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Matt Wilson: Have Drums, Will Travel
by Lawrence Peryer
Drummer Matt Wilson must surely be in the running for the title of hardest-working man in jazz. Wilson is a composer, bandleader, producer and teacher. As a leader, his projects include the Matt Wilson Quartet, Arts & Crafts, Christmas Tree-O and the Carl Sandburg Project. He has been in bands with luminaries such as Joe Lovano, ...
Calvin Keys Celebrates His 70th Birthday
Guitarist Calvin Keys will celebrate his 70th birthday on February 6th, 2012. To mark the occasion, Calvin will play a special birthday show Feb 6th, 7-11pm, at 57th St. Gallery, 5701 Telegraph Ave., Oakland CA. Tickets are $20 at the door. Keys' very first album,'Shawn-Neeq, originally released in 1971 on Black Jazz, has just been reissued ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Bobby Hutcherson
All About Jazz is celebrating Bobby Hutcherson's birthday today! Early Years Bobby Hutcherson was born in Los Angeles, California on 27 January 1941. He grew up in Pasdena. Hutcherson was exposed to jazz from an early age, and his family had some connections to the local jazz scene. (His brother was a high-school friend of Dexter ...
Kathy Sloane: Keystone Korner - Portrait Of A Jazz Club
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Keystone Korner: Portrait Of A Jazz ClubKathy Sloane 220 pages; audio CDISBN: 978-0-253-35691-8Indiana University Press2012 Photographer Kathy Sloane's Keystone Korner: Portrait Of A Jazz Club is a love letter: a love letter to something more than just a business, to something less than ...
Eric Dolphy: Out To Lunch
by Greg Simmons
Recorded just four months before his tragic demise, Eric Dolphy's Out To Lunch (Blue Note, 1964) represents a pinnacle moment in avant-garde jazz of the 1960s. Together with Andrew Hill's Point of Departure on the same label and from the same year, Out To Lunch is among the most challenging albums in the Blue Note catalog--one ...
Out To Lunch!
By Eric Dolphy
Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: Hat And Beard; Something Sweet, Something Tender; Gazzelloni; Out To
Lunch; Straight Up And Down.
Warren Wolf: The Wizard of Vibes
by R.J. DeLuke
Warren Wolf has made his name by playing the vibes, which he does with aplomb. He's as much a virtuoso on the instrument as anyone, even including his jazz elders. That may be, in part, because he was influenced by the sound of Milt Jackson and studied with one of the best in Dave Samuels, while ...
Hendrik Meurkens: Live at Bird's Eye
by Edward Blanco
Considered, by many, to be the most important jazz harmonicist since Toots Thielmans, German-born/New York-based Hendrik Meurkens has long been a connoisseur of Brazilian jazz, with an impressive discography of bossa nova and samba-infused music. Live at Bird's Eye is an assemblage of Brazilian, American and Italian jazz standards recorded live on several sessions from 2008 ...
Sidony Box: Pink Paradise
by Dan McClenaghan
Pink Paradise, by the French power trio Sidony Box, may sport the pinkest cover art since vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson's Happenings (Blue Note, 1966). The music, though, couldn't be more different. Hutcherson put together a bop quartet with pianist Herbie Hancock to craft a mellow and meditative sound. Sidony Box wails with a guitar, sax and drums ...
