Kenny Garrett Quartet: Denver, CO, May 4, 2012
Kenny Garrett Quartet
Soiled Dove Underground
Denver, CO
May 4, 2012 The last couple times Kenny Garrett came through Denver, he was a sideman. In 2010 he toured with Chick Corea's Freedom Band that also featured Christian McBride on bass and 85-year-old Roy Haynes on drums. The year before, Garrett ...
Dmitry Baevsky Quartet: New York, NY April 22, 2012
Dmitry Baevsky Quartet
Smalls Jazz Club
New York, NY
April 22, 2012 Going out to hear live jazz is seldom as easy as finding a suitable place, plunking down some hard-earned cash, and then simply taking in the sounds. Befitting a music that once thrived in dance halls, sporting houses and other places ...
Sonny Rollins: A Diamond in the Rough
[Sonny Rollins was finishing up an extended tour at the time of this 1978 interview. Milestone Records had brought him together with pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Ron Carter, and drummer Al Foster to form a group called the Milestone Jazzstars that played 20 shows that year and recorded a live album. He talked about other tours, ...
Farmers Market: Slav to the Rhythm
Farmers Market
Slav to the Rhythm
Division Records
2012 It's hard to believe that music can be so compelling that, even if only heard in passing, it's still so absolutely memorable. Catching just the first few minutes of Farmers Market at Natt Jazz 2011, thanks to an ungodly airport pickup time the following ...
Luis Perdomo: Walking Towards the Light
Pianist Luis Perdomo's fingers dart across the keys, eloquently telling the stories that traverse his mind in that instant; doing so in a manner that enraptures an audience. He moves people, and does so in a manner that appears, on the surface, easy. Like great athletes. Like other great musicians. This is one of the finer ...
BAM: Bremen Art Music?
[Editor's Note: It's been quite a few years since Italian writer, music educator and general provocateur Francesco Martinelli last contributed to All About Jazz. Having recently returned home from Jazzahead! 2012 in Bremen, and with the current debates about the meaning, future and relevance of the word “jazz" fresh in his mind, Martinelli posits an alternate ...
Gregg Allman: My Cross to Bear
My Cross to Bear
Gregg Allman w/ Alan Light
Hardback; 380 pages
ISBN 978-0062112033
William Morrow
2012
The most vibrant interludes in guitarist and singer Gregg Allman's autobiography are those where he talks about songwriting. His accounts of exchanging and refining ideas, by himself or collaboratively, carries a level of engagement ...
Greg Lake: Westbury, NY, April 22, 2012
Greg Lake: The Songs of A Lifetime
NYCB Theatre at Westbury
Westbury, New York
April 22, 2012
Emerson, Lake & Palmer, King Crimson, Ringo Starr, Percy Sledge, Robert Fripp and The Who...what they all have in common is Greg Lake. Lake is the voice behind the original King Crimson (which he founded ...
Robert Fripp / Andrew Keeling / David Singleton: The Wine of Silence
Robert Fripp / Andrew Keeling / David Singleton
The Wine of Silence
DGM Live
2012 It's strange how things sometimes come around full circle...well, almost. After helping to define symphonic prog with King Crimson and the seminal In the Court of the Crimson King (DGM Live, 1969)--mellotrons screaming instead of a real orchestras ...
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Tower Of Power With Special Guests War: Westbury, NY, April 18, 2012
Tower of Power with Special Guests War
NYCB Theatre at Westbury
Westbury, New York
April 18, 2012
The Funk and Soul were flowing freely as Tower of Power and War both performed virtuoso sets at the NYCB Theater in Westbury, NY on this slightly chilly and overcast April evening.
At precisely 8pm, ...
Tri-C JazzFest Cleveland 2012: Days 6-12
Days 1-5 | Days 6-12
33rd Annual Tri-C JazzFest Cleveland
Cleveland, Ohio
April 16-29, 2012
Chapter Index April 24: Ernie Krivda's Thunder From the Heartland April 25: Matt Wilson's Arts & Crafts April 26: The Jack DeJohnette Group April 27: David Sanborn Trio / Trombone Shorty April 28: Diana Krall April 26: ...
Teresa Salgueiro: Belgrade, Serbia, 18 April 2012
Teresa Salgueiro
Dom Sindikata
Belgrade, Serbia
April 18, 2012 There is a secret love affair between Teresa Salgueiro and the city of Belgrade that has been happening for many years. For the past several years, with her former band Madredeus or with her many solo projects, this city has been a regular stop ...
Wayne Krantz: Howie 61
Wayne Krantz
Howie 61
Abstract Logix
2012 He's long been a musician's musician and a guitarist's guitarist--there's a reason Steely Dan's Donald Fagen recruited him for his last solo disc, Morph the Cat (Reprise, 2006), and saxophonists David Binney and Chris Potter called him up for Graylen Epicenter (Mythology, 2011) and Underground (Sunnyside, ...
March-April 2012: Dan Hanrahan, Matthew Shipp, Danilo Perez, Aerial Photograph
Dan Hanrahan Trio
Moonstone Arts Center
February 22, 2012 The Moonstone Arts Center, one of Philadelphia's more successful outlets for jazz music, has been growing in popularity amongst local musicians as a venue geared towards supporting original music. Dan Hanrahan, a guitarist well versed in jazz tradition, led his organ trio through a set ...
