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Gary Husband's Drive: Hotwired
by John Kelman
Gary Husband's Drive Hotwired Abstract Logix 2009 Keeping one foot in the jazz tradition and the other on a path to where the music not just can go, but must go is a dicey challenge, even for the most forward-thinking. In many respects, it's the musicians who have spread themselves well ...
Blue Note at 70
by Joel Roberts
No label in jazz can match the history and legacy of Blue Note Records. Since its founding in New York in 1939 by German emigre Alfred Lion, Blue Note has been associated with an amazing assortment of jazz luminaries including Horace Silver, Art Blakey, Jimmy Smith, Lee Morgan, Freddie Hubbard, Joe Henderson, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, ...
Pianist/Arranger Bill Cunliffe Revisits a Jazz Classic with "The Blues and the Abstract Truth, Take 2"
With his new album, The Blues and the Abstract Truth, Take 2, pianist Bill Cunliffe doesn’t so much reinvent a modern jazz classic as open it for incisive interpretation. Working with clean, uncluttered arrangements and a stellar cast of improvisers, Cunliffe explores Oliver Nelson's beloved 1961 album for Impulse! And the results are consistently riveting. Putting ...
New Jazz It Up! Episode: Christian McBride, Nicholas Payton, Mark Whitfield and the Lew Tabackin Trio Plus the 2009 NEA Jazz Masters Ceremony with George Benson Performance
New York, NY - The very latest episode of the online jazz TV show, Jazz it Up!, is available now for your viewing pleasure. To subscribe and see a five-minute preview of the new episode. This edition of Jazz it Up! features two trios, both swinging hard: Nicholas Payton, Christian McBride and Mark Whitfield are seen ...
"Just a Little Taste," the Debut CD from Denver-Based Trumpeter/Educator Al Hood, Due February 17
A masterful trumpeter with a wide range of experience in the jazz, classical, and academic arenas, Al Hood has previously recorded and/or performed with the Phil Collins Big Band, Curtis Fuller, and orchestras led by Ray Charles, Arturo Sandoval, and Richie Cole. He's a longtime member of the eclectic, classically oriented Denver Brass as well as ...
Hamiet Bluiett on Freddie Hubbard
St. Louis American editor Chris King, who also blogs at Confluence City and is one of the folks behind Poetry Scores, sent along the following text with a note saying, “This will be in the American this Thursday but you can make any use of it you wish with proper credit." Consider it used, with StLJN's ...
Listen to the Freedom Jazz Dance Freddie Hubbard Tribute
The Freedom Jazz Dance tribute show for the late, great Freddie Hubbard is uploaded at freedomjazzdance.net. Double click on the radio blog file and enjoy this two hour tribute to the trumpet genius. Freedom Jazz Dance The unstoppable sound of freedom in the groove Sundays from 5-7 PM 90.1 FM ...
Wayne Wallace Latin Jazz Quintet: Infinity
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
With The Nature of the Beat (Patois, 2008), trombone virtuoso Wayne Wallace established himself as the musician you'd most like to have living in the downstairs apartment. If you had to have musicians downstairs, that is. The reasons Wallace and his extraordinary band mates would be welcome are essentially twofold. First, their repertoire is ...
Jazz Trumpeter Freddie Hubbard Dies
Jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, who played with legends such as John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, McCoy Tyner, Art Blakey and Herbie Hancock, died today (Dec. 29) in Sherman Oaks, Calif. Hubbard, who had suffered a heart attack on Nov. 26, was 70. Born in Indianapolis, the artist moved to New York in 1958 and quickly began playing ...
