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Charles Mingus: Mingus in Argentina
by Jack Kenny
This latter-day Charles Mingus group is ripe for reassessment. The new guys, Ricky Ford, Robert Neloms and Jack Walrath carried a heavy burden as they toured South America. The two-CD collection is a great feast of Mingus played by a band that, as yet, has never had real recognition. Much of the music was written for ...
Triology: The Slow Road
by Jack Bowers
As if having three of Canada's most cherished and honored jazz musicians together in a recording studio were not enough, that trio--best known by its collective name, Triology--chooses to travel The Slow Road with one of America's national treasures, the incomparable tenor saxophonist Scott Hamilton. When it comes to lovely music lovingly conceived and performed, it ...
The Master of Drums: Gene Krupa and the Music He Gave The World
by Richard J Salvucci
The Master of Drums Elizabeth J Rosenthal 320 Pages ISBN: 978-0-8065-4320 Kensington Publishing Company 2025 In the interests of full disclosure, I spent an extended period with Gene Krupa as an adolescent. Relatives were friends of Krupa's. All the nice things Elizabeth J. Rosenthal says about Krupa as a ...
Triology: The Slow Road
by Pierre Giroux
In The Slow Road, the Canadian trio Triology--comprised of pianist Miles Black, guitarist Bill Coon, and bassist Jodi Proznick--joins forces with the inimitable tenor saxophonist Scott Hamilton to present a recording that swings with warmth, restraint, and unfailing musicality. This is chamber jazz at its most elegant, invoking the refined spirit of classic drummerless trios such ...
Don Byas: Sax Expat
by Richard J Salvucci
Don Byas: Sax Expat Con Chapman 233 Pages ISBN: 9781496856081 University Press of Mississippi2025 Don Byas, a tenor saxophonist, who was regarded with great respect in his day, is, unfortunately, now not much more than a name. In part, it is because he has been gone for half a ...
Max Pollak: Tapped Into Rhythm
by Leo Sidran
Max Pollak was five years old, growing up in suburban Vienna, when he saw Fred Astaire dancing on television. He didn't understand the history. He didn't know the language. But he knew he had to do that. The rhythm, the movement, the magic of it--it spoke to him. And it sent him on a lifelong journey ...
Stéphane Mercier: Live At The Jazz Station
by Ian Patterson
A graduate of the Conservatoire Royale de Bruxelles and Berkley College of Music--where he was lead alto in Herb Pomeroy's big band--Belgian saxophonist Stéphane Mercier has been leading/co-leading groups since the mid-'90s. This live album, captured from a gig at The Jazz Station, the famous Brussels venue in whose long-standing big band Mercier sits. That chair ...
Kenny Dorham: Blue Bossa in the Bronx: Live from the Blue Morocco
by Pierre Giroux
Trumpeter Kenny Dorham's stature in jazz history is undeniable, yet he remains one of music's most under-appreciated masters. Despite being a vital presence among the great innovators of his era, Dorham never achieved the star power his talent deserved. In conjunction with Record Store Day, Resonance Records is releasing Blue Bossa in the Bronx: Live from ...
Kenny Dorham: Blue Bossa in the Bronx: Live from the Blue Morocco
by Troy Dostert
On their 1955 live recording At the Cafe Bohemia (Blue Note), the Jazz Messengers' Art Blakey introduced his trumpet player, Kenny Dorham, as the “Uncrowned King," a title that was perhaps fitting at the time given Dorham's still-rising trajectory. But even in his prime, Dorham arguably never received his proper accolades, and he would typically be ...
Albert Ayler Trio: Prophecy Live, First Visit
by Mark Corroto
No jazz artist has been as polarizing as Albert Ayler. Listeners either revere him as a prophet or dismiss him as a charlatan. To some, his music is a divine revelation; to others, an indecipherable cacophony. But while Ayler's music was undeniably radical, he was no insurrectionist-- he was simply a true original. His sound was ...
