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Rod Stewart: Hot Rod, Jazz God
by Jason West
That smirk. That roguish, self-satisfied, da-ya-think-I'm-sexy smirk. It's back and getting bigger everywhere you look. On Leno. On Letterman. In fashion magazines. Holiday TV specials. What's next--a Super Bowl halftime smirkfest?2000 should have been the end of The Smirk. His rock star career, which started in swingin' London during the late 1960s and peaked ...
Mr. Smith Goes to Bucharest: Fulbright Scholar's Return Energizes Romanian Jazz Musicians
by Jason West
When I first spoke to Tom Smith, during the summer of 2002, I considered him a curiosity. Professor Smith--a trombonist and Director of Instrumental Music at Pfeiffer University, near Charlotte, North Carolina - had accepted the position of Senior Fulbright Professor of Music at the Romanian National University, a six-month teaching gig in Bucharest. Armed with ...
Bill Mays: When Mays Plays, Musicians Listen
by Jason West
O the infinite particulars of modern jazz. Promoters can't sell it. Audiences are hesitant to pay for it. Most players make next to nothing. There're no hits. No stars. Minimal airplay. A distant third on the priority list behind dinner and conversation. But occasionally there is magic. Life-affirming magic. The most immediate and intimate kind. If ...
Victor Noriega: Stone's Throw
by Jason West
In mid-April KBCS Jazz Program Director Gordon Todd, on his Thursday morning Drive Time Jazz show, interviewed local pianist and composer Victor Noriega. Todd praised Noriega’s all-original, debut recording, Stone’s Throw, and acknowledged him and his trio mates, Will Blair (double-bass) and Eric Eagle (drums), as part of a new, up-and-coming crop of local jazz musicians. ...
Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra with guest Clark Terry
by Jason West
Beneroya Recital Hall, Seattle WA October 28, 2000 A veteran of the Count Basie and Duke Ellington orchestras, Clark Terry delivered five decades of musicianship and a timeless sense of humor to Seattle, entertaining a packed house of 500-plus fans who filled Beneroya Recital Hall. High notes mirrored sightgags as the venerable ...
DJ Spooky with Wayne Horvitz plus Ellery Eskelin w/Andrea Parkins and Jim Black
by Jason West
On the Boards Seattle, WA October 30, 2000 Surrounded by an electronic mountain range of turntables, consoles, synthesizers and tape players, DJ Spooky and Wayne Horvitz blasted 500-plus generation Xers with assorted sirens, space sounds, alarms, scratchings, samples, delays, loops and funky beats. What could be described as R2D2 on ...
Tulsa's Jazz Club
by Jason West
On the east side of Second Avenue, between Blanchard and Bell St., there's something for everyone. For the rockers there's The Crocodile; for the mods there's The Lava Lounge; for margaritas there's Mama's Mexican Kitchen; an for the best local jazz six nights a week, there's Tula's.With blinds drawn and only a modest blue neon ...
Tula's: Seattle Jazz Club
by Jason West
On the east side of Second Avenue, between Blanchard and Bell St., there's something for everyone. For the rockers there's The Crocodile; for the mods there's The Lava Lounge; for margaritas there's Mama's Mexican Kitchen; an for the best local jazz six nights a week, there's Tula's.With blinds drawn and only a modest blue ...
Metaphors for the Musician, Perspectives from a Jazz Pianist
by Jason West
Metaphors for the Musician Randy Halberstadt Sher Music Co. ISBN: 0-306-81066-2 A good instruction book on jazz can go along way in the inspiration and development of student musicians. A jazzman's tips, secrets, encouragement and advice are gold to young performers struggling to make it happen in the business. Luckily, ...
Polymorphism: Sound Is What You Shape It
by Jason West
Originally from Winchester, Virginia, a small town in the north Shenandoah Mountains, guitarist and composer Rik Wright studied jazz in a program led by Ellis Marsalis at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. As a professional musician he’s lived in Washington DC, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, New Orleans and San Francisco. Wright ended up in ...
