All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Bebop was considered a radical departure for jazz music during its formation in the 1940s and 1950s, pioneered by drummer {{Max Roach = 10725}}, {{Charlie Parker = 10115}} and {{Dizzy Gillespie = 7040}} among others. Coupled with tenor saxophonist {{Archie Shepp = 4266}}'s 1960s avant-garde jazz proclivities, the artists respectively helped procure a prismatic and non-traditional perspective on the...
Austinist (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Image via Street Dogs MySpace page. Photo: Bryan Sheffield. Street Dogs hail from Boston's Dorchester neigorborhood, and are damn proud of it. The band features original Dropkick Murphys vocalist Mike McColgan (who left the Murphys for several years work as a fireman before returning to music) and features a mixture of punk and folk stylings in their songs, many of which have a definite political...
LondonJazz (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
One of the nice things about having moved the global/galactic headquarters of LondonJazz to N1 is what King's Place can do for the life of the mind. Last night I polled up for an interview with Steve Reich hosted by the London Sinfonietta - they're cranking up the fundraising for a new Reich commission in 2011. And what was the 73-year young Reich talking about, with a pace, enthusiasm and verve which...
limbolo (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
The bulldog head, the baleful eye, the Kurdish flag. A fine example of the Englishman abroad. Hitchens can be seen and heard from end to end on Youtube. Soon there'll be a movie too. He's better to hear and see than to read - a bit like William Burroughs, who couldn't write but was wonderful to hear - reading what he'd tried to write. It's hard to chose, but these are my 3 favourite Hitchens items...
Buns O'Plenty (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
A trio consisting of Max Roach, bassist Art Davis, and piano player Hasaan Ibn Ali. According to All Music Guide, this is Hasaan's only recording. The drums are exceptional of course, and Hasaan's style is original. The album has a little bit of an avant garde feel to it at times. Released on Atlantic. 1. Three-Four Vs. Six-Eight Four-Four Ways - 5:40 2. Off My Back Jack - 5:13 3. Almost Like Me -...
The Guardian Music blog (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Charlie Parker's final collaboration, featuring bebop's biggest stars, is one of the greatest recorded live shows in jazz In this series on the fast-changing, 100-year-old history of jazz, the alto saxophone genius Charlie Parker has featured to an extent that might seem at odds with his short life, and a period of creative intensity that lasted barely 15 years. However, Parker's revolutionary sound...
The Guardian Music blog (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
In the eight years following his release from a mental hospital in 1947, Parker produced a great deal of astonishing jazz Charlie Parker's Relaxin' at Camarillo , written after his six-month stay at the Camarillo State Mental hospital, showcases a new composure and lyricism in his playing, perhaps indicating a change of lifestyle. The bebop colossus returned to the studio after being released in early...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Way Out West is a jazz concept album. It was conceived by Sonny Rollins in 1957 as an homage to the Wild West and the Westerns of his youth. But for years, some thought the recording was an imposition on Sonny by kitschy West Coast commercial interests. Nothing could be further from the truth. On tour in Los Angeles in 1957 with Max Roach, Sonny was approached by Lester Koenig of Contemporary Records,...
Lerterland (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
I was finally able to scan my Sonny Rollins Inquirer feature from the other day, a nice front-page spread [pdf] in the Tuesday Magazine section. I'm not sure if Sonny has elsewhere discussed the possibility of a trio studio session with Christian McBride and Roy Haynes, so I won't claim it's a scoop, but let's hope he goes that way. I was also happy with the Philly-specific anecdotes that turned up...
The Guardian Music blog (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
Parker's deal with the record shop-owner was a defining moment for the saxophonist, as it led him to create some of the most memorable jazz improvisation of all time In February 1946, Hollywood record shop-owner Ross Russell signed a deal with the then 25-year-old Charlie Parker. Over most of the next two years, the saxophonist produced many of the recordings that came to be regarded as his own best...
AfriClassical (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
[ Le Mozart Noir: Music of Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges ; Tafelmusik Orchestra; Jeanne Lamon, conductor; CBC Records SMCD 5225 (2003)] John Gordon Ross is Conductor & Music Director, Western Piedmont Symphony, and is on the faculty of Lenoir-Rhyne University. He has issued this release via the Center for Black Music Research at Columbia College Chicago: “The Western Piedmont...
Jennifer K Dick (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
Salon des Mots – Saturday, October 10th 2009 at 20h Atelier de Werkvloer Brigittenstraat 7 Utrecht, Netherlands Free entry! http://www.wordsinhere.com http://www.atelierdewerkvloer.nl Salon des Mots is gearing up for the new poetry season at a new location in the heart of Utrecht, Atelier de Werkvloer. Get back to the roots of Salon des Mots, which began 5 years ago in an Oudegracht atelier with...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 09/16/2009
Recorded live in concert at the Willisau Jazz Festival on August 30, 1979, The Long March documents another of drummer {{Max Roach = 10725}}'s historic duo collaborations with the leaders of the jazz avant-garde. This stellar date with tenor saxophonist {{Archie Shepp = 4266}} follows Streams of Consciousness (Piadrum, 1977), with pianist {{Abdullah Ibrahim = 7858}}, and Birth and Rebirth (Black Saint,...
Art Decade (Free subscription) | 09/14/2009
Sonny Rollins: Blue 7 Off of Saxophone Colossus . This cooks. The players: Sonny Rollins — tenor saxophone Tommy Flanagan — piano Doug Watkins — bass Max Roach — drums
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soulfullvibes | 06/14/2008
NEW YORK - Bill Cosby quips that he gave up his dreams of becoming a professional jazz drummer and turned to comedy after seeing how easily the pioneer bebop drummer Max Roach handled rhythmically complex tunes that he struggled to get through.
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