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Terry Clarke: It's About Time
by Jerry D'Souza
Drummer Terry Clarke has had a long and illustrious career. Born in Vancouver, Canada, Clarke moved to San Francisco in 1965 to play with John Handy III. Jazz at the time was not an all-encompassing passion, and when the opportunity to play with pop vocal group The Fifth Dimension came about, he took it. Five years ...
The Marcus Shelby Orchestra Plays the Douglas Beach House, Half Moon Bay California
by Bill Leikam
Marcus ShelbyDouglas Beach HouseSan FranciscoNovember 15, 2009Fifteen jazz musicians gathered onstage at the Douglas Beach House (home to the Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society) November 15 to perform numbers from Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn as well as original compositions by the orchestra's band leader, Marcus Shelby. The compositions were part ...
Seleno Clarke: Bringing The Music Back To Harlem
by AAJ Staff
Seleno ClarkeAmerican Legion248 W. 132nd St., New York City Jazz went east in the 1920s and '30s, moving from New Orleans and Chicago to Harlem. But jazz left Harlem in the 1960s, when it moved to clubs downtown and R&B and rock began to take over. Music in general began to leave; for ...
Pianist Vijay Iyer Interviewed at AAJ
New York-based pianist and composer Vijay Iyer is a rhythmic explorer whose piano trio album Historicity (ACT, 2009) is a cohesive and vibrant record that carries its creator and his colleagues firmly into the mainstream of modern music. The album stems from, among other sources, a succession of striking piano trio influences such as Duke Ellington's ...
Vijay Iyer: Into The Mainstream
by AAJ Staff
New York-based pianist and composer Vijay Iyer is a rhythmic explorer whose piano trio album Historicity (ACT, 2009) is a cohesive and vibrant record that carries its creator and his colleagues firmly into the mainstream of modern music. The album stems from, among other sources, a succession of striking piano trio influences such as Duke Ellington's ...
Jazz
by Eugene Holley, Jr.
Jazz Gary Giddins, Scott DeVeaux Hardcover; 704 pages ISBN: 978-0-393-06861-0 W.W.Norton 2009 The only thing harder than playing jazz is writing about it. It is a music that is specific, yet hard to define. It is easy to understand, yet at times hard to comprehend, sometimes ...
Jaco Pastorius: Portrait of Jaco - The Early Years 1968-1978
by John Kelman
Jaco Pastorius Portrait of Jaco: The Early Years 1968-1978 Holiday Park Records 2009 If only every jazz artist had an advocate like label owner/project producer Bob Bobbing. Bass wunderkind Jaco Pastorius seemingly leapt into the jazz scene in 1976 with the quadruple punch of his remarkably mature debut, ...
A Bold World Christmas: Sylvia Bennett, Eddie Allen, The Hot Club of San Francisco
by C. Michael Bailey
Here is the middle of the road in holiday music. There is a little bit of something for everyone here: the contemporary caroling of Sylvia Bennett, the smart jazz of Eddie Allen, and the Django Reinhardt guitar tang of The Hot Club of San Francisco. Sylvia BennettIt's Christmas Time with Sylvia BennettNaxos
Billy Harper: Blueprints of Jazz, Vol. 2
by George Kanzler
Tenor saxophonist Billy Harper has been keeping the jazz fires kindled by the ritualistic, incantatory side of the classic John Coltrane Quartet stoked and burning bright for over a quarter-century. Here Harper's working quintet, augmented by a second bassist, presents a program redolent of the processional and the chant. Over it all, Harper's coruscating, brawny tenor ...
Roger Kellaway: Roger Kellaway Live at the Jazz Standard
by Andrew Velez
Pianist Roger Kellaway can swing hard and has played with everyone from Sonny Rollins to Joni Mitchell. His knowledge of music is encyclopedic and his pianism is instantly recognizable for its airy, sparkling quality, flowing from a singular skill he has to incorporate stride, swing, boogie and more into something totally modern. Long an in-demand sideman, ...
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