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Mike Mainieri: Man Behind Bars
by John Kelman
It's hard to imagine vibraphonist Mike Mainieri in his seventies. Not only does he look and sound like a man 10 years (or more) his junior, but a quick look at the projects he's been involved in over the past few years sound like anything but a septuagenarian resting on his not inconsiderable laurels.
Monkadelphia at Chris' Jazz Cafe
by Victor L. Schermer
MonkadelphiaChris' Jazz CaféPhiladelphiaJanuary 2, 2010 This reviewer decided to kick off the New Year jazz season by going to hear Monkadelphia at Chris' Jazz Café. Recently, he has been immersed in Robin D.G. Kelley's excellent new biography, Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original (Free Press, 2009); he ...
Crystal Silence: The ECM Recordings 1972-79
By Chick Corea
Label: ECM Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: CD1 (Crystal Silence): Señor Mouse; Arise, Her Eyes; I'm Your Pal;
Desert Air; Crystal Silence; Falling Grace; Feelings and Things; Childrens Song;
What Game Shall We Play Today.
CD2 (Duet): Duet Suite;
Children's Song No. 15; Children's Song No. 2; Children's Song No. 5; Children's
Song No. 6; Radio; Song to Gayle; Never; La Fiesta.
CD3 (In Concert,
Zürich, October 28, 1979, Disc One): Señor Mouse; Bud Powell; Crystal
Silence; Tweak.
CD4 (In Concert, Zürich, October 28, 1979, Disc
Two): I'm Your Pal/Hullo, Bolinas; Love Castle; Falling Grace; Mirror, Mirror; Song
to Gayle; Endless Trouble, Endless Pleasure.
Quartet Live
By Gary Burton
Label: Concord Music Group
Released: 2009
Track listing: Sea Journey; Olhos de Gato; Falling Grace; Coral; Walter L.; B and G
(Midwestern Night's Dream); Missouri Uncompromised; Fleurette
Africaine (Little African Flower); Hullo, Bolinas; Syndrome; Question
and Answer.
J Hunter's Best Jazz Discs of 2009
by J Hunter
It's that time again--the season for relentless bell-ringers, wild-eyed consumers, and end-of-year countdown lists. The latter category can actually be helpful for last-minute shoppers who want to give someone “the best of everything." However, a little background info never hurts the buying process. As such, here's one more countdown for Best Jazz Discs of 2009. #10 ...
Ralph Towner / Paolo Fresu: Chiaroscuro
by David McLean
Continuing his long and fruitful relationship with Manfred Eicher's ECM Records--yielding a slew of successful solo records and concerts, acclaimed group work with Oregon and Solstice (also featuring Jan Garbarek), and duo work with John Abercrombie, Gary Peacock and Gary Burton--guitarist/pianist Ralph Towner has become something of an icon for the German label. Chiaroscuro marks another ...
1959: The Year Classic Albums Were Born
by R.J. DeLuke
When the year 1959 began, there were only 48 states. Alaska and Hawaii would became part of the United States during that annum, the third year of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's second term. It was the year Fidel Castro came to power in Cuba and took a goodwill tour of the U.S., two months after an ...
Darius Jones: Man'ish Boy (A Raw & Beautiful Thing)
by Andrey Henkin
Darius Jones sounds like it could be the name of an itinerant preacher or maybe a character in a Flannery O'Connor short story. Neither is actually that much of a stretch after hearing the alto saxophonist's debut as a leader, Man'ish Boy. Throughout run the concurrent threads of celebration and foreboding that exist in the rural ...
Barcelona International Jazz Festival 2009 Complete Roster!
Here is the complete schedule for the 41 Voll-Damm Barcelona International Jazz Festival, opening on October 28th with Wayne Shorter Quartet, and closing at the NYC’s Jazz Standard with four very special nights (December 3rd to 6th), featuring Chano Dominguez Quinteto Flamenco. Watch the video! Concerts Sunday, October 18th Celebrating Blue Note ...
The Matt Wilson Quartet: That's Gonna Leave A Mark
by George Kanzler
A drummer whose creativity, drive, dedication and infectious joy have garnered him high honors from fellow musicians and critics alike, Matt Wilson is also a perspicacious and activist bandleader. The Matt Wilson Quartet--alto and tenor saxophones doubling clarinets, bass and drums--is raucous, rambunctious and high energy. Among piano-less quartets, it's more in the tradition of Ornette ...
