All About Jazz (Free subscription) | yesterday
In honor of what would have been Thelonious Monk's 91st birthday this week, NPR Music presents some of the more enjoyable interpretations of his music. Hear their picks and post your favorites that didn't make the cut...
Darcy James Argue's Secret Society (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Sherisse Rogers, originally uploaded by Lindsay Beyerstein. What's the opposite of schadenfreude?Sherisse Rogers has won the 2008 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Composers Competition. She won for her piece "Transitions" for bigband and string quartet, featuring Joel Frahm. (It's on her...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
Often cited as saxophonist John Coltrane's first album as leader, Dakar--recorded on April 20, 1957--is a usurper. Originally credited to the Prestige All Stars (and released as part of a short-lived experiment with 16-rpm discs), it was only credited to Coltrane on its re-release in 1963, when the...
Billboard (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Legendary New Orleans artist/songwriter/producer Allen Toussaint has teamed with producer Joe Henry for his next album, a collection tentatively titled "The Bright Mississippi" due out in early 2009 on Nonesuch.
New York Post (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
NOT every grandson of late billionaire Marvin Davis turned out like Brandon "Greasy Bear" Davis, a moocher with a trail of bad debts. Brandon's cousin, Nick Davis Raynes, is a well-mannered movie producer who just optioned the rights to "Dark Magus...
Funky16Corners (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
Miss Mary Lou Williams “Listen - Mary Lou Williams - The Credo - MP3″ Greetings all. I come to you in mid-week with something unusual. If you’ve done any reading about the classic years of American jazz*, you probably came across the name Mary Lou Williams. Williams was – in addition to her skills as a pianist, there are [...]
Jazz@Rochester (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
It's time to take your next Exodus To Jazz, which is bringing in drummer Ulysses Owens Jr. and his USO Project this Friday, October 3, 2008, at the Clarion Riverside Hotel. You may have been impressed by his drumming as...
Eye On Miami (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
If you liked Part 1, check out Part 2 but Part 3 is the best one for hearing him talk -- or should I say trying to hear him talk. He is so cool, he speaks jazz. If you are in a rush move it up to 6:10 and you can hear him frustrated when they didn't tape a song.
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
Eric Alexander, aka Alexander the Great," the title of one of his two dozen albums as a leader, will be appearing at Chris' Jazz Cafe on September 28, 2008. Since placing second in 1991 to Joshua Redman in the Thelonious Monk Institute's saxophone competition, Alexander -- equally impressive on hard swinging numbers and romantic ballads -- has played on some 100 albums featuring some of the biggest...
eggbeater (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008
Do you know this book? It's a keeper. If it's nothing else, Beyond Nose To Tail by Fergus Henderson & Justin Piers Gellatly is a: conversation starter. {Pig diving head-first into a proper charlotte mold.)paper weightfuture drinking gameway of looking...
Uncertain Times (Free subscription) | 21/09/2008
(video link) Thelonious Monk - Blue Monk (Oslo, April 1966) clip from the video Monk in Oslo Thelonious Monk - Piano Charlie Rouse - Saxophone Larry Gates - Bass Ben Riley - Drums (prev - my Monk backstory)
All Africa (Free subscription) | 20/09/2008
He is known as "Germany's best kept secret". But on a rainy Friday evening at Serena Hotel's Victoria Hall, the secret was no more the moment Joachim Schoenecker and his quartet stepped on the stage, and graced us with his definition of jazz.
Quiet Bubble (Free subscription) | 16/09/2008
The two songs discussed below will remain active until 19 October 2008. There’s a lot of lost Holy Grails in pop music. Some are real but unreleased for whatever reason: Bruce Springsteen’s backlog of songs from those 1970s and early-1980s...
LAist (Free subscription) | 14/09/2008
Thelonious Dub is a Glendale-based instrumental trio that plays a jammy mishmash of jazz, reggae and pop, often featuring covers of Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, and Charles Mingus – in between their original compositions and a few other surprises. “T-Dub” draws inspiration from groups and artists like Bill Frisell, John Scofield, Massive Attack, Thievery Corporation and Sly & Robbie. The band was...
Geezer Music Club (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
It’s always nice to see a respected jazz veteran have the opportunity to get his name on the front of a new album, especially if it’s someone who has for the most part kept a pretty low profile over the course of his career. Drummer Al Foster has been in the business for many years, beginning [...]
