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Final Notes: Dr. Billy Taylor Retires from Concert Performance
by Franz A. Matzner
Educator, ambassador, author, composer, and master pianist, Dr. Billy Taylor ended his concert career last Thursday night, concluding over sixty years as one of jazz's greatest emissaries with a rousing performance at the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater by his trio and guest John Faddis. Billy Taylor's career has spanned the entirety of modern ...
Jason Moran's Bandwagon Packs Kennedy Center
by Franz A. Matzner
The year separating their debut at the Kennedy Center Jazz Club and last week's performance has been a good one for Jason Moran and his Bandwagon trio. The success of their album Live at the Village Vanguard secured Moran's standing as one of jazz's ascending stars, and the follow-up quartet release Same Mother has served to ...
Bridging Time: The Kennedy Center Presents Anita O'Day
by Franz A. Matzner
As part of the Kennedy Center's ongoing series celebrating 1940's music, dance, film, and culture, the KC Jazz club offered a special concert last week hosted by bass phenomenon Chip Jackson honoring one of jazz's first ladies of song, Anita O'Day. The concert was held in the Kennedy Center's elegant jazz club, the ...
Kermit Ruffins: One Night in New Orleans
by Franz A. Matzner
With the temperature plunging and the streets decked out in ice and snow, there were few better ways to warm up last weekend than heading to Blues Alley for some good, old-fashioned New Orleans jazz performed by revivalist Kermit Ruffins and his Barbecue Swingers. Hailing from the city of swing itself, Ruffins has ...
William Parker: Solo Bass and Much More
by Erik R. Quick
There is an old jazz joke about a group of explorers being led through the jungle by a local guide. As the men march and tear through the overgrowth, the guide warns - “Always listen for the drums. When the drums stop - bad things follow." On day two, the group continues to hear the incessant ...
An Die Musik in Baltimore
by Erik R. Quick
I imagine that most jazz fans in Washington, DC are unaware that the best venue for jazz and improvised music in the DC area is not actually in the city. Indeed, it is not located in what is traditionally considered the metropolitan region. It is located, instead, one hour north in Baltimore, Maryland. An ...
Jazz at the Kennedy Center: A Year in Review and a Glance at 2005
by Franz A. Matzner
2004 was another outstanding year for jazz at the Kennedy Center, with a diverse and superlative roster of musicians along with a series of outstanding mini-festivals that confirmed the Kennedy Center's status as one of the top jazz centers in the world. Under the guidance of jazz phenomenon and educator Dr. Billy Taylor, ...
Moutin Reunion Quartet at Blues Alley
by Franz A. Matzner
Twins, bassist Francois and drummer Louis Moutin have been playing together since they first picked up their respective instruments at age five. As one can imagine, over the years these two extraordinary musicians have formed a musical bond of the deepest level. The fruition of their musical relationship, however, seems to have come after several years ...
Hidden Heights: Brian Horton at HR-57
by Franz A. Matzner
One of the most enjoyable and distinguishing aspects of jazz is its capacity to shift one night to the next, one venue to another, from moment to moment. Different groupings of musicians performing the same compositions, the same players performing as trios or quartets, or with one member the leader a given night, another the following ...
Ecstatic Swing: Winard Harper Sextet Plays the KC Jazz Club
by Franz A. Matzner
It's been said so often that we've all come to believe it, at least a little bit. Jazz is dead. A moribund art form housed in an ivory cage, academia sponsored, and fellowship sustained. A “museum" art that despite occasional dusting serves only as a bridge to the hailer periods of yesteryear. Depending on who you're ...
