The Eternal Triangles. Dizzy Gillespie with Sonny Rollins, Sonny Stitt and Stan Getz
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Herbie Hancock remembers Pannonica, the Rothschild heir who so loved American jazz that she abandoned an aristocratic European life of castles where royalty dined, to...
The Guardian Music blog (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
The clampdown on cameraphones at the London jazz festival is stopping a vibrant and spontaneous art form from reaching a wider audience online The ushers certainly had their work cut out. During this year's 250-gig London jazz festival , the capital's major concert halls tried to curb the increasing number of fans using cameraphones to record unrepeatable performances from the world's greatest jazz...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
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...
[CinemaRatty] Lattest Articles (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: HBO Bio-Pic Revisits Life of Jazz Patron/Civil Rights Pioneer Although Baronness Pannonica Nica - Rothschild (1913-1988) was born into a very wealthy European...
bebop spoken here (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Mark Toomey (alto), Jeremy McMurray (pno), Peter Ayton (bs), Kevin O'Neill (dms). Laid back alto playing from Mark who flew bird-like through the changes on a choice selection of standards and originals. These included, "East of the Sun", "Autumn Leaves", "Stella By Starlight", "There Will Never Be Another You", "All The Things You Are" - complete with...
LondonJazz (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Here is a London Jazz Festival round-up, just posted on my Telegraph blog After ten days and more than 250 gigs across London, The London Jazz Festival is over for another year. It’s been popular. The Royal Festival Hall and the Barbican Hall were packed on the nights I went. As were the year-round clubs like the Bulls Head in Barnes, the Vortex and Ronnie Scott’s. And I get reports of...
Evening Standard (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Having celebrated its glorious past with Sonny Rollins and Chick Corea, the London Jazz Festival climaxed with a glimpse of the future in the leggy, Afro-haired person of Esperanza Spalding
LondonJazz (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Review: Stan Sulzmann Quartet The Green Man, London Jazz Festival, November 20th 2009, review by Patrick Hadfield) After four nights going to gigs in the Queen Elizabeth Hall – a concert venue if ever there was one – on Friday I headed down to the basement of the Green Man by Great Portland Street station. Just like the QEH gigs, this one was also packed to capacity – standing room...
The Garlic (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Might as well ask, about there, since there hasn't been much going on here, on The Garlic, of recent times. So sorry, Garlic Fans, as we have been flat out, jammin' with a multitude of things on the homefront. When The Aunt was released from short-term Rehab , nearly a month ago, we implemented a Hospice here at home (not that she is terminal for anything other than her age, a few weakening parts,...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Tears started rolling as soon as the saxophone legend Theodore "Sonny" Rollins took the stage, and continued for much of the 90- minute performance.
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
By Tad Hendrickson...
LondonJazz (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Review: Sheila Jordan 81st birthday gig (Bull's Head, London Jazz Festival, November 18th 2009, review by Georgia Mancio) "It’s quite something to stand up and convey a song. It looks easy…," mused a member of the audience at the busy Bull’s Head on Wednesday night. "...but it’s difficult to convey overly emotive songs, and it’s difficult to convey jokey...
Woody Haut's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Happy birthday Don Cherry, November 18, 1936 – October 19, 1995, Wherever you are. Here he is with Sonny Rollins Then, with James Blood Ulmer and Rashied Ali
bebop spoken here (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
This just blew my sox off! Liz
Wolfgangs Vault (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Download for $9.98. Listen to Herbie Mann Sextet performed at Newport Jazz Festival on July 4, 1959
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