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Montreal Jazz Festival: Days 7-9, July 7-9, 2009
by John Kelman
Days 1-3 | Days 4-6 | Days 7-9 Rocksteady: The Roots of Reggae Charlie Haden Family and Friends / Bill Frisell QuartetVan Der Graaf Generator / Ornette ColemanFestival International de Jazz de Montreal Montreal, Quebec, Canada July 7-9 2009 Every year the Festival ...
Ottawa Jazz Festival 2009: Days 4-6, June 28-30, 2009
by John Kelman
Days 1-3 | Days 4-6 Amina Claudine Myers / Gary Burton Quartet Revisited John Roney Silverbirch Project / Julian Lage / Enrico Rava-Stefano Bollani DuoAndy Milne/Benoît Delbecq Crystal Magnets / Sylvain Kassap QuartetTD Canada Trust Ottawa International Jazz Festival Ottawa, Ontario, Canada June 25-27, 2009 ...
Chico Freeman, Air, Walt Dickerson, George Cables: Buried Treasures Now On CD
by Chris May
Not to be confused with the Swedish trance and electronica label of the same name, the original Why Not label was an adventurous affair run by the Japanese businessman and jazz fan Masahiko Yuh for a brief but productive spell in the 1970s. With few contacts, but armed with an outstanding pair of ears, a cheque ...
Paying Hommage A Nesuhi
Rhino Presents a Digital Boxed Set Honoring The Roster of Iconic Jazz Artists Nesuhi Ertegun Assembled at Atlantic Records Joel Dorn's Final Production Features Music from The Modern Jazz Quartet, John Coltrane, Milt Jackson, Charles Mingus, Ornette Coleman, Eddie Harris and More Available June 23, 2009 LOS ANGELES -- In 1955, Nesuhi ...
Graham Collier: A New Book and a New Double CD
With The Jazz Composer, Moving Music Off The Paper, veteran British jazz composer Graham Collier takes a philosophical look at the subject of jazz and jazz composition--published by Northway Books. Graham Collier's radical new analysis of the place of the composer in jazz is nothing less than a complete reassessment of the direction in which the ...
Brubeck / Mingus / Davis: Columbia 50th Anniversary Releases
by David Rickert
These three CDs are flagship releases from the Columbia catalog (remember those old blue Columbia Jazz Masterpieces editions?) and it's worth contemplating how fertile and varied a jazz scene existed in the late 1950s when you look as these albums as a trio, and perhaps throw in trumpeter Miles Davis' Kind Of Blue (Columbia, 1959) as ...
"A Swingin' Affair" Outshines Its Name
by Jack Bowers
With an appreciative bow and genial tip of the hat to the late Chairman of the Board, Frank Sinatra, the Los Angeles Jazz Institute named its semi-annual big-band soiree May 21-24 at the Sheraton LAX Four Points Hotel “A Swingin' Affair." Was the event able to live up to its name? In the immortal words of ...
Charles Mingus: Fables of Faubus
Up until May 1959, no jazz composition recorded by Charles Mingus had been as controversial or as politically charged as Fables of Faubus. The song, first recorded 50 years ago this month on Mingus Ah Um, was meant to be a condemnation of Arkansas governor Orval Faubus. In 1957 Faubus had ordered the state's National Guard ...
Jim Beard: Revolutions
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Few big band music is as exiting and swings with such abandon as the music played by the various incarnations of ensembles that gather together in the name of Charles Mingus, and that played by bands sometimes assembled by Carla Bley and, of course, the music directed by the one and only Maria Schneider. And then ...
Ronnie Boykins: The Will Come, Is Now
by Raul d'Gama Rose
For Ronnie Boykins, Sun Ra's bassist, The Will Come, Is Now brings to a close a remarkable sojourn that stretched from his galactic showcasing with the Arkestra at the Judson Hall performances of 1964 to an intellectual deconstruction of bebop. During the years that followed, Boykins appeared with Sam Rivers and was also heard at Ornette ...
