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2018: The Year in Jazz
by Ken Franckling
The year 2018 was a busy one for the jazz world. The genre's version of the #MeToo movement resulted in a new Code of Conduct and other efforts to make the music workplace more equitable. International Jazz Day brought its biggest stage to St. Petersburg, Russia. The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, which ran a high-profile ...
You're Driving Me Crazy
By Van Morrison
Label: Sony Music
Released: 2018
Track listing: Miss Otis Regrets; Hold It Right There; All Saints Day; The Way Young Lovers Do; The Things I used to Do; Travelin’ Light;
Close Enough for Jazz; Goldfish Bowl; Evening Shadows; Magic Time; You’re Driving Me Crazy; Every Day I have the Blues;
Have I Told You Lately; Sticks and Stones; Celtic Swing.
Close Enough For Jazz / The Things I Used To Do
By Van Morrison
Label: Exile
Released: 2018
Track listing: Close Enough For Jazz; The Things I Used To Do;
The Prophet Speaks
By Van Morrison
Label: Caroline International
Released: 2018
Track listing: Gonna Send You Back To Where I Got You From ; Dimples; Got To Go Where The Love Is; Laughin And Clownin; 5 Am Greenwich Mean Time; Gotta Get You Off My Mind; Teardrops; I Love The Life I Live; Worried Blues/Rollin And Tumblin; Aint Gonna Moan No More; Love Is A Five Letter Word; Love Is Hard Work; Spirit Will Provide; The Prophet Speaks;
Joe Locke / Pat Bianchi / Marvin "Smitty" Smith at Detroit Groove Society
by C. Andrew Hovan
Joe Locke/Pat Bianchi/Marvin “Smitty" Smith Detroit Groove Socirty West Bloomfield, Michigan December 7, 2018 One of the key elements of jazz over the history of the music has been the social aspect that is inherent in the type of musical communication that marks improvised music. During the swing era, if you ...
Chick & Steve, Two Pairs of Covers, Wordplay & More
by Marc Cohn
Putting a show together, I sometimes amuse myself by posing programmatic 'problems' that help break my usual routines. To wit: we offer you two pairs of disparate covers of Wayne Shorter and Thelonious Monk tunes during the first hour and play word games with tune titles in the second hour. The 2018 Downbeat Readers' ...
Joey D Came To Town, Abdullah’s A Winner & More
by Marc Cohn
Three features for you this week. Joey DeFrancesco wowed Baton Rouge on Wednesday, November 28th at the Manship Theatre in Baton Rouge; we warmed up the crowd on Gifts and Messages with DrJazz's request list. Pianist Abdullah Ibrahim is a 2019 NEA Jazz Masters Award winner, and we spotlight his Penguin Guide 'Core Collection' recording, Yarona. ...
48th Annual Pitt Jazz Seminar
by Mackenzie Horne
48th Annual Pitt Jazz Seminar Various Venues Pittsburgh, PA November 1-3, 2018 The Pitt Jazz Seminar took place the first weekend of Novenmber under the musical direction of Terri Lyne Carrington; Thursday, Friday, and early Saturday were packed with guest lectures while the all-star concert was scheduled for 7:30 on Saturday ...
A Family Feeling: Temple University Jazz Faculty Record New Music By Bruce Barth
In June, six members of Temple University’s noted jazz faculty gathered in Bunker Hill Studio in Brooklyn to record eight tracks of new music composed by Bruce Barth. Terell Stafford, director of Jazz Studies at Temple, lead the charge and the result, Family Feeling, is a reflection on the warm camaraderie between Terell Stafford (trumpet); Dick ...
SFJAZZ: Decades After, Five Years In
by Arthur R George
Five years after the San Francisco, California organization SFJAZZ created its own building, the SFJAZZ Center, it has proved a raving, even rampaging, success, unrelenting in programming, sales, education, and music production. Its number of concerts has doubled from 248 to more than 500. Its membership has increased by almost 200% to more than 14,000. It ...
