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Carl Bartlett, Jr. First Set at the Kitano: Jazz At Kitano
by Mike Perciaccante
Carl Bartlett, Jr. Jazz At Kitano New York, NY September 25, 2014 Alto saxophonist Carl Bartlett, Jr.'s musical bloodlines run deep. The son of Carl Bartlett, Sr. and nephew of Charles Bartlett (who formed an R&B show and dance band “The Bartlett Contemporaries"), Carl, Jr. has ...
Lara Iacovini: Right Together
by Luigi Sforza
Right Together, disco della cantante Lara Iacovini, gode di un indiscutibile primato. Si tratta della prima partecipazione di Steve Swallow in un album di una cantante italiana. Tale presenza, unitamente a quella del batterista Adam Nussbaum e di tutti gli altri bravi musicisti, conferisce al progetto un'indiscutibile valore aggiunto. A ciò si aggiunga un originale ...
Jax Jazz Collective: Lotus Blossom: The Music of Billy Strayhorn
by Dan McClenaghan
Duke Ellington (1899-1974)--Americas's finest bandleader, America's finest composer--released his own tribute to Billy Strayhorn, his partner in music and tune smithing. It was called ...And His Mother Called Him Bill (RCA, 1967). Ellington and Strayhorn's music was so intertwined that the Duke's less that fanatic fans might think that “Lush Life," “Take the A Train" and ...
Mark Meadows: Somethin’ Good
by Geannine Reid
Mark Meadows is a multifaceted jazz pianist, composer and jazz educator. Besides regularly performing across the U.S, Meadows also teaches four courses as an adjunct instructor at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Washington, D.C. During the 2014-2015 season, Meadows is appearing alongside world-renowned musicians such as: Warren Wolf, Cyrus Chestnut, Dontae Winslow, Kris ...
Outbeat Jazz Festival 2014
by Victor L. Schermer
Outbeat Jazz Festival Philadelphia, PA September 18-21, 2014 The Outbeat Jazz Festival, touted as “America's First Queer Jazz Festival," where the “Q-word" has become an “in" word, proved to be an innovative event that brought the public's attention to the important role of gay (LGBT) jazz musicians and composers. A series ...
Alice Babs: Vi minns Alice Babs
by Chris Mosey
This six-CD box set pays homage to Alice Babs, the Swedish jazz singer who died at the age of 90 in February, 2014. A soprano with a three octave range, she sang with Duke Ellington, most notably in his so-called sacred concerts. At the start of her career, in 1940, at the tender ...
Interview: Lady Gaga + Tony Bennett
After Tony Bennett and I spent a few minutes catching up at his art studio two weeks ago, we sat down on a sofa to chat for The Wall Street Journal about Cheek to Cheek, his new duet album with Lady Gaga. About 10 minutes into our conversation, I asked him the question that for many ...
Ken Berman: Sound Poetry
by Edward Blanco
Pianist Ken Berman's friendship with the late poet Eythan Klamka served as the inspiration for Sound Poetry, a musical project of mostly original compositions bookended by two solo reinterpretations of classic jazz standards. Poet Klamka, to whom this album is dedicated, had previously stated that “any true musician is a sound poet" and to this end, ...
Indigo Mist: Cuong Vu - Richard Karpen: That The Days Go By And Never Come Again
by Glenn Astarita
Pioneering trumpeter, composer Cuong Vu and pianist Richard Karpen push the envelope by not releasing a cut and dry tribute to Duke Ellington and his counterpart Billy Strayhorn . With a standard jazz quartet supported by iPad and electronics performers, to say this album follows mainstream jazz guidelines would be a miscue of sorts. Unconventional wisdom ...
Umberto Petrin: Traces and Ghosts
by Stefano Merighi
Dire che il lavoro di Umberto Petrin in Italia è un po' sottostimato, è dire poco. A parte un curriculum di grande sostanza, e una poetica non comune che relaziona la musica con altri linguaggi, è il suo puro pianismo a convincere una volta di più, a quattro anni dal precedente solo A ...
