All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 01/29/2010
Meet Jerry Tilitz: Jerry Tilitz is an American trombonist, composer and vocalist from New York City presently ensconced in Hamburg, Germany. In the course of his career Mr. Tilitz has performed and recorded with many exceptional artists including Gerry Mulligan , Horace Parlan , Hank Jones , Roy Eldridge , Herb Geller , Tommy Flanagan , Warren Vache , Adam Nussbaum , Benny Bailey, Danny Moss, Harry...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 01/25/2010
All About Jazz is celebrating Benny Golson's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Benny GolsonMultitalented and internationally famous jazz legend, - a composer, arranger, lyricist, producer - and tenor saxophonist of world note, Benny Golson was born in Philadelphia, PA on January 25, 1929... more...
Jazz & Blues Music Reviews (Free subscription) | 01/06/2010
Art Blakey led many great bands as boss of the Jazz Messengers for more than thirty years, but perhaps none so potent as the this group. Together for only a short period of time, yet miraculously captured in high quality black and white during this concert in Belgium in 1958. Along with Blakey on drums are Benny Golson on tenor saxophone, Lee Morgan on trumpet, Bobby Timmons on piano and Jamie Merrit...
Jazz & Blues Music Reviews (Free subscription) | 01/04/2010
Saxophonist and composer Walter Smith III is a busy man, playing with the likes of Terence Blanchard, Eric Harland, Ambrose Akinmusire's bands as well his own quintet. On this album, the quintet consists of: Smith on tenor saxophone, Ambrose Akinmusire on trumpet, Aaron Goldberg on piano, Matt Brewer on bass and Marcus Gilmore on drums. Opening up with "Blues" Smith improvises solo before...
A Jazz Blog (Free subscription) | 12/26/2009
This is a curious list of the 25 or so tunes I have listed to most since moving my music files to a new hard disc about six months ago (and resetting the play count). I'm very surprised to see Tord Gustavsen at the top, but then again. Paying ten pounds a month to emusic for the last year or so has meant that I have been able to download things on spec. Tord Gustavsen has been one of these finds. The...
Jazz & Blues Music Reviews (Free subscription) | 12/20/2009
Saxophonist James Moody has been riding an inspiring late career renaissance, playing live regularly and recording as well. This is a beautifully relaxed session of swinging classic jazz, mostly taken at a gentle mid-tempo. Moody sticks to tenor saxophone for the most part with Kenny Barron on piano, Todd Coolman on bass and Lewis Nash on drums. The selections on this albums are heavy on well-known...
Cheeseford (Free subscription) | 12/15/2009
Day 15 and we find ourselves rushing back to the Jazz 625 cupboard. This clip never fails to live up to the title of the tune they're playing. Benny Golson's still above the ground and active, but Alan Branscombe (on piano here, but equally at home on just about any instrument you cared to thrust into his hands), guitarist Dave Goldberg and the wonderful Tubby Hayes all went long before their time...
LondonJazz (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
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...
Rifftides (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
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...
Wolfgangs Vault (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Download for $9.98. Listen to The Jazz Messengers performed at Newport Jazz Festival on July 4, 1959
Scotsman.com Living - Books (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
FOUR decades haven't diminished the rich four-part harmonies and sheer verve of The Manhattan Transfer, as audiences will discover tomorrow night when the group play the o
JazzHQ (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
By NAT HENTOFF For more than 60 years, I've seen recurring obituaries of jazz. The threnodies are being prepared again—in the National Endowment for the Arts' latest survey on public participation in the arts and with such questions as "Can Jazz Be Saved?" in which widely respected music critic Terry Teachout wrote regretfully in this paper last summer, "I don't know how to get...
bebop spoken here (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Enterprising music students from Newcastle College have booked the upstairs room at the Bridge Hotel on a Tuesday night throughout November to play some jazz. What a good idea! A cast of thousands - well okay, I lost count at nine - got up and ran through some standards, playing for two hours and more. The guitar - led ensemble kicked - off with 'Green Tea' a tune by guitar hero John Scofield. Familiar...
Buns O'Plenty (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Drums Around The World: Philly Joe Jones Big Band Sounds was on the Riverside label in 1959 and includes some quality soloists. A lot of it consists of Philly Joe Jones drums solos. It was released on CD and included are the scanned liner notes. Speaking of drummers, I created a new jazz drummer poll. I expanded the list of candidates greatly and made it so you can vote for multiple drummers. Vote...
LondonJazz (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Here is a 50th anniversary tribute to Ronnie's. From 2009 the sweet tone of Benny Golson in Whisper Not and I'll Remember April . And a lot of footage from a 1989 documentary. Enjoy. By courtesy of the BBC.
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