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Kanye West: Yeezus
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Ben Jonson said of his dead child, my sin was too much hope of thee, loved boy. We too easily take what the poets write as figures of speech, as pretty images, as strings of bons mots. Sometimes perhaps they speak the truth. --Margaret Drabble, The Millstone (1965).Every time I write these ...
Motema Takes Flight With Steady Stream of Breakthrough Albums
Motéma Music's tenth anniversary year is in full swing, and as the summer heats up, the Harlem-based label has much cause for celebration. The month of July kicked off with vibraphonist Joe Locke's May release Lay Down My Heart, spending two weeks in the #1 slot on the Jazz Week chart. For the week of July ...
Take Five With Ralph J DeLorso Jr.
by AAJ Staff
Meet Ralph J DeLorso Jr:I am a 59 year-old seasoned professional drummer. For 43 years I worked for WM Morris and Willard Alexander. For many years I have performed and recorded with many artists. I have performed with the late Jackie McLean two years before his passing at the Artist Collective in Hartford. I ...
Jose James: No Beginning No End
by Enrique Turpin
Tal vez no sea intención de José James (Mineápolis, 1978) reemplazar a D'Angelo en el reinado del neo-soul que se empezó a fraguar a mediados de los años 90, pero puede que lo logre sin proponérselo. En su cuarto trabajo --y primero para Blue Note-- ha recuperado el testigo que seguía en el suelo a la ...
The Revolution Begins (The Flying Dutchman Masters)
Label: Flying Dutchman
Released: 2012
Track listing: Songs; Lady Day And John Coltrane; Home Is Were The Hatred Is; Save The Children; The Revolution Will Not Be Televised; Did You Hear What They Said?; Pieces Of A Man; Speed Kills; Everyday; I Think I'll Call It Morning; When You Are Who You Are; Free Will; Or Down You Fall; The Needle's Eye; The Middle Of Your Day; A Sign Of The Ages; Who'll Pay Reparations On My Soul?; Poetry, Jazz & The Blues; Introduction/The Revolution Will Not Be Televised; Whitey On The Moon; No Knock; Small Talk At 125th And Lenox; Billy Green Is Dead; Sex Education: Ghetto Style; The Vulture; The Prisoner; ...And Then He Wrote Meditations; Plastic Pattern People; The Get Out Of The Ghetto Blues; Artificialness; Ain't No New Thing; Brother; Evolution (And Flashback); The King Alfred Plan; Enough; Paint It Black; Omen; Wiggy; Comment #1; The Subject Was Faggots; The Alternate Free Will; Did You Hear What They Said? (Alt Take 1); The Middle Of Your Day (Alt Take 1); Free Will (Alt Take 1); The Get Out Of The Ghetto Blues (Alt Ending); Speed Kills (Alt Take 3); The King Alfred Plan (Alt Take); No Knock (Alt Take); Wiggy (Alt Take); Ain't No New Thing (Breakdown Take); Billy Green Is Dead (Alt Take); ...And Then He Wrote Meditations (Alt Take); No Knock (Breakdown Alt Take); Free Will (Alt Take 2);
Guelph Jazz Festival: Guelph, Canada, September 5-9, 2012
by Ted Harms
Guelph Jazz FestivalGuelph, OntarioSeptember 5-9, 2012The Guelph Jazz Festival is in its 19th year. Under the direction of Ajay Heble, the festival has few equals in Canada, attracting the upper echelon of improvising musicians.It is a rare festival that can resist the allure of “tent-pole" shows--the mass-appeal artists that have vague, ...
Gil Scott-Heron Tribute, "Roots of American Music" Performances by Aloe Blacc, Otis Clay, Lenny Williams, Swamp Dogg
It may be the final week of Lincoln Center Out of Doors, but the festival isn’t winding down when it comes to exciting performances. This week, Lincoln Center celebrates the 40th Anniversary of the landmark Soul at the Center, highlighted by Valerie Simpson’s first tribute to her late partner, Nick Ashford, since his passing. The pair ...
Jerry Dammers' Spatial A.K.A Orchestra at the Norfolk And Norwich Festival 2012
by Bruce Lindsay
Jerry Dammers' Spatial A.K.A OrchestraTheatre Royal Norfolk And Norwich FestivalNorwich, UKMay 26, 2012It only took a quick glance at the stage to confirm that this was to be no ordinary jazz gig: Jerry Dammers' Spatial A.K.A Orchestra doesn't do ordinary. Dammers, leader and keyboard player of '70s ska band The Specials, ...
Neneh Cherry & The Thing: The Cherry Thing
by Mark Corroto
The Scandinavian power trio of saxophonist Mats Gustafsson, bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten and drummer Paal Nilssen-Love named their band The Thing in 2000, after the Don Cherry composition from Where's Brooklyn (Blue Note, 1966). In their subsequent dozen or so albums, they have covered Cherry's music and that of Albert Ayler, Joe McPhee, and Duke Ellington. ...
Talkin' Blues with the Groovemaster, Jerry Jemmott
by Alan Bryson
Jerry Jemmott's groove is the bedrock of guitarist B.B. King's career defining hit, “The Thrill is Gone." He was in the studio with Duane Allman and singer Wilson Pickett recording “Hey Jude," a track that was instrumental in launching the late Allman Brothers Band guitarist's musical career; and they were together again for flautist Herbie Mann's ...
