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Man of the World: The Peter Green Story
by Jim Trageser
Peter Green Man of the World: The Peter Green Story Henry Hadaway Organization 2016 In an age when a junior high school rite of passage for budding adolescents remains discovering the great blues- rock guitarists of their grandparents' generation, arguing the relative merits of Jimmy Page vs. Eric Clapton (and ...
Hentoff helped pave way for jazz journalism’s acceptance
by Jim Trageser
Nat Hentoff's passing last week left me feeling, well, old. Whenever we lose a mentor--a grandparent, a teacher, someone who encouraged us--it's a reminder of our own mortality, that we are, in the parlance of football coaches, the next ones up. I don't feel anywhere near to ready or worthy or capable of assuming ...
A giant of jazz journalism silenced
by Jim Trageser
Nat Hentoff was an old-school intellectual whose favorite topic—whose very touchstone—was, throughout his life, jazz. At one point in the 1990s, Hentoff—who passed of natural causes on Jan. 7—announced that he was giving up writing about jazz to focus on topics that seemed more critical—free speech and civil liberties, which he felt were under ...
Ian Faquini e Paula Santoro: Metal Na Madeira
by Jim Trageser
For most of us in the United States, mentioning “Brazil" in a musical conversation connotes bossa nova or samba--which is a bit like describing all American music as blues or country. Expertise in the music of Brazil is the work of a lifetime; much as with the United States, each region has its own ...
Ivo Perelman: The Art of the Improv Trio
by Jim Trageser
For the last few centuries, the avant-garde movement has taken for itself the role of challenging preconceived notions of what is acceptable in music, in poetry, in the visual arts. This challenge has, for the most part, consisted of violating accepted rules in order to provoke discussion about the validity of those norms. In ...
Sugar Ray & The Bluetones: Seeing Is Believing
by Jim Trageser
Possessed of a rich timber on both vocals and harmonica, a keen ear for melody, and an unerring feel for the blues, New England's Sugar Ray Norcia had the grand career misfortune to begin breaking nationally just before the pop punk band Sugar Ray came on the scene and sowed confusion among music fans.
John Coltrane: Trane 90
by Jim Trageser
Along with Miles Davis, Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong, the late saxophonist John Coltrane is one of the most anthologized figures in the history of jazz. He is also one of the most studied, with at least four full biographies on Amazon, and dozens of other books looking at various aspects of his music. The number ...
Pedro Neves: 05:21
by Jim Trageser
It is what it sounds like: West Coast jazz. It's probably worth pointing out, though, that the music found on Pedro Neves' sophomore album comes from the west coast of Portugal, not the United States. You'd never guess that this is Iberian jazz, though, just from listening to it. There's no trace of fado--that ...
Lee Fields & The Expressions: Special Night
by Jim Trageser
Pop culture often gets ahead of itself in writing off styles no longer in vogue among the younger set--even when tremendous music is still being made by the original creators. So while big band swing was considered hopelessly dated by the 1970s, Count Basie, Buddy Rich, Harry James, and Les Brown were still turning ...
Richie Cole: Richie Cole Plays Ballads & Love Songs
by Jim Trageser
Alto saxophonist Richie Cole has made quite the career with his brand of hard bop, generally coming at melody almost as an unintended consequence of his heavy focus on improvisational interpretation. On his latest release--itself an unintended consequence of a recording date arriving without half the scheduled musicians able to attend--Cole taps into his ...
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