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Benjamin Boone: The Poetry of Jazz

Read "The Poetry of Jazz" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
March 20, 2018

Benjamin Boone's The Poetry Of Jazz could easily have been titled The Jazz of Poetry because of the almost interchangeable nature of the terms. The composer/saxophonist's vision to put music to the U.S. Poet Laureate Philip Levine's prose is a reminder to listeners that jazz was birthed by the common man, and is not to be kept in an ivory tower.Both professors at Cal State Fresno, Levine and Boone had performed together before, and the saxophonist had used ...

Album Review

Benjamin Boone: The Poetry of Jazz

by Mark Corroto
March 16, 2018

Benjamin Boone's The Poetry Of Jazz could easily have been titled The Jazz of Poetry because of the almost interchangeable nature of the terms. The composer/saxophonist's vision to put music to the U.S. Poet Laureate Philip Levine's prose is a reminder to listeners that jazz was birthed by the common man, and is not to be kept in an ivory tower. Both professors at Cal State Fresno, Levine and Boone had performed together before, and the saxophonist had ...

Live Review

Branford Marsalis and Jean-Willy Kunz at the Kimmel Center

by Victor L. Schermer
February 18, 2018

Branford Marsalis, Saxophone, and Jean-Willy Kunz, Organ: From Classical to Jazz Kimmel Center for Performing Arts Philadelphia, PA February 16, 2018 This concert of mostly classical works for saxophone and large scale pipe organ turned out to be somewhat of a surprise to the audience of jazz fans, who packed in to hear their hero, Branford Marsalis. The concert emcee, Michael Barone (a radio producer who also hosts a program called ...

In Pictures

Skip Norris Memorial Concert

by C. Andrew Hovan
July 1, 2017

The old saying goes that we all die twice; once when we take our last breath and then a second time when our name isn't spoken anymore. It is highly unlikely that the name of Wesley “Skip" Norris will vanish from the tongues of jazz devotees anytime soon. Especially not after the memorable and extraordinary sendoff that took place last Friday evening in Detroit. An advocate for jazz in so many ways throughout the past decades, Norris fostered a strong ...

Album Review

Branford Marsalis Quartet with Special Guest Kurt Elling: Upward Spiral

Read "Upward Spiral" reviewed by Stefano Merighi

by Stefano Merighi
September 29, 2016

Sembra che Branford Marsalis continui ad avere John Coltrane come stella polare nell'orientarsi in una luminosa maturità artistica. E come il maestro che, nel bel mezzo di un turbinoso oltrepassamento del linguaggio specifico del jazz, piazzava due disorientanti album di canzoni (i peraltro magnifici John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman e Ballads), così Branford interrompe l'intensa progressione di una discografia sempre più convincente (almeno da Requiem in avanti, con la non causale rivisitazione a più riprese del coltraniano A Love Supreme, ...

Live Review

Branford Marsalis Quartet con Kurt Elling al Ritmo delle Città

by Paolo Peviani
July 15, 2016

Branford Marsalis Quartet con Kurt Elling Ritmo delle città Milano Teatro Leonardo 13.07.2016 Chiusura in bellezza per Il Ritmo Delle Città. Il concerto conclusivo della rassegna milanese -giunta alla sua decima edizione--ha avuto come protagonista il quartetto del sassofonista Branford Marsalis (con il fido Joey Calderazzo al pianoforte e la formidabile sezione ritmica composta da Eric Revis al contrabbasso e Justin Faulkner alla batteria), in compagnia del vocalist Kurt Elling. Causa maltempo, ...

Album Review

The Branford Marsalis Quartet with Special Guest Kurt Elling: Upward Spiral

Read "Upward Spiral" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
May 19, 2016

To one extent or another, jazz has always maintained a discriminatory dividing line between vocalists and instrumentalists. Instead of being viewed as equals--artists on par with all the rest, possessing the same good sense, skill, and stake in an artistic outcome--vocalists have often been unfairly stigmatized and interned in a separate category. But all of that has slowly been changing, due in no small part to a large and continually growing crop of vocalists who are consistently raising the bar. ...