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Florian Arbenz, Michael Arbenz, Ron Carter: The Alpine Session: Arbenz vs. Arbenz Meets Ron Carter
by Neil Duggan
1937 was a landmark year: the Golden Gate Bridge opened and Edward VIII abdicated the British throne. In jazz, Billie Holiday made her debut with Count Basie and Dizzy Gillespie began his recording career. It was also the year Ron Carter, the most-recorded jazz bassist in history, was born. With over 2000 recording sessions to his ...
The Len Pierro Jazz Orchestra: As I Was Saying
by Jack Bowers
Remember the good old days before high-tech hardware and software seized control and the country's leading big bands were recorded in a studio or in concert employing a wide dynamic range with no overdubs or splices to enhance the performance? Composer and arranger Len Pierro does, which is why he planned As I Was Saying, the ...
Ten Terrific Sax Plus Organ Combinations
by Artur Moral
OK, maybe the electric guitar was its first and most celebrated love affair, but the organ's alliances with the saxophone's family members are undoubtedly among the richest musical combinations, both in terms of sound and the intense interrelationships that typically develop in such encounters. Whether it be a tenor with a Hammond, a soprano with an ...
Jeff Ballard, Toscano per amore
by Neri Pollastri
Classe 1963, californiano di Santa Cruz, Jeff Ballard è oggi uno dei grandi batteristi della scena jazz internazionale. Membro di formazioni importanti come il sestetto di Chick Corea e il trio di Brad Mehldau, ha collaborato continuativamente con musicisti come Kurt Rosenwinkel, Danilo Perez, Avishai Cohen. Abbiamo avuto occasione di incontrarlo a Sesto Fiorentino, dove vive. ...
Macedonian National Jazz Orchestra Honors Quincy Jones
by Nenad Georgievski
Macedonian National Jazz Orchestra Macedonian Philharmonic Hall Skopje, Macedonia January 24, 2025 The National Jazz Orchestra kicked off its new season with a vibrant homage to Quincy Jones, one of the most influential musical figures of the 20th century. The concert, titled Jazz Classics: Quintessence by Quincy Jones, took place ...
Sam Blakeslee Large Group at BLU Jazz+
by John Chacona
Sam Blakeslee Large Group BLU Jazz+ Akron, OH December 20, 2024 In December, flowers bloomed in northeast Ohio, but climate change had nothing to do with it. The sudden blossoming was the work of Sam Blakeslee who returned to his home state to celebrate the holidays with family and friends, 18 ...
Al Jarreau: Wow: Live at the Childe Harold
by Mark Corroto
Al Jarreau gained nationwide recognition with the theme to the 1985 hit television show “Moonlighting," which starred Cybill Shepherd and Bruce Willis. He also had a chart-topping single “We're In This Love Together." Before he was a pop star, R&B singer, and a successful cross-over artist, Al Jarreau was the purest of jazz talents. He gained ...
The Duke Ellington Carnegie Hall Concerts: January 1943
by Chuck Lenatti
Duke Ellington was one of the most popular and successful jazz musicians of the first half of the 20th century and according to composer Gunther Schuller and musicologist and historian Barry Kernfeld, “the most significant composer of the genre." Radio broadcasts from his residency at New York's Cotton Club beginning in 1927 extended Ellington's ...
Remembering Quincy Jones: Music Is Like Water
by Ian Patterson
Quincy Jones, a giant of popular music culture in the 20th and 21st centuries, died in Los Angeles on Sunday, November 3, He was 91. Though he began his career in the '50s as a jazz trumpeter, Quincy Jones may be best remembered as a highly successful producer, arranger and conductor--hats he wore with ...
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, ...
