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Miles Davis: Olympia – Mar 20, 1960
by C. Michael Bailey
A Totally Subjective History of Jazz, 1945--1968 I am going to over-simplify the history of small-ensemble jazz between the heyday of bebop and the vestibule of fusion using a single catalyst--Miles Davis. Davis was instrumental in or the genesis of five major movements (not including fusion) in jazz where the hinges of these ...
Rudresh Mahanthappa: Bird Calls
by Victor L. Schermer
In this innovative album, Rudresh Mahanthappa is to “Yardbird" Charlie Parker what Albert Einstein was to Isaac Newton. He revises Parker's legacy to his own advanced understanding, yet preserves the essential truth of Parker's contribution to jazz. One genius says “hello" to another and then goes his own way. The result is an exciting “leaning in" ...
Lee Morgan Indeed! – Blue Note 1538
by Marc Davis
The first time Lee Morgan entered a recording studio, he was just 18 years old and he was leading his own band. More impressive, that band included soon-to-be-legendary pianist Horace Silver and drummer Philly Joe Jones. This is the CD of that 1956 recording session. While the players were great, the music is merely ...
“Jazz In The Key Of Light" Spotlights Jazz Greats And Rising Stars
Veteran jazz writer and photographer Ken Franckling has published a new book, Jazz in the Key of Light (Eighty of our Finest Jazz Musicians Speak for Themselves). It illuminates more than 80 musicians through a different format than the traditional fine art photography book. Images of its featured jazz artists, in performance or moments of personal ...
Herbie Hancock: A Life Of Possibilities
by Chuck Schultz
Herbie Hancock is a world treasure. The following are a review of his memoir Possibilities and an interview. The Book Review During more than a half-century in the public eye, Herbie Hancock has been acclaimed as a jazz pianist and composer and an explorer of new musical forms. He rose to fame ...
Jamie Cullum, The UK's #1 Jazz Artist, Announces US Headline Tour In Support Of New Album, "Interlude," Out January 27, 2015 On Blue Note Records
RUN INCLUDES JANUARY 24 SHOW AT LARGO IN LOS ANGELES AND FEBRUARY 5 CONCERT AT NYC’S BEACON THEATRE CULLUM WILL OPEN FOR BILLY JOEL IN NYC, DALLAS AND MIAMI BEGINNING TODAY ON ITUNES, FANS WHO PRE-ORDER INTERLUDE WILL INSTANTLY RECEIVE THE NEW TRACK, “MY ONE AND ONLY LOVE,” PLUS “GOOD MORNING HEARTACHE” FEATURING LAURA MVULA AND ...
Sharel Cassity: Manhattan Romance
by Tom Pierce
Since she relocated to New York City in 1999, the steadily building career of this Oklahoma native includes a Bachelor's from the New School and a Master's at Juilliard. Sharel Cassity studied under a number of renowned saxophonists and recorded two CDs. The second, Relentless (Jazz Legacy, 2009), received a 4-star review in Downbeat, whose Critics ...
Pete Christlieb Quintet, "Santa’s Bones" at Phoenix Musicians Hall
by Patricia Myers
Pete Christlieb, “Santa's Bones" Musicians Hall, Phoenix Musicians Union, Local 586 AFM Phoenix, AZ November 30 and December 2, 2014 Concerts by tenor saxophonist Pete Christlieb and a trombone ensemble called “Santa's Bones" were presented as part of on ongoing series at the Musicians Hall of the Phoenix Musicians Union, Local ...
Ted Nash - Birth Of The American Jazz Orchestra - J@LC
“This particular band, for me, is the strongest in the 15 years I’ve been in the band,” asserts Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra multi-instrumentalist Ted Nash. Experience this powerhouse band as the JLCO with Wynton Marsalis delve into the Birth of the American Jazz Orchestra on January 9-10 in Rose Theater. There is a free pre-concert ...
Sylvain Rifflet & Jon Irabagon: Perpetual Motion (A Celebration of Moondog)
by Karl Ackermann
In 1932, when he was sixteen years old, living in the heartland of depression era America, a farm accident left Louis Thomas Hardin blind. For roughly twenty-five years spanning the 1940s to the mid-1970s, he was often found on some street corner in the vicinity of 52nd Street and 6th Avenue in Manhattan, sometimes talking philosophically ...
