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Article: Interview

Walt Weiskopf: All About the Sound

by Bob Kenselaar
March 31, 2016

What is it that drives Walt Weiskopf? It's all about the music, all about the sound.He's reached a large audience in ten years of touring with Steely Dan. He's written a half dozen books on jazz improvisation techniques and methods, and he's taught at the Eastman School of Music, Temple University and New Jersey ...

Article: Album Review

Dave Liebman: Expansions: The Puzzle

Read "Expansions: The Puzzle" reviewed by Budd Kopman

by Budd Kopman
March 16, 2016

The Puzzle is the terrfic follow-up recording by David Liebman's new group, Expansions, the first being Samsara. No sophomore jinx here; if anything, the group has coalesced further and is even tighter. To throw out a (perhaps meaningless) label, this music could be called hyper-bop in its mix of well-placed dissonance, rhythmic displacements and ...

News: Event

Ball & Chain Presents Special Musical Performance By Giacomo Gates on March 10 (3 Sets)

March 8, 2016

BALL & CHAIN PRESENTS SPECIAL MUSICAL PERFORMANCE BY VOCALIST GIACOMO GATES New York Times Critically Acclaimed Jazz Vocalist’s First Show on Calle Ocho Ball & Chain, the historic and world famous live music venue located at 1513 Southwest 8th Street, Miami, FL 33135 is thrilled to present a special live musical performance by New York Times ...

Article: What is Jazz?

Co-Improvisation: Explaining the Magic

by Victor L. Schermer
March 7, 2016

When we listen to great jazz performances, we pay most attention to the soloists, some of whom become our musical heroes. In that respect, jazz is an affirmation of the individual, the uniqueness and liberation of either the “free and joyful spirit," of whom there was none greater than Louis Armstrong, or the arduous struggle of ...

Article: Album Review

Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra: All My Yesterdays

Read "All My Yesterdays" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
February 22, 2016

La Resonance Records ha appena pubblicato (in un lussuoso cofanetto di due CD più un libro di 92 pagine), le primissime incisioni della Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra, riprese al Village Vanguard il 7 febbraio e il 21 marzo 1966. Sono trascorsi 50 anni dalla nascita della formazione e, agli inizi di febbraio, lo storico ...

Article: Profile

Barry Guy: A Prophet is Not without Honour (Part 2)

by Duncan Heining
February 21, 2016

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 Barry Guy has been the artistic director and main composer of the London Jazz Composers' Orchestra throughout its now forty-five year history. Recordings and performances since Ode in 1972 have been sporadic but those forty-five years have resulted in eleven albums (including one with Anthony Braxton) ...

Article: Album Review

Thad Jones and Mel Lewis: All My Yesterdays: The Debut 1966 Recordings at the Village Vanguard

Read "All My Yesterdays: The Debut 1966 Recordings at the Village Vanguard" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
February 19, 2016

Offering: Live at Temple University (Resonance Records, 2014), Getz/Gilberto '76 (Resonance Records, 2016), Moments in Time (Resonance Records, 2016)...and these are just the most recent (not to forget several Wes Montgomery) releases. Resonance Records steps up (again) and releases what can only be considered the apotheosis of live jazz performance, All My Yesterdays: The Debut 1966 ...

News: Video / DVD

Count Basie: July '61 and '68

February 17, 2016

On July 20, 1961, the Count Basie Orchestra was in the south of France at the Antibes International Jazz Festival. There, the band played Splanky, Blee Blop Blues (the first two songs were incorrectly labeled on the film), Shiny Stockings, I Need to Bee'd With, Every Day I Have the Blues (with Lambert, Hendricks and Ross ...

Article: Live Review

A Day With Dave Liebman

by Ian Patterson
February 16, 2016

A Day With Dave Liebman National Concert Hall Dublin, Ireland January 31, 2016 Lasting the course in jazz, that's to say, building a successful career that, just like any other job, spans more than half a lifetime, brings with it a wealth of knowledge and experience. Sharing that knowledge with ...

Article: Album Review

Wayne Bergeron: Full Circle

Read "Full Circle" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello

by Nicholas F. Mondello
January 27, 2016

Track and field aficionados will remember Olympic gold-medal-winning high-jumper, Dick Fosbury. Fosbury revolutionized his event by developing an unorthodox “backward flop" to hurdle the bar. No flop, for sure, but Full Circle from trumpeter Wayne Bergeron and his stellar Los Angeles teammates raise every aspect of the trumpeting and big band bar to atmospheric heights.