Cloudland Blue - A Diary (Free subscription) | 01/25/2010
Playlist Cloudland Blue Quartet - Ersatzreal Dexter Gordon – A Swingin’ Affair Donald Byrd – Freeform Hank Mobley – Hank Mobley Quintet Horace Silver – Doin’ the Thing J R Monterose – J R Monterose Jackie McLean – Jacknife Kenny Dorham – Whistle Stop More listing today – single artist compilations were completed, as were all Crispycat CDs...
Rifftides (Free subscription) | 01/12/2010
Seamus Blake, Bellwether (Criss Cross). Since 1993, when Seamus Blake was 22, Gerry Teekens of Criss Cross Records has been traveling from Holland to New York to record the gifted Canadian tenor saxophonist. Teekens was one of the first recording...
Isomatic UK Weblog (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
This evening we paid our third visit to The Manor in Old Malden to see the band 7up. There were only five of them tonight; Robert Goodhew (tenor sax), David Sallis (bass guitar, vocals), Barry Freedman (guitar), Alan Purcell (drums) and Paul Lewis (keyboard). Their music is hard to categorise; they read everything from arrangements, feature many numbers in Latin style and seem to favour the more recent...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
Hal Weary, A Rendezvous with Deja Vu (halwearyjazz). Weary is a pianist from the west on the rise in New York City. The quintet numbers on his debut CD draw on the hard-bop/gospel spirit of Horace Silver and Art Blakey. On "Tenderly," he touches on but soon departs from Erroll Garner. Unaccompanied on "Praise Medley" he seems to refer to the Ellington of "Reflections in D."...
Falmouth Packet | News (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
An adjudicator delivered the highest praise possible to the delighted members of Helston School Jazz Orchestra when he told them he would pay to hear them play.
Do the Math (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Tootie is on a little NYC club tour at the moment. Tonight and tomorrow he's at Birdland with the Heath Brothers, Monday-Wednesday with me and Ben Street at Smalls, Thursday with Tomas Janzon at Kitano, and Friday at Flushing Town...
Rifftides (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Dick Katz, The Line Forms Here (Reservoir). The news of Katz's death at 85 last week sent me to the shelf for this 1996 recording. It covers the range of his talents as pianist, composer and arranger. He plays alone...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Up until 1952, Jimmy Heath's instrument was the alto saxophone. A fast study, Jimmy sounded almost identical to Charlie Parker, earning him the nickname "Little Bird." But the novelty of mimicking Parker soon wore thin, especially as the tenor saxophone emerged in the early 1950s as the more popular reed instrument. So Jimmy made the switch, and in 1953 began recording a series of important...
Blogcritics: Music (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
Sonny Rollins teams with some of the finest players in these 1954 sessions.
Jazz & Blues Music Reviews (Free subscription) | 09/27/2009
Tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins may have been the penultimate musician (or at least soloist) of the 1950’s, reeling off classic after classic in the latter half of that decade. Rollins is a sub-genre of his own, referencing swing, bop, hard bop and free at different times, but never staying pigeon-holed in one place. Like only a few other greats in the music’s history, he transcends category...
bebop spoken here (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
In enlisting my aid to help him make contact with John Warren - which I was able to do - Guy Dechenes introduced me to his blog Bebop Memories . Check it out; it's the business. Fascinating stories of his time in New York en route to London from Montreal. Coltrane blowing mid-afternoon in Birdland, Kenny Dorham selling him a trumpet mouthpiec in Giardinelli's and much much more. I shall be following...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 09/08/2009
There's a thickness to the sound of this 1956 Kenny Dorham set as reissued by Music Matters on two 45-rpm records--a density that blows from the speakers and settles in the room like smoke. Which is to say the fidelity of the Music Matters product proves itself as strong on live recordings as it has on their Blue Note studio reissues. Here, the club acoustics are palpable, requiring only the cracking...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 08/30/2009
All About Jazz is celebrating Kenny Dorham's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Kenny DorhamOvershadowed for most of his career by the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Fats Navarro, Miles Davis, Clifford Brown, and Lee Morgan... more Website | Videos | Articles Follow Kenny Dorham...
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 08/07/2009
For a grand slice of Joe's career, check out the Blue Note box set, "The Blue Note Years." It will give you a taste of his sideman experience with the likes of Kenny Dorham, Lee Morgan, Renee Rosnes (one of his protogees), McCoy Tyner, Horace Silver, Freddie Hubbard, Blue Mitchell, Grant Green, Duke Pearson, Bobby Hutcherson, Mel Lewis and Thad Jones, and many others. He's also racked up...
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...
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