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Jazz guitarist Kenny Burrell is optimistic about the state of jazz of today. “It’s not bad, particularly now that we have embraced jazz into education,” Burrell said in a telephone interview from his office in the UCLA music department. “Audiences are beginning to appreciate jazz the way audiences have appreciated classical music.”
Milt Jackson for Verve from 1965. Milt Jackson - Vibraphone* Cedar Walton - Piano* James Moody - Reeds* Ron Carter - Bass* Otis Finch - Drums Review purloined from Amazon-excellent piece of writing from Stephen Reddy: Milt Jackson at the Museum of Modern Art is one of the many live jazz record dates that should be better known than it is. Perhaps it's because the LP has been unavailable in America...
Milt Jackson - "Angel Face" Brian Wilson - "Song for Children" Apoptygma Berzerk - "Rebel" Fugees - "The Score" Ulf Sandberg Quartet - "Bolivia" Rodriguez - "Inner City Blues" Sad Salamanders - "Dirty Martini Time" Foo Fighters - "Headwires" Hugh Masekela - "If There's Anybody Out There" Pretenders - "Talk of the Town" If nothing else, that's a rather geographically and ethnically diverse Friday Top...
Victoria: The Don Thompson Quartet combines a respect for the traditions of great jazz music with the forward thinking originality of the great innovators.
Researching an article that involves Ernestine Anderson, I came across this video of her rehearsing in Hungary in 1994 with Milt Jackson. It is one of several YouTube clips from the same occasion. The Hungarian musicians are not identified...
Sunday morning to us means, sleeping in a little, reading the paper with coffee and breakfast and some relaxing music lightly sketching what the day holds. Some of our favorites are John Coltrane Live At Birdland or his recording with Milt Jackson, Bags And Trane. Here’s “Stairway To The Stars”: Sometimes Wes Montgomery fits the bill [...]
Rifftides Washington, DC, correspondent John Birchard watched a DVD of the Modern Jazz Quartet's 1994 35th Anniversary Tour and sent this review. The 57 minutes were recorded at the Freiburg, Germany, music festival in 1987 and the evening shows the guysin average (that is to say brilliant) form...
Rifftides Washington, DC, correspondent John Birchard watched a DVD of the Modern Jazz Quartet's 1994 35th Anniversary Tour and sent this review. The 57 minutes were recorded at the Freiburg, Germany, music festival in 1987 and the evening shows...
Tanglewood Jazz Festival Lenox, Massachusetts August 29-31, 2008 Tanglewood, in Lenox, Massachusetts, is the summer home of the Boston Symphony, and it's also home to events like an annual James Taylor concert, an annual recording of A Prairie Home Companion, and the annual Tanglewood Jazz Festival, which ran this year from August 29-31...
Tim Collins - Fade feat. Charlie Hunter & Simon Lott (CD/Digital) Ropeadope, 2008-10-14 Tracklisting : 01. Loud | MP3 02. Rise, Set, Fall 03. Lake George 1983 04. Dear Old Friend 05. Stop or I'll Throw My Keys 06. Cave Dweller 07. Fade 08. Mystified 09. Saddlebags 10. Joy Ride Personnel : Tim Collins - vibes, electric vibes, piano, glockenspiel Charlie Hunter - electric bass Simon Lott - drums Ulrike...
Download a free MP3 track from vibraphonist Joe Locke's latest Origin Records release Force of Four as well as tracks from three other recent releases. Free MP3 Download Alpha Punk Joe Locke From Force of Four 6:58 Free MP3 Download Sword of Whispers Joe Locke From Sticks and Strings 7:56 Free MP3 Download Van Gogh By Numbers Joe Locke From Live In Seattle 07:24...
Saturday was officialy the first full day of music at the 29 th Detroit International Jazz Festival . It was also the day I realized it was impossible for me to hear all the music the festival organizers scheduled. I bet other journalists assigned to cover the four day event felt the same. However the concerts I attended were outstanding.
Finally, after all the excitement and exhaustion – back to the music. So we beat on, boats against the current... whatever... The Clusone Trio give the Herbie Nichols tune, '117th Street,' an outing. Always an element of drollery lurking when Bennink is involved – those crazy Dutch, eh? This swings in lightly over crisp old-school drumming as Moore states the theme and take the first solo – a limpid...
2008 is a defining year for Unity Music and jazz vocalist Jamie Davis as he confirms his position in the pantheon of great male vocalists on Vibe Over Perfection, his new CD, scheduled for release July 15, 2008. Mr. Davis, who debuts at the 2008 Monterey Jazz Festival on September 21st, 2008, has been compared to Joe Williams, Johnny Hartman, and Lou Rawls, with a truly unique sound and style...
