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Happy Birthday, Gene Harris!
Pianist Gene Harris (1933-2000) recorded prolifically during his long career. He started out playing in Army bands during the early 1950s. In 1956, he formed The Three Sounds with Andy Simpkins on bass and Bill Dowdy on drums. (Actually, it was originally The Four Sounds, but saxophonist Lonnie “The Sound" Walker dropped out after a year.) ...
Open for business! The Seabird Jazz Lounge in Long Beach, CA
The Seabird Jazz Lounge was formally known as the “Cotton Club," a classy, intimate straight-ahead and contemporary Jazz Lounge in Long Beach, CA. Presenting a variety of live world class local and nationally known musical acts! Featuring our amazing house band The Dale Black Quartet The Seabird Jazz Lounge has reopened their doors and remains one ...
Lenny White: Live and New York Hot with the Anomaly Band at Catalina's
West Coast jazz has traditionally been cool to the East Coast's hot. Dave Brubeck is always pictured in white linen slacks playing an open air concert-by-the-sea, while Charlie Parker is shown popping a Saturday night sweat in his sharkskin suit, squeezed onto a crowded nightclub stage. The iconography extends to the West Coast audience. Like a ...
Five Guys Hoping to Not Screw up Movie About the Life of Miles Davis Pose for a Nice Photo Together
That other Miles Davis website has posted something of interest. It's nothing to stop-the-presses, but it's something. They've posted a group photo of Erin Davis, Steve Baigelman (screenwriter for Miles Davis Biopic), Don Cheadle, Darryl Porter, Vince Wilburn Jr. and the very expensive Genius of Miles Davis Limited-Edition Trumpet Case Box Set, which is not even ...
Bill Evans in Oslo
Bill Evans Trio: The Oslo Concerts (2006) presents two Bill Evans dates, one filmed at the Oslo Munch Museum in 1966 and the other at the Molde Jazz Festival in 1980. Evans is one of the least dynamic of performers, so filming him playing is almost a waste of film. But the music is a different ...
Jimmy Cobb and the Kind of Blue Sessions
It's eerily appropriate, in a way—Jimmy Cobb is the only musician missing from the photos of the famous “Kind of Blue" recording sessions that decorate his bedroom. He's also the last one still living, a fact he's reminded of every day he awakens and sees his old friends staring back at him—jazz legends John Coltrane and ...
SFJAZZ Records Releases SFJAZZ Collective Live 2010: 7th Annual Concert Tour
SFJAZZ Collective Live 2010: 7th Annual Concert Tour Live 2010 features new arrangements of the classic works of Horace Silver; all-new original compositions by Collective members. Miguel Zenón—Alto Saxophone Mark Turner—Tenor Saxophone Avishai Cohen—Trumpet Robin Eubanks—Trombone Stefon Harris—Vibraphone Edward Simon—Piano Matt Penman—Bass ...
After Hours - A Great Blowing Session
I recently listened to an obscure Prestige album from 1957 called After Hours. It is a group blowing session without a true leader but with a stellar lineup: Thad Jones (trumpet), Frank Wess (flute and tenor sax), Kenny Burrell (guitar), Mal Waldron (piano), Paul Chambers (bass), and Arthur Taylor (drums). This is a wonderful collection of ...
Quiescence Music Gives Away Bestselling Piano Book!
Who says you have to be a gifted genius to create your own unique piano compositions? Not Edward Weiss, educator, author and composer whos just completed his first full length book on doing just that turning anyone into a virtual virtuoso in as little as 30 days even if theyve never touched a musical keyboard in ...
