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Jenny Davis: Inside You
by C. Michael Bailey
Jenny Davis' It Amazes Me (Self Produced, 2006) was a relaxed tuneful affair employing a crack quintet capable of multiple layers of musicianship. For Inside You, Davis whittles her quintet to a duo, featuring her regular guitarist Chuck Easton, and bassist Ted Enderle, furnishing a stripped-down swing that depends on its own momentum with which to ...
Benjamin Herman: Hypochristmastreefuzz (Special Edition)
by Bruce Lindsay
Since Esquire voted alto saxophonist Benjamin Herman Best Dressed Dutchman 2008, most reviews of his music have felt compelled to mention the award, and this review is no exception. Of course, such sartorial fripperies would be barely worthy of comment if Herman couldn't actually play. But play he can--whether he's flying like Charlie Parker on “Hypochristmastreefuzz," ...
Josh Roseman: Reimagining the Constellations
by R.J. DeLuke
Josh Roseman is a busy man. Extremely busy. He's also an extremely bright one, which is good because otherwise one might pause to consider whether, with all those activities, he is wearing himself too thin. Turns out he is spreading wide, but nothing about him or his many pursuits is thin. Especially not his creativity.
Scanner with the Post Modern Jazz Quartet: Blink of An Eye
by Lyn Horton
From the very first sounds heard on Blink of An Eye's “Shadow Splice," a ground is gradually established with bass piano chords, a minor-key string bass arco line, a floating vibe resonance and steady pulse rising from the cymbals. As the Ellingtonian “Blues In C" evokes, the source of improvisational music is the ...
Randy Weston: African Stories, African Rhythms
by Ian Patterson
In over 60 years as a leader, pianist Randy Weston has achieved an incredible amount. He has recorded nearly 50 albums and has been hailed in the process as the natural heir to Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk. Three times he has been voted Downbeat's composer of the year, and his compositions have been recorded by ...
Take Five With Fede4real
by AAJ Staff
Meet Fedee4real:It's difficult to write my bio down to 200 words. I'm a singer/songwriter/keyboardist.I write, compose, arrange and produce all my material. I'm half Spanish and Equatoguinean (Africa). I have lived in both countries and I love both. My music has many different influences, jazz being the biggest. I started playing music at six ...
2010 Jarasum Jazz Festival, Gapeyong, South Korea
by Ian Patterson
Jarasum International Jazz Festival Jarasum Island, Gapeyong, South Korea October 15-17, 2010 Jarasum International Jazz Festival was almost washed out by rain in its first edition in 2004, and after only three editions founder and director J.J. In--South Korea's premier concert promoter--took the bold step of selling his house to meet debts ...
Jazz Is For The Birds: An Aviary In Song
by Dan Bilawsky
In jazz--as in all else in life--different words mean different things to different people. The way we associate words or sounds with meaning is unique to the individual, but certain words tend to draw similar thoughts from within the jazz community. “Bird" is one such word. Whether you're an avant-garde aficionado, a “moldy fig," a modernist ...
Jason Robinson: The New Western
by Gordon Marshall
Saxophonist Jason Robinson is alert and ready to work his place in the scheme of things, from jazz itself to music at large, to the existential particulars of philosophy. A supple technician with a penchant for abstract thought, he splices together different strains of theory and logic with combinatory takes on period, school and style. A ...
DownBeat: The Great Jazz Interviews - A 75th Anniversary Anthology
by Florence Wetzel
DownBeat: The Great Jazz Interviews: A 75th Anniversary AnthologyFrank Alkyer and Ed Enright, EditorsSoftcover; 352 pagesISBN: 9781423463849Hal Leonard2009 In a 1988 interview, trombonist J.J. Johnson declared: “Jazz is restless. It won't stay put and it never will." There's no better proof than this remarkable ...
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