All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 08/23/2008
It's still the dog days of August in St. Louis, and thus still one of the slower times of the year for jazz in our town, but if you're in the mood to hear some music over the next few days, here are a few possibilities you may want to consider:On Friday, popular singer Erin Bode and her band return...
Rifftides (Free subscription) | 08/21/2008
Rifftides World Headquarters has welcome summer visitors and resounds with telecasts of Olympics events. Nonetheless, the staff makes time for listening. We don't award medals, but here are brief impressions of four recent CDs that placed high with the judges....
The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
in post Jon Hassell, Jimmy Giuffre/MJQ, Al Cohn/Bob Brookmeyer, Blind Joe Taggart, Bob Wills... from wordsandmusic .
The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
in post Jon Hassell, Jimmy Giuffre/MJQ, Al Cohn/Bob Brookmeyer, Blind Joe Taggart, Bob Wills... from wordsandmusic .
The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
in post Jon Hassell, Jimmy Giuffre/MJQ, Al Cohn/Bob Brookmeyer, Blind Joe Taggart, Bob Wills... from wordsandmusic .
The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
in post Jon Hassell, Jimmy Giuffre/MJQ, Al Cohn/Bob Brookmeyer, Blind Joe Taggart, Bob Wills... from wordsandmusic .
The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
in post Jon Hassell, Jimmy Giuffre/MJQ, Al Cohn/Bob Brookmeyer, Blind Joe Taggart, Bob Wills... from wordsandmusic .
wordsandmusic (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
So here we go again... Having spent the sunny days listening to old Wolf Eyes wahoo and other assorted loud power electronics... here's... Jon Hassell. Who sails away on 'Blues Nile.' A gag I could not resist. I'm all for cheap and easy laughs... Opens on a drone then shadowy trumpet, breathy and bending. Trumpet doubled up, a muezzin-like call across a misty landscape. The influence of his voice teacher...
Rifftides (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Warne Marsh & Kenny Drew In Copenhagen (Storyville). Recorded in 1980, Marsh--a tenor sax master of subtlety and liquid imagination--plays in a quartet with Drew, one of the brightest graduates of Bud Powell's college of bebop piano knowledge. Marsh has a...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
These co-leaders had been stalwarts of the scene for decades by the time they cut these sides in Chicago in 1981. They worked that rich seam of post-bop music that conversely looked back to the music immediately prior to that significant shift. Here, they lay out their credentials in the company of a rhythm section that's right in the pocket and alert to every twist and turn the music takes...
undomondo (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Another journey through exotica filled skies by error101, the red baroness of dusty cabinets, old gems, vintage jazz, saudade and then straight into some latin party mood, not the cheesy latin party with the chicks from the latin dance class though! A real latin party in heaven with El Rey. Erik Levander – Sekund 80 Drums around [...]
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra's new CD Monday Night Live At The Village Vanguard On Planet Arts Recordings AVAILABLE NOW AT: PlanetArts.org and vanguardjazzorchestra.com One of the most enduring jazz ensembles in the history of the art form continues to contribute to the jazz canon and advance the language of music...
Darcy James Argue's Secret Society (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
Bob Brookmeyer on the late Bill Finegan: Today is the funeral for Bill and the body goes into the ground. That is a strange place for my friend but the options just ran out. His daughter, Helen, is a PA...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
Bob Brookmeyer sent this message today: Bill Finegan passed peacefully on today with his son James and his daughter Helen by his side. He was a hero, a dear friend and one of the most gifted arrangers we have ever had. Somewhere an orchestra sounds better. Finegan was an arranger who gave Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Red Norvo, Ray McKinley and Tommy Dorsey some of their most substantial music. In...
Duplex Planet (Free subscription) | 05/18/2008
Jimmy Giuffre 1921-2008 High on my list of places I’d travel to if a time machine were available is a recording studio on the west coast in the year 1955. Jimmy Giuffre was playing a short original composition called “So Low.” He played a clarinet, accompanied only by his own tapping foot. Already in his mid-thirties, this three minute recording serves as a perfect entry point into his music, for it...
