The Bill Evans Trio - Volume 1 (1959-1961): Featuring Transcriptions of Bill Evans (Piano), Scott LaFaro (Bass) and Paul Motian (Drums)
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | yesterday
MAXJAZZ's ongoing Piano Series has featured some very heavy hitters in the keyboard arena: {{Mulgrew Miller = 9406}}, {{Geoffrey Keezer = 8293}}, {{Eric Reed = 10611}}, {{Denny Zeitlin = 2901}} and the inimitable {{Jessica Williams = 11391}}. Add Jeb Patton to the group, a young piano man that holds his own in marvelous company with the release of New Strides...
LATICONOMICS (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Death of the Cool By Robert McHenry Cool was once associated with reticence, savoir-faire, and irony, none of which is much practiced or regarded these days. Whether or not it is true that you can’t go home again, as Thomas Wolfe claimed—and the claim is just a special case of the more general observation of Heraclitus that you cannot step into the same river twice—it seems that...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Two discs feature the artists' greatest love songs, just in time for Christmas,New Year's Eve, and Valentine's Day! LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Concord Music Group's For Lovers series will continue on December 22, 2009 with CDs from both Ray Charles and Isaac Hayes, featuring each artist's greatest love songs. Previously, Concord has issued For Lovers albums by Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Tony Bennett,...
New Statesman (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Sholto Byrnes applauds a jazz performance that is full of fireworks
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
By: Ron Hart Toward the end of his life, pianist Bill Evans' image was the exact opposite of the button-down, bespectacled young square who first burst onto the jazz scene in 1956 as the rising young lion on the jazz circuit who landed into history as the piano player for Miles Davis' 1958 masterwork Kind of Blue. Rocking a gentleman's mullet, full beard and wire-frame glasses with the tint, Evans...
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
THE economy is facing the sharpest turnaround since the 1970's recession, as indicated by a key pointer to future economic activity.
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
A KEY pointer to future economic activity is indicating a sharp acceleration in growth next year, and a recovery that will outstrip official forecasts.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Miles Davis: The Complete Columbia Album Collection, a deluxe CD/DVD box set, contains every album released by the jazz master on Columbia Records. This limited edition retrospective of 70 CDs and one DVD will be released on November 24.
p2pnet (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- This Tuesday, I met Pete Seeger. Well, I didn’t actually meet him — he’s in New York and I’m in BC, Canada — but thanks to Bill Hudson, a friend of mine who knows him, Pete and I had a long, thoroughly enjoyable (for me, at least [...]
On An Overgrown Path (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Two of the compositions introduced on 'Brubeck plays Brubeck' are now recognized as jazz standards: They have been recorded and performed many times by many different artists, most notably by Miles Davis with Gil Evans' orchestral arrangements and by Bill Evans solo piano . My publisher has informed me that at last count there were over 60 different versions of 'In Your Own Sweet Way' recorded by various...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
The fog has lifted off of the coast of Seattle with the rise of Origin Records. As the fisherman of jazz today, they've cast their nets and pulled in a catch of fresh, raw and bold talent. Their latest catch: saxophonist Ricky Sweum. Pulling Your Own Strings, which came out in mid-August 2009, has received some of the highest accolades from today's best musicians including {{Dave Liebman = 8748}} who...
E F pastor emeritus (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
On Monday’s post I promised to return to Remembrance and risk challenging some "sacred cows". Today, the 11th day of the 11th month I am sure many will pray for those who died so brutally in wars. It is right to do so. I shall remember them in Mass at 11.00am. I watched a recorded version of the Remembrance function in the Albert Hall last Saturday. I tried to think positively but I...
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
CONSUMER confidence has fallen after the second consecutive interest rate rise, a survey shows.
Pasadena Events Calendar (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Brandon Bernstein is an up and coming jazz guitarist in the Los Angeles area. Brandon just finished his Doctorate degree in jazz from USC and has been performing and recording with well-known artists throughout the country. As a solo guitarist, Brandon enjoys playing the music of Ellington, Gershwin, Strayhorn, Bill Evans, Johnny Mandel, and Jimmy [...]
Jazz & Blues Music Reviews (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Drummer Paul Motian has been mining a unique version of patient and subtle jazz since his emergence as a member of the famous Bill Evans trio in the 1950's. Recently he has been leading several bands, including this one that plumbs the depths of Broadway show tunes for their material. Joining him on this album are Loren Stillman and Michael Attias on saxophones, Thomas Morgan on bass and Masabumi Kikuchi...
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angietate2009 | 10/29/2009
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