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Jazz Musician of the Day: Charlie Haden
All About Jazz is celebrating Charlie Haden's birthday today! “No other instrument in jazz is more essential than the bass, both backbone and heartbeat, and Haden is its master.” (Francis Davis /August, 2000 issue of The Atlantic Monthly) Time Magazine has hailed jazz legend Charlie Haden as “one of the most restless, gifted, and intrepid players ...
Susana Santos Silva: Devil's Dress
by Daniel Lehner
The Portuguese big band Orquestra Jazz De Matisinhos (OJM) has played engagements and recorded albums with big names like Lee Konitz and Kurt Rosenwinkel. One of its trumpeters, Susana Santos Silva, has gathered four other members of the ensemble for her debut album, Devil's Dress. As with the OJM, Silva's music acts as a testing ground ...
Ornette Coleman: The Shape Of Jazz To Come
by C. Michael Bailey
Ornette ColemanThe Shape Of Jazz To ComeAtlantic1959 Ornette Coleman's Contemporary Records releases Something Else!!!! (1958) and Tomorrow Is The Question! (1959) documented the alto saxophonist's development from the last vestiges of bebop toward a harmonically freer jazz language. Coleman's album titles became more prophetic as they were ...
Konitz / Mehldau / Haden / Motian: Live at Birdland
by Kevin Davis
It begins with a conversation between Lee Konitz's airy alto sax and Paul Motian's even more ethereal drums, and instantly the groove of this 1954 Sonny Rollins workhorse, “Oleo," feels comfortable, welcoming, and lived-in. Like much of what transpired on the December, 2009 dates from which ECM culled Live at Birdland, which plays home to this ...
NEA Jazz Masters Program Morphs into Museum of Jazz Masters
By Fradley Garner It's happened every year since 1982, but it won't again after 2012, when the honors- loaded gravy train arrives at its 30th and last stop. The National Endowment for the Arts' Jazz Master Awards, America's highest honor in its own music genre, then goes the way of the space shuttle. For three decades, ...
Gonzalo Rubalcaba: Fe' ... Faith
by Karl Ackermann
It's been ten years since pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba teamed up with Charlie Haden on Nocturne (Universal, 2001). Then a twenty-something Cuban virtuoso, Rubalcaba already had a decade of recordings behind him and was being compared to Keith Jarrett and Cecil Taylor. Now a Florida resident and with his own newly minted label, 5Passion, Rubalcaba releases Fé ...
Montreal Jazz Festival, Days 4-6, July 2-4, 2011
by John Kelman
Days 1-3 | Days 4-6 Festival International de Jazz de Montréal Montréal, Canada June 25-July 4, 2011 Montréal is a city in transition, and in a move that's absolutely uncharacteristic of other Canadian cities, is planning a downtown renovation driven, in no small part, by the arts. Place des ...
Ernie Watts: Bangkok, Thailand, June 18, 2011
by Ian Patterson
Ernie WattsThe Living RoomSheraton Grande HotelBangkok, ThailandJune 18, 2011 It's been celebration time this past month at The Living Room in the Sheraton Grande Hotel--Bangkok's best jazz venue--as it celebrates 10 years of hosting concerts. Veteran tenor saxophonist Ernie Watts provided the main highlight, serving up serious musical ...
Joshua White Quartet: San Diego, CA, June 14, 2011
by Robert Bush
Joshua White QuartetSaville Theatre San Diego, CA June 14, 2011 Up-and-coming pianist Joshua White opened up the summer season of Jazz88's concert series on June 14, 2011, leading his own quartet through an evening of music largely dedicated to the works of Thelonious Monk. Still in his ...
Jazz Backstage: Charlie Haden
The legendary bassist and bandleader Charlie Haden has had no shortage of excellent work lately. His duet recording with Keith Jarrett Jasmine was critically acclaimed across the globe, his latest Quartet West outing Sophisticated Ladies is being heralded as one of 2011's best jazz recordings and his recent collaborative effort with Lee Konitz, Brad Mehldau and ...
