Results for "JJ Johnson"

JJ Johnson

Altin Sencalar

by Daniel Peck
July 10, 2026

Hailed by Stereophile Magazine for “sounding like the 21st-century grandchildren of JJ Johnson and Kai Winding" and praised by the International Trombone Associations Journal for his “virtuosity and melodic and harmonic mastery," Altin Sencalar is in high demand across the country as a performer, educator, and composer. We caught Altin on tour in support ...

Louis Stewart & Brian Dunning: Alone Together

by Ian Patterson
December 21, 2025

Re-releases and archival recordings are so abundant these days that it is easy to take for granted the work involved in dusting down and polishing up old recordings. Thanks to the tireless efforts of Dermot Rogers--the man at the helm of the revived Livia Records--Irish guitarist Louis Stewart's discography is being lovingly restored and reissued. Hats ...

Max Roach: Deeds, Not Words

by Richard J Salvucci
January 29, 2025

Sometimes, someone listens to a recording mostly for one track. This is such a recording. Quite naturally, it involves drummer Max Roach. If he had to stake his reputation on one extended solo, some might say Roach on “Conversation" is the one. Not all drummers, suffice it to say, are melodic. But a first-time listener can ...

JPEG RAW

By Gary Clark, Jr.

Label: Warner Music Group
Released: 2024
Track listing: Maktub; JPEG RAW; Don’t Start; This Is Who We Are; To The End Of The Earth; Alone Together; What About The Children; Hearts In Retrograde; Hyperwave; Funk Which U; Triumph; Habits.

Detroit Jazz Festival 2024: The Year of Alice

by Paul Rauch
September 12, 2024

Detroit Jazz Festival 2024 Hart Plaza & Campus Martius Detroit, MI August 30-September 2, 2024 An annual pilgrimage to the Detroit Jazz Festival allows a jazz fan, or in this case, a jazz journalist, to reset to an internal default setting for what this music means to us on a very ...

The Jazz Cruise 2024

by Katchie Cartwright
February 21, 2024

Celebrity Summit The Jazz Cruise Miami, Labadee, Puerto Plata, St. Thomas January 18-25, 2024 Founded by Anita E. Berry in 2001, The Jazz Cruise has been offering patrons a yearly action-packed weeklong jazz experience at sea with some 100 world-class musicians in 200 hours of programming ...

Louis Stewart: Out On His Own

by Ian Patterson
February 27, 2023

In his lifetime, Irish guitarist Louis Stewart was probably more celebrated abroad than at home, winning the Best Soloist prize at Montreux Jazz Festival in 1968, playing in the house band at Ronnie Scott's and touring with Benny Goodman, J.J. Johnson and George Shearing. His third album, his extraordinary solo opus Out On His Own, was ...

Miles Davis: The Bootleg Series Vol. 7 That's What Happened 1982-1985

by Ian Patterson
January 19, 2023

Eventually the steam roller that is the Miles Davis Bootleg Series was going to trundle into the trumpeter's 1980s comeback era. The preceding six volumes in this series have all been uniformly excellent--essential listening for the Davis completist. Volume 7, however, does not reach those heights. It is an uneven bag, much like Davis's 1980s output ...

Donald Byrd: Donald Byrd Live: Cookin' With Blue Note at Montreux

by Peter Jones
December 30, 2022

What a treat it must have been in 1973 to attend the Montreux Jazz Festival: the featured artists that year included Dexter Gordon, McCoy Tyner, Chico Hamilton, Sam Rivers, Bobbi Humphrey, Dr John, Marlena Shaw, Bobby Hutcherson... and Donald Byrd with his Tentet, whose July 5 performance is captured on this album. It was ...