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STLJN Audio Archive: Pow! Jeanne Trevor Sings!!

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
September 19, 2011

For this week's Audio Archive post, we reach back to 1965 for the first full-length recording by one of St. Louis' longtime favorites, singer Jeanne Trevor. Pow! Jeanne Trevor Sings!! originally was released on the Mainstream label and is revived here courtesy of the music-sharing blog Soundological Investimigations. Drawing inspiration from the classic tradition of female jazz vocalists, most notably Ella Fizgerald, Trevor has been a staple on St. Louis stages for close to 50 years, and continues to perform ...
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Pow!: Tigran Hamasyan, Wunderkind or Just Good?

Source: Inverted Garden by Eric Benson
February 8, 2011

Tigran Hamasyan—Solo + Quintet Tuesday, February 8th at 7 Le Poisson Rouge When I started receiving emails from Search & Restore about the upcoming appearance of the Armenian piano whizkid Tigran, I thought it best to approach with extreme caution. Our society is obsessed with prodigies, but especially in jazz, words like “whizkid" often equate to “flame-out." Jazz wunderkinds don't suffer the typical case of too-much, too-soon—even star jazz musicians don't make enough to snort fortunes ...
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Pow!: Undead Jazzfest

Source: Inverted Garden by Eric Benson
June 12, 2010

I started Inverted Garden to join a conversation that I heard increasing in volume and seriousness: namely, how to “revive" jazz. For the last 40 years, the imminent death of jazz has been oft foretold, and while much of the doomsaying has been nothing more than Chicken Little-ism, it does seem true that the jazz audience is nowhere near as robust as it was in the 1950s and 60s.

Back then, jazz was far from being the most popular music ...
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Pow!: Alejandro Demogli at FB Lounge

Source: Inverted Garden by Eric Benson
March 6, 2010

I've written before about my love for Argentine jazz, an unexpected attraction that started on a Thursday night at Thelonious in Buenos Aires and continues to this day. Soon (fingers crossed), I'll be hosting a radio documentary on the composer Guillermo Klein and I've already spilled quite a bit of digital ink covering musicians such as Pipi Piazzolla and Dino Saluzzi. An untold story (at least in writing) of my relationship with Argentine jazz is my friendship with the guitarist ...
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POW! (Pick of the Week): JD Allen Trio

Source: Inverted Garden by Eric Benson
February 1, 2010

Looking back over jazz critics' top 10 lists of 2009, two of the most notable themes were the big band bloom and rise of the sax trio. The debut recording of Darcy James Argue's Secret Society and the sophomore effort of John Hollenbeck's Large Ensemble found their way onto many year-end lists (Secret Society's Infernal Machines placed #2 on AccuJazz's compilation of critical consensus) and both bands generated buzz that traveled well beyond the jazz cognoscenti. (Infernal Machines was reviewed ...
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POW! Darius Jones

Source: Inverted Garden by Eric Benson
January 31, 2010

The Brooklyn jazz scene has been a boon to New York, fostering a defiantly local culture that the city's biggest clubs (Blue Note, Vanguard, etc) sometimes lack. In Greenwich Village, you see top jazz stars deliver polished performances; at Brooklyn events like the New Languages Festival, you see scruffy young musicians experimenting, developing, emerging.

Yet there's a strain running through some of the new Brooklyn music that feels counterproductive: an attraction toward gimmicks rather than expressions. The Respect Sextet, a ...
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Pow Ensemble New CD Release

Source: All About Jazz
April 4, 2009

POW Ensemble Homage to Hazard live X-OR FR 14 Field Recording

Han Buhrs, vocals, backing vocals, voice, live electronics Luc Houtkamp, computer, live electronics, tenor saxophone Guy Harries, vocals, backing vocals, flute, fife, computer, keyboards Wolter Wierbos, trombone, vocals Nina Hitz, cello

Live in het Bimhuis, Amsterdam, 26 juni 2008 Special guest: Joseph Bowie, trombone, vocals

All About Jazz review: www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=32364

Life is short, jazz is eternal, and ...
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