Results for "AAJ Staff"

The Story Behind the Smile: Terry Teachout's "Pops"

December 28, 2010

I just finished reading Terry Teachout's biography of Louis Armstrong, Pops, which is now out in paperback, and can recommend it wholeheartedly. Teachout, the drama critic of the Wall Street Journal, had access to a lot of previously unavailable material on Armstrong, including over 650 reels of tape recordings made by “Satchmo" during the last two ...

The FCC Just Issued Its Neutrality Guidelines. so What Does This Mean for Music?

December 22, 2010

“On this winter solstice, we will witness jaw-dropping interventionist chutzpah as the FCC bypasses branches of our government in the dogged pursuit of needless and harmful regulation. The darkest day of the year may end up marking the beginning of a long winter's night for internet freedom." The Federal Communications Commission has officially dipped its toes ...

The Jazz Session #227: Christine Jensen

December 27, 2010

Other Matters: Ciccolini Plays Satie

December 27, 2010

Many Rifftides readers may be familiar with Erik Satie's “Gymnopédie No. 1" because performers including Jessica Williams, Jacques Loussier, Ximo Tébar and Herbie Mann with Bill Evans have recorded jazz or near-jazz versions of that classic of French music. It has not become a jazz standard, but it has assumed a modest place in the repertoire. ...

Jazz on New Year's Eve: The Beehive in Boston Celebrates in Style

December 27, 2010

Celebrate 2011 in style at The Beehive's 4th Annual New Year's Eve Extravaganza, featuring live entertainment and dancing to Akashic Record starring vocalists Marsha Lubin and Nephtaliem aka Nephrok. Executive Chef Rebecca Newell's delectable buffet of eclectic hors d'oeuvres and desserts, with influences from Europe, the Mediterranean and good ol' Americana, all served in a cocktail ...

One Track Mind: Gino Vannelli "People Gotta Move" (1974)

December 27, 2010

By Pico “If that guy hits you, I'm not stopping to help you!" “Come on, people, MOVE!!!" “Get your @#$% out of my way!" My wife, God love her, gets a little impatient with her fellow motorists and often has these one-sided conversations with them from behind the wheel. We sometimes joke that she needs some ...

Randy Weston - Mosaic Select 4 (Mosaic, 2004)

December 27, 2010

Pianist and composer Randy Weston is still going strong, with a new album and biographyin 2010. This collection is an interesting selection of early music enveloping trio, quartet and a large ensemble with vocalists. Disc one consists of the sextet and quintet albums Little Niles and Live at the Five Spot, showcasing Weston's Thelonious Monk influenced ...

The Dave Liebman Group - Turnaround: The Music of Ornette Coleman (Jazzwerkstatt, 2010)

December 27, 2010

Veteran saxophonist and flautist Dave Liebman is most well known for his interpretations of the music of John Coltrane and his former employer Miles Davis. This album covers the music of free jazz saxophone pioneer Ornette Coleman, and Liebman and his group with Vic Juris on guitar, Tony Marino on bass and Marko Marcinko on drums ...

Trudy Pitts (1932-2010)

December 26, 2010

Trudy Pitts, a Hammond B3 organist with a swirling, stinging style rich with technique and whose attack on the instrument was as aggressive as many of her male counterparts, died December 19. She was 78. A late jazz-soul bloomer, Pitts was signed by Prestige in 1967 just as jazz was losing young listeners to rock and ...

Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 7

by AAJ Staff
December 26, 2010

Mariss Jansons / Bavarian Radio Symphony OrchestraGustav Mahler: Symphony No. 7BR Klassik 2010 Gustav Mahler's 7th Symphony, first performed in 1908 under the baton of the composer in Prague, is felt by many to be a colorful vision of a night-time journey. The symphony (or at least the ...