Results for "AAJ Staff"

Lance Houston Jazz Quartet Performing at Tamo Bar at Seaport Boston Hotel on Tuesday, August 30

August 30, 2011

The Lance Houston Jazz Quartet is performing live outdoors at the Tamo Bar at the Seaport Boston Hotel in the city's Seaport District on Tuesday, August 30, 2011 at 6:00 p.m. The Berklee-graduate and his talented group play a wide range of cool jazz songs perfect for the warm summer breezes. Houston's sound has been compared ...

Laszlo Gardony Gets into Odd-Time Signatures and Pianistic Singularity on "Signature Time"

August 30, 2011

While you've been doing what ever you've been doing Hungarian-born pianist-composer-bandleader Laszlo Gardony has just completed his ninth album. Signature Time (Sunnyside 4011) is the name of it, which rightfully suggests that this is Laszlo's personal stylistic statement, and also that time signatures will be a factor. Both are quite true. It's a goodly trio part ...

Steve Kuhn with Strings - Promises Kept (2004)

August 29, 2011

By Mark Saleski I can probably count on the fingers of one hand the number of jazz “with strings" records that 'work' for me. This is a somewhat mysterious phenomenon as jazz and improvised music is food to me. As necessary as oxygen. Along those lines, a good string quartet is a thing not only of ...

Brian Settles/Central Union - Secret Handshake (2011)

August 29, 2011

There's something odd I noticed about this record from the opening moments: there's a piano on it. Why is that so bizarre you ask? I don't think there's ever been a piano before on an Engine Studios recording. Then again, there hasn't been a Brian Settles record before either. Last June, both of these firsts made ...

STLJN Audio Archive: Julius Hemphill - Dogon A.D.

August 29, 2011

This week's Audio Archive spotlights a recording that's generally acknowledged by jazz musicians, fans, critics and scholars as being of major significance, yet somehow has remained mostly out of print for more than 30 years. Saxophonist and composer Julius Hemphill recorded Dogon A.D. in February, 1972 at Oliver Sain's Archway Studios on Natural Bridge Rd in ...

The Jazz Session #305: Ben Syversen

August 29, 2011

Terry Vosbein: Fleet Street

August 29, 2011

Remember when jazz orchestras skillfully adapted the music of Broadway musicals? Notable examples from the '50s and '60s include Les Brown's Dance to South Pacific (1958) and Stan Kenton's West Side Story (1961). Rather than send up cute pop caricatures, the best arrangers crafted interpretations that often were bigger, bolder and more dynamic than the originals. ...

Greg Burk - Many Worlds (2010)

August 29, 2011

By Mark Saleski Several years ago, I happened upon a book called A Pattern Language. It was an odd purchase for me, because I'm not really an architecture person, at least not in the grand “Oooh, majestic building!" sense of the word. No, I was drawn to the book because the architectural patterns drawn and discussed—layouts ...

David Sylvian - Blemish (2003)

August 29, 2011

By Tom Johnson It isn't necessarily that blemish was so drastically different than anything David Sylvian had done before. He'd done ambient, both alone and with such visionaries as Holger Czukay and Robert Fripp, and some of it verged on being noise to me. (I'm not a fan of noise-as-music, but I do like good ambient.) ...

Federal Agents Raid Gibson Guitar Factory. Musicians Fear They Could Be Next

August 28, 2011

Suspecting use of restricted forest product, Federal agents raided Gibson Guitar factories and offices in Memphis and Nashville this week seizing pallets of wood, files and guitars.  In a statement, Gibson's CEO, Henry Juszkiewic fired back, “The wood the government seized Wednesday is from a Forest Stewardship Council certified supplier."  Many musicians who play vintage guitars ...