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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 ...
Charli Persip

by George Kanzler
People looking for the magic elixir, the Fountain of Youth, should stop looking and start jazz drumming. Charli Persip, who'll turn 80 in July, will soon join Roy Haynes and Chico Hamilton as fully active octogenarian jazz drummers with busy careers. Persip grew up in Newark, NJ and, after touring with Dizzy Gillespie's small group and ...
Lenny Bruce, Jazz Fan

The latest edition of the Jazz Video Guy's blog features highlights from some very rare Lenny Bruce video. In 1959, Mr. Bruce produced his own television pilot, The World of Lenny Bruce, featuring Buddy Rich and Harry Sweets Edison, Lambert, Hendricks and Ross, and a quartet that includes his friend Philly Joe Jones, Cannonball Adderley and ...
Live in Miami with Flip Phillips

By Buddy Rich
Label: Giant Step Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Lover, Come Back to Me; Topsy; Undecided; Broadway; Jumpin
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 ...
Oscar Peterson: Oscar Peterson: The Complete Clef/Mercury Studio Recordings of The Oscar Peterson Trio (1951-1953)

by Samuel Chell
How do you criticize pianist Oscar Peterson? The two primary meanings of such a question expose the divide among those who must confront his talent--and, like it or not, no musician or supporter of the music can duck the issues raised by the most prolifically recorded pianist in jazz history. To the one camp, Peterson's playing ...
Buddy Rich Memorial Concert Rolls out After 10 Years of Marking Time

Las Vegas, -- The much awaited return of the Buddy Rich Memorial Concert is now over. In late August, Cathy Rich, daughter of the late, legendary drummer Buddy Rich, confirmed plans for the Buddy Rich Memorial and that it would take place at Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City on October 18. Her company, Scabeba Entertainment, ...
Buddy Rich: Live in Miami with Flip Phillips

by Nic Jones
Rich's work was arguably one dimensional and these two live dates, captured for the ages from 1954 and 1957, set out a case in favor of that argument as persuasive as any. Rich, as was his vocation, is all over his drums on everything here, his extrovert nature in harness to a musical sensibility seemingly too ...
Man From Planet Jazz

By Buddy Rich
Label: FiveFour
Released: 2007
Track listing: Intro/Beulah Witch; Grand Concourse; Blues A La 88; Saturday Night; Slow Funk; Good News.
The Monster

By Buddy Rich
Label: FiveFour
Released: 2007
Track listing: Sweets Opus No. 1; Strike It Rich; Sportin' Life (AKA Sweetie Pie); The Monster; Sunday; The Yellow Rose Of Brooklyn; Willow Weep For Me; Easy Does It; All Sweets; Nice Work If You Can Get; Barney's Bugle; Now's The Time; You're Getting To Be A Habit With Me.