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Count Basie: Live in Berlin & Stockholm 1968
by Graham L. Flanagan
Count Basie Live in Berlin & Stockholm 1968 Impro Jazz 2009 Every jazz fan, while listening to an album by one of their favorite legends of the genre, occasionally closes their eyes to imagine what it might have been like actually to be there for the recording itself. ...
Harry Allen: New York State of Mind
by Raul d'Gama Rose
The big, fat, warm and tender tone of Harry Allen's tenor saxophone is impossible to miss. There is no one who sounds quite like him, and that is probably because no other saxophonist has embraced the tenor horn in a similar way. No one since Coleman Hawkins and Ben Webster has mined the wealth of that ...
Scott Hamilton: Live at Nefertiti
by Jakob Baekgaard
Jazz isn't always about breaking new ground in terms of sound and genre. It's just as important to preserve the music of the masters, and nobody carries the torch of tradition more elegantly than tenor saxophonist Scott Hamilton. His heroes include Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young--in short, the founding fathers of swing saxophone playing. ...
Artie Shaw: Classic Bluebird and Victor Sessions
by Samuel Chell
Artie ShawClassic Bluebird and Victor SessionsMosaic Records2009Shortly after its critically acclaimed box set comprising clarinetist Benny Goodman's essential recordings-- The Columbia and Okeh Benny Goodman Orchestra Sessions (2009), which was released to coincide with the centenary of the “King of Swing"--Mosaic Records has done it again. The Classic ...
Alone, Again (Naturally): Peter Brotzmann, Olaf Rupp, Henry Kaiser, John Butcher, Woody Sullender and Frank Rosaly
by Clifford Allen
For this writer, solo playing and solo concerts have a special place. A few years before I began writing about jazz, and while living in New York at the beginning of the 2000s, I ran into the late violinist Leroy Jenkins in the East Village. I didn't know him personally, but he was instantly recognizable, and ...
Milt Jackson & The Jazz Giants, Bean Bags Plus Bags' Opus
By Milt Jackson
Label: Phoenix Records (15)
Released: 2009
Track listing: Close Your Eyes; Stuffy; Don't Take Your Love From Me; Get Happy; Sandra's Blues; Indian Blues; Ill Wind; Blues For Diahann; Afternoon In Paris; I Remember Clifford; Thinking Of You; Whisper Not;
Holiday Gift Guide 2009
by Jeff Fitzgerald, Genius
For many years, Your Own Personal Genius earned his drinking money by working retail. I've sold computers, appliances, furniture, mattresses, and kitchen cabinets; and in the process, became somewhat of a Grinch when it came to the material aspects of the holidays. Spending 14 hours a day in a store dealing with surly shoppers, an endless ...
Jazz Icons, Series 4
by Ken Dryden
Jazz Icons Series 4 Naxos 2009 The fourth volume of the Jazz Icons DVD series, available individually or in a boxed set, compiles live videos by seven jazz greats never issued commercially, all with detailed liner notes and a bumper crop of period photographs. The performances are in black and ...
Henry Grimes, Paul Dunmall & Andrew Cyrille: The Profound Sound Trio at the Vortex, London
by John Sharpe
The Profound Sound Trio: Henry Grimes, Paul Dunmall & Andrew Cyrille The Vortex London, England November 23, 2009 A buzz of anticipation gripped a full house at the Vortex for the London debut of the Profound Sound Trio--a collective of British reedman Paul Dunmall and a heavyweight rhythm ...
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