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For a Good Time Call John Pizzarelli... (Part 2)

March 27, 2011

...And for good eats call his Aunt Vera. Recently we posted part 1 of a discussion between musician John Pizzarelli, KPLU jazz host Dick Stein, and Seattle Times food blogger Nancy Leson, and now it is time for part 2. By Dick Stein CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE INTERVIEW What a great time Nancy and ...

Michael Feinberg - With Many Hands (2011)

March 27, 2011

Yesterday, Atlanta, GA bassist Michael Feinberg put out his second album, With Many Hands, a part of a quiet revolution taking place in jazz today. The twenty-somethings like Feinberg and his band who are plying their trade in this hallowed American institution of jazz didn't grow up listening to only Armstrong, Parker and Davis records. Like ...

Paul Simon - The Essential Paul Simon (2007)

March 27, 2011

By Mark Saleski Paul Simon's career has something that is becoming quite rare in the entertainment world: longevity. Yes, the songs on this collection span over three decades. During that time period our culture, the music biz, and Simon himself have seen great changes. So has every one of us. For instance, at the beginning of ...

Charles Mingus Complete 1960 Nat Hentoff Sessions (Solar Records, 2011)

March 27, 2011

When the great bassist and composer Charles Mingus recorded the albums included in this collection for the Candid label in 1960 he was arguably at the peak of his powers. Beginning with the epochal album Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus that takes up most of disc one, he instructs the band to play a mock live ...

Sarah Vaughan - "You're Not the Kind" (1951)

March 27, 2011

Recent Listening: Jeffrey Snedeker's French Horn

March 26, 2011

Jeffrey Snedeker, Minor Returns (JS). Snedeker is a rarity, a first-chair symphony French horn artist who understands jazz time, phrasing and feeling. In settings from quartet through big band to 41-piece string orchestra, he pays homage to the horn's role in jazz. Snedeker solos on pieces associated with the music's handful of French horn heroes, including ...

Why Kenny Dorham?

March 26, 2011

Because it has been too long since you've heard him, and because these two videos are—by all accounts—the only ones in existence that show him playing. His rhythm section at the Golden Circle in Stockholm in 1963 was Goran Lindberg, piano; Goran Peterson, bass; and Leif Wennerstron, drums. Please disregard the lead-in advertisement and the dreadful ...

Latin Jazz Conversations: Bobby Matos (Part 6)

March 26, 2011

Artists spend the lives in the creative realm of the world, overflowing with new and exciting musical ideas. In fact, they rarely spend a day in search of new ideas or possibilities. The only issue becomes reconciling their abundance of creative energy with a world that doesn't see the same possibilities. The reality of this clash ...

The Engines - Wire and Brass (Okkadisk, 2010) ****

March 26, 2011

By Joe Higham From what I read on The Engines website this album was recorded live in 2008 at the Hungry Brain (Chicago), shame it's taken so long to get the CD out. So here's your chance to get to hear the second helping (*) of The Engines, a group coming from the windy city, made ...

MMW to Celebrate 20th Anniversary with 20 New Tracks

March 26, 2011

PRE-ORDERS AVAILABLE NOW FOR BUNDLE OF 20 TRACKS Medeski Martin & Wood will celebrate their 20th anniversary by releasing 20 new songs. 2 new digital tracks will be released monthly starting on 3/29 until the end of the year. Music Today is taking pre-orders for the bundle of 20 tracks for $9.90 through 3/29. Individual tracks ...