The New Yorker (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
She counted her money before we went in, avenue beside us anxious with Friday-evening traffic. Both fourteen, we shared a Newport, its manila butt salty to our lips. Inside, from a huge book of designs and letter styles, she chose to get “MARY” in a black, Old English script . . .
The Independent (Free subscription) | 06/29/2008
Eric Dolphy, who died 44 years ago today, and whose 80th anniversary fell last week, was a Los Angeles born reeds player with a radical, oddly interior style and an interest in the outer extremities of sound.
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
Eric Dolphy emerged from the thriving mid-20th-century Los Angeles jazz scene and became an important player in the groups of Chico Hamilton, John Coltrane, and Charles Mingus. A highly-skilled musician who played alto sax, bass clarinet, and flute, Dolphy created a bracing, unique sound forged i...
Rifftides (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
James Carter, Present Tense (Emarcy). When he burst onto the jazz scene from Detroit in the early '90s, Carter's virtuosity on an arsenal of woodwinds sometimes overrode content in his music. After a three-year recording hiatus, he reappears with no...
AfriClassical (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
“ The flutist James Newton came into possession of Dolphy’s handwritten manuscripts through his teacher Hale Smith , a close friend of Dolphy’s with whom the great saxophonist/bass clarinetist/flutist deposited his trove of original sheet music days before he left for Europe with Charles Mingus in 1964, never to return. Now in fading health, Smith recently phoned Newton to entrust him with the collection....
The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
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Sisyphus (Free subscription) | 05/23/2008
John William Coltrane (1926 - 1967) was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. He played with a number of jazz artists including Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk. Although there are recordings of Coltrane from as early as 1946, his peers at the time didn't recognize 'genius' in the young musician. His real career spans the twelve years between 1955 and 1967, during which time he...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 05/21/2008
Brian Morton, co-author (along with the late Richard Cook) of numerous editions of the Penguin Guide to Jazz, will be publishing a biography of multi-instrumentalist Eric Dolphy in June 2009. Dolphy died from diabetic complications at the age of 36 in Berlin in 1964; as well as being an invaluabl...
The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 05/19/2008
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The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 05/19/2008
in post Treasures From The Collector's Slum 023 from Communications Major, English Minor .
The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 05/19/2008
in post Treasures From The Collector's Slum 023 from Communications Major, English Minor .
The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 05/19/2008
in post Treasures From The Collector's Slum 023 from Communications Major, English Minor .
The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 05/19/2008
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The Herald (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
This year’s Glasgow International Jazz Festival looks all grown up with stellar names heading a programme that still plays up local talent. By Keith Bruce.
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
If you get a chance, check out the special jazz issue of StopSmiling, a Chicago-based music magazine. It has a good retrospective on Eric Dolphy, an interview with Ornette Coleman, a feature on Bobby Hutcherson, and much more. Brian Berger, editor of the fabulous New York Calling anthology and Who W...
