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TS Monk: His Father
by Chris M. Slawecki
Part 1 | Part 2 In November 1957, a stellar constellation of jazz royalty including Billie Holiday and Dizzy Gillespie performed at Carnegie Hall, two performances in one night to benefit the Morningside Community Center in Harlem, NY. The performances were recorded for subsequent overseas broadcast on Voice of America radio. The Thelonious Monk ...
TS Monk: His Father's Voice
by Chris M. Slawecki
Part 1 | Part 2 In November 1957, a stellar constellation of jazz royalty including Billie Holiday and Dizzy Gillespie performed at Carnegie Hall, two performances in one night to benefit the Morningside Community Center in Harlem, NY. The performances were recorded for subsequent overseas broadcast on Voice of America radio. The Thelonious Monk ...
Tim Ries: The Rolling Stones Project
by C. Andrew Hovan
Although purists might hate to admit it, popular music has always provided fodder for jazz interpretations, ever since the '40s and the Tin Pan Alley favorites that supplied chord structures for the mercurial flights of Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. Since then, pop hits from the Beatles to Radiohead have become part of the jazz vernacular. ...
Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane: At Carnegie Hall
by Jim Santella
We need more surprises like this one. Discovered by accident during a routine transfer of tapes to digital format, the Library of Congress found a gem. Monk and Coltrane gave their November 29, 1957 Carnegie Hall audience a precious performance. The transfer to digital sound files from a 7 ½-inch tape reel has left their music ...
Andrew Hill: Judgement!
by John Kelman
Recorded two months after Black Fire and two months before Point of Departure, Andrew Hill's Judgement!--finally receiving the Van Gelder remastering treatment--demonstrates just how prolific the envelope-pushing pianist was during the '60s. While prolific doesn't necessarily mean good, what is most remarkable about Hill's seemingly endless output on Blue Note between '63 and '69--strangely eluding the ...
McCoy Tyner: Time for Tyner
by John Kelman
With the release of the latest batch of Rudy Van Gelder Blue Note reissues comes the opportunity to hear vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson on two sessions that demonstrate just how flexible he is--something that continues to define him to this day on projects like the recently-released SFJazz Collective. But unlike SFJazz, which is a true cooperative ensemble, ...
Charlie Peacock: Love Press Ex-Curio
by John Kelman
Lines between musical styles have become so blurred that it's not only impossible to pin down what's happening all the time—it's irrelevant. Bill Frisell, initially considered a jazz guitarist, now divides his time between Americana, world music, groove, bluegrass, jazz, and more—none of the genres meeting traditional definitions and all likely to be liberally cross-pollinated. Similarly, ...
Johnny Maddox: Ragtime Historian
by Elliott Simon
When the Grateful Dead sang a hundred verses in ragtime to “Ramble On Rose, it was no accident that the leader of their conjured-up band was Crazy Otto. Their reference was to ragtime pianist Johnny Maddox, whose Crazy Otto Rag released in 1955, sold over 2 million copies and in the process became the first million ...
Erik Truffaz: Saloua
by Jim Santella
Erik Truffaz ensures that jazz will continue to grow. On Saloua, he incorporates a world view of the genre, picking up where Miles Davis left off. Tradition remains a part of his music; however, it's been disguised by modern concepts that affect all forms of popular music. Truffaz's horn swirls with the kind of moody melodicism ...
Charlie Haden/Liberation Music Orchestra: Not In Our Name
by Chris May
This empowering masterpiece of an album succeeds brilliantly on at least three levels: as proof that instrumental jazz can be as powerful a protest music as the lyric-based Woody Guthrie/Bob Dylan tradition; as demonstration that at least one corner of the domestic American opposition to the Bush administration is in strong and resonant form; and as ...
