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China Moses: Bringing Back the Good Times
by Chris Mosey
China Moses is dedicating her singing career to blowing away the notion that women jazz singers in the present age have to be white and wispy and sing songs that are studiously liberated and sexless. She was born in Los Angeles in 1978, daughter of jazz doyenne Dee Dee Bridgewater and her second ...
Ken Vandermark: The Passion and Ascension of a Brilliant Mind
by Lloyd N. Peterson Jr.
This interview was originally published in 2006. In a world that has difficulty and attitude toward unfamiliar and creative thought, Ken Vandermark is a visionary exploring possibilities with improvisational and compositional forms.A recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant, he has used the funding to support his interest in bringing together some of today's ...
Michael Marcus: Lotus Symphony
by John Sharpe
Improvisers who concentrate on the clarinet are a select bunch, perhaps something to do with the difficulty of navigating its tricky three registers--a far cry from the early days of jazz when the clarinet's cry was integral to Dixieland and swing ensembles. Multi-instrumentalist Michael Marcus has only lately joined that coterie lost in the licorice stick's ...
Sunshine of My Soul: Live at the Keystone Korner
By Jaki Byard
Label: HighNote Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: European Episode; Emily; Daydream; Seasons; Round Midnight; Sunshine of My Soul; God Bless the Child; Lush Life; Charles Mingus Medley: Fables Of Faubus/Peggy's Blue Skylight; Spinning Wheel; Besame Mucho; Two Different Worlds.
David Weiss: Writin', Arrangin' and Playin'
by R.J. DeLuke
David Weiss has been on the New York scene for a while now, writing and arranging, producing albums, organizing an outstanding octet. He's known for all that. He also plays the trumpet. Quite well, in fact. Although he's played with the likes of Jaki Byard, Frank Foster, Craig Handy, Christian McBride, Jimmy Heath and ...
Jaki Byard: Sunshine of My Soul: Live at the Keystone Korner
by George Kanzler
Pianist Jaki Byard (1922-1999) is the first one you hear on 2007's great vault discovery, the previously unheard Charles Mingus Sextet with Eric Dolphy, Cornell 1964 (Blue Note). A favorite of Mingus, who famously disliked most piano players, Byard played with a wide range of jazz musicians and was an acclaimed teacher whose students included Fred ...
The Essential Maynard Ferguson
Label: Columbia
Released: 2007
Track listing: The Way You Look Tonight; 20, Rue De Madrid; Never You Mind; Over The Rainbow; The Wailing Boat; Somebody Wants Me Down There; Blue Birdland; Straight Up; Free Lee; Everybody Moan; Tag Team; Newport; Maria; MacArthur Park; Ballad To Max; Give It One; 'Round Midnight; The Fox Hunt; I'm Getting Sentimental Over You; Two For Otis; Superbone Meets The Bad Man; Chameleon; The Cheshire Cat Walk; Gonna Fly Now; Everybody Loves The Blues; An Offering Of Love, Pt. 1; Birdland; Caravan; Waltz For Nicole; Manteca;
Ray Nance: Body and Soul
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Ray Nance recorded Body and Soul, his first album as a leader, in May 1969, almost thirty years after he took over Cootie Williams' trumpet chair in the Duke Ellington orchestra, but only about two years after Billy Strayhorn's death in May 1967, and mere days after Coleman Hawkins' in May 1969. Nance performed “Take the ...
Prestige Profiles
By Eric Dolphy
Label: Prestige
Released: 2004
Track listing: Out There; On Green Dolphin Street; Far Cry; Serene; Miss Ann; Fire Waltz; G.W.; Glad To Be Unhappy; Booker's Waltz; Status Seeking;
The Last From Lennie's
By Jaki Byard
Label: Prestige Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Twelve; Dolphy #1; After You've Gone/Strolling Along; St. Mark's Place Among the Sevens; Dolphy #2; Jaki Byard's Ballad Medley: Tea For Two/Lover/Strolling Along/Cherokee/Shiny Stockings; King David.
