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Jazz by Many Other Names?
by Chris M. Slawecki
The Ripple Effect Hybrids Kindred Rhythm 2005 Hybrids is a jazz album in name only - specifically the names of multi-instrumentalist John Surman and drummer Jack DeJohnette, who leads this collaborative ensemble. One of the few musicians to have recorded or performed with Ornette Coleman, Thelonious Monk, John ...
European Jazz, Electronic Beats, Worlds of Dub and a Sound Soul Orchestra
by Chris M. Slawecki
The Quantic Soul Orchestra Pushin' On Ubiquity 2005 As the mastermind behind Quantic, Will Holland scored a major hit in electronic and club music circles with last year's Mishaps Happening. Here performing on organ, bass, guitar, sitar, percussion, and saxophone, he leads the Quantic Soul Orchestra, the concert ...
Voices of Summer 2005
by Chris M. Slawecki
Singers come in all styles and sounds. Not everyone thinks they have the dexterity to master a saxophone, guitar or drums. But almost everyone has a voice; and almost everyone thinks that they can musically use it. Some people, of course, use it musically better than others. For example: Paul Anka Rock ...
Miles Davis: Year-Long Celebration of Five Decades and Many Miles
by Chris M. Slawecki
On October 27, 1955, Miles Davis signed with Columbia Records, where the mercurial trumpeter, composer, bandleader and conceptualist remained through most of his career. After 1955, Davis recorded and released nearly all of his greatest music through Columbia. Now part of Sony / Legacy, the label has embarked on a year-long celebration of the 50th anniversary ...
Blue Note and Recording Master Re-Present RVG's Heritage
by Chris M. Slawecki
If you're a jazz fan--not even a serious jazz fan but just casual, just about any type of fan of jazz at all--there's a good chance that you own some of Rudy Van Gelder's best work. Working with such legendary entrepreneurs / producers as Alfred Lion (Blue Note), Creed Taylor (Verve, A&M, CTI) and ...
Future Fusions: Hear and Now
by Chris M. Slawecki
Many artists have been reaching toward truly fusing jazz with soul, hip-hop, trip-hop, electronic, and other non-jazz forms of music. And it's tempting to think that this fusion will happen, but happen eventually, sometime in the future. It seems more and more apparent that there may no longer be a need to wait for it. If ...
April PBS Special Honors Life, Music and Photos of Milt Hinton
by Chris M. Slawecki
You don't have to be a great person to be a great musician. It's great if and when it happens, but it seems that it rarely does. Milt Hinton seems a joyous exception to this rule. By all accounts a great person AND musician, he is celebrated with the new documentary Keeping Time: The ...
The Honest-to-Goodness Real-Life Blues
by Chris M. Slawecki
So you groan through Thanksgiving and trudge through Christmas and endure another New Year's Eve and even force a smile through Valentine's Day...and now......and now, what? What?You've still got more than nine months left in your “new" year, buddy. That's what.And when that realization crunches you under its weight, the ...
Old Fashioned Folk Fry with Hot Tuna
by Chris M. Slawecki
These pages have consistently explored (some might say “beaten to death") the on- and off-ramps between jazz and rock, jazz and funk, jazz and reggae, jazz and other electric music, but rarely if ever the connection between jazz and another form of music, folk. Folk music seems like jazz in one way: It's almost ...
Pictures Without Borders
by Chris M. Slawecki
Every so often it can be satisfying to set up before one's self a challenge and then to knock it down. Such as trying to find, for example, the jazz threads in sounds cut from different musical cloth. Sons of Armageddon The Softest Touch Magic Pony Records Colorful, complicated and ...
