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Roy Haynes Revisited
by AAJ Staff
This article was first published on All About Jazz in January 1999. Roy Haynes is one of the few living legends remaining in jazz. He has been awarded the Danish Jazzpar prize, Grammys, and numerous other awards and polls. Haynes is the most versatile drummer in jazz history, do in most part to his playing with Lester Young, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Horace Tapscott, Miles Davis, Lennie Tristano, Lee Konitz, Thelonious Monk, ...
Continue ReadingCaleb Wheeler Curtis: The True Story of Bears and the Invention of the Battery (Deluxe Edition)
by Paul Rauch
Caleb Wheeler Curtis is one of the more daring musicians in jazz today, not only in his approach to playing the saxophone, but in his fearless dedication to his own musical conceptions, expressed clearly in his original compositions. That daring and dedication can be equally attributed to many of the shakers and movers of modern jazz, including one Thelonious Sphere Monk. On his double album release, The True Story of Bears and the Invention of the Battery (Imani, 2024), Curtis ...
Continue ReadingRasmus Sørensen: At The Right Time
by Konstantin N. Rega
Danish-born, New York-based pianist Rasmus Sørensen finds melody as well as fluidity in At The Right Time. This rising jazz star stands alongside other young musicians like Joey Alexander and Fergus McCreadie, exhibiting his ability to craft pieces that have a generous listenability matched by a sophisticated musicality in more freestyle sections. With this release, Sørensen showcases 12 diverse and original compositions with the talented help of Jon Henriksson on double bass and Francesco Ciniglio on drums. Unlike ...
Continue ReadingA Few More of My Favorite 2024 Jazz Things - Part 1
by Ludovico Granvassu
From time to time, we take stock of the most exciting releases that have landed on our desk... and hard drive. Usually, we do it twice a year, in June and in December. However, we have already accumulated so much great material since June that there was no point in waiting until December to start sharing some of the songs we have been putting aside for our 'favorites' playlist.' So, here we go...Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison ...
Continue ReadingFeaturing violin players Carlo Cantini, Steve Kindler and Jean-Luc Ponty
by Len Davis
Music based on the You Tube show 4 Fusion Friday for November 2024, featuring violinist's Carlo Cantini, L Subramanium Jean-Luc Ponty, Michal Urbaniak and Steve Kindler. Playlist Carlo Cantini “Equilateral Room" from Heptagon (Sympaty) 00:00 Electric Arc “Jam Machine" from March Of Time (TRJ Jazz) Time Marker Jean-Luc Ponty “Imaginery Voyage PT 4" from Imaginary Voyage (Atlantic) Time Marker L Subramaniam “Seventh Heaven" from Spanish Wave (Viji) Time Marker Michal Urbaniak “Strech" from Fusion 3 (Columbia) Time Marker ...
Continue ReadingUSAF Airmen of Note: Aim High/The 2024 Jazz Heritage Series
by Jack Bowers
Aim High, recorded as part of the 2024 Jazz Heritage Series, is the forty-sixth album by the U.S. armed services' premier jazz ensemble, the Airmen of Note, founded in 1950 to honor the tradition of Major Glenn Miller's Army Air Corps dance band, which entertained the troops during World War II until Miller's untimely death in 1944. Those who have heard no more than one of those recordings would no doubt agree that any accolades aimed at the AON have ...
Continue ReadingMingus Dynasty Septet at Slee Hall
by Frank Housh
Mingus Dynasty Septet Slee Hall at University of Buffalo Buffalo, NY November 1, 2024 The Mingus Dynasty Septet performed on Friday, November 1, 2024, at UB's Slee Hall (SUNY Buffalo) as part of its Visiting Artist Series. The Septet's personnel and the concert's set list are at the bottom of this review. Charles Mingus is one of America's greatest composers. He was of mixed race and his mother died when he was an ...
Continue ReadingFrom Flock to Shepherd: The Evolution of the Drummer-Led Ensemble in Jazz
by Jon Sheckler
On November 15th, 2017 at 8:30pm, the Jazz Standard in New York City had a line around the block. Starting from the dual entrance of the Jazz Standard jazz club and Blue Smoke restaurant in the direct middle of East 27th Street, the line of people stretched almost to Lexington Avenue, nearly 300 feet. Just after 9:00pm, audience members from the earlier set began to be released. The faces included some of the most prominent members of the New York ...
Continue ReadingThelonius Garcia: Marche Nocturne
by Dan McClenaghan
The first name Thelonious--does it come from the word theology? Is a parent giving a newborn a form of divinity with the appellation? This is speculation; the answer is up in the air, but the most famous Thelonious is Thelonious Sphere Monk, one of the brightest of jazz stars to emerge in the age of bebop. And now we have Thelonious Garcia (note the slight spelling variation of the first name) and his debut recording. Serenity reigns--and it ...
Continue ReadingJeff Rupert: It Gets Better
by Jack Bowers
Florida-based tenor saxophonist Jeff Rupert leads a superlative quartet on It Gets Better, a graceful and charming album recorded September 2021 at the renowned Van Gelder Studio in New Jersey. While comparisons to other musicians are as a rule less than viable, the striking similarities between Rupert and the late jazz giant Stan Getz cannot simply be overlooked or ignored. As John Coltrane once said of Getz, “We'd all sound like that if we could." Not only can Rupert sound ...
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