All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 08/07/2009
Throughout the decades, the bands of trumpet legend {{Maynard Ferguson = 6679}} were, by very nature, heavily brass and ensemble section oriented. Occasionally, Ferguson's pianists were given the opportunity to shine, launching into extended solo tune introductions or brief solos. Some of those pianists were (or would become) stars or leaders in their own right. They included Mike Abene, Allan Zavod,...
Art Decade (Free subscription) | 06/22/2009
Charles Mingus: Orange Was the Color of Her Dress, Then Blue Silk Some Monday afternoon jazz, from Mingus at Monterey , recorded September 20, 1964. "'Orange Was the Color of Her Dress, Then Blue Silk' was done for a television show in New York. I could really depict this kind of rich broad. It's bluesy because my sadness for the person. It's angry, it's dirty, it's old-fashioned blues and it...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 05/05/2009
JAZZ FORUM ARTS presents JAZZ FORUM @ 30 



 A Once-in-a-Lifetime Celebration of Trumpeter Mark Morganelli’s Jazz Forum Lofts 

 “It would be hard to pick one special moment at the Jazz Forum, because 
 there were so many special moments.” --Dr. Barry Harris 
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 04/29/2009
1969 NEC President Gunther Schuller hires saxophonist Carl Atkins to head Department of African-American Music and Jazz Studies, the first such program at a classical conservatory. Composer George Russell and pianist Jaki Byard on Atkins' faculty. 1974 Pianist Ran Blake forms Third Stream Department...
HarbourLiving.ca (Free subscription) | 04/25/2009
Nanaimo: A jazz evening not to be missed! The amazing Hugh Fraser (trombone) playes with Pat Coleman (guitar), Ken Lister (bass) and Geoff Bowen (drums)
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 12/22/2008
David Weiss has been on the New York scene for a while now, writing and arranging, producing albums, organizing an outstanding octet. He's known for all that. He also plays the trumpet. Quite well, in fact. Although he's played with the likes of {{Jaki Byard = 3798}}, {{Frank Foster = 6786}}, {{Craig Handy = 7385}}, {{Christian McBride = 9209}}, {{Jimmy Heath = 7541}} and a great many others, people...
TUMEKE! (Free subscription) | 12/06/2008
The Saturday Jazz Show. In concert with... Duke Ellington Erroll Garner Jaki Byard Bill Evans Charles Mingus (feat. Jaki Byard) Count Basie Benny Goodman (feat. Gene Krupa) Count Basie/Oscar Peterson
Bagatellen (Free subscription) | 12/02/2008
Out Of Nowhere Don Ellis – Paul Bley – Steve Swallow How Time Passes… Don Ellis – Jaki Byard – Ron Carter – Charlie Persip “Third Stream Jazz” I gotta admit I have not heard any of Don Ellis’ best-known records like Tears of Joy and Live At Monterey, which date from the late sixties to early seventies. He had [...]
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/22/2008
New York-based saxophonist Bob Mover is arguably one of the jazz world's best kept secrets. In a career spanning four decades, Mover has shared the stage with the likes of Jaki Byard, Charles Mingus and Chet Baker, yet, for the most part, has flown under the radar of mainstream recognition. It Amazes Me, the saxophonist's first recording as a leader in over twenty years, is a cozy collection of choice...
Bagatellen (Free subscription) | 10/22/2008
Steeplechase Half a century of hindsight has applied an erosive effect to the pianoless trio’s proving-ground luster. Rollins hit an immediate home run with his epochal Vanguard stand, but these days professional saxophonists take to the instrumentation like ducks to water. As such, Jed Levy’s ability to improvise inventively in the absence of conventional chordal accompaniment [...]
Bagatellen (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
Intakt 142 In historically criticizing the international breadth of improvised music, we�re still often quite apt to pigeonhole certain countries and regions as having a specific approach to sound. There�s the �Cleveland sound� exemplified by Albert Ayler and his...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 03/08/2008
Pianist Jaki Byard (1922-1999) is the first one you hear on 2007's great vault discovery, the previously unheard Charles Mingus Sextet with Eric Dolphy, Cornell 1964 (Blue Note). A favorite of Mingus, who famously disliked most piano players, Byard played with a wide range of jazz musicians and was an acclaimed teacher whose students included Fred Hersch, DD Jackson and Jason Moran. And as the music/jazz...
Bagatellen (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
HighNote 7180 Pianist Mary Lou Williams prided herself in the assertion that she played jazz of all eras. Jaki Byard plied a similar time-traveling approach, but Williams had an edge in that she was actually alive to witness the...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 02/18/2008
Confrontational, sprawling and historic, this resurrected March 1964 performance by one of his favorite bands--Johnny Coles (trumpet) and Clifford Jordan (saxophone) with favorite sons Dannie Richmond (drums), Jaki Byard (piano) and Eric Dolphy (reeds, flutes)--presents the muse of bassist Charles Mingus in all its terrible glory...
Do the Math (Free subscription) | 01/29/2008
Footnote one: A Partial List of Distinctive "Rhythm Changes" Compositions and Performances. There are many more than listed here. Lester Young + Count Basie "Lester Leaps In" Kansas City riffs Ben Webster + Duke Ellington "Cotton Tail" awfully modern for...
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