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BAM or JAZZ: Part Two!
by Greg Thomas
Jazz, an art form given birth in the United States by descendents of the formerly enslaved, has a complicated relationship with race. Although race, as a popular idea, has no basis in biology, many people mentally adhere to the idea of dividing groups of people based on “race" as opposed to understanding how groups of people ...
Bob Brookmeyer: Jack of All Trades, Master of Valves
by Jack Bowers
Bob Brookmeyer, a Renaissance man among jazz musicians who died December 15, 2011, four days before his eighty-second birthday, will be remembered as many things: composer, arranger, musician, educator, outspoken arbiter who brooked no nonsense and wasn't shy about letting others know when he believed they were not giving the music he loved the best they ...
MCG Jazz Remembers John Levy, Our Friend
John Levy, manager to countless jazz luminaries, dies at age 99. John Levy, a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master and renowned personal manager for many jazz greats, died on January 20th, less than three months shy of his 100th birthday. His wife, Devra Hall Levy said he was sleeping peacefully in her arms at ...
Birds of Fire: Jazz, Rock, Funk, and the Creation of Fusion
by Kevin Fellezs
This article appears in Chapter 3 of Birds of Fire: Jazz, Rock, Funk, and the Creation of Fusion by Kevin Fellezs (Duke University Press, 2011). Vital Transformation: Fusion's Discontents Ironically, fusion was, on the one hand, largely a concern for jazz participants and observers even though they largely denied its value or ...
SuperSax Me
by Jack Bowers
Back in the early 1970s bassist Buddy Clark and saxophonist Med Flory conceived a brilliant idea: to form a group (primarily a reed section with rhythm) that would use orchestrated arrangements of saxophonist Charlie Parker's transcendent bop solos as the basis for its music. As for a name, nothing less than SuperSax would suffice. The nine-piece ...
2011: The Year In Jazz
by Ken Franckling
The ebb and flow of jazz in 2011 was marked by a Grammy Awards coup, a Grammy dustup, economic changes that consolidated the recording industry a bit, impacted clubs in various locales, and provided some new opportunities. The U.S. Postal Service literally put its stamp on jazz, even as the government wrestled with the future of ...
"Harlem Jazz Adventures" Set for January 2012 Release
COPENHAGEN: The first English edition of Harlem Jazz Adventures—A European Baron's Memoir, 1934-1969, is set for release in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom in January. Timme Rosenkrantz, the author, was a young Danish baron, son of a distinguished family, and the first European journalist to cover New York's blossoming Harlem music scene during ...
Pat Martino: Philadelphia, PA, November 25, 2011
by Victor L. Schermer
Pat Martino TrioChris' Jazz CaféPhiladelphia, PANovember 25, 2011Sir Edmund Hillary, when asked why he scaled Mt. Everest, replied, “Because it is there." A similar explanation could be given for why guitarist Pat Martino fans go to hear him repeatedly: because he is there--in the Here and Now!, as the title of ...
Tribute to Red Allen This Week on Riverwalk Jazz
This week, Riverwalk Jazz pays tribute to Henry 'Red' Allen, one of the last great trumpeters to come out of New Orleans in the 1920s. Joining the Jim Cullum Jazz Band on the bandstand at The Landing in San Antonio are Bay Area multi-instrumentalist Clint Baker, New Orleans clarinetist Evan Christopher, New York clarinet legend Kenny ...
