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Pete Cosey
by Martin Longley
The aging process has not compromised Pete Cosey's approach to the guitar. This veteran of the mid-1970s Miles Davis band has resurfaced again on a new two-disc project created by saxophonist, arranger, producer and conceptualist Bob Belden. The Miles From India mission is to re-invent that brooding advocate of synthesis' compositions as a meeting between jazz ...
David Murray: 3D Family & Sacred Ground
by Brandt Reiter
David Murray 3D Family hatOLOGY 2007 David Murray Sacred Ground Justin Time 2007 Cut in 1976 and released the following year, Flowers For Albert, David Murray's thunderclap ...
Branford Marsalis Demonstrates Leadership in Richmond
by Dean Christesen
Branford Marsalis Quartet Building Leaders Symposium at St. Christopher's School Richmond, VA April 12, 1008 With legendary musicians right in front of their eyes, a field house filled with people of all ages and all musical backgrounds watched as Branford Marsalis and his quartet donned the stage. For some, this ...
The Bennie Maupin Quartet: Early Reflections
by John Kelman
After establishing his reputation in the 1960s and 1970s with artists including Miles Davis, Andrew Hill and Herbie Hancock, Bennie Maupin mysteriously disappeared for over a decade. Re-emerging in the 1990s, it's still only been recently--with the release of the overdue reissue of his 1974 ECM classic, The Jewel in the Lotus in 2007, and his ...
David Witham: A Sideman Steps Out
by Paul Olson
You may not know keyboardist David Witham's work, but the chances are actually pretty good that you've actually seen him play. As the musical director for jazz/pop guitar icon George Benson, the L.A. based Witham has put in plenty of road time, and he's also done side work with Chick Corea, k.d. lang, Randy and Michael ...
Giacomo Gates: Luminosity
by George Kanzler
In the DVD interview and introductions to tunes on both discs, Giacomo Gates mentions a lot of the usual suspects as influences: Sinatra, Crosby, Jon Hendricks and Betty Carter. But names like Babs Gonzales, Jackie Paris, Cab Calloway and Lord Buckley suggest that Gates is in touch with a deeper tradition, that he likes the hustlers, ...
Miguel Zenon: Awake
by Mark F. Turner
Alto saxophonist Miguel Zenon delivers his most thought provoking recording to date with Awake , showing his growth as a performer and conceptualist. Whether performing with Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra, The SFJazz Collective, or leading his own groups, Zenon's piercing tonality and fierce playing is always identifiable. Not a trivial task, when considering a wealth ...
Horace Silver: Live at Newport '58
by J Hunter
The John Coltrane and Thelonious Monk Quartet earth-shaker At Carnegie Hall (Blue Note, 2005) set a pretty high watermark, and other historical recordings inevitably have a lot to live up to. Pianist Horace Silver's Live at Newport '58 is very good, and is certainly historically significant, but is it Carnegie Hall good? Perhaps not quite.
Musical Community
by AAJ Staff
By Jeff Gauthier Music is all about community. The jazz musicians of New York are a musical community. Individual ensembles within that larger community are musical communities. However, so are social networking sites, record companies and the readers of All About Jazz. We can generally break communities down into two specific types: physical and ...
Huong Thanh & Nguyen Le: Fragile Beauty
by Mark F. Turner
Fragile Beauty is a continuing collaboration between Vietnamese-born singer Huong Thanh and guitarist Nguyen Le. This is their fourth album together, following works under Thanh's name with Le as the producer, co-composer and lead musician. Both are based in Paris--Thanh a well-known singer in popular, traditional and theatrical circles, and Le, a tremendous player who has ...
