Rifftides (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Art Farmer-Gigi Gryce Quintet: Complete 1954-1955 Prestige Recordings (Fresh Sound). In 1953, Farmer arrived in New York from California with Lionel Hampton's band, Gryce from his Fulbright studies in Paris with Nadia Boulanger and Arthur Honneger. The next year they...
Bagatellen (Free subscription) | 01/04/2008
Steeplechase 31627 When Nils Winther taps an artist for his Steeplechase roster, odds are favorable that the resulting partnership will weather the long haul. In this respect Winther has much in common with Alfred Lion. Both men cobbled together...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 12/06/2007
Dukea(TM)s Delight is a classy recording from a pianist of renown. While the tape was rolling, Duke Jordan was aoeon,a and the band stayed right up with him throughout this session, which includes five Jordan compositions and Duke Ellington's "In My Solitude." Playing piano in a sax and trumpet format is a setting long familiar to Jordon, and his clear, melodic lines rise above a tight band that...
Rifftides (Free subscription) | 11/28/2007
The world lost Cecil Payne today. He didn't quite make it to his eighty-fifth birthday....
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/14/2007
IRIDIUM JAZZ CLUB 1650 BROADWAY (Corner of 51st) NEW YORK, NY 10023 RESERVATIONS: 212-582-2121 http://www.iridiumjazzclub.com/ Sets At 8:00 and 10:00PM Nov. 17-18 SHEILA JORDAN (79) AND ROSWELL RUDD (72) BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS! Lafayette Harris - piano; Cameron Brown - bass; Barry Altschul - drums PLUS GUESTS...
St. Louis Jazz Notes (Free subscription) | 10/16/2007
As mentioned briefly in an earlier post , BAG will present drummer Gary Sykes in a free concert paying tribute to St. Louis drummers Phillip Wilson, Joe Charles and Sonny Hamp at 7 p.m. this Sunday, October 21 in the Rosebud Café at the Scott Joplin House State Historic Site , 2658 Delmar Blvd. Wilson, who died in 1992 at age 50, is known for his work with Lester Bowie, Julius Hemphill, and many others....
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 07/01/2007
Sonny Stitt Quadromania: One O'Clock Jump Membran Records 2006 Regarded by many musicians as the prototypal, or aoemost perfect,a saxophonist, Sonny Stitt recorded some 150 sessions under his own name. These four discs in German company Membran's Quadromania series will, with the possible exception of some recorded tenor battles 1950-52 under Gene Ammons' name, take care of most listeners' needs...
