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Eddie Daniels & Roger Kellaway: Just Friends
by Dan Bilawsky
Clarinetist Eddie Daniels and pianist Roger Kellaway are more than just friends; they're musical soulmates, connected in pulse and impulse, focused on the same syncretic sum of sounds and styles, and bound by a telepathic rapport. Both men are virtuosos of the highest order, but that's beside the point. The real measure of their artistic collaborations is tied to the way they communicate and connect, not how fast they can go or how many notes each can cram into a ...
Continue Reading37th Paradise Valley Jazz Party at Scottsdale Hilton Resort
by Patricia Myers
37th Paradise Valley Jazz Party Scottsdale Hilton Resort Scottsdale, Arizona March 22-23, 2014 An A-team of East Coast, West Coast and Arizona musicians played a mix of swing and bebop sounds in 14 jam-session-style sets at the 37th annual Paradise Valley Jazz Party. A special element at this party was the contrast in ages among the 23 musicians. Melissa Aldana is a 24-year-old New York City tenor saxophonist, and Los Angeles vocalist Melissa ...
Continue ReadingRoger Kellaway: Roger Kellaway Live at the Jazz Standard
by Andrew Velez
Pianist Roger Kellaway can swing hard and has played with everyone from Sonny Rollins to Joni Mitchell. His knowledge of music is encyclopedic and his pianism is instantly recognizable for its airy, sparkling quality, flowing from a singular skill he has to incorporate stride, swing, boogie and more into something totally modern. Long an in-demand sideman, Kellaway has too rarely recorded fronting his own group. Which brings us to the happy occasion of this live 2006 Jazz Standard set with ...
Continue ReadingRoger Kellaway: Live at the Jazz Standard
by AAJ Italy Staff
Strumentista completo, capace di unire virtuosismo e originalità di stile, Roger Kellaway resta uno dei massimi esponenti del pianismo mainstream, a dispetto della sua scarsa notorietà presso il pubblico. Dopo ottime performance negli anni sessanta s'è dedicato al lavoro di composizione per cinema e televisione con regolari, anche se sporadici, ritorni sulla scena jazzistica. L'ultimo è di qualche anno fa, che l'ha visto incidere un paio di apprezzati lavori ed esibirsi in applaudite serate nei club. Questa esibizione, ripresa allo ...
Continue ReadingRoger Kellaway: Live at The Jazz Standard
by Woodrow Wilkins
It's a bit out of the ordinary when a jazz trio does not include a piano. Perhaps it's even more unusual that an ensemble would be without drums. Yet that is the approach taken by pianist Roger Kellaway for the two-disc Live at The Jazz Standard. Kellaway began playing piano at age seven. His career has included spots with Duke Ellington, Elvis Presley, Joni Mitchell, Dizzy Gillespie and Quincy Jones, among many others. Kellaway has more than 200 ...
Continue ReadingRoger Kellaway: Live at the Jazz Standard
by C. Michael Bailey
Pianist and composer Roger Kellaway exists in that critical interface between little-known but respected session musician and known but unjustly little-recognized master. His recent recordings for IPO--Heroes (2007) and I Was There: Roger Kellaway Plays from the Bobby Darin Songbook (2005)--were very well received and revealed a professional, journeyman persistence. Kellaway is a national treasure who is omniscient in the field of jazz. Though not one to perform in public, Kellaway did play several nights at New York City's Jazz ...
Continue ReadingRoger Kellaway: Heroes
by Jim Santella
The Roger Kellaway Trio has no drummer. Rhythm isn't a problem though, since this group swings so well, but harmony is another matter. It's a challenge that pianist Roger Kellaway takes seriously, with considerable success. The Oscar Peterson trios with guitar, Kellaway's first and main influence, have paved the way for him to get excited about the chamber-jazz swing style that he exudes through such favorite chestnuts as “Moten Swing, “Killer Joe, “Night Train, “Cotton Tail and “I Was Doing ...
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