Results for "AAJ Staff"

The Traneumentary: Anton Fig

June 1, 2011

When I first went to see McCoy Tyner at the Blue Note in the summer of 2006, I ran into Paul Schaffer and Anton Fig who were also attending the show. Both Anton and Paul respectfully greeted McCoy backstage and talked with him right before I met and recorded the McCoy “special greeting" Traneumentary episode. A ...

Dave Lambert: Audition at RCA

May 31, 2011

What you're about to see is going to blow your mind (unless you've seen it already). This was the first time I viewed the following video clip, and I knew nothing of it until JazzWax reader and publicist Michael Bloom sent along a link. Lambert from Peter on Vimeo. The clip is a 15-minute documentary short ...

Fat Beats and Rhino Records Continue Retail Legacy with Pop-up Shops and Performances

May 31, 2011

Fat Beats, the record label and music distributor, used to have multiple record stores with in-store events were widely distributed om YouTube. Rhino Records once jad two shops in Los Angeles. Now both are holding pop-up shops with live shows in a manner that extends their retail legacy. And as much as many of us like ...

World's 12 Worst Piracy Havens and 8 More to Watch

May 31, 2011

R.I.P. Gil Scott Heron "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" [video]

May 31, 2011

Christine Jensen - Treelines (Justin Time Records, 2011)

May 31, 2011

Composer and arranger Christine Jensen (Jazz Session interview) has assembled an eighteen musician big band to realize her musical ideas on this well done large ensemble album. The music is deeply textured and exists in a multi-layered state emphasizing certain characters in the music especially trumpeter Ingrid Jensen while keeping the music focused on the ensemble ...

Nicholas Urie's "My Garden:" Composer's Big Band Music Based on Charles Bukowski

May 31, 2011

Without a great deal of build up and/or suspense I'll say right off the bat that I like what Nicholas Urie is up to on My Garden (Red Piano Records [RPR] 14599-4405-2). It's very modern big-band music, well played, with the moderately acerbic and melancholic poetry of Charles Bukowski as the unifying theme. Christine Correa handles ...

Wilbert Longmire

May 31, 2011

Cincinnati based guitarist Wilbert Longmire has long had a curious career as a legend throughout northern Ohio and as an occasional headliner on national albums, paired with some of jazz's greatest names. Born in Mobile, Alabama, Wilbert moved with his parents to Cincinnati when he was only three. He started off as a violinist in his ...

A "Jazz Passenger" on the XRIJF Tour: Where We'll Be on June 12 of the Rochester International Jazz Festival

May 30, 2011

We go from the Ohio and NYC of Joe Henderson (a celebrated by Henderson's former collaborator, Canadian-born New Yorker Jon Ballantyne) to the Denmark of Nikolaj Hess, to London's Soho, and back here to the States for a reunited Jazz Passengers. Although I've been on wider flung trips around the world in a single night at ...

Weekend Wax Bits

May 30, 2011

Gil Scott-Heron (1949-2011), a spoken-word singer- songwriter whose socially conscious soul-jazz albums of the '70s neatly leveraged the feel and urgency of Sly Stone, Marvin Gaye and Richie Havens, died in New York on May 27. He was 62. Scott-Heron's albums from the '70s are essential for fans of jazz and soul. His most dynamic recordings ...