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Naxos of America and Arthaus Musik Announce the March 27 U.S. Launch of the Jazzhaus CD/DVD Series
Previously Unreleased “Live" Radio and Television Performances of Jazz Greats From the Archives of Sdwestrundfunk Stuttgart, Baden-Baden and Mainz First Quarterly Release (March 27) Includes CDs by Cannonball Adderley Quintet, Gerry Mulligan Sextet, Benny Goodman Orchestra featuring Anita O'Day JAZZHAUS—Label Story JAZZHAUS is a new music label featuring an indefinite number of audio and video jazz ...
Gerry Mulligan Tribute Concert Presented by Juilliard Jazz on February 29
GERRY MULLIGAN TRIBUTE CONCERT PRESENTED BY JUILLIARD JAZZ FEATURES GUEST ARTIST, SAXOPHONIST GARY SMULYAN AND THE JUILLIARD JAZZ ORCHESTRA CONDUCTED BY JAMES BURTON III WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29 AT 8 PM IN JUILLIARD'S PETER JAY SHARP THEATER SPECIAL EVENING CELEBRATES THE CREATION OF THE GERRY & FRANCA MULLIGAN SCHOLARSHIP; FIRST RECIPIENT IS JUILLIARD SAXOPHONIST JORDAN PETTAY ONE ...
Bob Brookmeyer: Jack of All Trades, Master of Valves
by Jack Bowers
Bob Brookmeyer, a Renaissance man among jazz musicians who died December 15, 2011, four days before his eighty-second birthday, will be remembered as many things: composer, arranger, musician, educator, outspoken arbiter who brooked no nonsense and wasn't shy about letting others know when he believed they were not giving the music he loved the best they ...
An interview with New York-based saxophonist Mark Lopeman
It's fitting that the cover of saxophonist Mark Lopeman's latest album, Nice Work If You Can Get It, is a watercolor portrait from his daughter Rosie. After all, Lopeman approaches his instrument like a painter himself, utterly spellbinding in his ability to illustrate various moods from the unbridled joy of “My Reverie" to the warm caress ...
SuperSax Me
by Jack Bowers
Back in the early 1970s bassist Buddy Clark and saxophonist Med Flory conceived a brilliant idea: to form a group (primarily a reed section with rhythm) that would use orchestrated arrangements of saxophonist Charlie Parker's transcendent bop solos as the basis for its music. As for a name, nothing less than SuperSax would suffice. The nine-piece ...
Rick Lawn’s Power of Ten Little Big Band: Earth Tones
by Victor L. Schermer
Rick Lawn's Power of Ten Little Big BandEarth TonesSelf Produced2011The “little" big band format, an ensemble that may range from seven to 11 instrumentalists, gives the leader/arranger/composer--in this case the multi-faceted reed player Rick Lawn--a chance to finely craft the music and bring in players who are equally ...
Duduka Da Fonseca Trio: Plays Toninho Horta
by Dan Bilawsky
A disproportionate number of Brazilian-focused albums centered on one composer's work have been devoted to exploring the music of Antonio Carlos Jobim, but he's hardly the only composer from that locale deserving of the tribute treatment. Countless others have become ambassadors who spread the wonders of Brazil through their music, and nobody is more qualified to ...
Gerry Mulligan: Mosaic Select
Gerry Mulligan is easily one of jazz's most underrated artists and composer-arrangers. The word “underrated" may seem strange when applied to an established monster like Mulligan, but think about it: Here's a guy who arranged for Gene Krupa, Claude Thornhill, Miles Davis and Elliot Lawrence before heading West in 1952 and starting the piano-less quartet with ...
"Modern Sounds," or: Running a Marathon in Full Body Armor
by Jack Bowers
From October 19-25 Betty and I were at the Los Angeles Marriott Airport Hotel to attend Modern Sounds, the L.A. Jazz Institute's four-day salute to West Coast jazz, followed by a day-long tribute to Stan Kenton on the hundredth anniversary of the legendary bandleader's birth. We arrived a day early to be primed and ready for ...
George Russell: The Story of an American Composer
by Duncan Heining
This article, adapted by the author, appears in Chapter 4 of George Russell: The Story of an American Composer, by Duncan Heining (Scarecrow Press, 2010). New York, NY It was May 1945, the war was still on, Bebop was at its height in New York and George Russell and his two ...
