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New Jersey Jazz Society 50th Anniversary Concert Set For October 9th
During the early 1970s, New Jersey jazz fans would gather at the Chester Inn to hear Chuck Slate’s Traditional Jazz Band or at the Hillside Lounge (also in Chester) to see cornetist Wild Bill Davison, or alto saxophonist Rudy Powell, or guitarist Al Casey. In October 1972, under the leadership of the late Jack Stine, these ...
Emmet Cohen has one foot in the tradition, and another in the future
by Leo Sidran
Within about a week of home quarantine in March 2020, pianist Emmet Cohen started live-streaming shows every Monday night from his apartment in Harlem.At first it was just Cohen and his bandmates, drummer Kyle Poole and bassist Russell Hall, set up in Cohen's living room. Eventually they started inviting guests, and Emmet's Place became ...
Vince Guaraldi, Houston Person & Kim Nalley
by Joe Dimino
From the jazz queen of the Bay Area we begin the 762nd Episode of Neon Jazz with vocalist Kim Nalley and music off her album I Want a Little Boy. We follow that up with her good friend and tenor Houston Person. We hear some great new music from Alberto Pibiri, Aaron Aranita and George Winstone. ...
Tony Monaco: Four Brothers
by C. Andrew Hovan
The current state of recorded music is in flux in ways like it has never been before. Young audiences have fickle tastes and like to pick and choose tracks on streaming platforms. So the idea of an album being a complete and unique entity is a totally foreign idea to many listeners under 30. Nonetheless, the ...
Record Store Day April 2022 Jazz Releases
by Kyle Simpler
April 23, 2022 marks the fifteenth anniversary of Record Store Day. Over the years, RSD has grown from a small once-a-year experience to multiple events depending on the year. Each RSD drop features limited-edition vinyl releases, which are popular among collectors. More importantly, though, RSD draws attention to independent record stores, many of whom have flourished ...
The Reid Hoyson Project: Your Move
by Jack Bowers
The Reid Hoyson Project consists of two groups, each of which showcases the insuperable talents of saxophonist Keith Bishop who plays tenor with a close-knit quintet, alto with the more spacious octet. Drummer Hoyson, a fixture on the Pittsburgh jazz scene for roughly half a century, waited until Bishop was available before recording his latest album, ...
Eric Person: Blue Vision
by Jack Bowers
What are the odds that a Person who plays jazz saxophone would meet another Person who plays jazz saxophone, that they would become fast friends and find they were so musically compatible that they would not only perform together but decide to record an album featuring their two horns as the front line? Meet alto saxophonist ...
Eric Person: Blue Vision
by Mike Jurkovic
A veteran of Chico Hamilton, Dave Holland, and The World Saxophone Quartet, saxophonist Eric Person knows a sweet gig when he plays one. This well earned and hard earned knowledge unequivocally guarantees that Blue Vision, Person's soulful homage to late night organ trios, church, and sax legendHouston Person, is about as cool a blue session that ...
Live in Paris
Label: HighNote Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Sweet Sucker; Only Trust Your Heart; Easy Walker; The Way We Were; Lester Leaps In;
Since I Fell for You; Sunny; Jean-Jaures Shuffle.
Putumayo Presents Jazz Christmas
Label: Putumayo World Music
Released: 2021
Track listing: Winter Wonderland (Tom Grant); The Christmas Song (Dixieland Ramblers); Angels We Have Heard on
High (Chad Lawson Trio); Let It Show (Oscar Peterson); I'll Be Home for Christmas (Dixieland Ramblers);
God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman (Houston Person); Blue Christmas (Houston Person); Christmas In New
Orleans (Lars Edegran and His Santa Claus Revelers); Silver Bells (Papa Don Vappie's New Orleans Jazz
Band); Bringing In a Brand New Year (Charles Brown).
