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Big Band Leader/Zappa Archivist Ed Palermo Interviewed at AAJ
It's got to be love, hasn't it? Why else would someone bother to transcribe 200 of Frank Zappa's tunes? For what other reason would someone dedicate himself for over 15 years to presenting his arrangements of Zappa's music in the setting of a 17-piece jazz big band, and at a loss to boot? Yes, it's safe ...
Ed Palermo: We're Only In It For The Music
by Ian Patterson
It's got to be love, hasn't it? Why else would someone bother to transcribe 200 of Frank Zappa's tunes? For what other reason would someone dedicate himself for over 15 years to presenting his arrangements of Zappa's music in the setting of a 17-piece jazz big band, and at a loss to boot? Yes, ...
Punkt in Mannheim: Enjoy Jazz Festival: Days 11-12, October 30-31, 2009
by John Kelman
Days 1-2 | Day 3-6 | Days 7-10 | Days 11-12Since its inception in 2005, the Norwegian Punkt festival has been gaining an international reputation for innovation and creativity. With a founding premise of Live Remix--where individual concerts, crossing the breadth of jazz but also beyond, are remixed immediately following the performance with other ...
Enjoy Jazz Festival: Days 1-2, October 20-21, 2009
by John Kelman
Days 1-2 | Day 3-6 | Days 7-10 | Days 11-12 Situated along the Neckar River in the central part of Germany, Heidelberg may seem like an unlikely place for a six-week jazz festival in the middle of the fall each year. But Enjoy Jazz, now in its eleventh year, has been bringing an ...
Ed Palermo Big Band: Eddy Loves Frank
by Ian Patterson
The Ed Palermo Big BandEddy Loves FrankCuneiform Records2009 Saxophonist and bandleader Ed Palermo loves Frank Zappa, and not just a little bit. It's not only the transcribing of 200 Zappa tunes, the scores of concerts where Palermo has led his big band through the late Zappa's music, nor ...
The Jazz Session #98: Industrial Jazz Group
The Industrial Jazz Group is a 15-ish-piece large ensemble that plays the inventive, challenging and often hilarious music of composer Andrew Durkin. That sentence, though, doesn't come close to doing them justice. The band, made up of musicians fluent in jazz, classical and rock and inspired by the free-for-all spirit of Frank Zappa is a force ...
Indianapolis Jazz Festival: Day 2, September 27, 2009
by AAJ Staff
Day 1 | Day 2 The Indianapolis Jazz FestivalIndianapolis, IndianaSept. 27, 2009Day Two of the Indy Jazz Fest at the White River State Park dawned with anticipation, everyone looking forward again to be pulled into the flow of the music. Cooler than Saturday, the weather still held against the vagaries ...
Al Orkestra: Where Are We Now?
by John Kelman
Sometimes the best music comes from the most unexpected places. British ex-pat Joe Higham has been living in Belgium for 20 years--first studying, now teaching and gigging with a cadre of undervalued Belgian players. Plenty of artists cite a collection of influences, but this saxophonist/clarinetist and his Al Orkestra concoct a truly wonderful mélange, with touchstones ...
The Ed Palermo Big Band: Eddy Loves Frank
by Jerry D'Souza
Alto saxophonist/bandleader Ed Palermo returns with his third CD devoted to the music of Frank Zappa. Palermo has now become the jazz face of Zappa, having prepared close to 200 transcripts that leaven the music with jazz harmony, while leaving the inherent flavor and quirkiness intact. The charts lend themselves to lush orchestration as much as ...
The Joshua Breakstone Trio: No One New
by Woodrow Wilkins
The trio is a tried-and-true format for jazz. Every now and then, the form is tweaked a little--instead of piano/organ plus bass and drums, it's guitar, bass and drums. The Joshua Breakstone Trio is part of this sect, and delivers with No One New. The title refers to the leader, who has been a ...
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