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Tales of The Mystic Order of the Jazz Obsessed - Jazz Societies, Part II
by Karl Ackermann
Part 1 | Part 2 Jazz Societies, Part 1 briefly traced the preservation and interpretation of jazz from the oral history of its West African roots through academic and cultural institutions. The article included an overview of jazz societies and foundations that further the fostering of jazz education. The organizations vary in scope, size ...
2019: The Year in Jazz
by Ken Franckling
The year 2019 was robust in many ways. International Jazz Day brought its biggest stage to Australia. An important but long-shuttered jazz mecca was revived in a coast-to-coast move. ECM Records celebrated a golden year. The music and its makers figured prominently on the big screen. The National Endowment for the Arts welcomed four new NEA ...
Marlon Martinez: Yours Truly
by Paul Naser
"Lock up your drummers, this bass monster will inflame them all!" This high praise for Los Angeles-based bassist-composer Marlon Martinez comes care of none other than legendary drummer Stewart Copeland who is featured on the young virtuoso's debut album, Yours Truly (Self Produced, 2019). A graduate of the prestigious Colburn Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles, ...
Trio & Quintet Recordings With Ray Crawford
By Ahmad Jamal
Label: Cherry Red Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: CD1: New Rhumba; A Foggy Day; All Of You; It Ain’t Necessarily So; I Don’t Wanna Be Kissed; I Get A Kick Out Of You; Jeff; Darn That Dream; Spring Is Here; Perfidia; Love For Sale; Rica Pulpa; Autumn Leaves; Squeeze Me; Black Beauty; The Donkey Serenade; Don’t Blame Me; They Can’t Take That Away From Me; New Rhumba.CD2: Old Devil Moon; Ahmad’s Blues; Poinciana; Billy Boy; Will You Still Be Mine; Pavanne; Crazy He Calls Me; The Surrey With The Fringe On Top; Aki And Ukthay; Slaughter On Tenth Avenue; A Gal In Calico; It’s Easy To Remember; Ahmad’s Waltz; Valentina; Yesterdays; Tempo For Two; Halleljah; It’s A Wonderful World; Baia; You Came A Long Way From St Louis; Lover Man; Who Cares; Joy Spring.
Ballades
By Ahmad Jamal
Label: Jazzbook Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Marseille; Because I Love You; I Should Care; Poinciana; Land Of Dreams; What's New; So Rare; Whisperings; Spring Is
Here/Your Story; Emily.
Ahmad Jamal: Ballades
by Mike Jurkovic
None other than Miles Davis cited Ahmad Jamal (born 1930) as a stylistic influence. So, as he was approaching his ninetieth birthday, what did this vibrant upstart do to further shake things up? He released his first ever solo album which isn't really a solo album because on three of the exemplarily graceful tracks on Ballades, ...
Nicholas Payton: Relaxin' with Nick
by Mike Jurkovic
This percolating trio date of brothers from different riff mothers—bassist Peter Washington, drummer Kenny Washington and Nicholas Payton—is a bit misleading. In this setting Payton is a quartet unto himself, sailing with his trumpet while playing elegant piano/Fender Rhodes, electronics, and the occasional rap/vocal that we needn't discuss pro or con. Given all that, Relaxin' with ...
Ahmad Jamal: Trio & Quintet Recordings With Ray Crawford
by Chris May
This 2xCD reissue comprises three of Ahmad Jamal's early and mid 1950s trio albums plus a fourth recorded in 1960 with a quintet. Between times, Jamal had released the totemic trio set At The Pershing (Argo, 1958), which included the break-out single “Poinciana" (his first, equally lovely, 1955 recording of Nat Simon and Buddy Bernier's tune ...
Victor Gould, Eastern Rebellion, Ray Santos and More
by Joe Dimino
This week we open our show with a bright young cat that is leading the new jazz march, Victor Gould, in our mission to showcase the best and brightest in the world of jazz. From there, we shift to an elder statesman Ahmad Jamal and to others notable players on today's scene, like Champian Fulton, Andrés ...
Andrew Dickeson: Groove!
by Dan McClenaghan
You've got to love a lack of pretense. Australian drummer Andrew Dickeson's Groove! seems--initially at least, with the set's opener, “I'm Old Fashioned"--to be introducing a breezy and unpretentious piano trio affair. The tune has a carefree bounce, and the old put-down of “cocktail piano jazz" comes to mind--though what exactly is wrong with music from ...
