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30th Annual Tri-C JazzFest Cleveland
by Matt Marshall
30th Annual Tri-C JazzFest Cleveland Cleveland, Ohio April 23-May 3, 2009 Now in its 30th year, the Tri-C JazzFest Cleveland has always prided itself as much on its educational offerings as its concerts. The festival's Web site touts it as “the largest educational jazz festival in the country." This emphasis on ...
Alexander von Schlippenbach, Aki Takase and Rudi Mahall: Betting on Tradition
by Clifford Allen
European improvisation began to set itself apart when it built its own tradition, drawing from folk forms and concert music rather than providing provincial answers to questions posed by Ornette Coleman, Thelonious Monk or Duke Ellington. Of course, all these figures factored into the music of players like trombonist Albert Mangelsdorff, drummer Gil Cuppini and reed ...
Queens: Home of Jazz and Flushing Town Hall
by Greg Thomas
When most people think of jazz in New York City, Manhattan readily comes to mind. The “East Coast" stride piano style was developed in Harlem, where venues such as the Savoy Ballroom, Small's Paradise, the Cotton Club and Minton's Playhouse presented the big bands and small groups of jazz lore. 52nd Street became known for its ...
Three of a Perfect Pair
by Chris M. Slawecki
For the past decade or thereabouts, I've tried to organize “From the Inside Out" around one theme, to address in one column the different ways that different musicians perform on the same instrument, or in the same style or genre. But if there's one lesson that life seems intent on teaching, it's that music (like life) ...
Eyran Katsenelenbogen: 88 Fingers
by Jay Deshpande
Eyran Katsenelenbogen's solo piano work has received the highest praise that a jazz pianist can be given: he has been likened to Art Tatum. Although Tatum is widely considered the most virtuosic piano improviser of the last century, players are hardly ever compared to him. To be associated with the man who Fats Waller referred to ...
Jimmy Smith: Plays Fats Waller
by Chris M. Slawecki
Fats Waller, whose rollicking contributions have enlivened the American songbook since the 1930s, once wrote, “Well, I really love the organ. I can get so much color from it than the piano that it really sends me." About a generation later, Jimmy Smith fell in love with the Hammond B-3 organ. Here in the ...
Vaughn Wiester / Doncaster Jazz Orchestra / Kluvers Big Band / Mike Holober & the Gotham Jazz Orchestra
by Jack Bowers
Vaughn Wiester's Famous Jazz Orchestra Dreams Come True COJazz 2009 If you're going to dream, you may as well dream big, in glorious Technicolor with stereophonic sound. As Vaughn Wiester knows, there are times when Dreams Come True. Wiester's vision of leading his own big band is a ...
Fats Waller: If You Got To Ask, You Ain't Got It!
By Fats Waller
Label: Bluebird
Released: 2006
Track listing: CD1: Honeysuckle Rose; How Can You Face Me?; The Panic Is On; Sugar Rose; I'm Crazy
'Bout My Baby; Lost Love; Our Love Was Meant To Be; The Joint Is Jumpin'; A Hopeless Love
Affair; Hold My Hand; Patty Cake, Patty Cake; Honey Hush; Anita; Squeeze Me; Old Grand
Dad; All That Meat and No Potatoes; Ain't Nothing To It; Bessie, Bessie, Bessie; Cash For
Your Trash; You Must Be Losing Your Mind; Up Jumped You With Love; Ain't Misbehavin'.
CD2: St. Louis Blues; 'Sipi; Thou Swell; Numb Fumblin'; Ain't Misbehavin'; Smashing Thirds;
My Fate Is In Your Hands; African Ripples; Viper's Drag; Keepin' Out Of Mischief Now; Star
Dust; Carolina Shout; Serenade For A Wealthy Widow; Rosetta; Functionizin'; Loungin' At
the Waldorf; Blue Turnin' Grey Over You; In the Gloamin'; Mamacita; The Jitterbug Waltz;
Honeysuckle Rose. CD3: I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal You; You're Not the
Only Oyster In the Stew; What's the Reason I'm Not Pleasin' You; Lulu's Back In Town; I'm
Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter; Dinah; There'll Be Some Changes Made;
Somebody Stole My Gal; Christopher Columbus; It's A Sin To Tell A Lie; She's Tall, She's
Tan, She's Terrific; The Shiek of Araby; Two Sleepy People; A Good Man Is Hard To Find;
Hold Tight; 'Taint What you Do It's the Way That You Do It; Your Feets Too Big; Darktown
Strutter's Ball; I Can't Give You Anything But Love; You Run Your Mouth, I'll Run My
Business; Let's Get Away From It All; 'Taint Nobody's Business If I Do.
Fats Waller: If You Got To Ask, You Ain't Got It!
by Jim Santella
Fats Waller If You Got To Ask, You Ain't Got It! Bluebird Jazz 2006 His career was short, but he left behind the kind of memories that will never fade. Fats Waller had it all: personality, keyboard talent, musical ear, and an intuitive feel for communicating with an audience. He ...
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