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Denny Zeitlin's Solo Voyage
by Bret Primack
Will the real Denny Zeitlin please stand up.Since the mid-60s, Jazz listeners have known Denny as an imaginative, audacious pianist who has led Trios, collaborated with bassists Charlie Haden and David Friesen, and mandolin maven David Grisman, and played some wonderful solo music.All this while also serving as a full time psychiatrist, ...
Joe Lovano: Joyous Encounter
by Bret Primack
Joe Lovano is a lucky man and he knows it. “Who would have imagined I'd start playing with Hank Jones when I turned 50, he told me recently after returning from a string of European gigs with the pianist. His respect and admiration for Hank serves as the catalyst for what is now a truly remarkable ...
Internet Television
by Bret Primack
That pretty sounds cool, right? It certainly has to be better than regular television. During the fifth season of the Sopranos, I had digital cable, access to hundreds of channels, and most of time, nothing of interest. I don't like sports or shopping so that immediately cuts out a lot of channels. And in Arizona, where ...
All Saxophonists Will Be Shot On Sight
by Bret Primack
I once wrote a play set in the near future, when a one world government decrees that musicians must play “the song." No other music is allowed. Everything else has been destroyed, except for the memories of certain musicians. In this petrified, angst ridden nether land, improvisation is banned and bebop is forbidden--any musician who disobeys ...
Bits and Pieces
by Bret Primack
Dr. Billy Taylor: An American Classic As a teenager, forty years ago, living in a New York suburb, I first heard Billy Taylor on WNEW-AM. He played great music, and was so cool and informative that he proved to be the catalyst for even greater exploration in my increasing fascination with Jazz. When ...
McCoy Tyner Trio at Yoshi's
by Bret Primack
On the last Saturday night in January, during the first week of McCoy Tyner's annual two week residency at Yoshi's, I made the trip from Tucson to hear a Tyner Trio featuring Stanley Clarke and Billy Cobham. That sort of lineup, all too infrequent, was cause of celebration, and worth the thousand mile journey.I've heard ...
Fantasy Records: An Archive of Many Lifetimes
by Bret Primack
During a recent trip to the Bay area, at the invitation of publicist extraordinaire Terri Hinte, I made my first visit to Fantasy Records, in Berkeley. For the last quarter century, I have been listening, intently, to Fantasy releases. As their website explains, the Fantasy story is “actually the story of a number of outstanding record ...
The Future of Jazz
by Bret Primack
"Those who cannot learn from the mistakes of history are doomed to repeat them." ~George SantayanaThese kids, here, they are the future of Jazz. Students at Leal Middle School, San Antonio, Texas, listening to the Jim Cullum Jazz Band . Mr. Cullum, an NPR staple with his long running, Riverwalk Jazz , ...
They Will Never Die
by Bret Primack
I write now of heroes, a species that in our time, has become as rare as an oasis in the desert. My heroes aren't Greek gods, they are merely mortal, yet like their divine counterparts, they also possess something eternal - their music. Whatever the joy and pain of their earthbound tenure, the ...
The Big Sale (For Adults Only)
by Bret Primack
A couple of weeks ago Concord bought Fantasy for a small fortune, over $80 million, to be exact. Who says there's no money in Jazz?A bunch of hard working, dedicated people at Fantasy just picked up the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, and that's always nice. Over the last thirty ...
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