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Arturo O'Farrill: Risa Negra
by Joel Roberts
Pianist, composer and bandleader Arturo O'Farrill is Latin jazz royalty. The son of the legendary Chico O'Farrill, whose collaborations with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie helped create the genre (and whose best-known composition, “Manteca," is reason enough for his status as a jazz icon), Arturo has long been a major innovator in his own right, with ...
Take Five With Billy Carrion, Jr.
by AAJ Staff
Meet Billy Carrion Jr: Billy Carrion Jr started on the alto saxophone at 9 years old. Music of all kinds was always playing at Billy's home by his salsa singing father, who has an amazing career of his own. After being taught how to read, write, and make a sound out of the horn, ...
A Fascinating Exhibition in Paris, France, That Pays Homage to Miles Davis (1926 - 1991)
By Regine Coqueran-Gelin The exhibition “We want Miles - Miles Davis le jazz face a sa legende" is on until the 17th January 2010 at the Musee de la musique in La Villette, in Paris, France. It is an unusual exhibition that gives jazz a rare opportunity to look inside itself and to be seen and ...
The David Arner Trio: Out/In The Open
by Jerry D'Souza
David Arner has built a reputation as an innovative pianist and a proponent of spontaneous composition. He filters both skills into his music and adds a healthy dose of surprise through changes in tempo, dynamics and harmony, weaving one into the other with facile dexterity. His ability to shape progression has led to associations with other ...
Christian McBride: Getting the Inside Straight
by Esther Berlanga-Ryan
If we think about it for a little while, it's possible to believe that there is something almost mystic and undeniably powerful about jazz. The way it developed through the years and its constant ignition-like energy; the creativity of those who lead the way and those who continue the journey today; the improvisation that takes over ...
Myron Walden: Eclectic Reedman
by Edward Bride
In words often used to describe the music of Duke Ellington, Myron Walden is a saxophonist beyond category. More so than many other musicians, Walden himself eschews reliance on any one instrument, not tenor or alto nor soprano nor bass nor... well, you get the idea. The voice that he is striving to use in any ...
Warne Marsh and Lee Konitz: Two Not One
by Chris Mosey
In 1975, the members of a musical appreciation society called The Danish Jazz Exchange clubbed together to bring their two favorite American improvisers, Warne Marsh and Lee Konitz, to their homeland. They then listened in rapt attention as the saxophonists played a series of concerts at Montmartre, then Copenhagen's premier jazz venue. The shadow of blind ...
Hank Jones / Oliver Jones: Pleased To Meet You
by Raul d'Gama Rose
What a surprise to hear the first-ever recording that joins piano maestros Hank Jones and Oliver Jones. A Detroit native, ninety-year-old Hank Jones is from the family that gave us Thad “Bartok with Wings" Jones and polyrhythmist Elvin Jones, and he has participated in historic bebop sessions with Charlie Parker and memorable duets ...
Ari Hoenig Quartet: Niu's Jazz & Blues Bar, Bangkok
by Ian Patterson
Ari Hoenig Quartet Niu's Jazz & Blues Bar Silom, Bangkok, Thailand November 5, 2009 There is no other drummer quite like New Yorker Ari Hoenig. Watching him play is like marveling at a cross between Animal, the wild drummer of Muppets fame, and Max Roach. His approach to drumming ...
"Birth of the Cool:" Bob Perkins Lectures and the Don Wilson Trio Performs
by Victor L. Schermer
Birth of the CoolPerformed by The Don Wilson TrioLecture by Bob PerkinsOctober 25, 2009The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine ArtsPhiladelphia, PA This writer could think of no better way to spend an autumn Sunday afternoon than to stroll over to the fabled Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts ...
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