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Reverend Zen: Angels, Blues and the Crying Moon
by David King
The New York group Reverend Zen has released its debut album, Angels, Blues & the Crying Moon (Blackjack Music, 2006), that is quickly garnering music industry acclaim around the world. Platitudes aside, Reverend Zen's true genius lies in its music. The album is everything a great album should be: melodies that hang in your head like ...
'Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie Paris
by Victor L. Schermer
Jackie Paris'Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie ParisOutsider PicturesWritten and Directed by Raymond De FelittaProducer: David Zellerford 2009 “You don't understand! I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody."--Marlon Brando as Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront
Don't Call Me A Jazz Musician: Gary Bartz on Miles Davis
Bret Primack, the Jazz Video Guy, has just posted “Don't Call Me A Jazz Musician" featuring Gary Bartz discussing his tenure with Miles Davis. The episode also includes some rare video of the 1971 incarnation of the Miles Davis band that includes Mr. Bartz, Keith Jarrett and Grammy winner Jack DeJohnette. “Trying to answer the age-old ...
"'Tis Autumn, the Search for Jackie Paris" Set for March 31 DVD Release
Tis Autumn - The Search For Jackie Paris is not just a documentary about a great but unheralded jazz singer, it explores the very nature of what it is to live the life of any artist--too many of whom share the same fate--the explosive debut, followed by the years of ups and downs, and the constant ...
Lee Shaw Trio: Live in Graz
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Live in Graz gives listeners a chance to catch up with one of the more improbable second acts in jazz: that of eighty-something pianist Lee Shaw. A poised Shaw usefully recounts the biographical details in the accompanying DVD (which is unfortunately somewhat shoddily produced): she acquired a broad musical education in tiny Ada, Oklahoma; later continued ...
Live at MCG
By Billy Taylor
Label: Cornerstone Records Inc.
Released: 2008
Track listing: 01. Stompin at the Savoy (B. Goodman/C. Webb/E. Sampson); 02. Just You Just Me (J. Greer); 03. Darn That Dream (J. Van Hausen/E. Delange); 04. All The Things You
Are (J. Kerne/O. Hammertsein); 05. Laura (J. Mercer/D. Raskin); 06. Line for Lyons (G. Muligan); 07. Body and Soul (E. Heyman/R. Sour/F. Eyton/G. Greene); 08. Indiana
Back (J. Hanley); 09. Come Sunday (D. Ellington). 10. Capricious (B. Taylor).
Bret Primack Presents: When Billy Taylor Met Ben Webster
The latest edition of Bret “Jazz Video Guy" Primack’s blog is “Billy Taylor Meets Ben Webster.” In the fall of 1944, the very first night twenty-three year old Billy Taylor arrived in New York from Washington, D.C, he sat in at Minton's Playhouse, where Ben Webster was hanging out. Ben liked what he heard and invited ...
Candido: Fountain of Youth
by AAJ Staff
By Bobby Sanabria At the youthful age of 87, NEA Jazz Master Candido Camero has indeed led a full life with no signs of slowing down. While still maintaining a busy schedule of performing and traveling, “The Man of a Thousand Fingers" is still wowing audiences the world over as a shining example of ...
Rare Billy Taylor Recording with Charles Mingus Debuts
The year was 1951; the place, George Wein's Storyville, a popular Boston Jazz club; the music, the Billy Taylor Trio, featuring Charles Mingus. A radio transcription of a Storyville set with Billy's Trio is now being featured on his website, http://www.billytaylorjazz.net Writer Nat Hentoff, then a Staff Announcer a WMEX, regularly hosted remote broadcasts from two ...
A Living History Event with Dr. Billy Taylor (Summer 2008) at Teachers College Columbia University
Dr. Bert Konowitz and Jazz Giant, educator, composer, writer and TV personality, Dr. Billy Taylor in a conversation and performance focusing on the process, styles, repertoire and personalities that comprise the legend of Billy Taylor. Dr. Taylor will perform and discuss musical examples from his vast music collection and memorabilia housed in the Library of Congress ...
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