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Jazz Bridge Presents Guitarist Steve Giordano on December 1 at Cheltenham Art Center (PA)
Appearing at the Cheltenham Art Center, 439 Ashbourne Rd, Cheltenham, PA on December 1st will be guitarist Steve Giordano. One show: 7:30-9PM. Tickets: $10/$5 for students. No advance sales. Free Refreshments! For info: 215-517-8337 Appearing with him will be vocalist Carla Jenkins, bassist Steve Meashey, and John Mosemann on drums This Neighborhood Concert Series ...
Musical Talent Is (Now and Then) All in the Family
by Jack Bowers
The induction of almost the entire Marsalis family (father Ellis, piano, and sons Wynton, trumpet; Branford, saxophones; Delfeayo, trombone; and Jason, drums) set me to thinking about how musical talent sometimes runs in families. In the pop world, almost everyone knows about the Jacksons, the Kings, the Osmonds and others. The same is true in jazz, ...
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 ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Chico Hamilton
All About Jazz is celebrating Chico Hamilton's birthday today! Chico HamiltonLegendary jazz drummer and bandleader Foreststorn ‘Chico’ Hamilton, born September 21st, 1921 in Los Angeles, had a fast track musical education in a band with his schoolmates Charles Mingus, Illinois Jacquet, Ernie Royal... more Website | Photos | Articles ...
Nobu Stowe: Beyond Free
by Glenn Astarita
The music of NS (Nobu) Stowe is synonymous with the musical storytelling characterized with spontaneity and melodic romanticism--a true rarity in the field of fully improvised music. Stowe has not only mastered the art of total improvisation--a method of fully improvised music that embraces song-like melody, tonal harmony and rhythmic propulsion as well as more commonly ...
Don Aliquo: The Man, The Music, The Journey
by Ludwig vanTrikt
Geography is a central theme in the life and artistry of Pittsburgh's native son, Don Aliquo. The saxophonist, educator and bandleader is part of a rich steel town jazz lineage which includes his father, Don Aliquo Sr., a performing artist and teacher in his own right. There is also a metaphorical geography, in which Aliquo covers ...
A Triple Bill of Keys & Drums
by Robert Iannapollo
Three albums by keyboards and drums duos--two of them recorded in the early 1990s, the third in the noughties--demonstrate the wide and varied territory this pared down instrumentation can inhabit. Andrew Hill / Chico HamiltonDreams Come TrueJoyous Shout!2008 On paper, the duet of late pianist Andrew Hill and drummer Chico ...
Spin Marvel: Spin Marvel 2: The Reluctantly Politicised Mr James
by Chris May
It's elephant in the room time. Though no-one likes to mention it, experience shows that it's wise to approach any band led by a drummer with a degree of caution. Drummers are primarily involved with rhythm--a crucial component in music, but only one of several. Unless, like Art Blakey or Chico Hamilton, a drummer/bandleader has an ...
Drummer Chico Hamilton Performs in Baltimore on May 15
NEA Jazz Master Chico Hamilton Continues His Twelve Tones of Love Album Tour in Baltimore Saluted by the Kennedy Center as “a living jazz legend", and appointed to the National Council on the Arts, world renowned jazz artist and composer Chico Hamilton will be performing with the highly regarded Euphoria, bringing “traditional jazz with a great ...
Larry Coryell: Making the Changes
by Tom Greenland
“This is all Coltrane, from his early/middle/late period, whatever that means!" laughs guitarist Larry Coryell. He is sitting backstage in the green room at Iridium in 2009, describing a chart he is about to try out with organist Joey DeFrancesco. “And then this part here is very much like 'All Blues,' like Miles," he says, humming ...
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