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Stan Getz Quintette: Jazz At Storyville
by Chris May
Stan Getz QuintetteJazz At StoryvilleRoyal Roost1951 For his casual listeners, tenor saxophonist Stan Getz peaked during the bossa nova craze of the early to mid 1960s. And as Verve's five-disc, 2008 box set, The Bossa Nova Albums, reminded casual and committed listeners alike, Getz and bossa nova ...
Stan Getz: Quintets - The Clef and Norgran Studio Albums
by Chris May
Stan GetzQuintets: The Clef & Norgran Studio AlbumsVerve/Hip-0 Select2011 A pleasure to handle and a thrill to play, this limited edition box set brings together all the quintet studio recordings made by tenor saxophonist Stan Getz for impresario Norman Granz's Clef and Norgran labels, soon to be ...
Mary Halvorson: Saturn Sings
by Chris May
The arrival of a new star in the jazz guitar cosmos, and the chance it offers to wrest a little more of the instrument back from the smooth and fusion apes, is always something to celebrate. The emergence of Brooklyn-based Mary Halvorson, who debuted as a bandleader in 2008 with Dragon's Head (Firehouse 12 Records), has ...
Mark Feldman: Taking an Eclectic Path
by Sean Patrick Fitzell
Violinist Mark Feldman started out in Chicago playing classical music and bar gigs before moving on to the Nashville scene. He emerged in New York's “downtown" circle with the likes of Arcado String Trio, trumpeter Dave Douglas, and composer-saxophonist John Zorn. His expressive, classically tinged technique was also sought for studio work with pop acts and ...
Sam Stephenson: A "Loft-y" Vision of Jazz
by Victor L. Schermer
When, in 1997, writer, scholar, and archivist Sam Stephenson serendipitously came across audio tapes, photographs and other documents involving jazz musicians congregating in photographer W. Eugene Smith's Manhattan loft in the late 1950s and early 1960s, he was surprised as anyone. The wall of cartons had been unopened since before Smith's death in 1978. Stephenson and ...
Take Five With Rick Stone
by AAJ Staff
Meet Rick Stone: I've been teaching and performing in the New York area since 1982 and have had the good fortune to perform with musicians like Kenny Barron, Barry Harris, Junior Cook, Ralph Lalama, Dennis Irwin, Vernel Fournier, Eric Alexander, Peter Leitch, Sam Yahel, Mark Elf, Roni Ben-Hur, Peter Bernstein, Matt Wilson, and ...
Peter Bernstein
by Andrey Henkin
Last month, Peter Bernstein arrived at Smalls, armed with his guitar and a small amp, to play an intimate solo gig. The crowd was a good one for an early evening set on a Wednesday and was bolstered by the presence of legendary trombonist Roswell Rudd. As the Yankees were winning the World Series a borough ...
Bern Nix: A History In Harmolodics
by AAJ Staff
New York-based free jazz guitarist Bern Nix is one of the few people who are well-versed in Ornette Coleman's “harmolodics" style. He played with Coleman from 1975-1987, and now leads the Bern Nix Trio in New York City. In his compositions and his intriguing covers of standards, he is always looking in the corners of the ...
Phil Woods: The Children's Suite
by Andrew Velez
Well of course. NEA Jazz Master Phil Woods' The Children's Suite, inspired by the verses of A.A. Milne. Woods has been widely and wildly prolific throughout his career since his early small group days as a teenager, blowing ebulliently with Jimmy Raney and George Wallington, so it should be no surprise that he's created musical settings ...
Progressions: 100 Years Of Jazz Guitar
Label: Columbia
Released: 2005
Track listing: St. Louis Tickle; Chain Gang Blues; Savoy Blues; The Only, Only One (For Me); Add A Little Wiggle; Clowin' The Frets; California Blues; How'm I Doin' / Dinah; Who's Sorry Now; Danzon; China Boy; Minnahaha; Swingin' On The Strings; Honeysuckle Rose; Guitar Swing; Love Me Or Leave Me; Whispering; Pickin' For Patsy; Little Rock Getaway; Solo Flight; Buck Jumpin'; Twin Guitar Special; I'm Walkin' This Town; Palm Springs Jump; Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good To You; Red Cross; Ol' Man Rebop; On Green Dolphin Street; What Is This Thing Called Love; Body And Soul; My Baby Just Cares For Me; Runnin' Wild; Mountain Melody; Yardbird Suite; The Boy Next Door; Tocata; I've Got You Under My Skin; Aguas De Marco (Waters Of March); Bluesette; Midnight Blue; Unit 7; Naptown Blues; Move; Easy Living; Jean De Fleur; Night And Day; Clockwise; Just Friends; A Taste Of Honey; How Insensitive; Gypsy Queen; June 15, 1967; As We Used To Sing; Should Be Reversed; Manic Depression; Birds Of Fire; Coral; Ralph's Piano Waltz; The Prowler; Bright Size Life; Aqui, Oh; Midnight In San Juan; Europa (Earth's Cry Heaven's Smile); Inner City Blues; Thumper (Edit); Spiral; Captain Fingers; Mr. Spock; Race With The Devil On Spanish Highway; Cause We've Ended As Lovers; Church; Ron Carter; Hottentot; Postizo; Fat Time (Edit);
