All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Lester Young was the first jazz musician photographer Herb Snitzer captured with his camera. In fact, the image you see here of Young outside the Five Spot in New York is the first jazz photograph Herb ever took. Writer Nat Hentoff has called this image by Herb "the quintessential Lester Young photograph." This photo and the ones that follow were made in October 1958 by Herb on assignment...
JazzHQ (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Albert Ayler - Greenich Village (Universal Japan/Zoom ) Amanda Martinez - Amor (Phantom ) Anita O'Day - Sings Winners (Universal ) Anita Spring - Let Them Talk (Phantom ) Art Blakey - Jazz Message (Universal ) Art Sherrod Jr. - Seasons (Pacific Coast Jazz ) Benny Carter - Further Definitions (Universal Japan/Zoom ) Bernie McGann - Solar (Indies Aus/Zoom ) Bill Evans - With Symphony Orchestra (Universal...
Jazz Lives (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Jon-Erik Kellso already has a deep repertoire of songs, as listeners know. I was especially delighted when he decided to add Ralph Rainger’s PLEASE to his list, which he did last Sunday night (November 22, 2009) at the Ear Inn. The EarRegulars were an especially compatible quartet: Jon-Erik on trumpet, Matt Munisteri on guitar, Scott [...]
CTNMUSIC.COM (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Familiar, functional well crafted folk songs, A CAVE, A CANOO, the third’s album from Portland singer/songwriter Shelley Short sound like a charm, a fragile, simple, minimalist and odd collection of experimental folk songs. The record is flush with juxtapositions: Short’s girly, Joanna-Newsom-sings-Patsy-Cline voice is set against a warm bed of accordion, pianos, plucked guitars and, [...]...
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...
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...
Shiraz Socialist (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
If you’re lucky enough to have a ticket to hear the great Sonny Rollins tonight at the Brabican, you’re very lucky. Rollins is part of the London Jazz Festival – most of which strikes me as meretricious non-jazz garbage, of the type John Fordham regularly gets excited about in the Graun. Rollins, however, is a true jazz great and – [...]
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Perennial - Rob Garcia 4 - BJU Records) - Part of the allure of drummer/composer's Garcia 3rd CD as a leader was the anticipation of hearing the young saxophonist Noah Preminger and pianist Dan Tepfer. Preminger, a Hartford-area native, had an excellent debut CD last year ("Dry Bridge Road")...
enrevanche (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Aimee Mann Andrew Bird Ani DiFranco Art Tatum Avett Brothers The Beatles Bettye Lavette Big Joe Turner Big Star Bill Evans Bill Hicks Bill Monroe Bill Withers Billy Bragg Biz Markie Bo Diddley Bob Dylan Bobby Timmons Booker T Jones, with or without MG's British Sea Power Bruce Springsteen Buck Owens Bud Powell The Carter Family Charles Mingus Charlie Parker Chet Atkins Chet Baker Chic Coleman Hawkins...
Govorit Amerika USA Russia News (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Known for harmonica work on Rolling Stones' "Miss You," Blue branches out with new album, out January 26, 2010 NEW YORK, NY -- "We have chosen the title Threshold because the tunes open new musical territory for us," says bluesman Sugar Blue of his new album, due out January 26, 2010 on Beeble Music. The album follows the acclaimed 2007 album Code Blue, which hinted at a widening...
Jazz Lives (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
One of the many pleasures of the 2009 Jazz at Chautauqua was hearing Petra van Nuis and Andy Brown perform in front of a live audience, and I think the performance clips I’ve posted are solid evidence of their talents. I was hoping that the duo’s new CD would provide the same experience. Sometimes, of course, magic dissolves in the recording studio amid attempts [...]
Rifftides (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
Red Mitchell, Warne Marsh, Big Two (Storyville). Bassist Mitchell (1927-1992) and tenor saxophonist Marsh (1927-1987) played as a duo for two nights in 1980 at the Fasching Club in Stockholm. In this intimate recording, Storyville engineer Nils Edström captured the...
Casa Valdez Studios (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
(From Rico's Facebook with Rico artist Tim Price) In this lesson, I’ve taken an in-depth approach to give you all some information, new ideas, ear training, and fresh approaches to this form. http://www.saxontheweb.net /Price/Blues1.html Pick out a few licks that you like and that lay well for you that you can hear. Now, think of how your favorite player such as Sonny Rollins might play this...
bebop spoken here (Free subscription) | 18/10/2009
Yesterday, as is my oft-time wont, I wandered lonely as a cloud in to South Shields' Market Place. After perusing the stalls I drifted out on a cloud clutching a piece of circular vinyl inside a square, cardboard envelope that had a design of some artistic merit on the front. It also had the words inscribed - "SHELLY MANNE & HIS MEN AT THE BLACK HAWK 1". You've guessed it - it was a long...
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