idil vice fashion rocks (Free subscription) | yesterday
A Herman Leonard photograph of Ella Fitzgerald performing at the New York nightclub Downbeat in 1948. Watching rapturously are Duke Ellington, center, and Benny Goodman, in glasses behind Ellington. Love me some Ella Fitzgerald - yes, I am a huge fan! Listen to this: Verve just released “Twelve Nights in Hollywood,” a four-CD boxed set of Ella Fitzgerald singing 76 songs at the Crescendo,...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | yesterday
WITH all the multi-disc jazz boxes that have come out in recent years--the complete Miles Davis on Columbia, the complete Charlie Parker on Savoy, the complete Duke Ellington on RCA and so on--its hard to believe that any significant tapes by any major musician might still be languishing undiscovered in a record companys archives...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
By Tad Hendrickson Hannah Rothschild talks about her new documentary, 'The Jazz Baroness,' to be shown on HBO2. Check here for show times. Jazz has always had its fair share of characters. Usually they are musicians, but occasionally nonmusicians enter the story thread. Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter was the pre-eminent patron of the New York City jazz scene back in the '50s and '60s bebop heyday....
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
The Lovers, by John Connolly (Atria; 344 pages; $26). Stripped of his license, Connolly's haunted detective, Charlie Parker, investigates one of the lingering mysteries of his life, his father's inexplicable shooting of two unarmed young lovers and his...
New Narcotics (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. -Charlie Parker Punk and Mariachi music are two genres with very, very, very little crossover possibility. Yet The Bronx have decided to blast that out of the water by renaming themselves as Mariachi El Bronx and releasing an album of Mexicano ditties. And it bloody works. The music is upbeat,...
The J-Walk Blog (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Found at If Charlie Parker : She's playing either "Dog's in the Dishes" or "Pretty Little Dog." Comments | Posted in Celebrities
Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Filed under: All About Jazz Hannah Rothschild talks about her new documentary, 'The Jazz Baroness,' to be shown on HBO2. Check here for show times. Jazz has always had its fair share of characters. Usually they are musicians, but occasionally nonmusicians enter the story thread. Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter was the pre-eminent patron of the New York City jazz scene back in the '50s and '60s...
Koluki (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Presumptuous Chapeau Alheio: Marche' aux Puces, ParisPhoto: A.F., 1984 ... WITH CHARLIE PARKER... ... WITH STRINGS! (The Master Takes) April in Paris Just Friends Everything Happens To Me I Didn't Know What Time iIt Was East of the Sun and West of the Moon I'll Remember April They Can't Take That (smile) Away From Me April in Paris (live) {et voila'!}
The Daily Swarm - Headlines (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Stuff White People Like : Historically speaking, the music that white people have kept on life support for the longest period of time is Jazz. Thanks largely to public radio, bookstores, and coffee shops, Jazz has carved out a niche in white culture that is not yet ready to be replaced by Indie Rock. But the biggest role that Jazz plays in white culture is in the white fantasy of leisure. All white...
bebop spoken here (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Mark Toomey (alto), Jeremy McMurray (pno), Peter Ayton (bs), Kevin O'Neill (dms). Laid back alto playing from Mark who flew bird-like through the changes on a choice selection of standards and originals. These included, "East of the Sun", "Autumn Leaves", "Stella By Starlight", "There Will Never Be Another You", "All The Things You Are" - complete with...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
For years, Latin-jazz has been ignored or unduly dismissed as repetitive novelty music by jazz fans who should know better. While Latin-jazz is certainly foreign to those who have little knowledge of or connection with the Latin experience in America, the music's tempos and syncopation remain exceptional and worthy of scholarship. Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie understood this in their early forays...
DCist (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Feeling the limitations of the jazz combo format that was prevalent in the late 1940s, Miles Davis assembled a nonet to play music that allowed for more orchestration and color, while still maintaining the improvisational elements of that era's be-bop sound. With orchestrations from the great arranger Gil Evans , as well as band members Gerry Mulligan and John Lewis , the band performed briefly in...
Alterdestiny (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
I hadn't done one of these in a long time, so now seemed as good a time as any. 1. "I Can't Get Started" - Charlie Parker 2. "Cheree" - Suicide 3. "Hold On, Hold On" - Neko Case 4. "Do The Rump" - The Black Keys 5. "Armanar (The Pole Star)" - Muhammad Dammou 6. "Cabocla Jurema/Ponto de Janaina" - Maria Bethânia 7. "Is This It"...
LondonJazz (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Review: Sheila Jordan 81st birthday gig (Bull's Head, London Jazz Festival, November 18th 2009, review by Georgia Mancio) "It’s quite something to stand up and convey a song. It looks easy…," mused a member of the audience at the busy Bull’s Head on Wednesday night. "...but it’s difficult to convey overly emotive songs, and it’s difficult to convey jokey...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
What a surprise to hear the first-ever recording that joins piano maestros {{Hank Jones = 8166}} and {{Oliver Jones = 8185}}. A Detroit native, ninety-year-old Hank Jones is from the family that gave us {{Thad "Bartok with Wings" Jones = 8200}} and polyrhythmist {{Elvin Jones = 8162}}, and he has participated in historic bebop sessions with {{Charlie Parker = 10115}} and memorable duets with...
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