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30th Anniversary of Wattstax on Special Edition DVD
by Chris M. Slawecki
30th Anniversary of Wattstax on Special Edition DVD Warner Home Video 2004 In August of 1965, rioting that lasted for six days, killed 34 and destroyed hundreds of properties erupted in the South Central Los Angeles neighborhood known as Watts. In August 1972, this community reconvened for a ...
Postcards From Seven Summer Day Trips
by Chris M. Slawecki
Hi, Folks! Sorry I have not written from my vacation. In truth, I really did write seven postcards to you, one from each destination of my day trip week. I just... uh, never sent the postcards. So here are all seven postcards in this single envelope. Hope you enjoy reading them as much as I enjoyed ...
Club d'Elf: Mystery, Science, Theater
by Chris M. Slawecki
Club d'Elf is a Boston-based band led by bassist Mike Rivard. They've just released three two-CD live sets---recorded at the Knitting Factory in New York City in 2000, at Vassar College Chapel in 2001 and in Athens, GA, in 2002--on Kufala Records.These are just about the only simple statements you can make about Club ...
Creed Taylor, Incorporated: The AAJ Interview, Part 3-3: 2004 State of the Union
by Chris M. Slawecki
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 Introduction Without the contributions of producer and entrepreneur Creed Taylor, the past, present and future of jazz would be differently written. Five decades ago, Creed Taylor produced some of Bethlehem Records' best albums, including sets by Charles Mingus, Kai Winding with J.J. Johnson, ...
Creed Taylor, Incorporated: The AAJ Interview, Part 2-3
by Chris M. Slawecki
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3Introduction Without the contributions of producer and entrepreneur Creed Taylor, the past, present and future of jazz would be differently written.Five decades ago, Creed Taylor produced some of Bethlehem Records' best albums, including sets by Charles Mingus, Kai Winding with J.J. Johnson, and singer Chris ...
Fifty Years to Swing Ya Mother...
by Chris M. Slawecki
This year, the Newport Jazz Festival, now the JVC Jazz Festival Newport, celebrates its 50th anniversary. Special events planned for the Festival will run from August 11 - 15 in Newport, RI, and honor several musicians whose talents helped make the name Newport synonymous with jazz for the past half-century. Among these special ...
Pete Christlieb/Warne Marsh Quintet: Apogee
by Chris M. Slawecki
Apogee plays in a hard-bop format you almost never hear any more: saxophonists Marsh and Christleib screaming twin tenors in a quintet with piano (Lou Levy), bass (Jim Hughart) and drums (Nick Ceroli), immensely aided by several loose yet tight arrangements by Joe Roccisano. Of course, you almost never heard this format when Apogee was originally ...
Yellowjackets: Yellowjackets
by Chris M. Slawecki
Most contemporary jazz or instrumental pop albums released over the past 25 years owe one thing or another to the style and sound advanced by this 1981 debut. When keyboardist, composer and arranger Russell Ferrante pulled drummer Ricky Lawson and bassist Jimmy Haslip into his fledgling swarm, he also called on guitarist Robben Ford, ...
Bill Evans: You Must Believe In Spring
by Chris M. Slawecki
After more than a decade as one of the pianist's most sympathetic bassists, this was Eddie Gomez's last recording with Evans, a trio set with drummer Eliot Zigmund recorded in 1977 and released after Evans' death in 1980.Evans never stopped searching for new ideas. He might be faulted for repeatedly looking for them in ...
The Erroll Garner Trio: The Greatest Garner
by Chris M. Slawecki
Erroll Garner imperturbably played more or less the same piano style throughout his career, blending jazz and pop with a bounce and grin. When he rocks a tempo hard, as on this version of “Confessin,’” he nearly sounds the second coming of Fats Waller, completely free from the bebop influence felt by many of Garner’s piano ...
