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Pianist Fred Hersch Survives Coma to Write a New Chapter to His Jazz Career
Even though it was Sunday, the Village Vanguard was packed to catch the last night of pianist Fred Hersch's weeklong run. Hersch had played the legendary club in New York's West Village before, even releasing a live album recorded there, and the room had the energy of an artist restaking his claim as one of current ...
Jason Moran Shows off His Older, Wiser Side On 'Ten'
Pianist Jason Morans star has been on a long steady rise since making his debut on Blue Note in 1999 with 'Soundtrack to Human Emotion.' Barely into his 20s at the time, Moran was playing with saxophonist Greg Osby and had studied under Jaki Byard and others. The debut won a lot of strong notices and ...
Montreal Gears up for Its 2010 Jazz Festival
Montreal's winters may be unforgiving exercises in cold weather survival, but the city blooms once the thaw begins. It hosts a number of festivals each summer, but the biggest and best is Festival International de Jazz de Montral, now in its 31st year. Past headliners include Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Antnio Carlos Jobim, Diana Krall, Wayne ...
The B3 Guru: Jazz Organ Legend Dr. Lonnie Smith Addresses His Life and Craft
With the passing of Jimmy Smith in 2005, Dr. Lonnie Smith (no relation) is now at the top of the Hammond B3 organ food chain. The latter Smith broke into the New York scene in the mid-'60s as a member of George Benson's quartet and quickly became the go-to organ guy for folks like Lou Donaldson, ...
Chick Corea, Eddie Gomez and Paul Motian Explore Bill Evans at the Blue Note
It's not often that you see a two-week engagement at New York City's Blue Note jazz club. But when Chick Corea assembles a new project called Further Explorations of Bill Evans, which would explore the more obscure side of the piano legend's work as well as new Corea compositions inspired by Evans, two weeks are certainly ...
Tony Malaby and His Horn Bring the Clean Feed Festival's New York Shows to a Close
It was late night on Sunday, May 9, when Tony Malaby and his Apparitions Quartet were cooking through a set of songs filled with high-energy improvisation, complex polyrhythms and beautiful melodies. Backed by drummers Tom Rainey and Satoshi Takeishi as well as bassist Sean Conly, Malaby played saxophone with a bristling intensity that matched the two-drummer ...
Avant-Jazzsters Claudia Quintet's Album Whimsically Extols the Wonders of Toast
Over the years, various musicians have gone out of their way to prove that jazz can have a sense of humor. The most obvious example is Horace Silver's 'Jazz Has a Sense of Humor.' And, of course, there was Slim and Slam with their playful mugging back in the old days when jazz was popular music. ...
Trombone Shorty Stands Tall On 'Backatown'
By Tad Hendrickson Last week I promised to get the lowdown on the recurring line from 'Treme' about “pride on Bourbon Street" from real-life Treme trombonist and trumpeter Troy “Trombone Shorty“ Andrews. But first, let's catch up on this real-life musician who appears in the show's first few episodes and also has a new album entitled ...
The Big Easy on TV: 'Treme' Brings New Orleans Jazz Front and Center
By Tad Hendrickson Talk to most musicians, and they'll generally sound like they are caught amidst a whirlwind of activity. It takes a lot of hustling to make ends meet when you are musician, particularly a musician who plays jazz. So it is altogether appropriate that one of the running threads of the new HBO series ...
Wilco Guitarist Nels Cline Reconnects with His Jazz Side on New Album
By Tad Hendrickson Nels Cline was been straddling the line between jazz and rock guitar since the late '70s. He got his start working with jazz musicians of the likes of Julius Hemphill, Charlie Haden and Tim Berne, while also doing more rock-oriented stuff with Mike Watt, the Geraldine Fibbers and others, though his major claim ...
