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Although I enjoy a lot of different types of music, I am at heart a traditionalist. That’s one of the reasons why I always look forward to any new album that features experienced and talented jazz pros, doing their thing. When the musicians fulfill that promise, it becomes a very pleasant listening experience. Case in point [...]
I'll be heading to the used record store after work, but I'm not sure what to shop for. Last time I was in I passed on some Sonny Rollins records in favor of Nat King Cole , so that's one option. And, given today's news I guess I should consider looking into the Kingston Trio. What do y'all think?
On the new episode of The Jazz Session, Jason Crane interviews saxophonist Javon Jackson. On his new recording for Palmetto Records, Once Upon A Melody, Jackson pays tribute to the people and songs that have influenced him, from Wayne Shorter to Sonny Rollins to Ramsey Lewis to Corinne Bailey Rae. During this interview, Javon leads a track-by-track tour of the record, and you’ll hear excerpts from...
Javon Jackson, Once Upon A Melody (Palmetto). Whether as the result of marketing gambits or of press stereotyping, Jackson's name rarely appears without the word "funk" nearby. In truth, from the time of his early beginnings with Art Blakey, his...
Alto saxophonist David Sanborn has played with some of the best and best-known musicians on the planet. Saturday, you can catch him at Covington's Madison Theater.
Sonny Rollins Jazz Icons Series 3: Sonny Rollins '65 and '68 Jazz Icons 2008 Sonny Rollins '65 and '68 inaugurates the Jazz Icons Series 3. Previously reviewed among these electrons was Jazz Icons Series 2. Along with Series 1, these three DVD sets comprise an important multimedia library of American Jazz. Series 3 comes as a welcome addition...
Expectations run very high at Sonny Rollins concerts, for both audiences and the saxophonist himself. Considered jazz's greatest living improviser, Rollins seizes the opportunity offered by each live performance to search for his lost chord; his audiences await nothing short of transcendence. An extraordinary double dose of Rollins in concert is due on October 28, when the tenor saxophonists Doxy Records...
The scourge of heroin addiction among jazz musicians of the 1940s and 1950s is central to dozens of stories, novels, poems, plays and movies, most of them dreadful, overwrought cliches. Bad art aside, the monkey on the backs of musicians was real. It rode many of them to their graves. Unhorseing the habit required triumphing over more than the punishing chemical consequences of withdrawal. It meant...
I think as long as people can hear a record and hear people like Lester Young on a recording, there will always be a great inspiration for somebody to try to create jazz. - Sonny Rollins No one is original. Everyone is derivative. -- Sonny Rollins There was a period which I refer to as the 'Golden Age of Jazz,' which sort of encompasses the middle thirties through the sixties, we had a lot of great...
Tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins celebrated his 78th birthday this past Sunday. We saw him play in May 2007 and while most of what we have on our shelves from his legendary career is from the mid-to-late 50s, reading his wiki page makes me curious about his bands in the 1970s/1980s (with electric guitars and more of a funk influence). The first of these three shows took place about three months before...
It’s always nice to see a respected jazz veteran have the opportunity to get his name on the front of a new album, especially if it’s someone who has for the most part kept a pretty low profile over the course of his career. Drummer Al Foster has been in the business for many years, beginning [...]
This makes me incredibly sad. This is (was) the best emerging jazz festival I have followed, and I was looking forward to Sticks having the opportunity to attend in 2009. If there is anyone reading this who can assist them and possibly find a sponsor or a grant for them to continue, please visit their [...]
