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Indianapolis Jazz Festival: Day 1, September 26, 2009
by AAJ Staff
Day 1 | Day 2 The Indianapolis Jazz FestivalIndianapolis, IndianaSept. 26, 2009With two outdoor stages at The Lawn at White River State Park, the heavy clouds blowing across the sky brought just the right amount of the tension to the mix for the final weekend of the Indy Jazz Festival. The ...
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 ...
Eric Dolphy: Out To Lunch! - 45 rpm Reissue
by Matt Marshall
Eric Dolphy Out To Lunch! Blue Note / Music Matters 2009 (1964) Few jazz fans still need an introduction to reed player Eric Dolphy's 1964 masterpiece, Out to Lunch!. It's an album people tend to come to fairly early on in their love affair with the music (assuming, that is, ...
Chuck Owen & the Jazz Surge / Swiss Jazz Orchestra / The Aggregation
by Jack Bowers
Chuck Owen & the Jazz Surge The Comet's Tail MAMA Records 2009 On The Comet's Tail, Chuck Owen's superb Florida-based Jazz Surge performs the compositions--yes, compositions--of the late great tenor saxophonist Michael Brecker. As Owen writes in the liner notes, “[Michael's] blinding brilliance as a performer / improviser...may ...
Jazz Middelheim 2009
by Martin Longley
Jazz Middelheim 2009Park Den BrandtAntwerpenBelgium The Jazz Middelheim festival is nearing its fortieth anniversary, but it's a weekender that hasn't relinquished a fondness for adventure. Nuzzling up against its stellar bookings are acts, Belgian and otherwise, who seek to jolt the expectations of many audience members. The entertaining middle way ...
The Joshua Redman Trio
by AAJ Staff
Joshua Redman TrioIndianpolis Jazz FestivalIndianapolis, IndianaSeptember 19, 2009 By the inner compass one finds one's direction, and Joshua Redman didn't fail to find his on the first night of the Indianapolis Jazz Festival at Clowes Memorial Hall. With Gregory Hutchinson on drums and Matt Penman on bass, they played a few classic covers, ...
Summertime Jazz: Still Alive and Swingin' in Los Angeles
by Chuck Koton
When the news hit that the Jazz Bakery's last shows (at least at its Culver City location) would take place at the end of May, I feared that a bleak summer lay ahead for Angeleno jazz lovers. Even the reassurances and optimism of the Bakery's long-time director, Ruth Price, about reopening at a new site, did ...
Count Basie Orchestra: Swinging, Singing, Playing
by Robert J. Robbins
Count Basie OrchestraSwinging, Singing, PlayingMack Avenue2009 Although over a quarter-century has elapsed since the passing of William “Count" Basie in 1984, the bandleader and pianist's legacy has proved one of the most durable from the big band era, and the Basie band's Swinging, Singing, Playing maintains the Basie ...
The Aggregation, Under the Direction of Eddie Allen: Groove's Mood
by Edward Blanco
Trumpeter, composer, educator and band leader Eddie Allen is a very busy New York artist currently leading a quartet, quintet, a Latin/Brazilian group and the seventeen-piece big band, The Aggregation, the latter debuting with Groove's Mood. Allen which claims to have one goal: “To have the listener in a finger-snappin,' head bobbin,' toe-tappin,' feel good mood ...
John Beasley: Positootly!
by Larry Taylor
On Positootly!, pianist John Beasley explores a variety of styles for a thoroughly enjoyable and stimulating experience. Each track benefits immensely from the indelible touch of drumming great Jeff “Tain" Watts, in alliance here with percussionist Munyungo Jackson. Hailing from Louisiana, Beasley started playing in the late seventies, getting his seasoning with such jazz greats as ...
