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Sirius XM Radio to Broadcast Live from the Montreal Jazz Festival
SIRIUS XM's Real Jazz channel will broadcast live from the 31st annual Montreal Jazz Festival, the world's largest jazz gathering. Listeners will hear Real Jazz host Mark Ruffin give a preview of the event's performances including music and interviews with artists including Herbie Hancock, Sonny Rollins, Houston Person, Robert Glasper, Gretchen Parlato and others. The live ...
Ottawa Jazz Festival 2010: Days 1-3, June 24-26, 2010
by John Kelman
Days 1-3 | Days 4-6 | Days 7-9 | Days 10-11 Mikko Innanen & InnkvisitioEtienne Charles and Folklore / Bill Frisell's Beautiful DreamersBill Frisell 858 Quartet TD Ottawa International Jazz Festival Ottawa, Ontario, Canada June 24-26, 2010 Back in April 2010, when the TD Ottawa International ...
Assaf Kehati, Billy Hart, & Noam Weisenberg: Trio Music
by David Lighton
Assaf Kehati Trio featuring Billy Hart Twins Jazz Washington, D.C. June 5, 2010 In recent years, the guitar trio--with bass and drums--has reached mythic status. Once an obscure instrumentation, the setting has been elevated to new heights by young guitarists seeking the kind of interplay for which the piano ...
Denny Zeitlin: Precipice: Solo Piano Concert
by Raul d'Gama Rose
The singular mission of Denny Zeitlin continues with Precipice, the recorded document of a concert in January, 2008 at Ralston Hall, Santa Barbara, California. The experience is at once predictably exquisite as it creates a state of a type of suspended animation, floating with utter weightless abandon, as composer and pianist, Zeitlin flies over the edge ...
Christian Scott Quintet, Live at the Saville Theater, San Diego, CA
by Robert Bush
Christian Scott Quintet Saville Theater (San Diego City College) San Diego, CA April 13, 2010 I believe it was the English writer/contrarian George Bernard Shaw who first coined the phrase: “Youth is wasted on the young." Anybody buying into that cliché was soon set straight--provided they were fortunate enough to ...
Review: "Imagine" Hancock and Gifted Friends
Herbie Hancock, The Imagine Project * * * (OUT OF FOUR) GLOBAL HARMONY Herbie Hancock is one of the rare artists on the planet with sufficient vision and artistic standing to execute something this ambitious. The legendary jazz keyboardist hooked up with nearly two dozen notable musicians from around the world -- ...
Herbie Hancock is Thinking Big on 'The Imagine Project'
Jazz great Herbie Hancock says humanity won't survive unless people come together. He hopes to help that process along with his “The Imagine Project," out today, a bridge-building album that crosses geographic, cultural and genre barriers. “At this point, I think about purpose before I decide to make a record," says Hancock, 70, a 12-time Grammy ...
We Want Miles: A Series of Reinventions
by Greg Masters
We Want Miles: Miles Davis vs. Jazz Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Montreal Through August 29, 2010Treasures await fans of Miles Davis up in Montreal, Canada: Photos, letters, film clips, paintings, instruments, wardrobe and enough information on wall placards to bring visitors on the full journey through the ...
Jazz Legend Herbie Hancock Interviewed at AAJ...And More!
In a career now entering its sixth decade, pianist Herbie Hancock has covered more ground than most. He was a key member of trumpet icon Miles Davis' heralded quintet of the 1960s, with saxophonist Wayne Shorter, bassist Ron Carter and drummer Tony Williams. He was a key part of the nascent fusion community in the late ...
Herbie Hancock: The Imagine Project
by John Kelman
Intersecting with the pop world is nothing new to Herbie Hancock. Collaborating with legendary trumpeter Miles Davis on the early nexus of jazz and rock, In a Silent Way (Columbia, 1969), the keyboardist scored his own fusion hit with the funkified Head Hunters (Columbia) in 1973) and, a decade later, was on the cutting edge of ...
