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Mike Durham's Brilliant Idea (Another One!)
Mike Durham is not only a fine trumpet player and soulful man. He's also the embodiment of musical generosity--with his wife Patti (herself inimitable) he has given the world twenty Whitley Bay International Jazz Festivals. The 2010 one was announced as the final one, and I think all the musicians and listeners had their joy tinged ...
"Pay Attention!" Celebrating Jake Hanna (August 8, 2010)
The greatest artists have a way of making us comfortable. We see them, unannounced, come on the stage, and we relax and get ready to be delighted. “This is going to be wonderful!" we think, before the first note has been played. Hank Jones and Milt Hinton and Ruby Braff and Vic Dickenson and another dozen ...
Interview: Paul Bacon (Part 4)
I should have told you this from the start but Paul Bacon has had a second career that has been even bigger than his first. Paul is perhaps best known today not as an LP-cover art director but as the inventor of book jacket design as we know it. Starting in the late 1950s, he has ...
He Just Keeps Gettin' Up: Pianist/Composer/Bandleader Orrin Evans
Last Tuesday evening at the Jazz Standard, fortified by a plate of succulent ribs and amidst an appreciative audience, sonic rewards were plentiful from pianist Orrin Evans once again offering ample evidence that his arc continues on the rise. That evening and the next at the agreeable East Side joint, Evans piloted a rough & ready ...
The Case for Hubert Laws
The 2011 class of National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters, the highest honor this country bestows on living jazz artists and advocates, is not without controversy. There's been much conversation about the unprecedented elevation of the entire Marsalis Family; and just the other day while doing some research at the Institute of Jazz Studies at ...
Finally, Myspace Rolls out Redesigned Profiles
MySpace has long been criticized for poor design and as part of a turnaround effort, the struggling social networker has finally done something about it. The new profiles are not available throughout the site, but Sean Percival, MySpace's VP of Online Marketing, tweeted about his own “clean new" profile early on Friday. “We're testing a new ...
The Argentine Invasion, PT. 2: Richard Nant
When Guillermo Klein plays the Village Vanguard next month, his old friend and collaborator Richard Nant will be coming along. The trumpeter/percussionist Nant has been a fixture in Klein's flagship group, Los Guachos, for as long as its been in existence; and he's also a crucial contributor to Base de Nave, the band the Vanguard will ...
Interview: Paul Bacon (Part 3)
In the early years of LP cover design, there were no rules. The only driving force was that a cover had to be graphically gripping. Designers then often worked with just two colors, and much rested on typeface solutions and the integration of motion, dimension and excitement. As one of the early jazz-album cover designers and art ...
Brains, Beauty ... and a Bass
If you've not listened to Esperanza Spalding, you're missing out on a rare treat.Spalding is a 25-year-old dynamo, maybe the best thing to happen to jazz in a decade or two because she has the star quality missing from so many young players. Eldar and Julian Lage are exciting players, but Spalding is not only ...
Interview: Paul Bacon (Part 2)
Paul Bacon is modest and soft-spoken. Since the late 1940s, jazz musicians have sensed in the album illustrator, designer and art director a wise and gentle soul. This was particularly true of Thelonious Monk, who saw Paul as an unpretentious artist and sensitive thinker. For his part, Paul saw in Monk a creative genius who was ...
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