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Jay Clayton: In and Out of Love
by Raul d'Gama Rose
There are just a handful of women vocalists alive today who continue to inhabit the rarefied space of imaginative storytellers while continuing to be unbridled innovators. Abbey Lincoln, Sheila Jordan, Norma Winstone, Cassandra Wilson, and, of course, Jay Clayton are amongst the few continuing to enthrall audiences worldwide. Despite numerous examples of their fine sense of ...
Abbey Lincoln: African Queen in a Top Hat
by Joan Gannij
(This interview was conducted in 2002) Abbey Lincoln made a stop in Amsterdam in 1998 for a rare appearance at the 110-year old Concertgebouw, where Sonny Rollins likes to play when he comes to town. The sellout crowd was composed mainly of seemingly staid yet perennially hip “pensionados" (as the Dutch like to ...
Abbey Lincoln's Style Influences New Set of Recordings
In jazz, as in any music, a voice can sometimes stop you in your tracks. Abbey Lincoln, who died this month at 80, possessed that kind of voice: taut and insistent, ablaze with authority. It was a gift, and by no means her only one. Ms. Lincoln was also an arresting physical presence, on screen as ...
Pete Robbins: Balance Dream
by Gordon Marshall
Pete Robbins is all about balance, in temperament and as an artist. He produces a polished sound on his alto saxophone, with a light tone betraying corners of darkness and complexity. Already an accomplished leader at 31, he grafts his sound onto ensembles of varying sizes with aplomb and equanimity. His style as a leader is ...
Summer 2010 Taking a Toll on Jazz Ranks
he summer of 2010 has been a melancholy one in terms of friends and jazz warriors passing on to ancestry. Last weekend's loss of Abbey Lincoln, and prior to that her compadre Hank Jones were well-noted. Good friend and longtime Randy Weston African Rhythms and Basie band trombonist Benny Powell's passing, though at the ripe age ...
Fay Claassen with WDR Big Band Cologne: Sing!
by Edward Blanco
Internationally recognized Dutch vocalist Fay Claassen joins forces with the Grammy Award-winning WDR Big Band from Cologne, Germany and Berlin's Rundfunk Orchester, for her sixth album as leader with Sing!. Paying tribute to iconic female vocalists, the repertoire contains songs associated with jazz divas from Betty Carter, Ella Fitzgerald and Dinah Washington to singer/songwriter Joni Mitchell ...
Joe Lovano on Abbey Lincoln
"Abbey was one of the most distinctive voices in modern jazz. She told some beautiful honest stories about her life and experiences and had a way of expression that touched you in a very personal way. Abbey's tunes and interpretations were full of meaning with each word articulated with deep passion. She was a beautiful story ...
Joe Chambers: Horace to Max
by Larry Reni Thomas
Drummer/vibraphonist/composer/educator Joe Chambers' Horace to Max is an awesome display of versatility and master musicianship; that's impossible to put away, it gets better with each listen. The distinctive blue-and-black colored cover design is similar to those fine Blue Note records of the 1960s and 1970s. The disc possesses a subtle suggestive theme that can only be ...
Kendra Shank and the Geoffrey Keezer Trio Live at the Douglas Beach House at Half Moon Bay
by Bill Leikam
Kendra Shank and the Geoffrey Keezer TrioDouglas Beach HouseHalf Moon Bay, CAJuly 25, 2010 Having never heard Kendra Shank but respecting Geoffrey Keezer whose work on the piano is nothing shy of surprising and always engaging this concert at the Douglas Beach House on July 25, 2010 was a must ...
Abbey Lincoln, Jazz Singer and Writer, Dies at 80
Abbey Lincoln, a singer whose dramatic vocal command and tersely poetic songs made her a singular figure in jazz, died on Saturday in Manhattan. She was 80 and lived on the Upper West Side. Her death was announced by her brother David Wooldridge. Ms. Lincoln's career encompassed outspoken civil rights advocacy in the 1960s and fearless ...
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