Results for "Charlie Mingus"

ARTICLE: THE JAZZ LIFE July 10, 2020

My Early Years with Bill Evans, Part 2

Bassist and composer Chuck Israels was raised in a musical family. He studied the cello and played guitar in junior high school. Later musical training took place at Indian Hill, a summer workshop in the arts directed by his parents, and at the High School of Performing Arts in New York City. A year at Massachusetts ...

ARTICLE: ALBUM REVIEW March 27, 2020

Omer Avital/Qantar: New York Paradox

By FIONA ORD-SHRIMPTON

The world in its collective viral neurosis is in a cold sweat. What to do? Store shelves are empty, hands have never been cleaner, and if all goes wrong, salaries may soon rise for those who will work. In these trying times, some days you simply must “Avital"—Omer Avital understands this. Thanks to his latest album, ...

ARTICLE: UNDER THE RADAR January 30, 2020

Tales of The Mystic Order of the Jazz Obsessed - Jazz Societies, Part II

By KARL ACKERMANN

Part 1 | Part 2 Jazz Societies, Part 1 briefly traced the preservation and interpretation of jazz from the oral history of its West African roots through academic and cultural institutions. The article included an overview of jazz societies and foundations that further the fostering of jazz education. The organizations vary in scope, size ...

ARTICLE: INTERVIEW July 14, 2019

Shambhu: Soothing Guitar for Stressful Times

By JAKOB BAEKGAARD

The times we live in call for reflection and one of the ways of providing it is through music. Music can slow our lives down and make us live in the moment, but it can also connect people. Since he discovered music, guitarist and composer Shambhu Neil Vineberg has been on a journey that has seen ...

ARTICLE: THE JAZZ LIFE May 22, 2019

To Dream the Impossible Dream: the quest for a music education

By PETER RUBIE

I've been thinking a lot about how jazz is taught recently. I realize now, my search for a real musical education was not a simple thing, but a series of life changing moments. My son, on the other hand, is planning to study music in college after he finishes high school. Though it would fill his ...

ARTICLE: ALBUM REVIEW March 6, 2019

Jake Leckie: The Abode

By CHRIS MOSEY

Bassist Jake Leckie, born in Boston but currently living in Los Angeles, describes the eight songs on this, his first album, as “a meditation on migration, understanding and empathy." He says they pay tribute to the people and places that have contributed to his identity and are intended to evoke a sense of place and home--his ...

ARTICLE: INTERVIEW July 26, 2018

Hal Willner's Rock 'n' Rota

By LUDOVICO GRANVASSU

"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts." Anyone who has ever been at an all-star event--especially if that was a tribute concert--has learned the importance of Aristotle's maxim the hard way. Maybe the occasion was momentous, the cast probably star-studded, the heart certainly in the right place and the expectations high... however, at ...

ARTICLE: ALBUM REVIEW July 5, 2018

Jungsu Choi: Tschuss Jazz Era

By CHRIS MOSEY

Living in a state of unresolved civil war since 1945, and lately under threat of nuclear annihilation, obviously sharpens the senses, gives the Korean people an edge the rest of us don't have. Recently, Donald Trump took one look and was blown away. He said (or perhaps Tweeted), “These are wonderful, hard-working people." ...

ARTICLE: CYMBALISM April 12, 2012

Don Alias and Joni Mitchell

By MELANIE FUTORIAN

[Editor's Note: Cymbalism is an All About Jazz column featuring excerpts from an upcoming autobiography on the late, great percussionist Don Alias, co-written by Melanie Futorian, his companion for the last seven years of his life. This installment covers Alias' collaboration with singer/songwriter Joni Mitchell]Joni and I were living together working on our romance. ...

ARTICLE: EXTENDED ANALYSIS June 13, 2011

Charles Mingus: Blues and Roots/Mingus Three/Jazz Portraits/Jazzical Moods

By DAVID RICKERT

Charles MingusBlues and Roots/Mingus Three/Jazz Portraits/Jazzical MoodsAvid Records2011 (1954-59) If you have a fondness for a particular album by Charles Mingus, chances are you won't find another quite like it in his catalog. The bassist and composer had one of the most wide-ranging careers of anyone in ...