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Bill Frisell: Solos and Films of Buster Keaton
by John Kelman
In a career which is in 2009 entering its fourth decade in the public eye, guitarist Bill Frisell has fashioned a trajectory like no other. As comfortable playing Hank Williams country tunes as he is a Ron Carter blues, the guitarist has created such a distinctive sound that, even when he's playing a plain old G ...
Saint Dirt Elementary School: Ice Cream Man Dreams
by Mark Corroto
Somewhere, Tom Waits is smiling. His vision of the amalgamation of the cabaret, circus and hipster is fully realized in the small big band known as Saint Dirt Elementary School on Ice Cream Man Dreams. The title track rolls in as a squeaky child's song of twisted sentiments and wonky melody. Its circus mayhem is subterfuge ...
Seven Days In Norway: The 2009 Oslo Jazz Festival
by Thomas Conrad
Oslo Jazz FestivalOslo, NorwayAugust 9-15, 2009 Sunday August 9 was the first day of the Oslo Jazz Festival. It was cloudy and cool and rained off and on all day until, miraculously, the skies cleared just in time for the opening concert. Antony and the Johnsons performed with the Norwegian National Opera Orchestra ...
John Surman: From Boy Choirs to Big Horns
by John Kelman
It's increasingly risky to be a musician on the road. When British saxophonist John Surman was traveling from his home in Oslo, Norway, to New York City in September, 2007 for a recording session, he almost lost his baritone saxophone to the airlines. “It is a nightmare traveling now," says Surman, “and hardly a tour goes ...
JazzWeek Radio Chart: August 17, 2009
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 1 Jackie Ryan Doozy (Open Art) 266 261 +5 2 61 1 4 2 47 — Bill Frisell Disfarmer (Nonesuch) 223 57 +166 11 46 2 2 3 3 2 Christian McBride & Inside Straight Kind Of Brown (Mack Avenue) 194 201 -7 ...
Organ Donations Welcome: Larry Goldings, Gary Versace, Jared Gold
by Mark Corroto
Organ jazz records flow into and out of our consciousness evoking memories of the roots of jazz, R&B and easy listening, but also awakening us to the possibilities of new musical exploration. Whatever inspired Wild Bill Davis, Milt Buckner and Jimmy Smith to take up the organ may never be known. Maybe it was ...
JazzWeek Radio Chart: August 10, 2009
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 4 Jackie Ryan Doozy (Open Art) 261 290 -29 12 63 1 3 2 3 1 Joe Locke & David Hazeltine Mutual Admiration Society 2 (Sharp Nine) 206 195 +11 1 53 1 8 3 2 5 Christian McBride & Inside Straight Kind ...
Nonesuch Records Releases Bill Frisell's "Disfarmer"
Set inspired by life of Arkansas portrait photographer Mike Disfarmer “Frisell remains the only six-string poet of his generation." --New Yorker Nonesuch Records releases Grammy Award–winning guitarist, composer, and bandleader Bill Frisell’s new album, Disfarmer, on July 21, 2009. The original compositions on the album were inspired by the life and works of an unusual Arkansas ...
Gent Jazz Festival 2009: Days 1-5
by Martin Longley
The Gent Jazz Festival 2009 Bijloke Gent, BelgiumJuly 8: B.B. King/China Moses & Raphael LemonnierMaybe this year's festival, running July 8-19, is going to peak too soon. In 2006, B.B. King (or his management) decided that he wasn't going to tour again outside of North America, thereby filling seats up on a “farewell" European ...
Eric Revis: Laughter's Necklace of Tears
by David Adler
Best known for his decade-plus with the Branford Marsalis Quartet, bassist Eric Revis has also thrived in trio settings with Avram Fefer, Peter Brötzmann and most recently Kurt Rosenwinkel, playing everything from pure straight-ahead to absolutely free. He debuted as a leader in 2004 with Tales of the Stuttering Mime (11:11), and he imbues his sophomore ...
