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Mundell Lowe / Lloyd Wells / Jim Ferguson: Poor Butterfly
by Mark Sullivan
Mainstream jazz guitar doesn't get much better than this. Guitarist Mundell Lowe's long career includes sideman stints with Billie Holiday, Carmen McRae, André Previn, and many others; he has composed film and TV scores as well. Co-guitarist Lloyd Wells also grew up in Laurel, Mississippi, giving the pair a hometown connection. The two previously collaborated on ...
Live From Birmingham: Partisans, Rascals Of Rhythm, Amok Amor, John McEntire & Schneider Kacirek
by Martin Longley
Partisans Wolverhampton Arena Theatre November 14, 2015 Partisans have now been playing together for two decades, in a completely unchanging four-piece configuration. Bonds have been formed, lines have intertwined, rapport greases repertoire negotiation, and comfort encourages greater risk-taking. The band made several comments about savouring the Arena Theatre's vibrations, ...
Mundell Lowe / Lloyd Wells / Jim Ferguson: Poor Butterfly
by Dan Bilawsky
Few people could ever claim to have played and/or recorded with such a storied list of performers as Sarah Vaughan, Ben Webster, Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Carmen McRae, Ella Fitzgerald, Blossom Dearie, Dizzy Gillespie, Bill Evans, and Lester Young. But Mundell Lowe can. In fact, that list barely scratches the surface when it comes to the ...
Michael Gibbs: Still Pushing The Envelope
by Ian Patterson
In a career spanning well over fifty years, veteran composer/arranger Michael Gibbs has chalked up a truly impressive range of credits, from Mahavishnu Orchestra to Jaco Pastorius, from Gary Burton to John Scofield and from Kenny Wheeler to Norma Winstone. The Zimbabwe-born maestro has worked with the very best jazz musicians on both sides of the ...
Kamasi Washington e il Questionario di Proust
by AAJ Staff
All About Jazz: Il tratto principale della mia musica. Kamasi Washington: Un'energia libera. La mia musica è molto varia, va in tante direzioni diverse, ma in ogni brano c'è energia e c'è libertà. AAJ: La qualità che desidero nei musicisti che suonano con me. K.W.: Mi piacciono i musicisti ...
Timme Rosenkrantz: Timme's Treasures
by Chris Mosey
Danish nobleman Niels Otte Timme Baron Rosenkrantz could trace his ancestry way back to the Anglicized Rosencrantz in Shakespeare's Hamlet. He became a journalist and was the first European to report on the jazz scene in Harlem, writing for Scandinavian publications and for Downbeat, Metronome and Esquire in the United States and Melody ...
A Pair From Pascalito: Citizen Chanteur and Forbidden Colours
by Dan Bilawsky
You have to give credit where credit is due: when it comes to turning multicultural pastiche into a unified musical statement, few people can match Pascalito. This light-voiced singer--"world chanteur" by his own definition--effortlessly shifts gears, switches passports, and blurs lines, moving comfortably from bossa nova to chanson to swing to tango with nary a problem. ...
Madeleine Peyroux at Yoshi's Oakland
by Walter Atkins
Madeleine Peyroux Yoshi's Oakland Oakland California October 27, 2015 Madeleine Peyroux flew into the comfortable confines of Yoshi's Oakland for a two-day mid week stand. On this Tuesday evening, she featured hit songs from her first anthology album Keep Me in Your Heart for a While: The Best of Madeleine Peyroux ...
Sun and Stars at Montclair Jazz Festival
by Gloria Krolak
At the 2015 Montclair Jazz Festival, the sun broiled and the stars sparkled over some 6,000 jazz fans, that number announced by emcee Gary Walker, a popular WBGO radio on-air personality. Emmy and Golden Globe winning actor S. Epatha Merkerson, best known for her 17 seasons as Lieutenant Van Buren on NBC's “Law and Order," was ...
Tony Bennett & Bill Charlap: The Silver Lining: The Songs of Jerome Kern
by James Doherty
Tony Bennett and pianist Bill Charlap explore the songbook of Jerome Kern on this new release from RPM/Columbia Records. A return to intimate small group jazz, the album marks a welcome reprieve for Bennett, whose work in recent years has been dominated by over-produced duets with an array of current pop superstars. Charlap's well thought out ...
