps nobody in jazz has known better than Art Blakey, the master drummer, bandleader and communicator who’s being honored in a tribute concert Saturday at the Gem Theater, part of the Jammin’ at the Gem series.
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Get to Jammin’ at the Gem to find out why pianist Joanne Brackeen is known as “the Picasso of Jazz.” The 8 p.m. concert Saturday is a tribute to Art Blakey. Brackeen was the only female member of Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. Admission is $30-$50. Details, 816-474-8463 or www.americanjazzmuseum.org.
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Arthur (Art) Blakey (October 11, 1919–October 16, 1990), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Also known as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina, he was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. Along with Kenny Clarke and Max Roach, he was one of the inventors of the modern bebop style of drumming. He is known as a powerful musician and a vital groover; his brand of bluesy, funky hard bop was (and remains) profoundly...
Kevin Nottingham: This Is Hip Hop (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
It was just a week and a half ago that I said we weren’t gonna do any more huge sample sets. Ok, I guess I lied. But I want to hit up all the De La Soul samples… do you forgive me? Hahaha. De La Soul Is Dead was De La’s second album, released in 1991. [...]
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Cannonball Adderley Cannonball Adderley Live in '63 Jazz Icons 2008 What is the greatest hard bop jazz standard? Some might argue for Bobby Timmons' "Moanin'" as performed by the composer and Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. Others may hold out for Joe Zawinul's "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" or Richard Carpenter's "Walkin'" as perfomed by Miles Davis. Still others are attached to Horace Silver's "The Preacher"...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
Once Upon A Melody (Palmetto). Whether as the result of marketing gambits or of press stereotyping, Jackson's name rarely appears without the word "funk" nearby. In truth, from the time of his early beginnings with Art Blakey, his tenor saxophone playing has had fuller stylistic and emotional range...
Rifftides (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
Javon Jackson, Once Upon A Melody (Palmetto). Whether as the result of marketing gambits or of press stereotyping, Jackson's name rarely appears without the word "funk" nearby. In truth, from the time of his early beginnings with Art Blakey, his...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
It's potentially a very busy week for fans of jazz and creative music in St. Louis, with plenty of noteworthy performances happening over the next few days. Let's look at some of the highlights:This evening, veteran pianist Cedar Walton begins a four-night run with his trio at Jazz at the Bistro. Ar...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
"Jackie and Lee: a Hardbop Dynamic Duo" features the mid-1960s Blue Note recordings of alto saxophonist Jackie McLean and trumpeter Lee Morgan. Both veterans of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, McLean and Morgan joined in the studio on several occasions to produce some of the most searing hardbop re...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
Just the other day, in one of those quick-fire Q&as beloved of newspaper editors, that fine actress anna chancellor was asked if there was any art form that left her cold. her answer? “British jazz. It makes me think of warm beer and white men with beards.” That's a bit rich coming from someone who got her break in Four Weddings and a Funeral, the last word in warm, homegrown Liebfraumilch...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008
Sorry to return to the Mercury prize for a second week, but this is only a passing spin-off from that much-discussed event. Observer music critic Kitty Empire, one of the Mercury judges, described the shortlisting process in a recent article and included among the difficulties the challenge of comparing "the merits of Empirical's trad jazz against Benga's dubstep...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 18/09/2008
Listening to Russian-born bassist/composer Ruslan Khain's music is like taking a step back in time to the spirited, swinging glory days of hard-bop in the 1950s and '60s. The New York-based musician's debut as a leader, Tie It In, pays homage to the classic sounds of legendary ensembles led by Horace Silver, Art Blakey and Benny Golson...
Rifftides (Free subscription) | 13/09/2008
On Jazz Wax, Marc Myers's marathon interview with tenor saxophonist, arranger and composer Benny Golson (pictured) started running on September 8 and winds up today. If you are put off by transcribed verbatim interviews, never fear. Myers edits with...
undomondo (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
Here’s a show no less jazzy than my others. Essentials like Art Blakey, funky 70s, a pinch of jazzy hiphop and even some jazz for secret agents by Ingfried Hoffmann, one of my recent found gems. I’m in your radio, tapping your jazzy listening pleasures on a bi-weekly basis:) Stream from Archive.org Curtis Mayfield – Kung Fu Ju-Par [...]
