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Mostly Other People Do the Killing: The Coimbra Concert
by Mark Corroto
The stand-up comic begins, “I went to a day of rage riot the other day, and a Moppa Elliott concert broke out." He might continue with, “Take my jazz canon, please." That is just what the bassist's quartet, Mostly Other People Do The Killing, does--seize the jazz standard and demolish it. The Coimbra Concert is the ...
Take Five With Mike Lee
by AAJ Staff
Meet Mike Lee:Mike Lee is a tenor saxophonist originally from Cleveland, OH and now living in Northern New Jersey. He's currently leader of the Cecil's Monday Night Big Band at Cecil's Jazz Club in West Orange New Jersey and co-leader of the acclaimed jazz quartet, New Tricks. He has released five albums as leader ...
Roberta Piket: Sides, Colors
by Victor L. Schermer
Roberta Piket Sides, ColorsThirteenth Note Records2011 Roberta Piket is a pianist with rich musical abilities who is making a name for herself as one of the best of her generation of keyboard players. Her 2011 release, Sides, Colors is a well-conceived recording, using her trio supplemented by strings and ...
Why Is Jazz A Dirty Word?
by David Arivett
Why is it that “jazz music," and even the word “jazz" itself, is so offensive and polarizing to the average music listener today? The word “jazz" instantly turns many people off... immediately saying they don't like jazz at all. The fact is, that a very large part of the US population won't listen to jazz, period. ...
Ben Tyree/BT3: re:vision
by Ian Patterson
Ben Tyree's compositions on re:vision openly embrace a range of styles in a hard-grooving mixture, where the subtleties of the guitarist's playing are revealed upon repeated listening. Although this is evidently contemporary fusion, Tyree's approach comes from a jazz tradition, stemming from bebop and beyond. It is, however, rock and funk of an altogether more modern ...
Iiro Rantala: Lost heroes
by Bruce Lindsay
German record label ACT Music is rapidly cornering the market in stylish solo piano albums. With Finnish pianist Iiro Rantala's Lost Heroes, it adds another distinctive and glorious recording to its collection, alongside Gwilym Simcock's Good Days At Schloss Elmau (2011) and Danilo Rea's A Tribute To Fabrizio De André (2010), among others. ...
Eldar's "Three Stories" Coming April 5
Since signing with Sony Masterworks at the age of 17, the young pianist Eldar has worked tirelessly on the road and in the studio to deepen his exploration of the traditions of jazz: bebop, post-bop and beyond. With the April 5th release of Three Stories, his first solo recording on Masterworks Jazz, Eldar pays homage to ...
Cuong Vu 4-Tet: Leaps of Faith
by C. Michael Bailey
The order and presentation of music on a recording or in a recital are every bit as important in the music producer's skill set as is choosing what music to include. Had trumpeter Cuong Vu introduced his Vu-Tet's Leaps of Faith with the title piece, or “Child-Like (for Vina)," it would have been easy to dismiss ...
Bass Pioneer Pops Foster This Week on Riverwalk Jazz
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, New Orleans bass pioneer George “Pops" Foster tells his own story in rare archival interviews. Actor Vernel Bagneris portrays Pops in scenes from his autobiography. The show can be heard beginning today on public radio stations nationwide, distributed by Public Radio International; on Sirius/XM sattelite radio; and streamed on demand from ...
Thailand International Jazz Conference, January 28-30, 2011
by Ian Patterson
Thailand International Jazz Conference Mahidol University School of Music Bangkok, Thailand January 28-30, 2011It's almost impossible to go anywhere in Thailand without hearing music at all hours: people sing for their own enjoyment as they go about their daily business, displaying a lack of inhibition generally absent in ...
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