Here's the latest compilation of assorted news briefs and links related to jazz, improvisation, and creative music in St. Louis, including news of musicians originally from the Gateway City, recent visitors, and coming attractions, plus assorted other items of interest: * There are big doings on the Miles Davis front this week, with the imminent release of the boxed mega-set The Complete Miles Davis...
The Death of the Cool By Robert McHenry Cool was once associated with reticence, savoir-faire, and irony, none of which is much practiced or regarded these days. Whether or not it is true that you can’t go home again, as Thomas Wolfe claimed—and the claim is just a special case of the more general observation of Heraclitus that you cannot step into the same river twice—it seems that...
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Born: 8 November, 1927, in Kansas City. Died: 29 August, 2009, in Toms River, New Jersey, aged 81.CHRIS Connor was a great jazz singer whose lush, foggy voice and compressed emotional intensity distilled a 1950s jazz reverie of faraway longing in a sad cafe.A singer who used little vibrato and was admired for her inventive rhythmic alterations of ballads, Connor belonged to the cool school of jazz...
Born: 8 November, 1927, in Kansas City. Died: 29 August, 2009, in Toms River, New Jersey, aged 81.CHRIS Connor was a great jazz singer whose lush, foggy voice and compressed emotional intensity distilled a 1950s jazz reverie of faraway longing in a sad cafe.A singer who used little vibrato and was admired for her inventive rhythmic alterations of ballads, Connor belonged to the cool school of jazz...
Great title–Oliver Nelson’s 1961 album that carried on with the Miles Davis Kind of Blue format. Heading to the nature trail for a run, with all of the music revue lyrics learned and my CD project performance done, I wanted to have some other music running through my head as I was running through the [...]
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The first drum solo comes so soon, the entire band isn’t even onstage. For their opening numbers last week, at three “special set list shows” that kicked off an August tenancy at the Beacon Theatre, Steely Dan limbered up with “Teenie’s Blues” by Oliver Nelson, an esteemed jazz composition that called on multi-handed drummer Keith Carlock to punctuate the jaunty,...
This was the first appearance of the Keith Jarrett's Standards trio with Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette in London since 2003, and the Royal Festival Hall was packed. The length of the applause which greeted the trio as they arrived onstage seemed to take even Jarrett himself by surprise. I'm not really used to this level of sheer devotion and adulation. The man on my left was explaining triumphantly...
Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday outdoors in beautiful Forsyth Park and various venues in Savannah. The 2009 “ 28th ” Savannah Jazz Festival, celebrating jazz as a living art form--built on a constantly evolving tradition will offer all types of jazz, from Dixieland, traditional swing, straight-ahead and bop to melodic standards, and funky down-home “gutbucket”...
July 6: Opening: Oliver Nelson's Teenie's Blues (Band without Don & Walt) Reelin' In The Years (funk version veeeery beautiful) Time Out Of Mind Show Biz Kids Black Friday Home At Last Bad Sneakers Two Against Nature Aja Hey Nineteen Parker's Band Babylon Sisters Glamour Profession Daddy Don't Live In That New York City No More (sung by Walt) Green Earrings Love is Like an Itchin' In My Heart +...
Glasgow Jazz Festival reviews: It can’t be too often that the cultural contributions of Will Fyffe and Yellowjackets’ Bob Mintzer have appeared in the same programme.
The nearly ubiquitous Miles Davis notwithstanding, which jazz musician from the St. Louis area has been heard by the most people throughout the world? It's probably impossible to measure something like that with any degree of exactitude, but one certainly can make an informed guess.Any short list wo...
New York, NY -- Jazz is not dead - at least not when the Ed Palermo Big Band plays it. Part of the Cuneiform 'Contemporary Masters' series, Eddy Loves Frank is the third album to feature the music of Frank Zappa as arranged by Ed Palermo and performed by the Ed Palermo Big Band. A brilliantly original and entertaining big band jazz CD, 'Eddy Loves Frank' shows that Zappas music has become assimilated...
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