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Tom Levin - Tooth and Claw (2011)
We find no uncluttered answers on Tom Levin's sumptuous, vaguely fatalistic Tooth and Claw. In fact, oftentimes the questions themselves for this former New Music Weekly Awards AC male artist of the year are almost unbearable. Levin faces them all with a hard-bitten, desolate fortitude, occasionally descending into this abandoned whiskey-barrel voice that recalls a youthful ...
Laurence Cook and Eric Zinman Show Musical Vision in "Double Action" Duet CD
New-England based avant jazzmen Laurence Cook and Eric Zinman each have an impressive track record in improvisatory music. Laurence has played drums and percussion in a number of important ensembles over the years; Eric Zinman's pianism has been a central part of significant live and recorded dates. For all that, one might nonetheless be unprepared for ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Jazz, April 15-21
Some interesting options especially this weekend, with a “swan song" for Jeremy Walker's Nownet and a triple bill at the AQ as part of the eclectic String Theory Music Festival. Highlights, Last Week Michel Legrand Trio at the Dakota (April 8). It was no surprise that the set list was filled with wonderful songs from Legrand's ...
Billy Bang - R.I.P.
The great jazz violinist and composer Billy Bang, born William Vincent Walker on September 20, 1947, in Mobile, Alabama, died at his home in Harlem on April 11. The cause of death was complications due to lung cancer. Billy Bang moved with his family to Harlem, New York while still an infant. He studied violin in ...
The Traneumentary: Ashley Kahn
Writer Ashley Kahn is one of the most profound authorities when it comes to John Coltrane. He has written three well researched and enjoyable books that feature John Coltrane among others: The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse! Records, Kind of Blue-The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece and A Love Supreme-The Story of ...
Billy Bang, 1947-2011
The violinist Billy Bang, who created himself as a jazz musician out of the trauma of the Vietnam war, died yesterday at 63. Inhabited by his combat experiences, his emotions wounded, Bang found relief and rehabilitation by returning to the violin he had studied as a child. He pursued an intensity of expression that helped that ...
Toots and Grace
The first section following the introduction of my 1989 book Jazz Matters is titled “A Common Language." It ends with this: Like every art form, jazz has a fund of devices unique to it and universally employed by those who practice it. Among the resources of the jazz tradition available to the player creating an improvised ...
Reptet to Perform Sunday, May 15 at 2720 Cherokee
The six-member, Seattle-based band Reptet (pictured) will make its St. Louis debut on Sunday, May 15 with a performance at 2720 Cherokee. The group is touring in support of its latest CD At The Cabin, playing 15 shows in the east, midwest and mountain states in 17 days. Described by ChicagoJazz.com as “Part mutant New Orleans ...
Tower of Power to Play Saturday, May 14 at Lumiere Place
The jazz-influenced funk and soul band Tower of Power (pictured) is coming back to St. Louis for shows at 7:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. on Saturday, May 14 at the Lumiere Place casino's Lumiere Theatre. TOP last performed in the St. Louis area in September 2006 at the Argosy Alton Casino. Since then, they've released several ...
An Open Letter to NARAS Regarding the Elimination of the Latin Jazz Grammy
On Wednesday April 6th, The National Academy Of Recording Arts And Sciences announced a “restructuring" of The Grammy Awards, a move that included the elimination of the Latin Jazz Grammy. This unfortunate decision undermines the integrity of Latin Jazz and disregards its importance as a major piece of the cultural landscape in the United States. I ...
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