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Jimmy Bruno: From Surgery and Carjackings to His Guitar Institute
by Edward Zucker
Jimmy Bruno's stature as one of jazz's top hard bop guitarist is undisputed. His career as a musician and educator warrants the numerous times that he has been interviewed at All About Jazz. In this interview with AAJ contributor Edward Zucker, Bruno discusses his current CD, Maplewood Avenue (Affiliated Artists, LLC, 2007), the Jimmy Bruno Guitar ...
Wayne Escoffery: Veneration: Live at Smoke
by Edward Zucker
Live at the Village Vanguard: These magical words signified a musician had made it in the world of jazz. For the current generation of musicians, Live at Smoke may now take its place. Tenor saxophonist Wayne Escoffery clearly has arrived, as evidenced on Veneration: Live at Smoke. Escoffery, who performs regularly with Tom Harrell, the Mingus ...
Clint Eastwood: Do You Feel Lucky?
by Edward Zucker
He went from being Rowdy Yates on TV to the cinema's “Man With No Name and “Dirty Harry to winning an Academy Award for directing. Yet, all along the way, Clint Eastwood's passion for jazz has remained a constant. His jazz-related projects in the past include directing the Charlie Parker biopic Bird, and starring in Play ...
Birthday for Dreambox Media; Rebirth of Ortlieb's
by Edward Zucker
On March 8, 2007, Philadelphia's jazz community witnessed a celebration and a reopening. Dreambox Media at Chris' Jazz Cafe On this night, the Dreambox Media label celebrated their 20th anniversary at Chris' Jazz Café, with a CD release party for The Birdhouse Project, the label's 100th release. Featured on ...
Grant Stewart: In The Still Of The Night
by Edward Zucker
It would not be a stretch to call Grant Stewart an international jazz nomad. Stewart was born in Canada and moved to New York City at nineteen. During his career, he has recorded for labels that read like a UN roll call, including French, Japanese, Spanish and Dutch imprints. In The Still Of The Night is ...
Don Byron: Doing The Boomerang at Philadelphia's Painted Bride
by Edward Zucker
Don Byron Painted Bride Art Center Philadelphia, PA February 3, 2007 Don Byron's release Do The Boomerang: The Music Of Junior Walker became a darling of the critics and made the best-of lists for 2006. The disc, a danceable, funk and R&B-filled party record, was Byron's homage to one ...
Nathan Eklund Group: The Crooked Line
by Edward Zucker
The Crooked Line, Nathan Eklund's sophomore release, reveals a musician on an upward trajectory. Eklund arranged the ten tunes on the CD and composed all of them except Bjork's “Isobel, “All The Things You Are and Lee Morgan's “Totem Pole. The original compositions are the most striking and display a subtle complexity as they traverse the ...
Skirl Records Visits Philadelphia
by Edward Zucker
We are in a period when more and more people download their music via the internet; important retailers such as Tower Records are shutting their doors; and blank CDs outsold pre-recorded CDs last year. Yet, Chris Speed--a multi-instrumentalist and longtime member of New York's downtown scene--has undertaken the Herculean task of starting an independent record label ...
Caught in Philly: John Ellis, Dave Holland, Tomasz Stanko, McCoy Tyner
by Edward Zucker
John Ellis at Chris' Jazz Café Saxophonist John Ellis and his band came to Philadelphia's Chris' Jazz Café (October 6) in support of their CD By A Thread. Best known as a member of the Charlie Hunter Band, Ellis' place as a leader is now firmly established. During the course of the evening, he played soprano ...
New Orleans Comes to Cape May: 26th Annual Jazz Festival, Cape May, NJ Nov. 10-12
by Edward Zucker
Cape May Jazz Festival Cape May, NJ November 10-12 Over one year has passed since Hurricane Katrina wrought incalculable damage to the people, property and psyche of Louisiana. This November, “New Orleans Comes to Cape May was the theme of the 26th Cape May Jazz Festival, which was held ...
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