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Gerald Wilson Orchestra: Detroit
by Robert J. Robbins
Commissioned by the Detroit International Jazz Festival and premiered on the occasion of the composer's 91st birthday, Gerald Wilson's six-movement “Detroit Suite" demonstrates that after nearly seven decades in the music business, the nonagenarian composer and arranger still has a great deal to offer in terms of musical creativity. Wilson spent the latter part of his ...
Christian McBride: Getting the Inside Straight
by Esther Berlanga-Ryan
If we think about it for a little while, it's possible to believe that there is something almost mystic and undeniably powerful about jazz. The way it developed through the years and its constant ignition-like energy; the creativity of those who lead the way and those who continue the journey today; the improvisation that takes over ...
Sex Mob: Sexmob Meets Medeski live in Willisau 2006
by Brandt Reiter
How best to describe slide trumpeter Steven Bernstein's singular quartet Sex Mob? Maybe we should start with mercurial musical magician Bernstein himself, whose exotic career as sideman, musical director, arranger and composer has included ten years with John Lurie's Lounge Lizards and stints alongside everyone from Bill Frisell to Sam Rivers, the Flying Karamazov Brothers and, ...
Bobby Bradford: Self-Determination in the Great Basin
by Clifford Allen
Born in Cleveland, Mississippi in 1934 and raised between Dallas and Los Angeles, trumpeter Bobby Bradford began playing with Ornette Coleman in Los Angeles in the 1950s, and replaced Don Cherry in an unrecorded Coleman quartet during the early 1960s. However, the most significant partnership in Bradford's musical life was with the clarinetist and composer John ...
Take Five With Ivan Farmakovsky
by AAJ Staff
Meet Ivan Farmakovsky: My name is Ivan... Farmakovsky Ivan. I was fortunate to become part of a creative family: my father was a pianist and a choir conductor, my mom is an actress. I inherited the right passion, and at the age of 5 I was sent to special children's music school under the studio of ...
Omar Sosa: en el camino
by Joan A. Cararach
El pianista cubano Omar Sosa estrena el próximo 6 de noviembre en el 41 Voll-Damm Festival Internacional de Jazz de Barcelona un encargo, The Afrocuban Side of 'Kind of Blue'. “Después de mi primer proyecto sinfónico, éste es el trabajo más complejo que he hecho nunca, tanto de organización como de expectativas, de mí ...
Chicago Jazz Philharmonic: Collective Creativity
by Edward Blanco
The long awaited debut by the Chicago Jazz Philharmonic, Collective Creativityhas been described as a “genre-blending" piece of work, combining the percussive elements of jazz with the graceful sophistication of classical music, fused in one big band/symphonic project. Under the direction of conductor and producer Orbert Davis, the CJP is a 55-plus piece symphonic jazz orchestra ...
Count Basie: Swiss Radio Days, Vol. 20: Mustermesse Basel 1956, Pt. 2; On My Way & Shoutin' Again! & Swinging, Singing, Playing
by George Kanzler
Count Basie OrchestraSwiss Radio Days, Vol. 20: Mustermesse Basel 1956, Pt. 2 TCB2009 Count BasieOn My Way & Shoutin' Again!Verve2009 Count Basie OrchestraSwinging, Singing, PlayingMack Avenue2009 ...
Deck the Halls with Big Band Carols
by Jack Bowers
With the holiday season on track and hastening toward us like a runaway locomotive, it's time once again to hunker down and prepare for the annual onslaught of “Rudolph," “Frosty the Snowman," “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus," “Sleigh Ride," “Silver Bells," chestnuts roasting on an open fire and everyone's perennial favorite, “White Christmas." Not to ...
Free Movie Nights with "Lady Day," "The Duke," and Charlie "Bird" Parker!
Make Tuesday the new Friday and join the BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center for the first “Scenes Through the Cinema Lens" on October 20 at 7:30! An original retrospective focusing on the performing arts in film, this years series will highlight several of the great performers from the Lost Jazz Shrines and rarely seen footage of ...
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