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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Percussionist Fred Scott has launched his new website at fredscottjazz.com. The new site includes calendar information, photos, press quotes, links and more. A few words from Fred Scott I have been playing percussion since 1959 and piano since 1980. I have traveled all over the United States, learning rhythms, from New Orleans. I've worked and studied with some of the baddist cats in the world. Besides...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Charles Tyler was an innovative musician who could unfurl a maelstrom of ideas from just a spark. He played with fire and spirit, finding his muse in free jazz and filling his music with bold inventions. Tyler met {{Albert Ayler = 3538}} when he was 14. He later went on to play with Ayler, whose influence can be heard in his approach. Tyler, however, held his own shining in the company of other free...
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Jazz & Blues Music Reviews (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
This is a fascinating two disc set that collects music that the great saxophonist Ornette Coleman recorded in a concentrated session in September of 1971. The music was eventually released on the albums Science Fiction and Broken Shadows . Coleman brought together former colleagues like bassist Charlie Haden, tenor saxophonist Dewey Redman, drummers Billy Higgins and Ed Blackwell and trumpeters Don...
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Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
Filed under: All About Jazz A jazz artist who balances a sharp ear for melody with an intellect inspired by improvisation's outer reaches, Joe Morris is part of a community of musicians who play what has been called the downtown jazz, avant-garde, free jazz or even just free music scenes. Since he began performing on guitar in 1975, he's carved out a reputation for himself that is up there with innovative...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 03/10/2009
Drummers have a reputation of being a little "different" than the rest of the players on the bandstand. There are jokes about drummers not being real musicians and how machines do their job better, often told by drummers themselves. No matter the genre, these musicians inarguably tend to march to the beat of their own making. So with this in mind it shouldn't be all that surprising that by...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 05/09/2009
Keith Jarrett is one of the most significant jazz pianists to emerge in the latter decades of the 20th century. A classically trained player and a composer, he was inducted into the prestigious Downbeat Hall of Fame in 2008. He has played with Miles Davis and Art Blakey, and has made several legendary recordings with a quartet that included bassist Charlie Haden, drummer Jack DeJohnette, and sax man...
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Do the Math (Free subscription) | 27/08/2009
When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. --Henny Youngman --- After never finding serious success as a leader--after being drafted, court-martialed, and sentenced to a year’s hard labor in World War Two--after watching some of...
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Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 14/08/2009
Legendary jazz drummer RASHIED ALI has died. He was 74.The percussionist passed away in a New York hospital on Wednesday (12Aug09) after reportedly suffering a heart...
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Buns O'Plenty (Free subscription) | 06/07/2009
Released on the Impulse! label. All songs are originals by Jarrett. Keith Jarrett: piano, flute, percussion Dewey Redman: tenor saxophone, musette, percussion Charlie Haden: bass Paul Motian: drums, percussion Guilherme Franco: percussion 1. Inflight (9:04) 2. Kuum (11:34) 3. Vapallia (7:46) 4. Backhand (11:05) 256 kbps ::Backhand::
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 05/07/2009
The Village Vanguard's July Schedule JULY 2009 July 07 - July 12 PAUL MOTIAN TRIO 2000 + 3 Loren Stillman-asax, Michael Adkins-tsax, Masabumi Kikuchi-p, Ben Street-b July 14 - July 19 BILL CAROTHERS TRIO Nic Thys-b, Dre Pallemaerts-d July 21 - July 26 FRED HERSCH TRIO John Hbert-b, Eric McPherson-d...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 24/06/2009
The unfettered joy of listening to J.D. Allen's Shine comes from being reunited with the blues and spiritualism of modern Afro-American saxophone music. This kind of feeling and emotion all but died with {{John Coltrane = 5851}}. Arguably only a handful of players such as {{Pharoah Sanders = 4045}}, {{Archie Shepp = 4266}} and, perhaps, {{Dewey Redman = 10604}} kept those flames alive. And then there...
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Darcy James Argue's Secret Society (Free subscription) | 23/06/2009
Two essential new interviews: Ethan Iverson unleashes another epic conversation, this one with Tim Berne: Intro Part One Part Two A taste: EI: You are a pretty rare example of someone who isn’t playing music already as a teenager but...
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Do the Math (Free subscription) | 22/06/2009
(Photo by Sarah Humphries) EI: Why don’t you say something sort of quietly while I see if this is taping. It’s sort of a noisy situation. TB: The manger I was born in had a small, single bed. My whole...
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Jazz@Rochester (Free subscription) | 13/06/2009
Don't get me wrong, I heard some wonderful music last night and got to spend some time with my friends, but ... geez ... what was I thinking! My schedule for Day One of the Rochester International Jazz Festival was...
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