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Jazz on Soul, Pop, Rock, Folk, and other intangible territories - Part 2
by Artur Moral
Part 1 | Part 2 James Carter soloing on a song by Sting? A prolific French guitarist and producer, approaching his thousandth album, deconstructing one of Billy Joel's most candid love songs? A Spanish trumpeter translating the Bee Gees into the jazz language? Yes, all this will happen in this second installment of a ...
Quincy Jones: An Evening With A Legend
by Solomon J. LeFlore
This article was first published on All About Jazz on October 31, 2014. I love jazz! I love everything about it... the improvisation, syncopation, the forceful rhythm, and the fact that it is truly America's original art form. Its unique and innovative use of brass and woodwind instruments and the piano is jazz. And, ...
My Summer with Sonny
by Patrick Burnette
Raise your hands, jazz fans, if you've been thinking about jazz legend Sonny Rollins during the last few months. After all, the great man is still with us at age 94. Reaching such an age is an accomplishment for anybody, but a miraculous feat for an African-American jazz musician born in the early decades of the ...
Remembering Dan Morgenstern
by Sanford Josephson
This article previously appeared in Jersey Jazz Magazine. In 1938 when Dan Morgenstern was eight years old, he and his mother fled Nazi-controlled Austria for Copenhagen. Nine years later, they arrived in New York, and Morgenstern was not interested in seeing the Statute of Liberty or the Empire State Building. He just wanted to ...
Russell Malone: Guitar Master
by R.J. DeLuke
This article was first published on All About Jazz on February 29, 2016. “People make too big of a deal about being self taught. Because nobody is completely self taught," ruminates Russell Malone, one of the best loved jazz guitarists by both fans and critics. His sound is full and rich; his fingers fleet,the ...
Meet Ken Peplowski
by AAJ Staff
This article was first published on All About Jazz in August 1998. In numerous rave reviews, critics have exalted Ken Peplowski as the epitome of jazz traditionalism. But repeated listenings of his work reveals that Peplowski is perhaps more experimental and diverse than some have described him. It is worth noting that while Benny ...
Coleman Hawkins Meets the Big Sax Section
An interesting Coleman Hawkins album that's unavailable and virtually unknown today is Coleman Hawkins Meets the Big Sax Section. Originally entitled The Saxophone Section, Featuring Coleman Hawkins, it was recorded in April 1958 for the World Wide label. When Savoy re-issued the album, the label changed the title. The LP featured 4/5 of Count Basie's sax ...
Alex Hendriksen: Lotus Blossom
by Chris May
There is a story, possibly apocryphal, about a young tenor saxophonist who, after some arm twisting from a friend, was persuaded to venture on to the bandstand and join in a jam session alongside Coleman Hawkins. Afterwards the player was asked by his friend whether he had enjoyed the experience. “It was OK," he said, “but ...
Summer Sequence: Ralph Burns + Lucian Ban, Marta Sanchez and more
by David Brown
In the first set we have a birthday tribute to pianist and arranger Ralph Burns, born June 29, 1922. In jazz, Burns is best known for his work with Woody Herman's “Second Herd" as the band's pianist and chief arranger. Let's also explore his ensemble work and then his string arrangements for Ben Webster, Ray Charles ...
