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Jazz Katz: Jazz in NY
by Joel Roberts
Jazz Katz: Jazz in NY Jimmy Katz Hardcover; 188 pages ISBN: 978-3-9810250-4-0 JazzPrezzo 2007 Over the past two decades, Jimmy Katz has established himself as probably the preeminent jazz photographer of his generation, capturing the recent New York jazz scene with the same artistry, ...
Jimmy Owens: Peaceful Walking
by Joel Roberts
Trumpeter/flugelhornist Jimmy Owens is truly one of the unsung heroes of jazz. Over the course of his forty year career, the New York native has worked with giants like Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Charles Mingus, Dizzy Gillespie and Max Roach, and recorded as a leader for major labels like Atlantic and Polydor. He's also been active ...
Coltrane: The Story of a Sound
by Joel Roberts
Coltrane: the Story of a Sound Ben Ratliff Hardcover; 250 pages ISBN-13: 978-0-374-12606-3 Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2007 New York Times jazz critic Ben Ratliff's new John Coltrane study is really two books in one. The first is a concise, convincing assessment of the evolution of ...
Jimmy Heath Orchestra: Really Big!
by Joel Roberts
The ten-piece band on this invigorating 1960 Riverside release by Jimmy Heath wasn't “really big, but the talent level of the artists certainly was. How about Clark Terry on trumpet, Nat Adderley on cornet, brother Cannonball on alto sax and either Tommy Flanagan or Cedar Walton on piano? Plus, all three Heath brothers (Jimmy on tenor ...
Mark Murphy: Love is What Stays
by Joel Roberts
The cover of Mark Murphy's Love is What Stays features a tight close-up of the 75-year-old singer staring unflinchingly into the camera, the ravages of age clear on his face. It's a fitting counterpart to the music inside, which fearlessly confronts the passage of time from the vantage point of one considering his own mortality.
Eddie Daniels: Homecoming - Live At The Iridium
by Joel Roberts
The homecoming in the title of Eddie Daniels' new album refers to the first New York club appearance in two decades in 2006 by the Brooklyn-born clarinet virtuoso, who's made his home in New Mexico for more than a decade. The live two-CD recording from Iridium--just five blocks from Daniels' alma mater, the old High School ...
Billy Taylor and Gerry Mulligan: Live at MCG
by Joel Roberts
Dr. Billy Taylor has spent so much of the latter part of his nearly sixty-year career in jazz as an educator and broadcaster that it's easy to forget what a brilliant pianist he is. This splendid 1993 date, billed as his first-ever performance with the late baritone sax legend Gerry Mulligan, should serve as a reminder ...
Harry Allen and Joe Temperley: Cocktails For Two
by Joel Roberts
Swing is the thing on this enormously enjoyable outing by baritone saxophonist Joe Temperley and tenor saxophonist Harry Allen. The album features the 77-year-old Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra stalwart Temperley and the 40-year-old ex-wunderkind Allen leading a superbly sympathetic rhythm section (John Bunch on piano, Greg Cohen on bass and Jake Hanna on drums) in front ...
Michael Wolff Trio: jazz, JAZZ, jazz
by Joel Roberts
Pianist Michael Wolff has had a career that can best be described as eclectic. Along with serious jazz stints with Cannonball Adderley, Sonny Rollins and Nancy Wilson, he's played with rocker Warren Zevon, explored world music, recorded an album as a vocalist and had a high-profile five-year gig as the bandleader on The Arsenio Hall Show. ...
Sonny Fortune: You and the Night and the Music
by Joel Roberts
While he's been overshadowed by other saxophonists throughout much of his career, Sonny Fortune has been an important force in jazz for many years, playing in a style that owes much to John Coltrane and was showcased in the bands of Coltrane's key collaborators, Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner--as well as in a stint with Miles ...
