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Back in the Saddle Again...Sort Of
by Jack Bowers
After an absence of more than 45 years, your correspondent returned to the airwaves on December 15, 2009 co-hosting a three-hour program of big-band holiday music on KSFR-FM in Santa Fe, NM. I was invited to share a part of my CD library by Arlen Asher, one of New Mexico's finest jazz musicians, who has been ...
Salute to Stan Kenton: Artistry in Contrast
by Jack Bowers
Artistry in Rhythm, the Ken Poston / Los Angeles Jazz Institute's 2009 homage to the renowned bandleader Stan Kenton, was held October 8-11 at the Sheraton LAX Four Points Hotel. As always, there was much to see, hear and admire: films, panel discussions, special presentations and, last but not least, no fewer than nineteen concerts by ...
40th Anniversary Celebration of Jazz at New England Conservatory in Boston
by Timothy J. O'Keefe
Jazz 40 SummitJordan Hall, New England ConservatoryBoston, MassachusettsOctober 23, 2009Perhaps it was only fitting that the opening piece for the Jazz 40 Summit, part of the 40th anniversary celebration of jazz at the New England Conservatory, was conducted by Gunther Schuller. After all, it was Schuller founded NEC's jazz studies program ...
Don Cherry: From Out of the Shadows
by Raul d'Gama Rose
It was cool in Bombay that July in 1985, or was it 1986? Somehow the year does not seem to matter quite as much as it did when the phenomenon first occurred. The other details, of course, I remember clear as day. Association PC were tearing it up on stage at the fabled arena of the ...
New Jazz It Up! Episode Features: Kenny Garrett, Take 6, Hank Jones and Gene Bertoncini, Vintage Bill Evans and Jazzmobile 45th Anniversary Celebration
New York, NY – Saxophonist Kenny Garrett and vocal group Take 6 headline as the featured artists of the latest episode of Jazz it Up! Garrett’s blistering alto sax fronts a high octane ensemble at the Iridium club, while Take 6 offers intense renditions of cuts from Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue. During the second of ...
Ornette Coleman: Music is a Verb
by Warren Allen
"Some people think of music as being on some higher level," Ornette Coleman says by phone from his apartment in New York City. “But basically it's the human being that receives the pleasure from sound. Not from the argument over what it is." There are a lot of questions about Ornette Coleman and ...
In Memoriam: George Russell 1923-2009
by AAJ Staff
George was such an inspiration to all of us in his sextet. He encouraged us to go beyond our limitations by introducing and suggesting fresh new concepts. As band members (students) he gave us the encouragement we needed to go further and deeper into our musical improvisations.Playing in his band was a turning point ...
Albert Ayler: Spiritual Unity
by Raul d'Gama Rose
When the veracity of the history of twentieth-century art is evaluated, what will be found in the proverbial time capsule? Where will “The Music," which Jelly Roll Morton christened as jass, sit with the works that were created by important composers, ranging from Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, and John Coltrane, to Thelonious Monk,, George Russell and ...
AllAboutJazz-New York September 2009 Issue Now Available!
This month, we mourn the passing of the seminal composer George Russell, whose book, Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization, was the precursor for a modal approach to jazz and such masterworks as Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue. But for such a pedigree, Russell may not be well-known to some readers. The history of jazz, for ...
Large Ensembles: Is There a Place in This Large Music World?
by R.J. DeLuke
The big band in jazz has a long and glorious history. It was a prevalent form in jazz music in the '20s and '30s, comprising a substantial part of America's popular music heard on radio, spun on gramophones and record players, and enjoyed in dance halls. It gave rise to iconic band leaders like Fletcher Henderson, ...
