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The Making of Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present Tense
by Eric Benson
On an August morning in 1958, a 33-year-old photographer named Art Kane gathered 57 jazz musicians together on the steps of a Harlem brownstone. The resulting picture, known as “A Great Day in Harlem," appeared in the January 1959 issue of Esquire and has become the most famous image in jazz history. The photograph lacks the ...
Duke Ellington Jazz Festival June 5-15 Celebrates New Orleans/Rare Performance by Marsalis Family
5th Anniversary Duke Ellington Jazz Festival in Washington, DC, Celebrates New Orleans June 5-15 Ellis Marsalis Tribute Features Rare Performance with Sons and Special Guests Harry Connick, Jr., and Dr. Billy Taylor With over 100 performances in nearly 50 venues, the Duke Ellington Jazz Festival (DEJF) is the largest music festival in Washington, DC. This year's ...
Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present Tense - Episode Four: Everything Everywhere
by John Kelman
Episode One | Episode Two | Episode Three | Episode Four --->Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present TenseEpisode Four: Everything Everywhere The Documentary ChannelMay 11, 2009, 09:00-10:00PMParadigm Studio2009Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present Tense, the weekly television series that's been ...
Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present Tense - World Premiere
by Eric Benson
Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present TenseWorld PremiereThe Allen Room at Jazz at Lincoln CenterNew York, NYApril 15, 2009 The Jazz Wars are over. Now what? A new documentary asks. Since the early 1980s, jazz has been engaged in its own nonviolent, low-intensity civil war. Decentralized and ...
Dr. Lonnie Smith: Rise Up!
by Terrell Kent Holmes
For a half-century the incomparable Dr. Lonnie Smith has been a prime mover on the organ, an instrument he has called, paradoxically, “the monster" and “the love of my life." Rise Up! is a gumbo of originals and covers spiced with generous helpings of rhythm and blues, rock and gospel. Smith's “A Matterapat" ...
Dr. Lonnie Smith: Rise Up!
by Douglas Payne
When the Hammond B-3 organ enjoyed a revival several years ago, few came out the better for it. The old guys either repeated or tried to recapture what they'd done before and too few of the new guys had anything new to say. But then there was Lonnie Smith. This veteran of '60s organ ...
Donald Harrison: The Chosen
by Francis Lo Kee
Donald Harrison's The Chosen is dedicated to the people who do their “best, no matter what circumstances come" their way. If you know anything about Harrison, you know that he's from New Orleans and suffered significantly after Hurricane Katrina so he knows what he is talking about. This collection of originals and standards displays Harrison as ...
Dr. Lonnie Smith: Rise Up!
by John Barron
Rise Up! is Dr. Lonnie Smith's third release for Palmetto Records and a welcome addition to the organist's rich recorded legacy. Since bursting onto the scene as a member of George Benson's quartet in the 1960s, the Buffalo native has been an unrelenting force on the Hammond B3. Joined here by alto saxophonist Donald Harrison, guitarist ...
Esperanza Spalding: Esperanza
by AAJ Italy Staff
Ha un nome che è una dichiarazione d'intenti: Esperanza. Ha bruciato le tappe di una carriera che a soli 24 anni può dirsi formidabile. Contrabbassista, insegnante di contrabbasso a 20 anni al Berklee College, ha suonato con Stanley Clarke, Pat Metheny e Joe Lovano, per citare i più grandi. Poi ha pensato di fare da sé. ...
New Orleans Jazz Master Donald Harrison Introduces: Max Moran, Conun Poppas, Joseph Dyson, Jr. and Victor Gould
Veteran New Orleans-born jazz giant Donald Harrison is building both the future of his city and an undeniable legacy. Harrison can at any time be found hard at work mentoring the minds of young musicians or darting from city to city on a seemingly endless whirlwind tour of performance dates across the globe. To an arguably ...
