Home » Search Center » Results: DL Media
Results for "DL Media"
World Saxophone Quartet: Experience
by Kurt Gottschalk
With its glory days more than arguably behind it, the WSQ has become something of a powerhouse repertory band. Beginning in 1977, the four saxophonists (then Hamiet Bluiett, Julius Hemphill, Oliver Lake, and David Murray) released seven remarkable albums in eight years before finding a second calling as an interpreting ensemble with 1986's brilliant Plays Duke ...
Legends of Jazz with Ramsey Lewis
by AAJ Staff
Legends of Jazz with Ramsey Lewis A PBS television series LRSmedia & WTTW National Productions 2005 Here's cause for great celebration: for the first time in forty years, a American national network will air a weekly program devoted to jazz. Quite naturally, it's going to be on public ...
Dr. John: The Best of the Parlophone Years
by Jim Santella
Including selections from Duke Elegant, Creole Moon, N'Awlinz: Dis Dat or D'Udda, and Anutha Zone, as well as two bonus tracks, The Best of the Parlophone Years presents Dr. John doin' what he does best. With that voice, there's no mistake who's settin' down the blues for ya. There are only a handful of voices in ...
Eldar Djangirov: Eldar
by AAJ Staff
You can't really blame the media for heaping hype upon the young piano prodigy known simply as Eldar, because his story is pretty remarkable. Eldar grew up in remote Kyrgyzstan, where there are far more goat herders than jazz musicians, but he revealed enough early talent that he attracted both local and international attention. After moving ...
Joey DeFrancesco with Jimmy Smith: Legacy
by John Kelman
When Joey DeFrancesco--a key player in the late-'80s Hammond B-3 organ revival while still in his teens--teamed up with organ legend Jimmy Smith in August of 2004, little did either know that Smith would pass away a scant six months later. If Smith was ailing, one would never know it from the result of those sessions. ...
Marian McPartland & Friends: 85 Candles: Live in New York
by Jim Santella
On the day after Marian McPartland turned 85, this large group of her jazz friends got together at Birdland in New York to celebrate with her. She played piano with them in an endearing program of love songs that belie their affection for each other. Everybody loves Marian McPartland and respects her for her many accomplishments.
John O'Gallagher's Axiom: Line of Sight
by John Kelman
Like his previous release, Abacus, alto saxophonist John O'Gallagher pursues a cerebral blend of free exploration over a foundation of structured composition on Line of Sight, his second recording with his group Axiom. O'Gallagher and his quartet -- tenor saxophonist Tony Malaby, bassist John Hebert and drummer Jeff Williams -- navigate their way through charts that ...
The Columbia Small Group Swing Sessions 1953-1962
by C. Andrew Hovan
Various Artists The Columbia Small Group Swing Sessions 1953-1962 Mosaic Records 2004 Following the be-bop innovations of the early to mid '50s and the subsequent popularity of hard bop during the '60s, many of jazz music's elder statesmen found themselves in a very precarious position. Swing and Dixie styles had ...
Wayne Shorter: Night Dreamer
by John Kelman
By the time he made this recording, a few short months before he was to join Miles Davis' groundbreaking second quintet, saxophonist Wayne Shorter had already earned a reputation as a player combining heady intellectualism with a more visceral approach as a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. He'd also released four records for the Vee-Jay ...
Dave Brubeck & Marian McPartland Joy
by AAJ Staff
Two octogenarian, piano-playing jazz legends, Dave Brubeck and Marian McPartland, brought jazz Joy to the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia March 16. MARIAN MCPARTLAND'S TRIO performance follows the release of the two-CD 85 Candles: Live in New York celebrating her 85th birthday at Birdland. The only problem with the title at this time is that as Ms ...
