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Jazz Musician of the Day: Don Cherry
All About Jazz is celebrating Don Cherry's birthday today! Don CherryDon Cherry was born in Oklahoma City, OK in 1936 and raised in Los Angeles, where he first began to play the trumpet and later piano. According to Cherry, his upbringing had everything to do with his interest in music: “Yeah... ...
Drummer Ranjit Barot Interviewed at All About Jazz...and More!
Ranjit Barot is a well-known figure in India's music industry, where for many years he has written film scores, produced Indie pop, and, more recently, composed and directed the music for the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2010 Commonwealth Games, which were held in Delhi. Barot, who spent the first 12 years of his life ...
Swamy Haridhos & Party: Classical Bhajans
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Swamy Haridhos & PartyClassical BhajansCountry & Eastern2010 It is impossible to traverse the ocean of Indian music in one go. First there is the thriving classical music tradition that keeps the ancient collection of ragas alive. Then there is the burgeoning tradition of popular film songs, and ...
ESP - Disk' Offers Entire Catalog of CD's for $9.98
Independent record label ESP—Disk' is pleased to announce its retail price for all single compact disks will be reduced from $12.98 to $9.98 effective Monday, October 25th for items purchased online at www.espdisk.com. Select double CD's, including the November reissue of “The Complete ESP—Disk' Recordings of Pearls Before Swine" , will be reduced to a $12.98 ...
Don Cherry Interview - Talking Jazz with Ben Sidran / Remixed & Reproduced on Soulandjazz.com
Soulandjazz.com Presents: Talking Jazz with Ben Sidran Episode 3: Don Cherry Musical Selection & Additional Production by J. Scott Fugate Here's the story: Back in the mid-80's on National Public Radio (NPR) in America, a show ran called Sidran On Record. Presented by Ben Sidran, a musician, author, lecturer and journalist, the ...
KSDS Jazz 88 Ocean Beach Music and Arts Festival
by Robert Bush
Jazz 88 Ocean Beach Music & Art FestivalWinston's, Hodad's Stage, The Harp Ocean Beach, CA September 11, 2010 Perfect day for a party: the sun shone bright in a cloudless sky, it's heat mitigated by a cool ocean breeze. After a one year hiatus due to the terrible economy of ...
Archie Shepp: The New York Contemporary Five
by Jerry D'Souza
In 1963, cornetist Don Cherry , tenor saxophonist Archie Shepp , drummer J.C. Moses, alto saxophonist John Tchicai and bassist Don Moore performed at the Jazzhus Montmartre in Copenhagen . At the time, Cherry was just coming off from playing with Ornette Coleman, while Shepp was transitioning from Bill Dixon. Tchicai had met Cherry and Shepp ...
Kane Mathis: Kora Meets Jazz
by AAJ Staff
Seattle's Kane Mathis is one of the world's leading performers on the kora, the distinctive (usually) 21-stringed West African harp instrument that is the major instrument of the Mandinka people of Mali; the Malian equivalent of the Western keyboard. Mathis has studied the instrument since the age of twenty, making several trips to The Gambia to ...
Tatsuya Nakatani: Essences and Abiogenesis
by Clifford Allen
What is improvised music without visuality? While the music of improvising composers can be felt and picked apart aurally, the physical act of making music in an un- preconceived setting is something rather extraordinary and easily lost through the audible distance of a recording. It's not just the dynamic, theatrical high jinks of a player like ...
Geof Bradfield: African Flowers
by Mark Corroto
Saxophonist Geof Bradfield's experiences traveling and performing in Rwanda, Congo, Uganda, and Zimbabwe in 2008 were the inspiration for African Flowers. Bradfield was a member of pianist Ryan Cohan's quartet, and the band took part in a US State Department/Jazz at Lincoln Center tour. This extended work for sextet features excellent writing and strong musicianship from ...
