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Webster University has released the rest of the 2008-09 schedule of Monday night concerts by the University's jazz faculty. Here's the lineup:Monday, October 13: The Paul DeMarinis Sextet, featuring DeMarinis on saxophones, Debby Lennon (vocals), Dave Black (guitar), Nick Schlueter (piano), Ben Whee...
Over the next few weeks, I’m going to throw up some really quick capsule reviews of records I wish I had been able to review more fully. In most cases, these are candidates for my top 20 of 2008 (and probably top 10 for some, just mathematically speaking). Here we go: Public Record - Public Record [...]
September 17, 1978, is a Sunday. Egyptian president Anwar Sadat and Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin sign the Camp David Accords. The peace agreement was reached after 12 days of secret negotiations mediated by President Jimmy Carter, who will win the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts. Carter also designates the coming week as National Port [...]
Recommended The Movie: 'Round Midnight follows the life of a fictional jazz musician named Dale Turner (played very well by real life jazz musician, Dexter Gordon). A saxophone player by trade, Dale has a hefty drinking problem that he can't quite shake and as such, his life isn't as glorious as he might want. His family have distanced themselves from him and while he's got the talent to really shine...
Image: Pinamar. What happened, happened once. So now it’s best in memory - an orange he sliced: the skin unbroken, then the knife, the chilled wedge lifted to my mouth, his mouth, the thin membrane between us, the exquisite orange, tongue, orange, my nakedness and his, the way he pushed my body against the fridge. Beside [...]
My accidental disk jockey gig on WBGO is scheduled for this Thursday at 2 pm. Live and in full color on the Internets at wbgo.org Here’s my playlist: Back Water Blues - Dinah Washington (live version, Max Roach et al) 4:42 I’ll Remember April - Concert by the Sea – Erroll Garner [...]
This weekend sadly marked the passing of yet another legend of jazz who chose to live overseas more than four decades ago. Chicago native Johnny Griffin, a small man and one of the great tenor saxophonists of all time (which...
Australian blogger Gary Sauer-Thompson on hauntology[1]. Thompson, relatively new to the hauntology arena, concludes that hauntology is the counterpart to the ‘nostalgia mode’ of Fredric Jameson (the supposed cultural homogeneity of late capitalism) as described in Postmodernism: The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. So hauntology is the new avant-garde? Read a detailed analysis of [...]
Reviewed by Dan Mancini Quote: "As elegant yet unpretentious as its lead actor, Bertrand Tavernier's Round Midnight expresses mythic truths, evokes an era, laments an under-appreciated art form, and tries to transform its audience into jazz fans. But even if it didn't do all that, simply watching Dexter Gordon play would still be worth a couple hours of your time."
SMV: THE THUNDER TOUR KESWICK THEATRE 291 Keswick Ave., Glenside, PA TUES., AUG. 19, 8 PM Tickets on sale NOW! Thunder happens when three premier bassists Stanley Clarke, Marcus Miller and Victor Wooten team up for concert dates. The Thunder Tour comes to Glenside's Keswick Theatre on Tues., Aug. 19 @ 8 PM...
Straight-ahead jazz loses another keeper of the flame. I am far away from my record collection, but three things come to mind about Mathews: 1) Mathews (like John Hicks, Kenny Barron, Harold Mabern, and others) took the “energy style” comping...
Last week, jazz lost two journeyman artists valued for their dependability, versatility and swing. On the west coast, bassist Dave Carpenter died suddenly of a heart attack at the age of forty-eight. Most recently, Carpenter had been in drummer Peter...
Jazz pianist Ronnie Mathews has passed away at the age of 72 after a battle with pancreatic cancer. Matthews had been the subject of an all-star benefit and tribute just last week at Sweet Rhythm in New York City. If you've spent any time listening to 1960s, 70s and 80s hardbop, there's a good chanc...
