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Ornette Coleman Sues Over Alleged Unauthorized Album Release
Jazz legend Ornette Coleman has filed a lawsuit over a 2014 studio album that bears his name, alleging that it was released without his consent or knowledge. According to a report in Rolling Stone, Ornette Coleman claims that the album New Vocabulary was recorded in 2009 after Coleman invited Antibalas' trumpeter Jordan McLean and drummer Amir ...
Carmell Jones Quartet, 1960
For years, trumpeter Carmell Jones was thought to have made his first recording in October 1960 in Los Angeles on a date led by tenor saxophonist Curtis Amy for the Pacific Jazz label. Two months earlier, Jones, at age 24, had left Kansas City and traveled to Los Angeles in search of studio work as a ...
9 Tips For A Mobile-Friendly Website
In case you missed it, Google’s latest algorithm brought about the so-called “Mobilegeddon,” which punished websites who weren’t mobile-friendly. Okay, I may be exaggerating a little, but Google did roll out an update on April 21, which punished any website that lacked mobile-friendly pages by decreasing the site’s ranking in mobile search results. Guest Post by Kristina ...
Lou Bennett: Enfin, 1963
Lou Bennett, one of finest organists of the 1960s, is little known among many jazz fans today, largely because he rarely played in the U.S. after 1960. Bennett was a bop pianist who began his career leading a piano trio in Baltimore in the late 1940s, switching to organ after hearing Jimmy Smith in 1956. He ...
Monday Recommendation: Carmell Jones
Having proved himself in the jazz milieu of Kansas City, in 1960 the 24-year-old trumpeter Carmell Jones (1936-1996) quit his job as a railroad porter and moved to Los Angeles in search of full-time work in music. He was quick to impress bassist Red Mitchell, alto saxophonist Bud Shank and tenor saxophonist Harold Land. His recordings ...
Miles on Monday: An update from the Miles Davis Memorial Project, vinyl reissue news, and more
This week for “Miles on Monday," another progress report from the Miles Davis Memorial Project, plus some other recent Davis-related news: A new version of the official Miles Davis website, revamped in both appearance and content, debuted last week with “stunning photos, special sections curated by the Miles Davis estate, and many other new features." In ...
Paul Desmond: 38 Years
Since Rifftides began, every year on May 30 I have posted something about Paul Desmond. He died thirty-eight years ago today. For reasons that I cannot clearly identify, this year I struggled with the idea. Until the last moment I put off the remembrance and finally concluded that the best option was to have Paul speak ...
Weekend Extra: Steps Ahead, Still Ahead
The modern jazz sub-genre called jazz fusion emerged in the 1960s, attracted a wide audience and received extensive radio air play through the second half of the twentieth century. The music combined elements of rhythm and blues, jazz, rock, funk and, often, time signatures that were challenging for both musicians and listeners. Fusion came in for ...
StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Terence Blanchard and the E-Collective
When we last saw Terence Blanchard here in St. Louis back in February 2014, the New Orleans-born trumpeter was playing on short notice at the Sheldon as a substitute for pianist Chucho Valdes, who had canceled his long-scheduled performance there due to a mid-tour injury. Blanchard also spent a good amount of time here the previous ...
Interview: Mick Jagger
Last Tuesday, I interviewed the Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger for my “Anatomy of a Song" column in the Arena section of this Friday's Wall Street Journal (go here). As readers of JazzWax know, my “Anatomy" column takes a deep dive into how an iconic song was written and recorded through interviews with the song's primary writers ...
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Points of View: Celebrating Dave Holland
Interview
Boney James: A Simple Man And A Lifetime Study
Interview
Miles Okazaki's Monkathon: The Complete Thelonious...
Interview
Bill Bruford And Pete Roth: A One-Of-A-Kind Juxtaposition
Musician 2 Musician
Steve Coleman on Dave Holland
Live Review
Isaiah Collier Plays Coltrane: Live at Jazz Alley in Seattle
Reanimating Conversations Past
John Scofield: Meant To Be
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