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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | yesterday
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...
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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...
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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"...
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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...
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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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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Ari Hoenig Quartet Niu's Jazz and Blues Bar Silom, Bangkok, Thailand November 5, 2009 There is no other drummer quite like New Yorker {{Ari Hoenig = 2361}}. Watching him play is like marveling at a cross between Animal, the wild drummer of Muppets fame, and {{Max Roach = 10725}}. His approach to drumming is intense above all, ferocious even at times, and yet his harmonic manipulation of his kit is...
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PETRONA (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Finally, just in time for this week's issue, I have caught up with my archive of Booksellers. From the 23 October issue comes news of the paperbacks that will be published in the UK in February 2010. Among the predicted "top sellers" are Gone Tomorrow by Lee Child (Bantam, £7.99), which opens with Jack Reacher suspecting a woman on the New York subway of being a terrorist. For me, these...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Limited-run channel hosted by Davis' son Erin Davis, his nephew drummer Vince Wilburn Jr. and bassist, producer and writer Marcus Miller Miles Davis Radio to celebrate the music, life and career of one of music's most legendary icons The channel to showcase everything from Davis' collaborations with Charlie Parker at the age of 19 to his landmark albums Kind of Blue, Birth of the Cool, Bitches Brew...
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undomondo (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
It's like a full moon madness when one of your favourite bands has a new release on your favourite label. Asheville, NC power trio Ahleuchatistas ' (pronounciation tip : the name comes from the Charlie Parker song "Ah-leu-cha") fifth full length called Of the Body Prone is hands down the best mathcore/improv album this year to grace your speakers, and it might be the most balanced of their...
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How To Make Money With Iphone (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
By reading and applying the techniques in My Phone Riches Guide I have learned exactly how to identify needs in the iPhone applications market to create extremely in-demand applications. Charlie Parker explains exactly why certain applications, even though seem promising and useful, ultimately fail to generate money. Along with iPhone applications development strategies, MyPhone Riches also teaches...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
The innovative jazz education website PlayJazzNow.com has just released a new series of downloadable backing tracks. The latest sets of tracks delve into both classic and contemporary jazz materials. BEBOP STANDARDS is the new collection of tunes popularized by Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and their "worthy constituents" in the 1950's. PlayJazzNow offers a fresh take on some of the most...
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Crime Always Pays (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
It’s getting to that time of the year again, when the ‘Best-of-Year’ selections are made, and Crime Always Pays has never been backward about clambering aboard a bandwagon. Yep, it’s the ‘Crime Always Pays’ Irish Novel of the Year Award, that somewhat-less-than-prestigious gong coveted by the very few and the ludicrously self-deluded. The usual hyperbole aside,...
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JazzHQ (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Downbeat: The Great Jazz Interviews: A 75th Anniversary Anthology. Edited and Compiled By Frank Alkyer. In July of 1934 the first issue of DownBeat magazine hit newsstands in Chicago. For the next seven-plus decades and counting the publication has been synonymous with jazz. DownBeat has chronicled every facet of jazz; every trend; every new and emerging sound. They have charted the birth and rise...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
The tragic jazz life and death story of saxophonist Art Pepper was similar to that of {{Charlie Parker = 10115}} in many ways. Like Bird's brilliance, Art Pepper's intense flame burned bright, and his genius with the saxophone was subject to fan adoration and critical admiration. Unlike Parker, who died at age 35, Pepper lived into his mid-50s, making an infamous comeback from drugs and prison...
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Scott Wolf inside USC (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Tim Floyd was hired an assistant coach with New Orleans Hornets. He joins former USC point guard Robert Pack and former USC coach Charlie Parker as assistants on the staff. Head coach Byron Scott was fired and replaced by general...
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