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The Andrew Dickeson Quintet: Weaver of Dreams
by Jerry D'Souza
Australian drummer Andrew Dickeson makes a strong recording debut as leader with a well-chosen selection of standards. Dickeson has been a sideman for over 25 years, having begun his professional career when he was 13. Born into a musical family, he began playing the drums when he was 10. He moved briefly to New York in ...
Jim Ridl: Blue Corn Enchilada Dreams
by Victor L. Schermer
Jim Ridl Blue Corn Enchilada Dreams Jim Ridl Records2011Jim Ridl is one of our most creative and versatile jazz pianists, an acknowledged master often called upon by his peers for their recordings and live performances. Whether he works along with saxophonists Dave Liebman and Charles Pillow, or flugelhornist ...
43 Voll-Damm Festival de Jazz de Barcelona: Pat Metheny Trio, Dave Holland & Pepe Habichuela 'Hands' y Brad Mehldau - Joshua Redman
by Enrique Turpin
Pat Metheny Trio43 Voll-Damm Festival Internacional de Jazz de BarcelonaL'Auditori24 de noviembre de 2011Presenciar un concierto de Pat Metheny siempre tiene algo de novedoso, a pesar de que sean muchos los que piensan que las actuaciones del guitarrista transitan por los mismos ámbitos desde hace décadas. Eso no es repetición, es ...
Cecilia Coleman Big Band / Phil Norman Tentet / UNT One O'Clock Lab Band
by Jack Bowers
Cecilia Coleman Big BandOh Boy!PandaKat Records2011 Among the many pleasant surprises on Oh Boy!, pianist Cecilia Coleman's maiden voyage as leader of her own big band, perhaps the most eye-opening is that the band had been together for only eight months when the album was recorded by ...
Tad Hershorn: Norman Granz - The Man Who Used Jazz For Justice
by Ian Patterson
Norman Granz: The Man Who Used Jazz For Justice Tad Hershorn Hardcover; 488 pages ISBN: 9780520267824 University of California Press 2011 That this is the first comprehensive biography on groundbreaking jazz impresario Norman Granz (1918-2001) says much about the man's private nature. Granz shied ...
Todd Clouser: Todd Clouser's A Love Electric
by Chris M. Slawecki
"A Love Electric is possibility and energy," explains guitarist, composer and bandleader Todd Clouser. “I come from a rock place as a player. I still love Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, and the total madness in noise, even if I'm listening to Charlie Parker, Monk, or Wayne Shorter more often these days."“All that was once new ...
Jazz Mergers & Acquisitions
by Chris M. Slawecki
T. K. BlueLatin BirdMotéma Music2011 Saxophonist Charlie “Bird" Parker is primarily remembered as an incendiary, revolutionary, improvisatory soloist, but he often expressed his style through composition, and many of Parker's original tunes became part of the modern jazz canon. Latin Bird, saxophonist T.K. Blue's label ...
Dark Magus, by Gregory Davis, to be basis for feature film on his father
MONTCLAIR, NJ: Dark Magus: The Jekyll and Hyde Life of Miles Davis, Gregory Davis's no-holds-barred look at his father's life, published by Backbeat Books in 2006, will be the basis of feature film being developed by George Tillman, Jr., director of Notorious. Gregory Davis will serve as a consultant on the film, which will be called ...
Kenny Dorham: Una Mas
by Greg Simmons
Trumpeter Kenny Dorham's Una Mas was one of 1963's best records. The thought of hearing it reissued on ultra-high quality vinyl by the good folks at Music Matters should make jazz heads swoon. With its melding of hard-bop, bossa nova, and the blues, Una Mas is a prime example of the memorable vamps that Blue Note ...
Noah Haidu: Carving Out His Place
by R.J. DeLuke
New York-based pianist Noah Haidu came to jazz through the blues, listening to the searing, soulful guitar moans of Buddy Guy and Albert King. But his training, at the age of six, had its advent in classical music. He also likes to experiment with electronics.All these things go into the musical blender of one ...
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