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Riverwalk Jazz Celebrates Clark Terry's 90th Birthday
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, we hear from Clark Terry on the occasion of his 90th birthday—December 14—and we listen to tunes from his days with the Basie and Ellington bands, recorded live at The Landing with The Jim Cullum Jazz Band in the 1990s. Listeners will be treated to Clark's great sense of humor, the ...
John Burnett Swing Orchestra / University of Missouri Concert Big Band / Either-Orchestra
by Jack Bowers
John Burnett Swing OrchestraDown for DoubleDelmark2010 John Burnett, an Englishman who now lives and works (as a morning host at WDCB Radio) in suburban Chicago, is a great admirer of the golden age of big bands in the U.S., which spanned roughly three decades, from the 1930s through ...
Charlie Haden Quartet West: Sophisticated Ladies
by Chris May
Gorgeous, poised and inviting. And that's just the sister on the cover of bassist Charlie Haden's latest with-singers-and-strings album. It's a retro design which, like the disc it packages, was inspired by Capitol Records' distinctive jazz-inflected vocal albums of the early 1960s. Your parents got off on this stuff big time back in the day, while ...
Soul And The Abstract Proof: Searching For Soul And Its Meaning In Jazz
by Dan Bilawsky
What, exactly, is “soul?" This word is used so often in discussions and writings about music, but I wonder if anybody can actually define its very essence and place in the musical universe? The Merriam-Webster Dictionary lists no less than eight different definitions for soul and, while some of them have a decent grasp on what ...
Top 10 Jazz Fashion Crimes
By Tim Tamashiro Jazz musicians are incredible at what they do. They are Ferrari's of musical capability and horsepower. So why are jazzers the perpetrators of so many crimes against fashion? I'm no expert when it comes to fashion but I do know that a suit and tie can go a long way for a gentleman ...
Riverwalk Jazz Interviews Nat Hentoff
Author and columnist Nat Hentoff is one of America's most revered commentators on jazz. This week on Riverwalk Jazz, host David Holt caught up with the 85-year-old at his home in Greenwich Village to talk about the people and personalities covered in his new book, At the Jazz Band Ball: Sixty Years on the Jazz Scene. ...
A Brief History of Mary Lou Williams
Does anybody embody the history of 20th-century jazz as much as Mary Lou Williams? The arc of her career extends from the territory bands and Kansas City swing of the 1930s to the heights of the big-band era, the bebop movement of the 1940s, the American expatriate jazz of the post-World War II era, the sacred-jazz ...
Jason Robinson / Anthony Davis: Cerulean Landscape
by Troy Collins
"If Ellington were to collaborate with science fiction author Samuel R. Delany, one might encounter a cerulean landscape." This evocative quote from the liner notes to Cerulean Landscape, multi-reedist Jason Robinson's long-awaited duo album with legendary pianist Anthony Davis, paints a vivid picture of their mutual admiration for the work of Duke Ellington and his colorful ...
Rufus Reid Trio: Half Moon Bay, CA, November 7, 2010
by Bill Leikam
Rufus Reid TrioDouglas Beach HouseHalf Moon Bay, CA November 7, 2010 The anticipation of having multi-award winner Rufus Reid working the strings of his bass, and his band members--pianist Steve Allee and drummer Duduka Da Fonseca--ran high, as the audience at the Douglas Beach House began to gather. The trio ...
Randy Weston African Rhythms Sextet:The Storyteller
by Ian Patterson
Randy Weston African Rhythms SextetThe StorytellerMotema Records2010 It's almost fifty years since pianist/composer Randy Weston first played in Africa and he has returned many times since--three times alone this year, 2010--absorbing the endless rhythms and colors of the mother continent. Perhaps more than any of his contemporaries Weston ...
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