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New Duke Ellington Videos

January 30, 2020

Yesterday, I was craving Duke. You know how it is. You find yourself in the mood for Ellington's earthy compositions, elegant arrangements, crisp horns, mournful trombones and mink-like reeds, and you have to hear it. So you listen to his Blanton-Webster band of the early 1940s and the Gonsalves-Terry band of the early '50s and beyond, ...

News: Video / DVD

Bob Freedman: Jazz Themes

January 25, 2020

Bob Freedman was a wonderful arranger and ardent JazzWax reader. His finest arrangement was And We Listened for Maynard Ferguson's A Message From Newport (1958). He finest album was the little-known Jazz Themes From Anatomy of a Murder. The album was recorded at Boston's Ace Studios for the Coronet label in 1959—the same year Otto Preminger's ...

Article: Profile

The Very Singular Mr. Ran Blake

by Duncan Heining
January 23, 2020

There have been few American composers and musicians, with the ability to encapsulate their country's music in all its racial and ethnic complexity. We might perhaps point to Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, Charles Ives and perhaps, in their own distaff ways, Harry Partch and Steve Reich. In jazz, their number is fewer still--Duke Ellington and George ...

Article: Live Review

Vijay Iyer at Sonic Laboratory

by Ian Patterson
January 20, 2020

Vijay Iyer Sonic Laboratory, Sonic Arts Research Centre Belfast, N. Ireland January 13-14, 2020 Queen's University's world-renowned Sonic Laboratory, at the Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC) in Belfast, got the new decade off to fine start, with two evenings in the company of Vijay Iyer. The first evening was ...

Article: Multiple Reviews

Playing Catch Up With 2019

by Jerome Wilson
January 16, 2020

There always seems to be a constant flow of worthwhile new music coming out, so much that it is to be impossible to cover it all within its calendar year. Here are seven notable releases from the last few months of 2019. Gebhard Ullmann mikroPULS Intuition 2019 The ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Vic Juris & Dizzy Reece

by Joe Dimino
January 15, 2020

We keep our traction here in 2020 as we begin the 629th Episode of Neon Jazz with talented modern day drummer Tyshawn Sorey. We talked about his roots and influneces in jazz and he noted Duke Ellington, John Coltrane and Dizzy Gillespie. From there, we get into new tunes for the new year with Canadian cat ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

John Coltrane: The Final Act (1961-1967)

by Russell Perry
January 14, 2020

John Coltrane is undoubtedly one of the most influential players in the history of jazz, yet his important work fits within a brief twelve-year period (1955--1967). Previously in this series we have covered his work in the 1950s with Miles Davis for Prestige and Columbia, his blowing sessions on Prestige, his solo work with Blue Note ...

Article: Interview

Adam Rudolph: Ragmala and Prototypical Music

by Franz A. Matzner
January 10, 2020

Adam Rudolph has been seeking to push the boundaries of musical creativity for decades, developing a unique concept of composition, ensemble interaction, and conducting. As many writers have commented, his music resists critical commentary due to its prototypical nature. Said another way, Rudolph's music doesn't sound like anything else, and its antecedents are so varied that ...

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Article: Interview

Vic Juris: Tension and Release

by Victor L. Schermer
January 2, 2020

This article was first published at All About Jazz on July 28, 2009. Vic Juris is one of the premier jazz guitarists in the business today. Perhaps less known than some of his peers, he is nevertheless admired by all of them and has accumulated, since his emergence on the scene in the 1970s, ...

Album

Uppsala 1971

By Duke Ellington

Label: Storyville Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: C Jam Blues; Kinda Dukish/Rockin’ In Rhythm; Happy Reunion; Take The A Train; Fife; Satin Doll; Chinoiserie; Harlem; Medley: Prelude to a Kiss; Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me; In a Sentimental Mood; Don’t You Know I Care; The Brown Skin Gal; I Let a Song Go Out of my Heart; Don’t Get Around Much Anymore; Mood Indigo; I’m Beginning To See The Light; Solitude; It Don’t Mean A Thing if it Ain’t Got That Swing; I Got It Bad and That Ain’t Good; Sophisticated Lady; Caravan. Things Ain’t What They Used To Be; Hello Dolly; One More Time For The People; Lotus Blossom.