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Article: Album Review

Artistry Jazz Group and Friends: Tribute!

by Chris Mosey
June 23, 2012

An absolute gem, featuring some of the best players in Scandinavia in an extremely well thought-out program of music, paying tribute to “musicians and artists who shaped new sounds and ideas." It's the brainchild of independent record producer Torgil Rosenberg and pianist Jan Lundgren. Three top Swedish musicians, Peter Asplund on trumpet, Klas ...

News: Radio

Class Of 39: Lindy Hopping Down The Yellow Brick Road

June 21, 2012

A decade after the crash that caused the Great Depression, Americans were eager to embrace a new sense of hope. In 1939, some of the best movies and pop songs of all time lightened the load for the 17.2 % of the population still without a job. This week on Riverwalk Jazz, performances by guest artists ...

Article: Catching Up With

Wadada Leo Smith: Sounding America’s Freedom

by Franz A. Matzner
June 18, 2012

Trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith has been at the forefront of musical invention for 40 years and has recently entered a late-career renaissance. In May, 2012, this seminal musician released his greatest effort to date, Ten Freedom Summers (Cuneiform), a 30-year in-the-making testament to the power of civil rights and the importance of artistic engagement in social ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Benny Goodman

May 30, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Benny Goodman's birthday today! Benjamin David Goodman was born on May 30, 1909 in Chicago, Illinois. He was the eighth child of immigrants David Goodman and Dora Grisinsky Goodman, who left Russia to escape anti-Semitism. Benny\'s mother never learned to speak English. His father worked for a tailor to support his ...

Article: The Mort Report

On White Guys Playing The Blues, and Benny Goodman Practicing Nude

by Mort Weiss
May 29, 2012

Yes, I drank muddy water--and slept in a hollow log! Um, hmm! I said that I steady drank muddy water, and slept in a hollow log. Ah huh! An' all I wanna do is tell my story on dis here music blog. Oh, yeah!The blues. If you can't play them, you ain't never had ...

Article: Under the Radar

Don Redman: Setting the Template

by Jim Gerard
May 29, 2012

As someone who came to jazz as a young man in the 1970s, I can attest that subsequent generations of both its chroniclers and, even sadder, its practitioners, have succumbed to the peculiarly and regrettable American disease of a-historicism. They've shoved jazz history through a sieve, reducing it from an epic tale of heroic ...

News: Recording

Bassist/vocalist Anthony Caceres Inspired By Earth, Wind & Fire

May 25, 2012

Q: When did it start for you, the decision to become a vocalist? A: I decided to pursue singing seriously back in 2006 while I was on tour with the Glenn Miller Orchestra. Up to that point I was primarily a sideman performing on electric bass and upright bass with many different groups. Q: Was jazz ...

Article: Jazz in the Aquarian Age

Herbie Mann: An Amalgamation of Everything

by Bob Kenselaar
May 22, 2012

[Flauist Herbie Mann was often ahead of the trend with his wide explorations into sounds from everywhere. When I asked him in this 1978 interview where music in general was heading, he talked about a broad mix--"an amalgamation of everything"--which might be a good way to describe Mann's overall career, except that it doesn't account for ...

News: Recording

Classic Coleman Hawkins Sessions 1922-1947 (#251)

May 2, 2012

This set is expected to be released late May/early June “Almost all of the recordings Hawkins made throughout a 45 year period were outstanding examples of improvisation, but among them were masterpieces by which all jazz tenor saxophone solos will forever be judged.” —John Chilton, The Song Of The Hawk The Coleman Hawkins Set You’ve Been ...

News: Radio

This Week On Riverwalk Jazz: A Conversation With Benny Carter Biographer Ed Berger

April 26, 2012

This week Riverwalk Jazz recalls the 9-decade career of saxophonist, trumpeter, composer, and arranger Benny Carter with music and memories from the maestro himself and an interview with Ed Berger, Associate Director of the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University. Berger was Carter’s road manager and one of the authors of the definitive biography, Benny ...