Sonny Rollins, Barbican Hall, London
The Independent (Free subscription) | yesterday
Tears started rolling as soon as the saxophone legend Theodore "Sonny" Rollins took the stage, and continued for much of the 90- minute performance.
The Independent (Free subscription) | yesterday
Tears started rolling as soon as the saxophone legend Theodore "Sonny" Rollins took the stage, and continued for much of the 90- minute performance.
LondonJazz (Free subscription) | yesterday
Review: Stan Sulzmann Quartet The Green Man, London Jazz Festival, November 20th 2009, review by Patrick Hadfield) After four nights going to gigs in the Queen Elizabeth Hall – a concert venue if ever there was one – on Friday I headed down to the basement of the Green Man by Great Portland Street station. Just like the QEH gigs, this one was also packed to capacity – standing room...
The Garlic (Free subscription) | yesterday
Might as well ask, about there, since there hasn't been much going on here, on The Garlic, of recent times. So sorry, Garlic Fans, as we have been flat out, jammin' with a multitude of things on the homefront. When The Aunt was released from short-term Rehab , nearly a month ago, we implemented a Hospice here at home (not that she is terminal for anything other than her age, a few weakening parts,...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
By Tad Hendrickson...
LondonJazz (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Review: Sheila Jordan 81st birthday gig (Bull's Head, London Jazz Festival, November 18th 2009, review by Georgia Mancio) "It’s quite something to stand up and convey a song. It looks easy…," mused a member of the audience at the busy Bull’s Head on Wednesday night. "...but it’s difficult to convey overly emotive songs, and it’s difficult to convey jokey...
Woody Haut's Blog (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Happy birthday Don Cherry, November 18, 1936 – October 19, 1995, Wherever you are. Here he is with Sonny Rollins Then, with James Blood Ulmer and Rashied Ali
bebop spoken here (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
This just blew my sox off! Liz
Wolfgangs Vault (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Download for $9.98. Listen to Herbie Mann Sextet performed at Newport Jazz Festival on July 4, 1959
Wolfgangs Vault (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
The legendary Sonny Rollins played to a sell out Barbican last night. At 79-years old he’s outlived the other players that shaped the jazz genre, yet when we spoke he was philosophically flippant about the thought of death.
LondonJazz (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Sonny Rollins Barbican Centre, November 14th 2009 Don't Stop the Carnival. The title of the calypso anthem says it all, really. This was the tune which brought Sonny Rollins ' Barbican appearance in the London Jazz Festival to a rousing, triumphant, and thoroughly fitting close. Drummer Kobie Watkins , was hitting the accented fourth beat of every bar, good, hard, and double-handed. Rollins ended...
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 – [...]
Rifftides (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Dick Katz, The Line Forms Here (Reservoir). The news of Katz's death at 85 last week sent me to the shelf for this 1996 recording. It covers the range of his talents as pianist, composer and arranger. He plays alone...
The Music Digest (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
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The One-Line Review (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
UK Television Documentary Writer/Director/Cinematographer/Narrator: Hannah Rothschild Cast: Helen Mirren Featuring: Thelonious Monk Jr., Quincy Jones, Lord Rothschild, Chico Hamilton, Roy Haynes, Sonny Rollins Hannah Rothschild presents a loving if rather uncritical portrait of the 28-years-long friendship between her great aunt, Panonnica Rothschild, a blue-blooded white English woman, and Jazz Pianist...
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ifp | 17/06/2009
We have made a selection of the best music and cultural festivals in France this summer. SOUTH: * Vence, Côte d'Azur, Les Nuits du Sud, 10th July to 8th August - The 12th edition of this "Music of the World" festival with exhibitions, activities and free concerts on the 16th and 23rd of July and 5th of August. Artists include Gilberto Gil, Grand Corps Malade, Pascale Picard, Amadou et Mariam, Khaled,