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For almost a decade, the protean recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder has been remastering his analog Blue Note masters into 24-bit digital format, affording fans an enhanced audio experience and/or a chance to rediscover previously hard-to-find or overlooked classics. Albums by three pianists--Red Garland's 1957 Soul Junction, Horace Silver's 1958 Further Explorations by the Horace Silver Quintet and...
A Wynton Marsalis concert must be a selective look back at traditional jazz, because 90 minutes is way to short for him to share all of the jazz history he has in his brain. Ninety hours might not even be long enough, either.
Cold Spring Jazz Quartet is delighted to announce the release of their second CD, Urban Pastoral. For over a decade CSJQ has appeared regularly in nightclubs, restaurants and concert venues in the Baltimore-Washington area, winning a broad and loyal following. The new disc is sure to enhance the group’s reputation as one of the region’s most popular and respected jazz groups...
The high-water mark of Well-Done! is Jerry Weldon's rousing, up-tempo cover of "Filthy McNasty." Barking out four bars of Horace Silver's angular, no-nonsense line, Weldon sounds as if he can bulldoze anything that gets in his way. The tenor saxophonist's single-mindedness is exhilarating. Subsequent to the entrance of Hammond B-3 organist Kyle Koehler's pumping bass line and drummer Jason Brown's...
Fritz Kahn @120 click the images for larger versions and credits Fritz Kahn was a German writer and illustrator in the 1920s who specialized in illustrating the physical processes of human bodies as though they were machine powered. This man machine trope can also be found in Lee Perry’s “Throw Some Water In“[1] with the lines “Service your [...]
It’s always nice to find something a little different when reviewing a new album, and a recent release from Big Bang Records (gotta love that name) fills the bill — but more later about that. Explorations is the latest from the David Leonhardt Trio, a group that - surprise - is led by pianist David [...]
Listening to Russian-born bassist/composer Ruslan Khain's music is like taking a step back in time to the spirited, swinging glory days of hard-bop in the 1950s and '60s. The New York-based musician's debut as a leader, Tie It In, pays homage to the classic sounds of legendary ensembles led by Horace Silver, Art Blakey and Benny Golson...
Change has been a constant in bassist Ruslan Khain's life. He was born in 1972 in Leningrad when the Soviet Union was still firmly and seemingly irrevocably in place. By 1994 when he was studying classical music at the Mussorgsky College of Music, the impossible had happened. The Soviet Union was no...
Happy Birthday to K-Ci and JoJo singer Cedric “K-Ci” Hailey (1969), “Lost” actress Cynthia Watros (1969), “Frida” star Salma Hayek (1966), British boxer Lennox Lewis (1965), “A Scanner Darkly” star Keanu Reeves (1964), “Navy NCIS” star Mark Harmon (1951), “Fifth Beatle” Billy Preston (1946; d. 2006), “The Last Boy Scout” actor Clarence Felder (1938), and [...]
NEW YORK, Aug. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Like a fine vintage wine -- an
epicurean delight near and dear to Miles Davis (1926-1991) -- the music
contained on Kind of Blue reveals added nuance and unexpected pleasures the
older it gets. And yet with each year that Kind of Blue ages, it goes
through a rejuvenation process that is exciting to behold. The essence of
the 1959 album has never been duplicated. That...
