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Discovering Discover and Doing a Double-Header
by Dan Morgenstern
It took me only 27 years to discover the annual Discover Jazz Festival in Burlington, VT, but now, having attended part of the 28th, I must say it was about time! Burlington, where Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream was whipped up, is a charming college town. For 10 days in June, the festival dominates the community, ...
Jazz This Week: Bill Frisell, Houston Person, Tower of Power, Steve Tyrell, Marvin Horne, Reptet, St. Louis Jazz Club Picnic, and More
It's going to be a busy few days for jazz and creative music in St. Louis, and time is short, so let's go to the highlights without further preamble... Tonight, tenor saxophonist Houston Person is back to open a four-night stand at Jazz at the Bistro. Equally adepts at blues, bop and ballads, Person has played ...
12th Annual Central Brooklyn Jazz Festival
12th Annual Central Brooklyn Jazz FestivalIt's All Jazz, April 1- 30, 2011 presented by the Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium/CBJC at venues from Coney Island to Williamsburg in Brooklyn. This celebration is New York City's longest continually running grass roots festival dedicated to Jazz. The presentation offers more than 30 events on 23 days with over 100 ...
The Monty Alexander Trio: Toronto, March 5, 2011
by Alain Londes
The Monty Alexander TrioKoerner HallToronto, CanadaMarch 5, 2011 For a night of swinging blues, in honor of Oscar Peterson, the Monty Alexander Trio was an ideal choice for the continuing series Aspects of Oscar at Toronto, Canada's Royal Conservatory of Music. The regular trio included bassist Hassan JJ Wiggins Shakur and ...
Houston Person: Moment to Moment
by Greg Simmons
Tenor saxophonist Houston Person's Moment to Moment begins with an instant nostalgia trip to the classic Blue Note Sessions of the 1960s. It should not come as any surprise, then, that this album was recorded in the legendary Van Gelder Studios in Englewood Cliffs, NJ by the man himself, Rudy Van Gelder--rarely a bad thing.
Newport Beach Jazz Party: Feb. 17-20, 2011
The upcoming Presidents' Day Weekend marks the opening of the 11th Annual Newport Beach Jazz Party, which spotlights Right Down The Middle And Straight Ahead" jazz at the Marriott Newport Beach Hotel in Southern California. The four-day event, Feb. 17 through 20, 2011, kicks off Thursday, 8 p.m., with guitarist/vocalist John Pizzarelli's tribute to Duke Ellington, ...
Mellow
Label: HighNote Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Sunny; Too Late Now; In A Mellow Tone; To Each His Own; What A Difference A Day Made; Two Different Worlds; Blues In the AM; Who Can I Turn To?; God Bless the Child; Lester Leaps In.
Paris Jazz Diary 2010
by Patricia Myers
Travelers who stay in Paris for more than three days without hearing live jazz will miss a vital element of Parisian life. Jazz is as easily available as French wine and crusty baguettes, with performances seven nights a week throughout the City of Light. It's been this way since jazz first entered Paris in the 1920s, ...


