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News: Recording

Trumpetman Ralph Alessi Fields Powerful Quintet for "Wiry Strong"

October 15, 2011

In the struggle to stay ahead and/or catch up in these difficult economic times, the distractions and out-and-out traumas of survival can take us away from the good things that come by us in spite of all. That in part happened to me in the last week or so. Ralph Alessi and This Against That's Wiry ...

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News: Interview

Jazz Face: Irv Williams, Still Feisty After All These Years

October 15, 2011

What will I be doing if and when I get to 92? Surely not playing the saxophone since I never have... But will I be working as I am today? With enough motivation and energy to sustain my activities at an admirable level? Although every year he hints at retirement, and with every CD release (nearly ...

News: Recording

Recent Listening: Fruscella and Moore

October 14, 2011

Tony Fruscella & Brew Moore, The 1954 Unissued Atlantic Session (Fresh Sound). Fruscella was an enigmatic trumpeter with a deeply personal style, Moore a tenor saxophonist who once said that anyone who didn't play like Lester Young was wrong. At a time when Dizzy Gillespie's fiery playing was the general model, Fruscella was one of a ...

News: Radio

The Jazz Session #317: Larry Goldings

October 14, 2011

Larry Goldings has two new CDs out: In My Room (BFM Jazz, 2011), a solo piano CD, and Live At Smalls (SmallsLive, 2011) with his organ trio featuring Peter Bernstein and Bill Stewart. In this interview, Goldings talks about approaching each piano on its own terms; how he first met Bernstein and Stewart; and his unplanned ...

News: Interview

Interview: Rhoda Scott

October 14, 2011

Rhoda Scott is easily the finest Hammond B3 organist around today. Name unfamiliar to you? That's probably because Rhoda moved to Paris in 1968 and has resided there ever since. Over the past 43 years, Rhoda has become a jazz celebrity on the European jazz concert and club circuit. Over here, not so much. Nevertheless, organ ...

News: Interview

The Poetry of Walter Bishop, Jr.

October 14, 2011

Relaxin' With Max, The Invincible Roach By Walter Bishop, Jr. There was a Roach named Maxwell. He was unusual in that he could fly, having been born with wings. He also played the drums, of all things. From his home in South Carolina, he came to the Big City, via Brooklyn. There he got hooked up ...

News: Opinion

Part 5: What Jazz Musicians Expect from Music Journalists and Critics

October 14, 2011

Part five of our ongoing dialogues with musicians where we ask the burning question: When you read music journalism and criticism what qualities are you looking for in the writer and the writing? This time we hear from trumpeter-bandleader-educator Sean Jones, a busy man these days what with his teaching assignments at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, ...

News: Education

Anatomy of a Unique Jazz Camp

October 14, 2011

Last July I had the distinct pleasure of traveling down to New Orleans on a JazzTimes assignment for their annual jazz education issue (published October 2011). The occasion was the Louis “Satchmo" Armstrong Summer Jazz Camp, held typically the first 3 weeks of July on the campus of Loyola University. For those not familiar with the ...

News: Festival

Bridge School Lineup Changes

October 14, 2011

JENNY LEWIS & DIANA KRALL OUT, NORAH JONES, DEVENDRA BANHART, JIMMY FALLON IN Jenny Lewis, of Jenny and Johnny fame, is out of the lineup, and all of her fall dates, due to a family emergency and Diana Krall won't be able to perform due to a torn ACL. However, comic and late-night TV host Jimmy ...

News: Performance / Tour

Wilco: West Coast Tour

October 14, 2011

WEST COAST FINALLY GETTING THE WHOLE LOVE Alt-country titans Wilco have announced a set of West Coast dates in January and February of 2012. The tour kicks off on January 19 at The Fillmore in Denver and hits San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Vancouver, Spokane, and more. Check out a complete list of tour dates ...