Results for "AAJ Staff"

Running Down Miles' Voodoo

October 22, 2010

By Ron Hart 2010 marks the 40th anniversary of the release of Bitches Brew, an album long considered to be one of the pivotal turning points in the history of jazz. Change was indeed in the air when Miles Davis initially incorporated electronic elements into 1968's Miles in the Sky and 1969's Filles De Kilimanjaro. However, ...

Gillespie and Google? What Gives Dizzy?

October 22, 2010

Today, October 21, 2010 is the 93rd birthday of the late jazz icon Dizzy Gillespie and if you have used the Google search engine today you have probably noticed a colorful caricture of Dizzy somewhere on the page... further detailed explanation can be found on Matt Schudel's Washington Post article by clicking here to get the ...

New World Jazz Composers Octet Perform at Arsenal Arts Center on October 25

October 22, 2010

Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis - The Complete Cookbook Sessions (Solar, 2010)

October 22, 2010

During the late 1950's and early 1960's tenor saxophonist Eddie “Lockjaw" Davis was a very busy man, playing in well regarded groups with Johnny Griffin and this group with the organist Shirley Scott. The organ and tenor format was very popular in the clubs of the northeast US during this time period with fertile scenes in ...

Take Five With Maria Faust

by AAJ Staff
October 21, 2010

Meet Maria Faust:I was born in 1979 at the island of Saaremaa, Estonia. Instrument(s):Saxophone.Teachers and/or influences? My influences are coming mostly from the classical music and big band music. I have many favorite musicians and they all have been inspiring me.I knew I wanted to be ...

Jazz Around Town: Rochester Jazz Listings for You, Served up Hot (or Cold Depending on the Day)

October 21, 2010

Don't have much time to dawdle here, so without much intro I'm going to serve up listings for live jazz in and around Rochester over the next seven days. Thursday, October 21, 2010 Ted Nicolosi and Shared Genes @ Bistro 135, 6:30 pm Mike Allen AKOS' Avatars @ Beale Street Cafe, 7:00 pm The Russell Fielder ...

Other Places: Kenny Wheeler

October 21, 2010

Trumpeter, flugelhornist and composer Kenny Wheeler, now in his 80s, is a man of so few words that he is nearly silent, but John Fordham of The Guardian managed to persuade Wheeler to talk about himself for an article. Anyone interested in the unceasingly searching trumpeter, flugelhornist and composer will want to read Fordham's piece. Here's ...

The Jazz Session #110: Mario Pavone

October 21, 2010

Interview: Louis Hayes (Part 2)

October 21, 2010

The more you listen to recordings by the Horace Silver Quintet in the 1950s, the more you realize that the group had two drummers: Silver's funky, rhythmic left hand on piano and Louis Hayes' sticks. As they played together, Silver and Hayes tended to feed off each other. Both kept time, but each tried to throw ...

Trombone Shorty Jams w/Kravitz; Directs Red Hot + N.O. Concerts

October 21, 2010

TROY JOINED BY LENNY KRAVITZ IN PARIS JAM SESSION; GUESTS ON NEW KRAVITZ ALBUM In the midst of his second European tour in the last six months Trombone Shorty (Troy Andrews) was joined by his mentor and former bandleader Lenny Kravitz, who surprised Troy's fans onstage in Paris on October 13 to sit in on drums. ...