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Willie Jones

Born: October 20, 1929

Joe Block Christmas Extravaganza at Chris’ Jazz Café

by Victor L. Schermer
December 25, 2023

Joe Block Christmas Extravaganza Chris' Jazz Café Philadelphia, PA December 17, 2023 Pianist Joe Block is a remarkable pianist and band leader born and bred in Philadelphia and its suburbs. He is a graduate of both Juilliard and Columbia, was mentored by legendary pianists like Tom Lawton ...

The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra - 60th Anniversary Edition

By Sun Ra

Label: Craft Recordings
Released: 2022
Track listing: Bassism; Of Sounds And Something Else; What’s That?; Where Is Tomorrow?; The Beginning; China Gates (Victor Young); New Day; Tapestry From An Asteroid; Jet Flight; Looking Outward; Space Jazz Reverie.

The Ways In

By James Zollar

Label: JZAZ Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: 1, The Fruit - Dedicated to Barry Harris (Composed by Bud Powell, Arranged by James Zollar, Michael Rorby) 2, Peace / Blue Silver - Dedicated to Al Zollar (Composed by Horace Silver /Composed by Blue Mitchell, Arranged by Slide Hampton) 3, Reflectory (Composed by Pepper Adams) 4, The Single Pedal of A Rose - Dedicated to Queen Elizabeth Ⅱ, Joe Temperley (Composed by Duke Ellington, Arranged by Michael Rorby, James Zollar) 5, Jim Jim (Composed by James Zollar, Arranged by James Zollar, Michael Rorby) 6, Do Nothing till You Hear From Me - Dedicated to Cootie Williams, Barrie Lee Hall (Composed by Duke Ellington) 7, Swing Spring (Composed by Miles Davis, Arranged by James Zollar) 8, Pat - Dedicated to Pat Zollar (Composed by Nabuko Kiryu, Arranged by Michael Rorby) 9, Down Town Up (Composed by Michael Rorby) 10, Checkered Hat - Epilogue Dedicated to Mercer Ellington (Composed by Norris Turney)

Sun Ra: The Futuristic Sounds Of Sun Ra - 60th Anniversary Edition

by Doug Collette
October 10, 2022

Produced by Tom Wilson, the same man who also helmed recordings by the Mothers of Invention, Bob Dylan and the Velvet Underground, The Futuristic Sounds Of Sun Ra may belie its title when described as one of the most accessible titles in his lengthy discography. Nonetheless, like its concert companion piece, At Inter-Media Arts, April 1991 ...

Charles Mingus: An Essential Top Ten Albums

by Chris May
July 26, 2021

Charles Mingus was rarely a happy man and yet his music possessed a power to uplift listeners unlike that of most other composer / bandleaders before or after him. It still has that power in 2021, four decades after his passing and on the eve of his hundredth anniversary in 2022. In his personal life, too, ...

Anna Kolchina: Wild Is The Wind

by C. Michael Bailey
April 21, 2018

Anna Kolchina's debut Wild is the Wind is a masterclass in ensemble performance. Backed by pianist John Di Martino, bassist Peter Washington, and drummer Willie Jones, Kolchina is more an equal quartet member than a singer backed by a trio. This is experienced immediately on the title piece, where Kolchina's delicately-played voice peeks out from behind ...

Roxy Coss: Standing Out

by Paul Rauch
October 22, 2017

All About Jazz: You have recently released a new CD, Chasing the Unicorn (Posi-Tone, 2017), just a year after the release of Restless Idealism (Origin, 2016). Albums are like a snapshot of a timeframe, how has that musical image changed in a year? Roxy Coss: More back story is it was recorded more than ...

Organ Grinder Swing–Adrienne Fenemor, Little Charlie, Matthew Kaminski, Music Soup, King Louie & LaRhonda Steele

by C. Michael Bailey
March 5, 2017

There are certain things that evoke memory more than smells and sound. Unfiltered Lucky Strike cigarettes, just lit, make me think of my dad's office in the 1960s. Unfiltered Lucky Strike cigarettes, iced-cold Budweiser in the bottle, and organ jazz and blues, make me think of what dark, urban dives should smell, taste and sound like ...

Steve Turre: Spiritman

by Luca Muchetti
August 27, 2015

Torna Steve Turre, il “suonatore di conchiglie," o -se preferite -il sideman di giganti come Ray Charles e Carlos Santana. Spiritman rappresenta un vero e proprio back to the roots, verso quella essenzialità swing che il trombonista sembrava aver messo da parte da tempo in favore di percorsi più concettuali e, in parte, segnati anche dall'utilizzo ...