All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 02/08/2010
New York-based drummer Tobias Gebb assembled a stellar cast for Free At Last. The format of Unit 7 follows the instrumentation tradition of Art Blakey 's Jazz Messengers. The three-horn frontline and three-man rhythm section allows this group to sound bigger than it is at times, while also having the flexibility to make things more intimate. Gebb covers plenty of stylistic ground over the course of...
Rifftides (Free subscription) | 02/07/2010
What three administrations in the White House have refused to do, the people have done. They have recognized Willis Conover, the Voice of America broadcaster who may have been America's greatest cultural diplomat of the Cold War. He now has...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 02/06/2010
Part one of Twin Cities-based writer Pamela Espeland's conversation with the kinetic New Orleans-based clarinetist Evan Christopher left off with the artist commenting on his jazz education in his native California and his earlier leanings towards perhaps--tongue-in-cheek--qualifying for a spot in Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers...
Alterdestiny (Free subscription) | 02/05/2010
This NPR piece about a woman complaining that current jazz isn't exciting makes my head explode . That it's on NPR seems typical--the NPR demographic is precisely the same demographic as the average jazz fan--middle-aged, white, and affluent. And this demographic usually sees good jazz as something that stopped in 1964, when A Love Supreme got a little to crazy. They like retro-jazz, but how much Wynton...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 02/04/2010
ARC for the week of February 1, 2010: Music industry news and label headlines from the Artists Recording Collective (ARC). SUMI TONOOKA/ERICA LINDSAY - ARC is pleased to announce that Initiation, the dynamic new Artists Recording Collective CD by pianist Sumi Tonooka (pronounced To-NO-ka) and tenor saxophonist Erica Lindsay, entered the JazzWeek Charts at #39 and continues to garner both, significant...
JazzHQ (Free subscription) | 02/04/2010
Abbey Lincoln - Through The Years (UMGD/HIP-O ) Abdullah Ibrahim - Bombella (Sunny Side ) Anita O'Day - All Sad Young Men (Universal ) Anita O'Day - Swings Cole Porter Rogers (Universal Japan/Zoom ) Antoinette Montague - Behind The Smile (Igv ) Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Art Blakey!! Jazz Messengers!! (Analogue Productions ) Barb Jungr - Men I Love:New American Songbook (Indie Europe/Zoom...
Buns O'Plenty (Free subscription) | 02/03/2010
Recorded in three days at Manhattan Towers Studios in NY. Blakey is featured on two tracks. 1. There Will Never Be Another You - 5:35 2. The Fight - 5:05 3. Blue Moon - 8:42 4. All the Things You Are - 5:37 5. Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart - 8:37 6. Somebody Loves Me - 5:14 7. First Night Blues - 8:06 8. Cherokee - 8:12 9. The Third Day - 6:41 Jimmy Smith - organ Eddie McFadden - guitar Donald...
The New Confusion (Free subscription) | 02/03/2010
I don't post too much jazz here on The New Confusion, mostly focusing on hip-hop and the like, but in my continuing quest to understand modern soul and hip-hop through the lens of the musical traditions that they are informed by, I have often been inspired by certain classic and contemporary jazz artists. Here are a few songs that feel perfect for listening to at dusk on a cold winter Thursday: This...
breath of life (Free subscription) | 02/01/2010
WE start the week with African beats from Babatunde Olatunji, Art Blakey and Doudou N'diaye Rose. Then we offer new music from Gil Scott-Heron and Sade. And we close out with gorgeous work from Maysa Leak covering standards.
breath of life (Free subscription) | 02/01/2010
Drums of Passion, The African Beat and Djabote are three major indexes in the history of recorded African beats.
The Daily Swarm - Headlines (Free subscription) | 01/29/2010
Amazon : 1. The Shape Of Jazz To Come by Ornette Coleman 2. A Love Supreme by John Coltrane 3. Bird And Diz by Dizzy Gillespie 4. Kind Of Blue by Miles Davis 5. Ella and Louis by Ella Fitzgerald 6. Getz/Gilberto by João Gilberto 7. Concert By The Sea by Erroll Garner 8. The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady by Charles Mingus 9. Speak No Evil by Wayne Shorter 10. Straight, No Chaser by Thelonious...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 01/29/2010
Clarinetist Buddy De Franco has had a series of astonishing careers. He has been a leading swing era musician, a big band leader, a bebop headliner, an early participant in merging small-group jazz with the American Songbook, a polytonal experimenter, and champion of all forms of the music. Buddy's first 10 years alone are remarkable. In 1943 he recorded with Gene Krupa, then joined Tommy Dorsey and...
JazzHQ (Free subscription) | 01/28/2010
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Art Blakey!! Jazz Messengers!! (Analogue Productions ) Barry Finnerty - Blues For Trane (Pony ) Brian Smith - Rendezvous (Fone ) Carbon / Elliott Sharp - Void Coordinates (Phantom ) Charles Mingus - Black Saint And The Sinner Lady (Analogue Productions ) Chick Corea - Return To Forever (Pid ) Coleman Hawkins - Wrapped Tight (Analogue Prod. ) Coleman Hawkins -...
St. Louis Jazz Notes (Free subscription) | 01/23/2010
Our video spotlight this week shines on the veteran alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson , who will return to St. Louis to play Wednesday, February 3 through Saturday, February 6 at Jazz at the Bistro . A native of North Carolina, the 83-year-old Donaldson came of age in the post-war bebop era and first recorded way back in 1952. He went on to work with many of the leading jazz musicians of the 1950s, including...
Popdose (Free subscription) | 01/22/2010
Sing along with Jason Hare as he leads you down the path of smooth music, stopping to marvel at the genius of Chuck Mangione's "Feels So Good."
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drummer40 | 01/12/2010
San Jose, Calif., -- Enter Music Publishing, publishers of hip/drum percussion magazines worldwide, has published, maybe, its most diverse, insightful issue to date. And how apropos that Issue 168 is being displayed at NAMM (National Association of Music Merchandisers trade show) 2010. Featuring Dave Lombardo of Slayer on the cover, DRUM! investigates his new approach to playing louder and harder.
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