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Ernie Watts: Bangkok, Thailand, June 18, 2011
by Ian Patterson
Ernie WattsThe Living RoomSheraton Grande HotelBangkok, ThailandJune 18, 2011 It's been celebration time this past month at The Living Room in the Sheraton Grande Hotel--Bangkok's best jazz venue--as it celebrates 10 years of hosting concerts. Veteran tenor saxophonist Ernie Watts provided the main highlight, serving up serious musical ...
Charlie Haden Quartet West: Norwich, UK May 19, 2011
by Bruce Lindsay
Charlie Haden Quartet WestSt Peter Mancroft ChurchNorwich, UKMay 19, 2011 The warm and sunny spring weather meant that queuing outside the venue was more of a pleasure than a chore for the jazz fans waiting to see and hear Charlie Haden Quartet West in the impressive surroundings of St Peter Mancroft ...
Okan Ersan's "A Reborn Journey"
Okan Ersan presented his passionate interpretation of life A Reborn Journey to the world, and as Dave Weckl cited, “A Reborn Journey has the potential to make a lot of noise in the world of jazz fusion- it's fresh and different!" FREE MP3: Download “Quantumising Myself" at AAJ now. em>A Reborn Journey was released at the ...
Charles Fambrough - R.I.P.
After a long bout battling liver disease and many years of suffering, the great jazz bassist Charles Fambrough passed away on Saturday, January 1, 2011. Fambrough had apparently been awaiting a transplant match. Several musical tributes were held in Philadelphia over the last several years to help Fambrough and his family pay the bassist's outrageous medical ...
Best Of Love Songs
By Jackie Ryan
Label: OpenArt Productions
Released: 2010
Track listing: 1) When I Grow Too Old To Dream
2) You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
3) While We're Young
4) Make It Last
5) Let There Be Love
6) Luiza
7) This Heart Of Mine
8) Once In Everyone's Life
9) Bésame Mucho
10) Season's Of The Heart
11) Serenade In Blue
12) Now Baby or Never
13) Historia De Un Amor
14) The Very Thought Of You
15) You Are There
Dave Bass: Gone
by Bruce Lindsay
Gone, as pianist and composer Dave Bass reflects in his notes to this fine album, has many meanings: for the Beat Generation, it was a state of mind, but it can also suggest physical absence. Bass himself was gone for 20 years--out of the music business, following a wrist fracture in the mid-1980s. He studied law, ...
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 ...
Bobby Watson and UMKC Jazz Orchestra / UNT One O'Clock Lab Band / Kurt Rosenwinkel
by Jack Bowers
Bobby Watson / UMKC Concert Jazz OrchestraThe Gates BBQ SuiteLafiya Music2010 When alto saxophonist Bobby Watson returned in 2001 to his native Kansas City area to assume the position as director of Jazz Studies at the University of Missouri--Kansas City, he mentioned to Ollie Gates, proprietor of ...
Cynthia Felton: Come Sunday: The Music Of Duke Ellington
by Dan Bilawsky
Vocalist Cynthia Felton turned a lot of heads with her debut, Afro Blue: The Music Of Oscar Brown Jr. (Self Produced, 2009), and her sophomore effort is bound to gain even more attention. While Brown is an important, if often overlooked figure, Felton ups the ante with her honoree of choice here. Duke ...
