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Pianist Joe Block: At the Start of His Big Bang
by Victor L. Schermer
According to cosmologists, our universe started as a tiny speck and within a fraction of a second exploded into a huge ever-expanding space with all the galaxies, stars, and planets condensing out of the dispersed matter within it. This picture of the origins of the cosmos provides an apt metaphor for the way in which some ...
Alan Broadbent: 'Like Minds'
Out today is Alan Broadbent's new trio album, Like Minds (Savant), with Harvie S on bass and Billy Mintz on drums. It's a terrific trio recording, featuring Alan's elegant piano and superb conversational interactions with Harvie and Billy. I've known Alan for many years, and it's always a joy to hear his new releases, see him ...
Zinc Announces Its Summer Jazz Series Lineup
After a 2-year hiatus amid the Covid pandemic, Zinc is announcing the summer lineup of its highly successful jazz series produced by New York-based concert promoter, Charles Carlini of In Touch Entertainment. The programs comprise Piano Jazz and Guitar Masters evenings on select Mondays and Tuesdays. All these performances will continue to be a regular feature ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Alan Broadbent
All About Jazz is celebrating Alan Broadbent's birthday today! Alan Broadbent was born in Auckland, New Zealand and in 1966, at the age of 19, received a Downbeat Magazine scholarship to attend Berklee College of Music in Boston. In 1969 he was asked to join Woody Herman's band as his pianist and arranger for 3 years. ...
I Like You Best Of All - A Look Back To Notable 2021 Recordings, Part One
by Mary Foster Conklin
Happy New Year! This first broadcast of 2022 presents a final holiday recording from drummer Jeff Hamilton with new releases from The Count Basie Orchestra, Vijay Iyer, Adonis Rose & The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra featuring Cyrille Aimee plus a look back at some of the notable 2021 albums made despite the disruption of the pandemic ...
Rodger Fox Big Band: You Gotta Know
by Jack Bowers
As trombonist Rodger Fox's superb New Zealand-based big band thunders toward its golden anniversary in 2023, the recordings keep coming. Here are two more, the first (Live) taped in October 2020 during what must have been a much longer concert at the Bruce Mason Centre in Auckland; the second, You Gotta Know, recorded that same year ...
Broadbent Plays Brubeck
Label: Eden River Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: The Duke;
One Moment Worth Years;
Bossa Nova USA;
Summer Song;
Blue Rondo Á La Turk;
Strange Meadowlark;
In Your Own Sweet Way;
Weep No More;
When I was Young;
Theme For June;
Home At Last.
Sing a Song of Bird
Label: Skyline Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: People Chase;
The Scatter;
Bird's Song;
Parker's Mood;
Grapple With The Apple;
Audubon's New Bluebird;
Sheila, Jazz Child;
Quasimodo;
Now's The Time;
Yardbird Suite;
Koko/Cherokee;
These Foolish Things.
Quiet Is The Star
Label: Roomspin Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: I Can See You Passing By; When You're Gone From Me; Let Me Whisper To Your Heart; Tell The
River; All My Life; If I Think Of You; Night After Night; If My Heart Should Love Again; Quiet Is The
Star
Roseanna Vitro: Sing a Song of Bird
by Pierre Giroux
Roseanne Vitro is one of those jazz singers who falls into the category of “I recognize the voice, but I just can't seem to place her." She has more than a respectable discography which stretches back to 1982, when she released her debut album Listen Here for the Texas Rose label. Her fall 2021 album, Sing ...
