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April 2009
by AAJ Staff
Edward SimonEd Simon TrioVillage VanguardNew York City March 1, 2009In any circumstance, it would be worth hitting the Village Vanguard to hear Edward Simon (Mar. 1st), one of the most gifted pianists of our day. But the presence of guest saxophonist Mark Turner--back in undiminished form after a ...
Kenosha Kid: Steamboat Bill, Jr
by Phil DiPietro
Guitarist Dan Nettles may still make his home where he grew up in Athens, Georgia, but musically he knows no bounds--geographical or otherwise. Neither, it seems, do the members of his far-flung collective; his Kenosha Kids, as it were. Listening to, among others, Athens' killing rhythm section of Jeff Reilly on drums and Neal Fountain on ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Dave Douglas
All About Jazz is celebrating Dave Douglas' birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Dave DouglasTwo-time Grammy-nominated jazz musician Dave Douglas is arguably the most prolific and original trumpeter/composer of his generation. From his New York base, where he\'s lived since the mid 1980s... more Website | ...
Dave Douglas & Keystone: Live at Jazz Standard
by Ted Gordon
In 1961, Bob Thiele set up a portable reel-to-reel tape recorder at the Village Vanguard to record John Coltrane's quintet. Though there was no official plan for releasing the tapes, Thiele knew that recording every single night of these performances had to be done. The resulting release proves his historical foresight. In 2006, Greenleaf music took ...
SFJAZZ Collective: Ottawa, Canada March 1, 2009
by John Kelman
SFJAZZ CollectiveDominion-Chalmers United Church Ottawa, Canada March 1, 2009 It was a stellar weekend for jazz in Ottawa, Canada. First, on Saturday, February 26 fans were treated to an intimate but outstanding evening of music by local bassist John Geggie and his guests, guitarist Vic Juris and drummer John ...
An AAJ Interview with Larry Ochs
by AAJ Staff
This interview was originally published in January 2000.To reveal a new world is the function of creation in all the arts." --Edgard VareseHow different might our planet be if a number of significant events over the past century had NOT happened? What if the Kennedys and Dr. King had NOT been assassinated? ...
SFJAZZ Collective to Perform in Ottawa on March 1, 2009
Celebrated jazz artists perform together in Ottawa for the first time Sheer, out-of-the-box musicality… revealed the joys and complexities of free improvising." – Los Angeles Times Ottawa (Tuesday, February 3, 2009) – Joe Lovano, Dave Douglas, Miguel Zenon, Robin Eubanks, Renee Rosnes, Matt Penman and Eric Harland are each giants of the jazz genre. The Ottawa ...
Dave Douglas' Fetish Busting Greenleaf Digital Music Experience
by Mark Corroto
The assignment was simple enough. I was to listen online to trumpet and cornet player Dave Douglas' recordings Quintet: Live at the Jazz Standard and Keystone Live at the Jazz Standard at GreenleafMusic.com, and write about them. So why hadn't I touched the play button nearly three weeks after receiving the music? Sure, sometimes ...
Noah Preminger: Dry Bridge Road
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Readers and theatre-goers probably found Anton Chekhov disquieting when they first encountered his work at the turn of the twentieth century. Here was a guy who used nineteenth-century materials--the bourgeois drawing room, issues of social class, well-behaved prose--to depict what would become emblematic twentieth-century themes: psychology, anomie, the little heart breaks of daily life.Wunderkind ...
Dave Douglas and Keystone: Moonshine
by Matthew Miller
Dave Douglas is not your typical iconoclast. The progressive trumpeter--a mainstay of John Zorn's Masada and more typically avant-garde groups--favors an understated upheaval in his efforts as a leader, courting, in the words of writer Andy Battaglia tradition and progression without puzzling over the difference." On Moonshine, his second album with Keystone, a sextet featuring Marcus ...


