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Article: Interview

David Berkman: Anecdotes

by George Colligan
October 15, 2013

[ Editor's Note: The following interview is reprinted from George Colligan's blog, Jazztruth] David Berkman is a jazz pianist who in the past few decades has played with many of the major names in jazz, including Tom Harrell, Cecil McBee, and the Vanguard Orchestra. He has released a number of CDs on the Palmetto ...

Article: Book Review

The Amazing Bud Powell: Black Genius, Jazz History And The Challenge of Bebop

by Ian Patterson
October 11, 2013

The Amazing Bud Powell: Black Genius, Jazz History And The Challenge of Bebop Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr. 240 pages ISBN: 978-0-520-24391-0 University of California Press 2013 A new book on pianist Bud Powell is something of an event. The first full length book on one of jazz's most dazzling ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Bud Powell

September 27, 2013

All About Jazz is celebrating Bud Powell's birthday today! Bud Powell is generally considered to be the most important pianist in the history of jazz. Noted jazz writer and critic Gary Giddins, in Visions of Jazz, goes even further, saying that “Powell will be recognized as one of the most formidable creators of piano music in ...

News: Recording

Piano Sutras, A Glistening New Thirsty Ear Solo Release From Pianist Matthew Shipp Is Ready For You

September 12, 2013

By Chris Rich Amid the snow swirl and chill of a late February this year, Matthew Shipp headed to Park West Studios to commence work on a solo recording which will be called Piano Sutras. “On Wednesday February 20, pianist/composer Matthew Shipp recorded his next Thirsty Ear record, “Piano Sutras”, at Park West Studios in Brooklyn. ...

Article: Bailey's Bundles

Pablo Records and My Introduction to Jazz

by C. Michael Bailey
August 26, 2013

Right on the heels of its celebration of Riverside Records' 60th Anniversary, Concord Music Group celebrates Pablo Records' 40th Anniversary with remasters from its deep and broad catalog. My first brush with jazz came from a Pablo release and I wanted to share some thoughts on the label, the friends that turned me onto jazz and, ...

Article: Live Review

Clifford Brown-Max Roach Project at the Piedmont Piano Company

by Harry S. Pariser
August 25, 2013

Clifford Brown-Max Roach ProjectPiedmont Piano CompanyOakland, CAAugust 10, 2013“[Clifford Brown's] technique was, for him, to use the facility and bring up the quality of a trumpet player in relation to having his trumpet expressed as a voice. He not only had the technique, he had the love. The sound he would ...

Article: Profile

Doug Mettome: A Brief Life in Bop

by Richard J Salvucci
August 23, 2013

Douglas (Doug) Voll Mettome, the son of Nels P Mettome and Leafy Dawn Mettome was born into a prosperous family on March 19, 1925 in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he died on February 17, 1964. He was one of two children (a younger sister attended Northwestern University). Doug's musical career began early. His ...

Article: Album Review

Ayako Shirasaki: Some Other Time

Read "Some Other Time" reviewed by Jeff Winbush

by Jeff Winbush
August 17, 2013

There is a certain sublime pleasure in the simplicity of the trio playing piano, bass and drums. The Ayako Shirasaki trio's approach is straightforward and straight ahead jazz at it's best. Blending both traditional and original compositions, Shirasaki is a nimble and facile pianist who knows how to swing like Bud Powell, one of her musical ...

Article: Interview

Marvin Sewell: Stepping Up to the Plate

by George Colligan
August 15, 2013

[ Editor's Note: The following interview is reprinted from George Colligan's blog, Jazztruth]Marvin Sewell might be the greatest guitarist you've never heard of. I first met Sewell at a recording session in 1995. (Sewell, saxophonist Gary Thomas, and I improvised over hip-hop tracks for two days; these sessions were edited into what become Thomas' ...

Article: Album Review

Thelonious Monk: Newport '59

Read "Newport '59" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
August 6, 2013

Only with hindsight can it be ascertained that 1959 marked the pinnacle of jazz music as a cultural force in the United States. In 1959, the Mount Rushmore presidents of jazz were recording their definitive statements: John Coltrane's Giant Steps (Atlantic, 1960), Dave Brubeck's Time Out (Columbia, 1959), Charles Mingus' Ah Um (Columbia, 1959), Miles Davis' ...