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Damian Erskine: Playing the Groove
Bassist Damian Erskine has released two albums as a leader over the past couple years, including So To Speak (Self Produced, 2010), a fusion album with Latin underpinnings. He's also been playing with his uncle, Peter Erskine, in the veteran drummer's New Trio, performing a series of concerts during 2010 south of the border, in the ...
Lenny White: Jazz/Rock Collides Again
by Carl L. Hager
When that cool, overcast dawn arrived in Bethel, New York, neither the Woodstock Music and Arts Fair's expired permit, nor the rain, mud, and technical problems could have kept Jimi Hendrix and his Band of Gypsys from playing. It was destiny. Believe it. A hundred miles south on that same morning of August ...
Oliver Nelson Revisited
In his few years, Oliver Nelson achieved major success as a composer and arranger in jazz and in the Hollywood studios. His first big band collection, Afro-American Sketches (1961), made it clear that he was an important new talent. His Blues And The Abstract Truth with an all-star septet that included Bill Evans, Freddie Hubbard and ...
Cecil Taylor: This Music is the Face of a Drum
by Robert Levin
The following is a chapter from Going Outside: Fiction * Commentary * Jazz." robert-levin.com.As an artist-in-residence at the University of Wisconsin, Cecil Taylor has finally been able to realize a long-held ambition--the command of a large orchestra. Comprised of fifteen of his students (and augmented by Jimmy Lyons, Sam Rivers, Leroy ...
Herbie Hancock: "I Don't Feel That I'm Missing Miles Because I Don't Feel He's Gone."
Here's a quick look at an interview Herbie Hancock recently had with The Telegraph. Q Do you think that jazz has outlived itself? A I'm seeing a lot of new, young jazz players emerging from high schools, way more than I expected. They're talented, they're good and they want to play the music. To me ...
Lee Konitz at 82
Dan Tepfer i Lee Konitz, parada a Barcelona el 10 de novembre. Sis dècades al peu del canó, participant en tota mena d'aventures fundacionals, des del seu aprenentatge amb Lennie Tristano fins al Birth of the Cool de Miles Davis. Però el millor és que Lee Konitz continua avui encara buscant noves idees i nous camins ...
Yahoo's 'The New Now' Features Young Soul Sensation Eli "Paperboy" Reed.
Brooklyn-based soul singer, Eli Paperboy" Reed blew out the doors of the Y! Music studios recently with his full scale soul revue. The high-energy performance was captured in three great performances. The full profile can be found here. Look for Reed's Capitol Records debut, Come and Get It on ...
A Note on Mitch Miller
Jazz fans owe a debt of gratitude to Mitch Miller, who passed away at the age of 99 on July 31. Miller may have been known to many from his shlocky 1960s television show, Sing Along With Mitch, but he played an indirect role in the success of jazz in the 1950s. Miller was an oboist ...
Looking For Louis, then and Now
But which one? The sound on the records, the iconic image on the television screen, or the actual person? In the spring of 1967, I was fourteensomeone who had secretly listening to Louis Armstrong records for a few years. And I was fortunate enough to be alive when Louis was popularHELLO, DOLLY! was still vivid in ...
Drummer Lenny White Interviewed at AllAboutJazz.com...and More!
Since first showing up on the radar on Miles Davis' iconic Bitches Brew (Columbia, 1970) at the age of 19, drummer Lenny White has gone from success to success, most notably for his tenure as a member of Chick Corea's legendary electric group Return to Forever, which launched a successful comeback in 2008. White always has ...

