Scotsman.com Living - Books (Free subscription) | 11/16/2008
MILES DAVIS The Musings Of Miles **** Prestige 0888072306516, £9.99
Stereo Describes My Scenario (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
Okay, I’m tryin to find a record and I know next to nothing about it. So back when I first started listening to jazz 20 years ago, I used to make tapes off the radio, but I never recorded the info on the songs. The song in question was on a tape that [...]
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/22/2008
The self-titled debut of Downtown cellist Erik Friedlander's Broken Arm Trio refers to an injury that legendary bassist Oscar Pettiford sustained while playing baseball in 1949. Pettiford couldn't play upright bass with his arm in a sling, but he could handle the cello; he proceeded to develop a style on the smaller instrument that yielded a spate of cello-themed albums, including the classic My Little...
Largehearted Boy (Free subscription) | 10/20/2008
Of Montreal's Skeletal Lamping is out tomorrow in a dizzying array of formats (including t-shirts and totebags). What the week lacks in star power it makes up in quality releases. From what has already crossed my path, I can...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/17/2008
WHRR House of Rouse Radio plays JAZZ 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with one of the largest jazz collections in the world. Chico's House of Jazz, located at 631 Lake Avenue Asbury Park, NJ is slated to be New Jersey's # 1 Jazz Night Spot. WHRR and Chico's House of Jazz were created by Charles "Chico" Rouse on behalf of his father, the legendary tenor saxophone player, Charles Rouse, Sr...
Geezer Music Club (Free subscription) | 10/12/2008
A new album on the Skipstone label provides an unusual opportunity to hear something a little different from a jazz ensemble — a cello lead, played sans bow. Genre-crossing virtuoso Erik Friedlander is the focal point of the unconventional group, which includes bassist Trevor Dunn and drummer Mike Sarin. The title of the album is [...]
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
Jimmy Cleveland, a trombonist whose recording credits included work for Quincy Jones, Lionel Hampton, Miles Davis, Sarah Vaughan, James Brown, Oscar Peterson, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Lucky Thompson, Oscar Pettiford and others, died August 23 in Lynwood, Calif. He was 82...
Bellaonline.com (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
'The Hawk Flies High' by tenor saxophone player Coleman Hawkins is a listening must for all jazz fans.
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
From 1955-59, it appeared that Sonny Rollins could do no wrong. One needs only to listen to the 1-2-3 punch of Saxophone Colossus, Live At The Village Vanguard or Way Out West for confirmation. Most jazz fans know these albums backwards and forwards. Sonny Rollins Freedom Suite Riverside-Concord 2008...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
Peter Zak Seed of Sin Steeplechase 2008 Tom Guarna Wingspan Steeplechase 2007 Steeplechase producer Nils Winther has long been a champion of promising artists who deserve to record as leaders but have generally been overlooked. Once signed, many artists have long tenures with the label...
Geezer Music Club (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Once again we’re paying a visit to Concord’s tribute to long-time producer Orrin Keepnews, the Keepnews Collection, a series of 24-bit reissues of a number of timeless jazz recordings. (Previously: Wes Montgomery, Coleman Hawkins, Nat Adderley.) In this review, we’re covering Freedom Suite, Sonny Rollins’ 1958 classic. Unlike most of the legends in the series, tenor [...]
Geezer Music Club (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Presented for your perusal is the second in a series of reviews (previously: Nat Adderley) based on Concord’s Keepnews Collection, a salute to legendary producer Orrin Keepnews. This edition finds us taking a look at a Coleman Hawkins classic, The Hawk Flies High, now reissued with 24-bit digital remastering. Coleman Hawkins was one of the earliest [...]
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
CHARLIE RICE says he has always been a stand-up guy - even while sitting at the drums alongside jazz icons John Coltrane and Chet Baker.
Bagatellen (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
Riverside In the late Fifties, Sonny Rollins was practically impervious to bum notes or bad records. Nearly all that he played during the period garnered accolades and adulation and rightfully so. Improvisatory acumen of his caliber is still far...
Anecdotal Evidence (Free subscription) | 05/22/2008
Warne Marsh was one of the purest, most nimble of jazz improvisers. Since his death at age 60 in 1987, his reputation, never ample, has contracted to cultish proportions. His sound on the tenor saxophone was fluid and highly melodic but stringent, sometimes somber. He sounded nothing like John Coltrane. He was an intellectual player but never barren, accessible but not a crowd pleaser. In jazz history,...
