wordsandmusic (Free subscription) | 02/02/2010
I had a request for some re-ups from the other week so here they are... Original post is here... Evan Parker Evan Parker (ts) Barry Guy (b) Paul Lytton (d) Geometry Download Buy Gene Ammons/Richard Groove Holmes Gene Ammons (ts) Richard Holmes (org) Gene Edwards (g) Leroy Henderson (d) Exactly like you Download Buy Ornette Coleman Ornette Coleman (as, tp, vln) David Izenzon (b) Charles Moffett (d)...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 01/29/2010
All About Jazz recently topped 5,000,000 free MP3 downloads. AAJ has offered a free daily download since November 2005 from artists spanning all genres of jazz including Gary Burton, Brian Blade, Matthew Shipp, Jon Hassell, Kenny Garrett, Dave Holland, Aaron Parks, Terence Blanchard, Craig Taborn, Mike Moreno, Rob Reddy, Ted Nash, Mingus Big Band, Exploding Star Orchestra, David Weiss, Bob Mintzer,...
St. Louis Jazz Notes (Free subscription) | 01/20/2010
This week brings a number of potentially interesting jazz and creative music performances to St. Louis, so let's go straight to the highlights: Tonight, pianist Vijay Iyer ( pictured ) opens a four-night stand continuing through Saturday at Jazz at the Bistro . Iyer will be making his St. Louis debut as the man of the moment with jazz critics and fans, as his most recent CD Historicity has emerged...
wordsandmusic (Free subscription) | 01/10/2010
A belated happy new year to everyone... and three trios plus an organ and tenor combo to greet 2010... Evan Parker Trio and 'Geometry.' Starts off busy, fragments of saxophone and bass running round each other as the drums lay out a broad sweep underneath to carry them. Dropping back to solo drums, intricate use of space and silence, a sparseness that builds back into more layered and complicated rhythms...
Do the Math (Free subscription) | 01/05/2010
(This is a guest blog by composer/drummer John Hollenbeck.) ---Several recent events: the December celebration of Bob Brookmeyer's 80th birthday; my father’s passing in May; my interaction with students at the Jazz Institute Berlin; and the coming of a new...
Rifftides (Free subscription) | 12/23/2009
I yield to no one in my admiration for Bob Brookmeyer, but Darcy James Argue gives me a good run for my money. Brookmeyer, the ground-breaking composer, arranger, leader and nonpareil valve trombone soloist, entered his ninth decade this week....
Rifftides (Free subscription) | 12/23/2009
"Open Country" is one of Bob Brookmeyer's notable compositions from the 1950s. Here, he plays it with Gerry Mullilgan in Mulligan's quartet. Wyatt "Bull" Reuther is the bassist, Gus Johnson the drummer/...
Do the Math (Free subscription) | 12/21/2009
RIP Dan O’Bannon. Nothing tops Alien; thanks for that, Mr. O’Bannon. The members of the Horror Squad have a really nice assessment. I guess this is the moment for my Total Recall story. In the early 90’s, I watched this...
Darcy James Argue's Secret Society (Free subscription) | 12/20/2009
Bob Brookmeyer turns 80 years old today. To anyone with any interest in large-scale jazz composition, Brookmeyer is a figure of near-idolatrous worship. He's earned his place in the pantheon of great large ensemble composers many times over, alongside figures...
Jazz@Rochester (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Sitting here writing a post rather than where I want to be, in Kilbourn Hall hearing Bob Brookmeyer perform. Just couldn't get the steam to go out tonight, but I plan on catching Brookmeyer tomorrow at East Rochester's Village Rock...
Jazz@Rochester (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
Echoing the recent birthday "party" with octogenarian Cool jazz reedman Lee Konitz, the Eastman School of Music's Jazz Studies Department is presenting another jazz legend, the composer, valve trombonist and conductor Bob Brookmeyer to help celebrate his upcoming 80th birthday...
Jazz@Rochester (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
Sending you your Rochester jazz listings this week from somewhere in the Flint Hills east of Wichita, Kansas (OK, here). No jazz here, but hope to catch some when I return after the holiday. Hope you and yours have a...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble, Eternal Interlude (Sunnyside). The ensemble is Large, all right, in the size of the band -- 20 pieces -- and in the expansiveness of Hollenbeck's vision. He is a composer who moves into, out of and beyond established categories of musical thinking and a drummer who brilliantly meets the challenges he sets himself in his writing. Drawing on his mentor Bob Brookmeyer's...
Rifftides (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
As you may recall from parts 1 and 2, our theme in this series is that by concentrating on the lines played by a good string bassist, you can gain an understanding of the shape and structure of a piece...
East Side Jazz Club (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
8.30 - 11.00pm £5 on the door Tony Coe (tenor sax & clarinet) John Horler (piano) Andrew Cleyndert (bass) Clive Fenner (drums) Tony Coe began his performing career with Humphrey Lyttelton’s band and in 1965 Count Basie offered him a place in the Basie Band sax section. His credits since then include the John Dankworth Orchestra, Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Band, Stan Tracey, Mike Gibbs,...
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