Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Thanks to a glorious coincidence of programming, the Thanksgiving holiday weekend will spotlight three of the most appealing tenor saxophonists in Chicago jazz -- on the South Side.
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 08/07/2009
Here's a refreshing take on Ellingtonia, one that doesn't rely on the overdone ("Take the A Train," "Perdido") or easy ("C-Jam Blues"). Canadian native {{Grant Stewart = 4624}} brings a post-Swing, combo approach to his Ellingtonia, even going so far as to reference {{Max Roach = 10725}}, {{Sonny Rollins = 3897}}, {{Charles Mingus = 9429}}, {{Thelonious Monk{{ and the...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 08/06/2009
Saxophonist Charles Davis has spent the past few decades making history with such luminaries as {{Billie Holiday = 7680}}, {{Kenny Dorham = 6362}}, {{Abdullah Ibrahim = 7858}}, {{Clifford Jordan = 8208}}, {{Dinah Washington = 11174}} and {{Freddie Hubbard = 7801}}. Although Davis might be best known as one of the baritone players in the {{Sun Ra = 10507}} Arkestra, his many recordings and excellent...
Idolator (Free subscription) | 04/22/2009
Today would have been Charles Mingus' 87th birthday, which seems worth mentioning if for no other reason but to acknowlege Idolator's one reader from Nogales, Arizona (Mingus' birthplace). Oh, and Mingus was probably one of the true geniuses in jazz's history. MORE »
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 02/06/2009
Jazz and Conversations The Jeff King Band and Special Guest: Vocalist {{Lynette Washington = 14240}} Lynette will lift your spirits and make your heart soar. Playing New Jazz Standards All Musicans Welcome Back @ The New Solomon's Porch New York, NY Come check out the New Porch, New Menu, New Vibe, New Year...
Drunk at idrunk.com (Free subscription) | 01/26/2009
Max Roach was a drummer, percussionist & composer. He was a first jazz musician to receive a MacArthur Foundation ‘Genius Grant,’ in 1988. For a centennial of a Emancipation Proclamation he composed, along with Oscar Brown, a ‘Freedom Now” Suite. a album cover of ‘We Insist! Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite’ recalls [...]
HarbourLiving.ca (Free subscription) | 12/15/2008
Nanaimo: Not to be missed - Internationally acclaimed Jazz saxophone player Ross Taggart performs with Pat Coleman (guitar), Ken Lister (bass) and Geoff Bowen (drums).
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/13/2008
Detroit-born trombonist Curtis Fuller stepped into the hard bop big league during the summer of 1957 with a flurry of high profile sideman dates and two albums as leader, New Trombone (Prestige, 1957) and The Opener, made within a few weeks of each other. The Opener, a lithe and soulful but largely forgotten disc, has been rereleased as part of Blue Note's Rudy Van Gelder Remaster series...
Rifftides (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
Long before he won the Thelonious Monk Institute Composers Competition in 2000, Michael Weiss established himself as a pianist. Fresh out of Dallas in his early twenties, he was soon working with Jon Hendricks, Junior Cook, Charles McPherson and Lou...
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My favorite jazz pianist since I first heard him with Johnny Griffin in 1989.
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Under trumpet virtuoso Charles Tolliver's direction, the Music Inc. quartet would go on to record several challenging live albums-- from locales as varied as the famed club Slugs and Yubinchokin Hall in Tokyo--for his and pianist Stanley Cowell's fledgling Strata East label during the '70s, later co...
Soulbounce.com (Free subscription) | 05/20/2008
Al Turner Movin'Babbie Mason The Definitive Gospel CollectionBill Ware and Vibes Wonder Full: The Music of Stevie Wonder [Live]Bun B II TrillBuster Williams Dreams Come TrueCarlos Nino & Lil Sci are What's the Science? ElevationCynthia Holiday featuring The Cedar Walton...
Orgy in Rhythm (Free subscription) | 04/02/2008
"In all beginnings...a mystical,magic force, What course ,what destiny...determined in time" Time for just one more then .....Strata East in full effect on this fabulous spiritual modal opus from Clifford Jordan with a double quartet line up from 1974. Forst posted here 09/06. Here's a great write up about this classic double lp by Kevin Moist from the superb www.dreamgeo.com/Strata-East....
Orgy in Rhythm (Free subscription) | 03/30/2008
Music Inc. for Strata East from 1971. First posted at O.I.R. September 2006. CHARLES TOLLIVER-TRUMPET;CECIL McBEE-BASS;STANLEY COWELL-PIANO;JIMMY HOPPS-DRUMS Reeds and Flutes:JIMMY HEATH CLIFFORD JORDAN BOBBY BROWN WILBUR BROWN Trumpets:RICHARD WILLIAMS VIRGIL JONES LARRY GREENWICH DANNY MOORE Trombones:GARNETT BROWN CURTIS FULLER JOHN GORDON DICK GRIFFIN Tuba and Baritone Sax:HOWARD JOHNSON This was...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 03/16/2008
Perennially underrated saxophonist Clifford Jordan recorded two of his best albums for the Strata East label and Glass Bead Games is arguably his greatest recording and one of the great albums of the 1970s. Everything is right about this date; Jordan never sounded so good, his tone rich and full, his improvisatory ideas taking the models of Coltrane and Rollins and giving them his own twist. Recorded...
LP Cover Lover (Free subscription) | 03/13/2008
John Jenkins, Clifford Jordan and Bobby Timmons. With Wilbur Ware and Dannie Richmond. Prestige/New Jazz 8232. From 1957.
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