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Something new from WNYC's John Schaefer (a Park Sloper) and host of the show Soundcheck. They invited musicians and artists to help create a map of their favorite destinations in New York City – where they go in this hectic city for creative inspiration or just for fun. From parks and coffee shops to bowling alleys and museums, jazz clubs to vintage shops, musicians and artists such as Quincy Jones,...
Detroit-born trombonist Curtis Fuller stepped into the hard bop big league during the summer of 1957 with a flurry of high profile sideman dates and two albums as leader, New Trombone (Prestige, 1957) and The Opener, made within a few weeks of each other. The Opener, a lithe and soulful but largely forgotten disc, has been rereleased as part of Blue Note's Rudy Van Gelder Remaster series...
Smalls Romanticism plays a lasting historical part in the perception of Russian jazz musicians. There’s the archetype of the cultural dissident celebrating the music in secret, folding the blues of bread lines and brutal winters into his music while averting the awareness of government operatives who seek to stifle personal expression. Bassist Ruslan Khain represents a [...]
Bill Evans, Live '64-'75 (Jazz Icons). We see and hear the most influential jazz pianist after Bud Powell with four versions of his trio in concerts or television appearances in Scandinavia and France. In a slightly disjointed encounter, Lee Konitz...
Idrees & Jamila Sulieman “The Camel” Columbia Records (Scandinavia) 1964 Idrees Sulieman was an early bebop pioneer on trumpet. He was born Leonard Graham, and took up trumpet when his father could not afford to buy him a saxophone (he later played alto saxophone after moving to Europe). He began his professional career with the Carolina Cotton [...]
For more thirty years, John Fordham has been favoring the British public with his finely-honed critiques and observations about jazz. Most of his work has appeared in the newspaper The Guardian, but he is also the author of an...
Bill Evans Jazz Icons Series 3: Bill Evans Live '64 - '75 Jazz Icons 2008 A dweeb with a bad haircut or junkie messiah? The most significant jazz pianist since Bud Powell or an over-rated ivory noodler? Bill Evans is a delicious musical enigma whose influence on the piano was as far reaching as Charlie Parker's on the alto saxophone. Evans' Jazz Icons release is singular among the seven Series 3 releases...
Jimmy Scott & friends (as previously posted) Jimmy Scott's career has spanned nearly sixty years, and in that time he has performed with a list of artists that read like a history of jazz music in that time, including Charlie...
Art Pepper - Mucho Calor (Jazz Track ) Atjazz - Full Circle (Mantis Recordings ) Barbara Carroll - I Wished On The Moon (Pid ) Bud Powell - Piano Interpretations + Blues In Closet (Lonehill Jazz Spain ) Bud Powell - Jazz Giant (Essential Jazz Spain ) Carl Drevo & The Clarke-Boland Big Band - Swing Waltz Swing (Family Affair Distribution SRL ) Count Basie - On Beatles (Groove Hut Spain ) Dave McKenna...
Three Benny Green Licks Benny Green is a hard swinging and intense modern jazz pianist built from the hard bop mold. Influenced by Bud Powell, Phineas Newborn and Oscar Peterson, his solos are both technically challenging yet harmonically straightforward, adhering closely to the underlying chord progression. An overflowing font of bebop licks, his solos are an unending source of material for beginning...
Bud Powell Live at the Blue Note Cafe, Paris 1961 ESP-Disk 2008 Bud Powell In Copenhagen Storyville 2008 Pianist Bud Powell's music is often buried in his tragic personal history, so much so that his story is best known through the film Round Midnight, where his character is transmogrified into a saxophonist memorably played by Dexter Gordon. Mental illness--at least partially caused by a savage police...
Larry Ham Just You, Just Me Arbors 2008 Louis Mazetier Tributes, Portraits and Other Stories (Arbors Piano Series, Vol. 18) Arbors 2008 Marcos Jimenez I Thought About You Altrisuoni 2008 Bert van den Brink Bert's Bytes Challenge 2007 There never seems to be a shortage of brilliant solo piano releases; here are four by some players you may have never heard before...
Though it wasn't billed as such, closing night at the Detroit International Jazz Festival morphed into a de facto celebration of bebop, the modern jazz movement of the �40s spearheaded by Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell and a few others.
Originally published August 26, 2000 NEW YORK -- On the Upper West Side of Manhattan, just beyond the shadow of Juilliard, the bejeweled conservatory of classical music, sits the Lincoln Square Community Center. A gritty gathering place cut from cold concrete, it is the current home to the longest running master class in jazz.
