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The Young Lizards: Our Modern Lifestyle
by Jack Bowers
The organ trio, once a focal point of soul-drenched jazz in the heyday of such elder statesmen as Jimmy Smith, Richard “Groove" Holmes, Brother Jack McDuff, Jimmy McGriff, Charles Earland, Don Patterson and others, hasn't been nearly as prominent in recent years as the ranks of virtuosic organists (Joey DeFrancesco notwithstanding) have thinned. Nevertheless, the organ ...
Quentin Moore: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by Chris M. Slawecki
Much has been recently written about the “graying" of jazz and the audience who listens to it, young musicians seem to continually discover (and rediscover) its enduring value--and not just the value of jazz as its own standalone genre, but the benefit of incorporating aspects of jazz, such as improvisation and arrangement, into music of every ...
Ryan Truesdell: The Gil Evans Project
by Victor L. Schermer
Imagine the commotion when previously unknown manuscripts of Beethoven or Bach were discovered. In the jazz world, the equivalent of such an event might occur with regard to the music of innovators like Duke Ellington or Gil Evans. Indeed, that is exactly what composer-arranger-conductor-producer Ryan Truesdell has uncovered with Evans' music. He researched and found a ...
Erin Dickins: Rediscovering Repertoire
by Nick Catalano
One of the great challenges for any established recording vocalist is finding material. Often, even the best arrangements fall short if the composition is a tired standard that has been recorded to death. Success in this area is rare, so when a debut CD contains one thoughtfully performed obscure gem after another, it is time to ...
Take Five with Simon Little
by AAJ Staff
Meet Simon Little: I'm a session bassist living in London. I was born in London and started learning the double bass at school in Dorset with Barry Glynn. I went on to study at The Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London (1999-2003) receiving tuition from Kevin Rundell, Jeff Clyne and ...
Pianist Maureen Girard's new CD exudes tranquility and evergreen beauty of Pacific Northwest
There is a rain-soaked ambience that haunts the piano jazz of Portrait in Four Colors, the debut album from Maureen Girard. Girard recorded the album in South Whidbey Island in the Pacific Northwest, and it exudes the tranquility and evergreen beauty of that region. This is one of the few records that you could see as ...
Ottawa Jazz Festival, Days 4-6: June 26-28, 2011
by John Kelman
Days 1-3 | Days 4-6 T D Ottawa International Jazz Festival Ottawa, Canada June 23-July 3, 2011 Well, the numbers are in, and the opening weekend of the 2011 TD Ottawa International Jazz Festival has broken all previous records, despite a day of heavy rain severely impacting attendance for ...
New Dutch band Taconieuwenhuizen Group blossoms with infectiously energetic album
For bassist Taco Nieuwenhuizen, there was a mystique to the instrument that reeled him in at the age of 17. “The coolness; the sound of the instrument," Nieuwenhuizen revealed, almost like the affection for detail that an adoring husband has for his wife. “There is magic around the bass guitar. The thickness of the strings; you ...
Take Five With The Brett Sandler Trio
by AAJ Staff
Meet The Brett Sandler Trio: Brett Sandler: I'm a classically trained pianist who began studying Jazz in college. I started composing my own jazz tunes after listening to Wayne Shorter for the first time. I love music, movies, and videogames and enjoy spending my time on those three pursuits. I grew up in Rocky ...
Pear: extemp’ore
by Mark Corroto
The improvising duo of Pear--keyboardist Nick Pierone and percussionist Rick Milne-- plays a fanciful game of six degrees of separation on extemp'ore. The opening “Dewey Miles" is a piece of cake, with the sampled voice of Miles Davis whispering “play what you hear" to some Betty, or maybe Jean-Pierre in the backseat. Pierone's piano ...
