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The Complete 1972 Berlin Concert
Label: Domino Records (7)
Released: 2009
Track listing: Blues For Newport; All The Things You Are; For All We Know; Line For Lyons; Blessed Are The Poor (The Sermon On The Mount); Mexican Jumping Bean; Sign Off; Sometime My Prince Will Come; These Foolish Things; Take Five; Take The "A" Train;
The Salle Wagram Concert (Complete Edition)
Label: Domino Records (7)
Released: 2009
Track listing: Peggy's Blue Skylight; Orange Was The Color Of Her Dress Then Blue Silk; Meditations On Integration; Fables Of Faubus; So Long Eric; Parkeriana;
40th Anniversary Celebration of Jazz at New England Conservatory in Boston
by Timothy J. O'Keefe
Jazz 40 SummitJordan Hall, New England ConservatoryBoston, MassachusettsOctober 23, 2009Perhaps it was only fitting that the opening piece for the Jazz 40 Summit, part of the 40th anniversary celebration of jazz at the New England Conservatory, was conducted by Gunther Schuller. After all, it was Schuller founded NEC's jazz studies program ...
John Law: Deeper into the Music
by Jakob Baekgaard
Classical music and jazz are often perceived as two radically different art forms that cannot be merged. Historically, the idea of a so-called “third stream" that is able to combine the language of jazz and classical music into a coherent whole has proved rather difficult to translate into praxis, and yet it is undeniable that a ...
Fred Hersch: No Limits
by Maxwell Chandler
From the start of his career as a sideman in the 1970s for such jazz luminaries as Joe Henderson, Art Farmer and Stan Getz to his own ensembles and solo projects, there has always been a great diversity and intensity to Fred Hersch's art. Having won a Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship for composition (2003) and having been ...
Jazz Orchestras
by Nick Catalano
This excerpt appears in New York Nights: Performing, Producing and Writing in Gotham (IUniverse, 2008). In addition to the productions of the dance band shows, being a Performing Arts producer meant that I had the opportunity to present artists from every genre imaginable. I steadfastly tried to adhere to some sense of objectivity listening ...
Jeff Lashway: Reunion
by Nicholas F. Mondello
Throughout the decades, the bands of trumpet legend Maynard Ferguson were, by very nature, heavily brass and ensemble section oriented. Occasionally, Ferguson's pianists were given the opportunity to shine, launching into extended solo tune introductions or brief solos. Some of those pianists were (or would become) stars or leaders in their own right. They included Mike ...
TD Canada Trust 2009 Vancouver International Jazz Festival
by Andrey Henkin
TD Canada Trust Vancouver International Jazz FestivalVancouver, CAJune 26th-July 5th Probably one of the few places on the planet not deep in mourning for recently deceased pop star Michael Jackson was Vancouver, on the western coast of Canada, or at least the parts of the city given over to the 24th annual TD ...
Vinnie Sperrazza: Peak Inn
by Clifford Allen
The piano trio is a medium that became immensely popular with Bill Evans' meteoric rise on the international scene in the '50s and has remained an astonishingly equilateral creative outlet for an extraordinary array of harmonic and rhythmic complexity. However, there aren't a lot of groups taking the chances available to them, instead mining the standard ...
Alexander von Schlippenbach, Aki Takase and Rudi Mahall: Betting on Tradition
by Clifford Allen
European improvisation began to set itself apart when it built its own tradition, drawing from folk forms and concert music rather than providing provincial answers to questions posed by Ornette Coleman, Thelonious Monk or Duke Ellington. Of course, all these figures factored into the music of players like trombonist Albert Mangelsdorff, drummer Gil Cuppini and reed ...
