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Article: Extended Analysis

Tommy Flanagan / Jaki Byard: The Magic Of 2

by Dan Bilawsky
March 21, 2013

San Francisco's famed Keystone Korner shuttered its doors in 1983, but it's getting more press today than plenty of clubs that are still serving up jazz. In the past two years alone, a previously unreleased live recording of trumpeter Freddie Hubbard--Pinnacle (Resonance, 2011)--launched Resonance Records' Keystone Korner Live Discoveries series, photographer Kathy Sloane released Keystone Korner: ...

Article: Album Review

Tommy Flanagan / Jaki Byard: The Magic of 2

Read "The Magic of 2" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
March 19, 2013

One of San Francisco's most famous jazz venues, Keystone Korner, closed in 1983. It was a favorite venue of the top jazz players of the day, and several landmark live albums by pianists Bill Evans and McCoy Tyner, and saxophonists Rahsaan Roland Kirk and Stan Getz, resulted from shows taped inside its hallowed hall.The ...

Article: Book Review

Hannah Rothschild: The Baroness - The search for Nica, the rebellious Rothschild

by Adriana Carcu
March 17, 2013

The Baroness: The Search for Nica, the Rebellious Rothschild Hannah Rothschild Pages 307 ISBN: 978-1-84408-603-0 Virago Press 2012 Pannonica Rothschild is the paragon of rebellious romanticism and of the fascination for music, carried to the ultimate consequence. She has become the symbol of those dreams we dare not fulfill, ...

Article: Interview

John Beasley: Everyone Loves John

by Scott Mitchell
March 13, 2013

Keyboardist John Beasley (aka “The Bease" to friends and family) is a musician's musician and one of the busiest professionals in the game. His biography and list of credits are so broad and deep that they could fill an NFL playbook.If NASA or MIT were to invent a device that could measure creative and ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Tommy Flanagan / Jaki Byard: The Magic of 2

by C. Michael Bailey
March 9, 2013

The story of this previously unreleased performance by pianists Tommy Flanagan and Jaki Byard at San Francisco's famous Keystone Korner begins with its unusual distributing label, Resonance Records. The original brainchild of studio owner George Kalbin, the label exists as part of the larger endeavor, the non-profit Rising Jazz Stars Foundation, dedicated to the discovery and ...

Article: Interview

Dick Hyman: The Beat Goes On

by Chris M. Slawecki
March 8, 2013

Composer, arranger, bandleader, pianist, soloist and accompanist Dick Hyman has already lived several jazz lifetimes, and as he contemplates his 86th birthday in March 2013, his career shows no sign of slowing down. A New York City native, Hyman served as pianist with a Dixieland band and with Lester Young at the December 1949 ...

Article: Big Band Report

"Lone Wolf" Finds Plenty to Chew On

by Jack Bowers
March 8, 2013

With Betty sidelined by a bad cough, it was up to me to seek out local jazz events in February, and I managed to find a couple of pretty good ones, starting February 7 at the University of New Mexico's Keller Hall where SuperSax New Mexico performed for the third time in Albuquerque. As you may ...

Article: Meet the Staff

Meet Carl L. Hager

by AAJ Staff
March 8, 2013

I currently live in: Los Angeles, CAI joined All About Jazz in: 2009What made you decide to contribute to All About Jazz? I've been a writer and editor most of my life, and I love jazz. One day after I'd been reading All About Jazz for a few months, I inquired to ...

Article: Album Review

Tine Bruhn: Nearness

Read "Nearness" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
February 22, 2013

With the rapid evolution of jazz in the past generation, a simple performance approach offers the benefit of showing from where we have come. Denmark-cum-New York City native vocalist Tine Bruhn joins pianist Johnny O'Neal (late of drummer Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and vibraphonist Milt Jackson's band) and saxophonist Stacy Dillard for a collection of ten ...

Article: Opinion

Death, Rebirth & New Revolution

by Ian Patterson
February 20, 2013

The death knell has often been sounded for jazz and many would argue that the last revolution in jazz took place as the '60s handed the baton to the '70s, with the electronic-influenced jazz typified by trumpeter Miles Davis' ground breaking albums In a Silent Way (Columbia, 1969) and Bitches Brew (Columbia, 1970). Many believe that ...