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Jazz Icons Series 2 Set: Wes, Mingus, Coltrane, Dexter, Duke, Brubeck and More.
by John Kelman
Various Artists Jazz Icons Series 2 Box Set Reelin' in the Years 2007
While the advent of the DVD has resulted in the unearthing of a virtual treasure trove of archival live video performances, many available for the first time in any format, the quality can often be hit-and-miss. Not so with the Jazz Icons series of DVDs, the first series hitting the streets in 2006. It's been written that ...
Continue ReadingJazz Icons Series 2: Vintage Concerts on DVD
by Andrew Velez
Various Artists Jazz Icons Series 2 Box Set Reelin' in the Years 2007
No matter how often you've listened to John Coltrane playing “My Favorite Things," there's nothing quite like watching him work his magic in a live performance that gives an entire new life to that Richard Rodgers melody. In crisp, glorious black and white, Coltrane's musical exploration is just one of dozens of thrilling moments in the new Jazz Icons ...
Continue ReadingDave Brubeck: Indian Summer
by C. Michael Bailey
There are several similarities when listening to Dave Brubeck's Indian Summer and Andras Schiff's survey of Beethoven: The Piano Sonatas (ECM New Series, 2005). Both pianists are well into their respective careers, Brubeck being the elder jazz statesman for sure, but Schiff has managed in his brief fifty-plus years to accumulate an impressive classical repertoire and discography, mostly studied and released in chronological order. Both are at the top of their forms, interpret other works, or create their own (in ...
Continue ReadingDave Brubeck: Indian Summer
by Graham L. Flanagan
Fifty years after the release of his classic solo session Dave Brubeck Plays and Plays and ... (Original Jazz Classics, 1957), the jazz legend delivers another opportunity for his fans to hear him in an intimate setting. Indian Summer can be seen as a sort of companion piece to Plays and Plays and.... They are, in fact, linked in that Indian Summer's title track was also explored on its predecessor.
These days, it isn't surprising that ...
Continue ReadingDave Brubeck: His Own Sweet Way
by Andrew Velez
It would take a lot of pages to just list his accomplishments and awards in both jazz and classical music in a body of work uniquely his own. Let's just say for starters that this gravel-voiced, 6'1 brown-eyed, Library of Congress Living Legend, NEA Jazz Master composer and pianist, David Warren Brubeck, better-known to the world for more than six decades as just Dave, likes to laugh. He chuckles easily and frequently and perhaps especially heartily when mentioning nicknames Paul ...
Continue ReadingDave Brubeck: All in Good Time
by Adam Green
In July, veteran jazz pianist Dave Brubeck performed by television broadcast from New York while the BBC Orchestra played along in London. This unconventional performance celebrated the Lifetime Achievement Award bestowed on Brubeck by the BBC. “I did something similar with Count Basie and Ellington in the 60's, with telephone wire," he explains to me in a gruff, raspy voice, also via telephone wire, from his home in Connecticut. “It was the first time anything like that had been done!"
Continue ReadingOttawa Jazz Festival Day 3: June 23, 2007
by John Kelman
Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7 | Day 8 | Day 9 | Day 10 | Day 11
Music is one of the few areas where, health permitting, the advancing years can hold a distinct advantage. Some artists continue to hone the craft they've spent a lifetime working on; others demonstrate that the passing of time needn't foreclose looking forward; still others are rigid ...
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