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Roy Gaines & His Orchestra: "Tuxedo Blues" Streets November 1
Jazz, blues, R&B and soul—legendary guitarist/vocalist/composer Roy Gaines, who has made a name for himself as a versatile master craftsmen playing music beyond category in a career spanning over seven decades, brings his vast wealth of experience all together on Tuxedo Blues. Fronting a full size jazz orchestra, the likes of which is seldom heard these ...
Take Five with Jay Beckenstein
by AAJ Staff
Status: Jazz artist. Founding member of the group Spyro Gyra. DOB: May 14, 1951 In: Brooklyn, N.Y. First Jazz Memory: “I met Cannonball Adderley when I was 12. He did a school performance around where I lived and I was just blown away." Inspirations: “The greats of jazz. ...
Bruce Williamson Quartet featuring Art: Standard Transmission
by C. Michael Bailey
One of the early genius elements of small ensemble jazz manifested November 26, 1945, when Charlie Parker entered the studio with Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie, and, using the harmonic foundation of Ray Noble's “Cherokee," recorded a new melody, call “Ko-Ko." He went on to do the same with the Hamilton/Lewis composition “How High The Moon," ...
Remembering William Marcel "Buddy" Collette
By Ed Hamilton Saxophonist and flautist Buddy Collette brought color to white TV game show orchestras, before Martin Luther King fought for civil rights in the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott. He paved the way for the hiring of musicians of color into all-white TV and film orchestras: Clark Terry, J.J. Johnson, Count Basie, Quincy Jones, Benny ...
Miles: The Autobiography... Two Decades Later
by Victor L. Schermer
Miles: The AutobiographyBy Miles Davis with Quincy TroupeNew York: Simon and Schuster Paperbacks, 2005(Originally published in 1989)Miles Davis knew how to keep himself on the radar screen. He did it musically throughout his life, except for a five year period of “silence" when he isolated himself in his ...
Jon Irabagon Trio featuring Barry Altschul: Foxy
by Bruce Lindsay
Foxy is tenor saxophonist Jon Irabagon's fourth album as leader: a 78-minute, uninterrupted trio performance, exploring the possibilities of the 16-bar form through extended improvisation. Put another way, Foxy is a great big belly-laugh of an album; a stunning physical feat; a constantly shifting musical achievement; an adventure; and a raw and visceral performance. And it's ...
Jon Irabagon: Foxy
by Mark Corroto
Fashioned as a late night session, the continuous 78 minutes of saxophonist Jon Irabagon's Foxy is an unrelenting sixteen-bar jam that feels as if the infamous Dean Benedetti had recorded the get-together and now, some nine months (not years) later, it is being released. Irabagon, the winner of the 2008 Thelonious Monk International Saxophone ...
Take Five With Chris Massey
by AAJ Staff
Meet Chris Massey:Chris Massey is fast becoming one of the most talked about young talented players in the world of jazz. Growing up in small town Ohio where he picked up his first pair of drumsticks a the age of nine he took his first steps into his musical career as a Jazz Performance ...
Doug Webb: Midnight
by Bruce Lindsay
Saxophonist Doug Webb leads a superb quartet on Midnight, creating a late-night atmosphere with a hint of nostalgia on a range of classic tunes. Webb's career stretches back for 30 years and includes work with some of the finest jazz musicians, including Bud Shanks, Horace Silver and Freddie Hubbard, as well as leading ...
Julian Joseph: Joining Jazz and Baseball
by Bruce Lindsay
Julian Joseph is something of a jazz master of all trades. Pianist, composer, bandleader, arranger, broadcaster and educator, Joseph is constantly busy, always working on new ideas and projects, spreading the word about music, encouraging young performers and generally promoting jazz around the world. With Shadowball Joseph has turned his attention to the relationship between jazz ...
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