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Jazz Musician of the Day: Joe Pass

All About Jazz is celebrating Joe Pass' birthday today! Joe Pass almost didn\'t make it as a musician due to his early battle with drug addiction. But following a successful rehab at Synanon and a recording session with fellow recovered musicians entitled Sounds of Synanon, the guitarist was signed by Dick Bock to the Pacific Jazz ...
More Jazz Guitar Milestones Of Jazz Legends

Label: The Intense Media
Released: 2017
Track listing: Charlie Christian • T-Bone Walker; Charlie Christian With The Benny Goodman Sextet And Orchestra; T-Bone Walker; Al Casey • Tiny Grimes; Al Casey - Buck Jumpin'; Tiny Grimes - Callin' The Blues; The Wes Montgomery Trio • Johnny Griffin; The Wes Montgomery Trio - A Dynamic New Sound: Guitar / Organ / Drums; Johnny Griffin - Grab This! (Feat. Joe Pass); Tal Farlow Quartet • John Lewis & Sacha Distel; Tal Farlow Quartet; John Lewis & Sacha Distel - Afternoon In Paris; CD5 • Herb Ellis • Sal Salvador; Herb Ellis - Nothing But The Blues; Sal Salvador - Quintet / Quartet; The Jimmy Giuffre 3 • Paul Desmond; The Jimmy Giuffre 3 - The Easy Way (Feat. Jim Hall); Paul Desmond - Desmond Blue With Strings (Feat. Jim Hall); Grant Green • Bob Brookmeyer Street Swingers; Grant Green - Sunday Mornin'; Bob Brookmeyer - Street Swingers (Feat. Jim Hall & Jimmy Rainey); Kenny Burrell • Gene Ammons; Kenny Burrell - Blue Lights Volume 2; Gene Ammons - Jungle Soul (Feat. Kenny Burrell & Bucky Pizzarelli); Barney Kessel • Barry Galbraith; Barney Kessel - To Swing Or Not To Swing; Barry Galbraith - Guitar And The Wind; René Tomas And Bobby Jaspar; René Tomas And Bobby Jaspar - From Rome To Comblain;
Tom Guarna: The Wishing Stones

by John Kelman
An unfortunate reality for too many musicians--even those who are well-known--is that most of their audiences are aware of but a portion of their true work...their fullest capabilities. Recordings only tell part of the story, since artists often tour with groups that are never documented. And even those tours, for those fortunate enough to experience them, ...
Munir Hossn: Nuove suggestioni tra Africa e Brasile

by Angelo Leonardi
Nato nel 1981 in Brasile da padre libanese e madre brasiliana, Munir Hossn è uno dei più creativi musicisti e compositori sudamericani della sua generazione. Dotato di un talento precoce, all'età di 10 anni suonava professionalmente (principalmente batteria e chitarra) in differenti gruppi di Salvador, Bahia. Impegnato principalmente nella sintesi tra elementi tradizionali africani e brasiliani, ...
King Crimson at Lisner Auditorium

by Eric Thiessen
King Crimson Lisner Auditorium at George Washington University Washington DC October 28, 2017 The original King Crimson burst like a supernova upon the 1969 music universe, with talents from Jimi Hendrix to Pete Townshend extolling its virtues. The quickly departing band members ultimately would become integral parts of ...
Five on Cellar Live

by C. Michael Bailey
Corey Weeds' Cellar Live label is dedicated to the most organic of jazz: small ensemble acoustic performance. In 2000, Weeds had opened his Cellar Jazz Club, originally located at 3611 W Broadway, Vancouver, BC. A year later followed the inauguration of the Cellar Live imprint. In spite of the club's closing in 2014, the label remains ...
Go Slow: The Life Of Julie London

by Michael Owen
The following is an excerpt is from Chapter 12: For the Night People" of Go Slow: The Life of Julie London by Michael Owen (Chicago Review Press, 2017). All Rights Reserved. In 1965, after three years of largely recording pop tunes under Liberty Records' hit-making producer Snuff Garrett, Julie London was eager to ...
Generation Next: Four Voices From Seattle
by Paul Rauch
Each generation, an insidious notion arises, and is passed about the musical world that jazz music, the only uniquely American art form is somehow experiencing a slow, but certain death. Inevitably, this notion is set aside, and somehow projected forward in time, as a new generation of artists rise to the occasion, not only facilitating the ...
Patrice Williamson + Jon Wheatley: Comes Love - A Tribute To Ella Fitzgerald And Joe Pass

by Dan Bilawsky
Centennial celebrations abound in 2017. In this year of years we fête many jazz greats delivered unto us one century ago--Dizzy Gillespie, Buddy Rich, Mongo Santamaria, Thelonious Monk, and Tadd Dameron, to cite just a handful. That list of giants forever changed the face of this music, but it's a list that's noticeably incomplete without the ...
Bill Evans on meeting Miles

by Nenette Evans
Miles Davis said: Bill left the band in 1958 and went down to Louisiana to live with his brother. Then he came back after a while and formed his own group. After a while he got Scott LaFaro on bass and Paul Motian on drums and he became very popular with that group, winning a number ...