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JazzWeek Radio Chart: April 14, 2008

April 22, 2008

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 1 Bobby Watson From The Heart (Palmetto) 254 213 +41 4 61 1 4 2 4 2 Pat Metheny Day Trip (Nonesuch) 194 176 +18 0 56 1 11 3 — — Dianne Reeves When You Know (Blue Note) 183 37 +146 31 48 ...

West Coast Trumpeter/Vocalist Jack Sheldon Profiled at AAJ

April 22, 2008

Jack Sheldon, a beacon for some sixty years on the West Coast jazz scene, is having a very good year. At 77, the celebrated trumpet player, vocalist, bandleader and TV personality, is the subject of a new documentary film, while his jazz career continues to accelerate. He was there when the so-called West Coast Jazz--a cooled-down ...

Jazz Score: An International Retrospective of over 50 Films is Being Presented at MoMA April 16th Through September 15, 2008

April 22, 2008

Music soundtracks have long been a part of movie magic, but the use of contemporary jazz, which started in the 1950s, changed the medium. “Jazz Score," an international retrospective of over 50 films is being presented at MoMA April 16th through September 15, 2008. Before the 1950s, jazz was mainly used as incidental music. In the ...

Toots Has a Hit on Myspace, Myspace Becomes Tootsspace!

April 22, 2008

Toots has a HIT on MySpace, MySpace becomes TootsSpace! “That little space between a smile and a tear", where Toots feels at home, has a link to MySpace! Almost a quarter billion people participate on the worldwide MySpace-community. Toots' MySpace is online since only six months on the worlds largest internet community and was ...

Forthcoming Hatology Reissues

April 22, 2008

Recent CDs: Mann

April 22, 2008

Herbie Mann's Californians, (Fresh Sound). This compilation reissue contains all of the Riverside album called Great Ideas Of Western Mann plus tracks from Riverside's Blues For Tomorrow and Verve's The Golden Flute Of Herbie Mann. In all cases, Jimmy Rowles is on piano, with Buddy Clark on bass and Mel Lewis on drums. For the rhythm ...

Recent CDs: Caliman

April 22, 2008

Hadley Caliman, Gratitude (Origin). I wrote in Jazz Matters about Caliman in a 1979 performance with Freddie Hubbard's band: As the evening progressed, Caliman's playing took on much of the intensity and coloration of John Coltrane's work, but he is a more directly rhythmic player than Coltrane was toward the end of his life ...

Recent CDs: Silver

April 22, 2008

Horace Silver, Live At Newport '58 (Blue Note). It is a treat to hear a newly discovered live performance by the pianist, composer and bandleader whose quintets were among the most interesting and stimulating of the so-called hard bop period. Tenor saxophonist Junior Cook and trumpeter Louis Smith had a good day as soloists. It is ...

Recent CDs: Fresu, Galliano, Lundgren

April 22, 2008

Paolo Fresu, Richard Galliano, Jan Lundgren, Mare Nostrum (ACT). In the hands of three masters, another unusual combination of instruments produces music that can transport listeners into dreaminess unless they are concentrating on the depth of its inventiveness. The Italian trumpeter Fresu, the French accordianist Galliano and the Swedish pianist Lundgren (l. to r.) blend in ...

Recent CDs: John Ellis

April 22, 2008

John Ellis, Dance Like There's No Tomorrow (Hyena). Ellis's quartet makes party music infected with parade beats, gospel, tango ("Three Legged Tango In Jackson Square"), comedy ("Zydeco Clowns On The Lam") sentiment worn up, rather than on, the sleeve ("I Miss You Molly") and assorted other ingredients. Think of gumbo. Ellis plays soprano saxophone and bass ...