Rifftides (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
It comes from Bill Kirchner, frequent Rifftides commenter, stalwart broadcaster and man of many parts, usually on reed instruments in the key of B-flat. Recently, I taped my next one-hour show for the "Jazz From the Archives" series. Presented by...
bebop spoken here (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Vasilis Xenopoulos (ten), Paul Edis (pno), Mick Shoulder (bs), Adam Sinclair (dms). Vasy (Xeno? Mr X?) is one of those players you remember come what may. The sound is warm without being hot, cool without being cold. Tonight It captured the Blaydon audience f rom the opening notes of "Gone With The Wind" to the closing bars of "Wee" (a.k.a. "Allen's Alley") this is what...
look back in anger (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
some music sits within you like a memory that you feel but can't really see well enough to describe. even to yourself. 'round midnight' is a movie that i know i really enjoyed but it is a vague memory. however, i will attest to it's beauty and tenderness. in 1986 a prominent french filmmaker brought to the screen the story of a troubled american jazz musician who is brought to france and befriended...
The Daily Swarm (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Art D’Lugoff, who was widely regarded as the dean of New York nightclub impresarios and whose storied spot, the Village Gate, was for more than 30 years home to performers as celebrated, and diverse, as Duke Ellington, Allen Ginsberg and John Belushi, died on Wednesday in Manhattan…. …Though most often thought of as a jazz space — among the eminences heard there over the...
DPRC - Documentary Photography Rudy (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The jazz concerts organized by Hans-Jürgen von Osterhausen, director of Jazz am Rhein e.V./EURO Jazz 21′, at Rheinisches Landesmuseum will certainly not help to make the promoter a rich man. On Thursday, November 5, only a handful of people came to the concert-hall at Colmantstrasse to attend the double concerto by Thomas Champagne Trio (B) and Boi Akih (NL), an [...]
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
SANTA CRUZ Jazz-rock fusion Alex Riel (drums) Poul Halberg (guitar) Frans Bak (keys) Hans Ulrik (sax) Bo Stief (bass) During the 1980s SANTA CRUZ was one of the most successful jazz-rock fusion bands in Denmark. Today their only release from those days, the LP Daylight from 1985, has a cult like status in the country. Since then each of the band members has been leading their individual groups and...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
Wednesday, October 28 Celebrate Hadley Caliman Seattle Art Museum, downtown 7:30pm $18 general, $10 students An all-star quintet featuring renowned saxophonist Hadley Caliman, the legendary Curtis Fuller (trombone), Larry Vukovich (piano), Jeff Chambers (bass), and Eddie Marshall (drums) concludes its Pacific Northwest tour in a special tribute concert to the Seattle-based tenor master...
Jazz & Blues Music Reviews (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
Tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander is one of the busiest musicians on the mainstream scene, recording many albums as a leader and a sideman. On this album he confidently charges into the fray again, aided by Harold Mabern on piano, Nat Reeves on bass and Joe Farnsworth on drums. His strong and agile tone recalls Dexter Gordon and Gene Ammons and is well suited to this collection of standards and bluesy...
breath of life (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
Four hours of music—it will probably take you a whole month to digest this week's music. Classics from Thelonious Monk. Spanish funk featuring Los Rumbers, Eddine Said, Mala Rodriguez, Arangu and Gecko Turner. Plus two hours of Monk interpretations featuring Jerry Gonzalez, Steve Lacy, T.S. Monk, Tommy Flanagan, Mark Murphy, Joe Henderson, Ronnie Mathews, Kronos [...]
JazzHQ (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
Alicia Keys - Alicia Keys Smooth Jazz Tribute (CC Entertainment ) Aram Shelton - Two Cities (Delmark ) Art Blakey - Jazz Messengers (LP W/Tshirt) (Phantom ) Charlie Parker - Bird On 52ND Street (Original Jazz Classics ) Collage - Fifty-Four Minutes Twenty Seconds (Wool ) Crane River Jazz Band - Storming Session (United States Of Distribution LTD. ) Crane River Jazz Band - Storming Session: Germany...
Miami New Times | Complete Issue (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
Dutch-born Han Bennink is arguably one of the most venerated drummers on the European jazz scene. Throughout his half-century career, Bennink has performed with legends such as Sonny Rollins and Dexter Gordon while making a name for himself as an unpredictable free-jazz improviser. His madcap perfor...
Shanghaiist (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
10px 10px;" class="imgright"> Dee Dee Bridgewater with JZ Big Band Where: Yunfeng Theater, 1700 West Beijing Road. 北京西路1700号 When: Friday, October 16, 2009, 7:30PM Cost: 400-1500¥ For more local events, visit the ShanghaiistCalendar . Dee Dee Bridgewater, the illustrious Jazz singer, has been one of the premier artists in Jazz for the past forty...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
If the name {{Bernt Rosengren = 3919}} doesn't ring a bell, it probably would if you lived in Sweden. Rosengren, an unabashed champion of such implacable hard-boppers as {{Gene Ammons = 3405}}, {{Hank Mobley = 9478}}, {{Dexter Gordon = 7127}} and {{Johnny Griffin = 7239}}, has been one of that country's leading tenor saxophonists for more than half a century, and as his latest CD affirms, he's still...
Jazz & Blues Music Reviews (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
The idea of the tenor battle, two saxophonists squared off in mock combat against each other, has had a long tradition in jazz, be it Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young, Dexter Gordon and Wardell Grey or Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane. Most of these “battles” are tongue in cheek affairs, as is the case here, where old friends Kidd Jordan and Fred Anderson take up the tenor saxophone chase,...
The Guardian Music blog (Free subscription) | 01/10/2009
This month, the world's most famous jazz club celebrates five decades of playing host to an extraordinary procession of musical legends Fifty years ago this month, what was to become the most famous jazz club on the planet – Ronnie Scott's – staged its first gig. The location wasn't today's glitzy Frith Street supper club, with its soft-lit ambiance, plush furnishings and coolly expert...
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