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Ray Scro: What Jazz Education Means
by Andrew J. Sammut
For Ray Scro, music education is a redundancy. He's been performing, studying and teaching music for nearly fifty years in his home of Staten Island, and throughout New York City. In the early seventies Scro studied under saxophonist and guru Lee Konitz, and he's played with Jimmy Knepper, Chuck Wayne, Charlie Persip, and Chico Hamilton, among ...
16th Litchfield Jazz Festival: Kent, CT, August 5-7, 2011
by Sandy Ingham
Litchfield Jazz Festival Kent, CT August 5-7, 2011 “I like to save the best for last," saxophonist Jimmy Heath told the crowd near the end of his big band's grand finale set at the Litchfield Jazz Festival on Sunday, Aug. 7, 2011. It was a successful strategy, not only for Heath's ...
Sam Yahel: From Sun to Sun
by Dan McClenaghan
Sam Yahel made his name in jazz as an organist, notably on the excellent Truth and Beauty (Origin Records, 2009). In addition to a handful of well-received CDs under his own name, Yahel has worked his B3 Hammond magic on recordings by vocalist Norah Jones and saxophonist Joshua Redman. So it was something of a risk ...
Duke Ellington - Meets Coleman Hawkins / and John Coltrane Impulse, 1962-63, Verve Re-Issue, 2011)
The great pianist and composer Duke Ellington and some of his regular sidemen made a few albums for the Impulse! label in the 1960's. There is an excellent two-LP set floating around for the crate diggers to discover covering this period, but for the rest of us there's this new re-issue of two well known Ellington ...
Hoagy Carmichael's Music This Week on Riverwalk Jazz
This week, The Jim Cullum Jazz Band welcomes piano legend Dick Hyman and vocalist Stephanie Nakasian for a concert of Hoagy Carmichael's music, recorded live at the historic Filoli Gardens near San Francisco. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM sattelite radio and can be streamed on-demand from the Riverwalk ...
Modern Jazz Quartet: The Complete Atlantic Studio Recordings 1956-64
by Eugene Holley, Jr.
The Modern Jazz Quartet The Complete Atlantic Studio Recordings of The Modern Jazz Quartet 1956-64 Mosaic Records 2011 They were diverse in talent and temperament. John Lewis, the quiet and determined westerner, who told sound stories with his linear and logical blues-based pianisms; Milt “Bags" Jackson, the baggy eyed, Motor ...
Sean Nowell: Stockholm Swingin'
by Dan Bilawsky
Tenor saxophonist Sean Nowell's third CD is an engaging set of music that was recorded live at the Glen Miller Café in Stockholm at the end of a fourteen-day tour through Sweden. Nowell's band mate in Travis Sullivan's Björkestra, drummer Joe Abba, and a solid crew of Swedish musicians help to flesh out this riveting set ...
Randy Weston All Nite Soul 2011 Honoree at Saint Peter’s Church Sunday, October 9th
On this, the 41st anniversary of All Nite Soul, the Jazz Ministry of Saint Peter's Church—the Jazz Church—is thrilled to honor Randy Weston, NEA Jazz Master, composer and pianist. On Friday, October 7 at 4 PM, in preparation for All Nite Soul, David Schroeder interviews Randy Weston with a book signing of Weston's autobiography African Rhythms. ...
Michel Camilo: Mano A Mano
by Larry Taylor
With Mano A Mano, Michel Camilo goes hands-to-hands in spirited exchange with conguero Giovanni Hidalgo, surely hearkening back to the pianist's Dominican/Afro-Cuban roots. This approach results in the great pianist tempering his style. His flamboyant virtuosity is mostly restrained; here, he is more subdued than bombastic. His playing, though, is just as effective, but in a ...
Sir Roland Hanna: Colors From A Giant's Kit
by Dan Bilawsky
When an artist passes on, the true fans mourn and the record companies often search through their vaults to try to capitalize on their passing. This often results in hastily compiled collections of music, or the surfacing of sub-par recordings that weren't released for obvious reasons when the artist was still around. That's not the case ...
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