All About Jazz (Free subscription) | yesterday
Charlie Haden Family and Friends: Rambling Boy has earned legendary bassist Charlie Haden his best-selling debut in over half a century of making music. The album ranked #2 on Billboard's bluegrass chart, and landed in the overall Top 100, as well as riding near the top on Amazon's bestsellers all week...
RegnYouth Archives (Free subscription) | yesterday
There was a time when family entertainment often consisted of coming together to sing and play; when music was not just an oral tradition but a means of engendering familial closeness. A time long past, it contrasts with the contemporary reality of disenfranchised children, in no small part the result of a society where double [...]
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Wow, this was a huge week for new releases and great reissues. We still haven't caught up but there's lots of new stuff for everyone. Go to JazzLoft There are 12 more titles added to the ECM Touchstone series this week including CDs by John Abercrombie, Jan Garbarek, Bill Frisell, Marc Johnson, Pat Metheny, Paul Motian, Charles Lloyd, Chick Corea, Enrico Rava and more...
Freespace (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Anna Maria Jopek's album Upojenie, a collaboration with Pat Metheny, is coming out in the United States later this month. You can order it on Amazon.com. The title track is particularly beautiful. (But if you're going to just get one...
Musical Stew Daily (Free subscription) | 28/09/2008
Sunday morning to us means, sleeping in a little, reading the paper with coffee and breakfast and some relaxing music lightly sketching what the day holds. Some of our favorites are John Coltrane Live At Birdland or his recording with Milt Jackson, Bags And Trane. Here’s “Stairway To The Stars”: Sometimes Wes Montgomery fits the bill [...]
The Bluegrass Blog (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
Charlie Haden is a name that serious jazz fans will recognize, but for folks in the bluegrass an acoustic world, it may not be familiar. With his star-studded new release, Rambling Boy, out this week, you might expect him to gain some new fans in our sphere too. Haden is a bass player known for his [...]
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
For the renowned jazz bassist Charlie Haden, his new country album "Rambling Boy" (Decca) isn't a departure. It's a return to the music of his youth. Long before he played alongside Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Carla Bley, Keith Jarrett, Pat Metheny and others, he was Cowboy Charlie, who first appeared at age 2 on his parents' country-music radio show "Uncle Carl Haden and the Haden Family." On...
JSOnline (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
Jackson Browne, Time the Conqueror (Inside Recordings). Fourplay, Energy (Heads Up). Jazz group features keyboardist Bob James, bassist Nathan East, guitarist Larry Carlton and drummer Harvey Mason. ...
LA Times (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
Also reviewed: Charlie Haden Charlie Haden Family & Friends (Decca)
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 20/09/2008
Dave Allen Trio Tour September 23rd to 28th - Spain Tour - Dave Allen Trio with Henry Cole and Masa Kamaguchi. Sept 23rd - Jimmy Glass Jazz - Valencia Sept 25th - Bilbaina Jazz - Bilbao Sept 26th - Jamboree - Barcelona Sept 27th - Sunset Jazz Club - Girona (c/Jaume Pons i Mart n 12) Sept 28th - Jazz Clot - Barcelona...
MichiganLiberal (Free subscription) | 18/09/2008
Some years ago, jazz guitarist Pat Metheny vented at some length on his online bulletin board about Kenny G's decision to overdub his smooth jazz saxophone all over Louis Armstrong's classic "What a Wonderful World." The rant was picked up by Harper's Magazine. Here's a small taste: (W)hen Kenny G decided that it was appropriate for him to defile the music of the man who is probably the greatest jazz...
odd time signatures (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
This makes me incredibly sad. This is (was) the best emerging jazz festival I have followed, and I was looking forward to Sticks having the opportunity to attend in 2009. If there is anyone reading this who can assist them and possibly find a sponsor or a grant for them to continue, please visit their [...]
Today's Tribune-Review (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
Donny McCaslin is such a strong saxophonist, he can dominate the sound of an album even when it isn't his own. His "Recommended Tools" is a excellent display of his speed, tone and melodic conception.
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Litchfield Jazz Fest Goshen Fairgrounds Goshen, Connecticut August 1-3, 2008 No doubt that Litchfield Hills in northwest Connecticut is some of the prettiest terrain within a two- hour drive of Manhattan. The region attracts all sorts of visitors--antique buyers, wine tasters, history buffs and, for more than a decade, jazz fans...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
When you have a winning combination, it's best not to mess with it. When guitarist Pat Metheny hooked up with Brad Mehldau, the pianist's trio was already such a strong, flexible unit that Metheny grabbed it in its entirety for his two-CD project. While the order of events may not be quite the same, Atomic pianist Havard Wiik and his trio, responsible for the fresh, modernistic The Arcades (Jazzland,...
