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Jazz Musician of the Day: Duke Jordan
All About Jazz is celebrating Duke Jordan's birthday today! Duke Jordan was a pianist whose work with the saxophonist Charlie Parker endures in the jazz pantheon. Jordan was regarded as one of the great early bebop pianists, the sound that he helped to create in the postwar era was something new, and it remains a cornerstone ...
Allegra Levy: Cities Between Us
by Angelo Leonardi
Continua a muoversi nel solco della tradizione -tra Peggy Lee e Chris Connor-la giovane cantante e autrice newyorchese, diplomata al New England Conservatory. Dopo il debutto del 2014 (Lonely City, SteepleChase) in questo secondo disco Allegra cambia organico e clima espressivo. Tra i nuovi partner spiccano Kirk Knuffke alla cornetta, Jay Anderson al contrabbasso ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Duke Jordan
All About Jazz is celebrating Duke Jordan's birthday today! Duke Jordan was a pianist whose work with the saxophonist Charlie Parker endures in the jazz pantheon. Jordan was regarded as one of the great early bebop pianists, the sound that he helped to create in the postwar era was something new, and it remains a cornerstone ...
Tornano i tesori della Xanadu
by Angelo Leonardi
Proseguono le riedizioni dei dischi della Xanadu grazie all'accordo tra Zev Feldman e Jordi Soley di Elemental Music e la società The Orchard, attuale proprietaria dell'etichetta fondata da Don Schlitten. Dopo un primo assaggio di sei dischi uscito qualche mese fa, il nuovo capitolo della Master Edition Series è corposo e ci dà l'occasione per rievocare ...
The Cookers, Mingus Big Band and Cyrus Chestnut
by Peter Jurew
The Cookers Birdland New York, NY September 15, 2016 The Cookers are an all-star septet that takes its name from the classic Freddie Hubbard album, The Night Of The Cookers, a 1965 live effort from the master trumpeter who passed in 2008. A somewhat fluid lineup earlier in ...
C’è del mood in Danimarca! Viaggio nella Copenhagen del jazz, tra tradizione e nuovi collettivi
by Enrico Bettinello
La città di Copenhagen è stata tra le prime e più attive capitali europee ad accogliere, sin dagli anni Cinquanta, alcuni dei migliori jazzisti americani che trovavano in Europa condizioni di lavoro e di rispetto artistico maggiori che in patria. Musicisti come Oscar Pettiford, Stan Getz, Ben Webster, Dexter Gordon, Duke Jordan, Kenny Drew ...
Louis Smith: Here Comes Louis Smith – 1957
by Marc Davis
I'm not a musical snob. I'm not a guy to drop obscure musical names to impress friends and hipsters. But when I come across a name that is undeservedly obscure, I don't mind shouting it out the window. So here's my shout for today: Louis Smith! Chances are you've never heard of ...
U.S. Jazz From Denmark: Six Recent SteepleChase Releases
by David A. Orthmann
The opportunity to listen to six recently released discs on the venerable SteepleChase label (and the SteepleChase LookOut branch) is a little like reading an anthology of short stories by distinguished authors from a particular year or period. You get a hearty helping of vital, mature voices, most of whom operate somewhere in the jazz mainstream, ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Duke Jordan
All About Jazz is celebrating Duke Jordan's birthday today! Duke Jordan was a pianist whose work with the saxophonist Charlie Parker endures in the jazz pantheon. Jordan was regarded as one of the great early bebop pianists, the sound that he helped to create in the postwar era was something new, and it remains a cornerstone ...
Mirko Signorile: Waiting For You
by Angelo Leonardi
Esponente di punta dell'area jazzistica pugliese e già partner di Gianluca Petrella, Roberto Ottaviano e Gaetano Partipilo, il pianista Mirko Signorile ha espresso in poco più di un decennio (dal sorprendente esordio per la Soul Note con In Full Life e i successivi riconoscimenti della critica) un ricco corpus di opere comprendente sei album a suo ...
