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Sam Newsome: To Play or Not to Play the Soprano
by Sam Newsome
When I think about the radical move I made 14 years ago, switching from the tenor to the soprano saxophone, I sometimes ask myself: “What in the hell were you thinking?" Even though in hindsight I look back on my decision with amazement and disbelief, I'm happy to say that it's one I've never regretted. Becoming ...
July 2009
by AAJ Staff
Smoke Big BandSmokeNew York City June 4, 2009When the Smoke Big Band, under the direction of Bill Mobley, crowded onto the Smoke bandstand for its second set (Jun. 4th), the focus was on music by '80s-era Jazz Messengers alumni: Billy Pierce, Donald Brown and Mulgrew Miller. Mobley is a trumpeter, ...
The Bloom Festival at the Tea Lounge Thursday and Friday Nights in June
The JVC Jazz Festival is gone, but The Tea Lounge in Park Slope has brewed something strong and new: The Bloom Festival, curated by journalist Lara Pellegrinelli and violist Tanya Kalmanovitch. The two longtime friends had talked time and again about collaborating on various projects and finally thought the timing was right. “Since George Wein has ...
Juergen Friedrich: Pollock
by Dan McClenaghan
Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), the Abstract Expressionist American painter best known for his “drip paintings" produced from 1947 to 1950, loved and was inspired by jazz. The innovative music of that time in the genre was Bird (Charlie Parker), Dizzy Gillespie and the burgeoning bebop sounds that Pollack would listen to while he created. Jazz has loved ...
JJA's 13th Annual Jazz Awards - Join Us!
Mark your calendar! 13th Annual JJA Jazz Awards June 16, 2009 3:00-6:00pm at The Jazz Standard 116 E. 27th Street New York, NY Join us at the JJA's 13th Annual Jazz Awards as we... Announce our 2009 award winners (see nominees below) Honor winners and nominees ...
The Hearing Eye: Jazz & Blues Influences in African American Visual Art / Thriving on a Riff: Jazz & Blues Influences in African American Literature and Film
by Tom Greenland
Representative of what has been coined the “new" jazz studies, these two books are compilations of critical essays edited by Graham Lock and David Murray, which investigate and unpack the role and influence of jazz and blues in African American culture. The Hearing Eye: Jazz & Blues Influences in African American Visual Art
Mental Weather
Label: Outline
Released: 2008
Track listing: A More Beautiful Question; Ready For Anything; Multiple Choice; Mental Weather; Luminous Bridges; Electrochemistry; Cello On The Inside; What To Wear; First Thoughts/This Nearly Was Mine.
Jane Ira Bloom, Fred Hersch, Drew Gress at Philoctetes Center on December 14th
Soprano saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom, pianist Fred Hersch, & bassist Drew Gress present a performance/ discussion on “Jazz Improvisation: The Art of the Ballad" at The Philoctetes Center for the Multidisciplinary Study of Imagination in NYC on Sunday Dec 14 at 2:30 pm. The Center is located at 47 East 82nd Street, 3rd Floor, NYC. Phone: ...
Improvisation...Like The Weather
by AAJ Staff
By Jane Ira Bloom I thought I would talk about improvising and I should say that I'd try to talk about it because words are often difficult for me. My performance world is sonic; more poetry than prose, more like the weather than the forecast--more pliable and less specific--cloud-like and always shifting shape. ...
Jane Ira Bloom: Mental Weather
by AAJ Italy Staff
L’iniziale “A More Beautiful Question“ un duo con pianoforte che ricorda la melodia di “I Love You Porgy“ e la conclusiva “First Toughts/This Nearly Was Mine“ in solitario al sax soprano, sono un vero e proprio trattato sul suono e sul silenzio. Il controllo dell’emissione, la purezza timbrica, la capacità di trasformare i minimi riverberi in ...
