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Dave Holland, in Bass Player
I recently spoke with master jazz bassist Dave Holland, for a piece published in Bass Player magazine. We talked about his playing history, Pathways, the new CD from his Octet, and his newly renovated and relaunched web site, among other topics. The full directors cut of the text is below, or click here to go directly ...
Woe is Jazz: If We Build It, Will They Come Back?
With the JJA (Jazz Journalists Association) Awards next week, and an abundance of high-profile shows--including Herbie Hancock's 7oth-birthday salute and summer jazz festivals in New York, around the U.S. and worldwide, jazz seems to be grabbing the spotlight. More good signs: The first conference held by the Jazz Education Network brought more than 1,150 participants to ...
Disc of the Day: Keith Jarrett/Charlie Haden, "Jasmine"
Keith Jarrett/Charlie Haden, Jasmine (ECM)--Bassist Charlie Haden has been down this path a quiet, intimate, album-length session with a musically simpatico partner in recent years, notably on Americana-tinged outings with late pianist Hank Jones and guitarist Pat Metheny. The format is similarly engaging on this reflective, brightly communicative set with long-ago bandmate Keith Jarrett, who seldom ...
Jonathan Powell: "Transcend" CD Release Show Friday @ The Blue Note
Great news about fast-rising trumpeter Jonathan Powell: He and his nu Sangha group, including brother Jeremy Powell on sax, are playing a CD-release show this Friday, late night at the Blue Note in New York. Jonathan and Jeremy, both gifted, young, eclectically minded jazz musicians, are Tampa friends of mine, and former bandmates, who performed and recorded ...
Tribute to Don Capone - May 12 @ Lenny's Latin Cafe
Here's the word from trumpeter Dwayne White: Calling All Jazz Musicians Wednesday, May 12 @ 7pm we will convene at Lenny's Latin Cafe, 10918 N 56th St Tampa, to pay tribute to the late Don Capone. Please join us for a great evening of celebration doing what we as musicians do best. Playing music! There will ...
The Miles Davis Movie
A brief update from MTV Says star/director/co-writer Don Cheadle: “The story is really not... a biopic per se. It's not attempting to be any cradle-to-grave depiction of [Miles'] life. It's more my take, as an artist, on what his music has meant. With wall-to-wall truth but not really much concerned about facts." It's “not really much ...
Jazz Fest Diary: John Ellis at Louisiana Music Factory
Jazz Fest week doesn't really kick in until the start of the Louisiana Music Factory's in-store performances. It's a tradition that goes back 18 years, to when the French Quarter CD and vinyl outlet opened its doors on North Peters, around the corner from its current digs on Decatur Street. Tenor saxophonist John Ellis and Double ...
Jazz Fest Diary: Irvin Mayfield's Jazz Playhouse and More
Whether it's pre-Jazz Fest anticipation or something else, New Orleans feels like it's on an emotional upswing. Mitch Landrieu, stepping down as Lt Governor and being sworn in as the city's new mayor in less than two weeks, is listening to citizens and putting together his staff; Landrieu, voted in with strong support from blacks and ...
Tampa Jazz Notes: Child of the Sun Jazz Festival Returns; Don Capone Tribute; Jazz Cellar Underground Orchestra to Play
The Child of the Sun Jazz Festival, a first-class Lakeland event begun in 1988 with major input from late great cornetist Nat Adderley but shuttered after a great 20-year run, will be revived next spring. That's the word from Larry Burke, longtime music professor at Florida Southern ...
Disc of the Day: Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
I've had the opportunity to catch Sharon Jones twice in concert--at Skipper's Smokehouse in Tampa, and last year at Jazz Fest in New Orleans--and both times she blew down the doors. Below is my review of her latest CD, published recently in Las Vegas City Life. Sharon ...
