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Luca Bragalini: gli inediti di Duke Ellington e Gerry Mulligan
by Angelo Leonardi
Musicologo e docente di Storia del Jazz al conservatorio Verdi di Milano Luca Bragalini è da anni un appassionato studioso a cui dobbiamo preziosi saggi e importanti scoperte sulla musica afroamericana e i suoi protagonisti. Ricordiamo la monografia Storie poco standard. Le avventure di 12 grandi canzoni tra Broadway e jazz (EDT 2013) e il saggio ...
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra With Wynton Marsalis at Hancher Auditorium
by Joshua Weiner
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis Hancher Auditorium Iowa City, IA January 29, 2026 Wynton Marsalis, the great trumpeter, composer and educator, founded New York City's Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC) in 1987 and has served as its artistic director ever since. JALC, home to the Jazz at Lincoln ...
Heisenberg Uncertainty Players, Brodie McAllister’s Wattle, Laura Ann Singh
by Cheryl K.
During this week's two-hour program of jazz and improvised music, sounds to take the chill off: Duke Ellington and His Orchestra's “Chelsea Bridge"; the Heisenberg Uncertainty Players's “Catalpa"; Bellbird's “Phthalo Green"; Brodie McAllister's Wattle's “Starlight"; saxophonists' Eric Alexander and Vincent Herring's “Strollin'"; vocalist Laura Ann Singh's “Do Not Remain"; saxophonist Joel Miller's “Harvey"; composer Ron Rieder's ...
Edwin Corne: Spruce and Maple
by Frank Housh
Guitarist Edwin Corne 's Spruce And Maple features the American Songbook peppered with eastern harmonies, befitting an Australian-Chinese musician raised in Shanghai and based in New York City. Corne's jazz guitar trio recording continues an ensemble tradition that began with Jim Hall and continued through Barney Kessel, Joe Pass, and Pat Metheny. It is alive and well in Spruce ...
Paul Marinaro: Mood Ellington
by Pierre Giroux
Paul Marinaro's Mood Ellington is an ambitious, carefully crafted double CD that regards Duke Ellington's vocal repertoire not as a fixed monument but as a living collection of work capable of endless renewal. Instead of relying on a single arranging perspective, Marinaro commissioned thirteen renowned composers, allowing Ellington's songs to be explored through multiple aesthetic lenses ...
Let Me Be Frank: The Extraordinary Life and Music of Frank Sinatra, Jr.
by Victor L. Schermer
Let Me Be Frank: The Extraordinary Life and Music of Frank Sinatra, Jr.Bruce Klauber and Andrea Kauffman216 Pages ISBN: # 97-1-4968-5865-8 University Press of Mississippi2025 Sid Mark, the legendary Philadelphia broadcaster who for many years hosted the iconic radio show “The Sounds of Sinatra," liked to tell a ...
Greg Osby at SFJAZZ Center
by Harry S. Pariser
Greg Osby SFJAZZ Center San Francisco, CA February 1, 2026 Alto jazz saxophonist Greg Osby has an impressive résumé. A St. Louis, Missouri native, Osby finished his studies at Howard University and the Berklee College of Music before moving to New York City in 1982. Since then he has performed and ...
John Donegan: Interfuse
by Ian Patterson
When jazz musicians reach the autumn of their years, they tend to go one of two ways artistically. The first, and perhaps the most common path taken, is to slow down; composing dries up and the gaps between recordings inevitably lengthen. The second way is to burn with even greater creative fire, becoming more prolific than ...
Improvising the Russian Classical Composers: Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky and Borodin
by Larry Slater
Russia's contribution to the arts over the past couple of centuries has been extraordinary and unparalleled. Russian authors are among the greatest writers of the 19th and 20th centuries. Russia is synonymous with classical ballet and Russian composers transformed classical music. In the 19th century, Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Alexander Borodin and Pyotr Ilyich ...
A Wind For All Seasons
by Dan Bilawsky
There is something positively elemental in the artistry of Martin Wind. Beyond being one of the music's premier bassists, he is a creatively driven composer and leader--a seemingly bottomless font of expression in action--and his work most certainly represents the breadth, and breath, carried in his name. One minute he's conjuring a Brazilian Nordeste with buoyant ...
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