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Douye': Daddy Said So

by Jim Worsley
Daddy Said So, and clearly father knows best. Raised with the epic jazz renderings of Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne and Etta James, Douye' harkens back to a jazz era rich with elegance and timbre. Her silky and deliciously subdued voice pulsates through a set list of choice jazz standards. With quiet intensity Douye' whispers ...
Danny Janklow: Elevation

by Vincenzo Roggero
Danny Janklow è un giovane sassofonista californiano che ha conquistato una certa notorietà sia come membro della MONK'estra di John Beasley --presente in questo disco come pianista insieme ad Eric Reed --sia come accompagnatore di Stevie Wonder, Jose James, Herbie Hancock per citarne alcuni --dopo essersi fatto le ossa nella Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra di Wynton ...
60th GRAMMY Awards: Jazz Winners

And the winners of the 2018 GRAMMY Awards are... 31. Best Improvised Jazz Solo (For an instrumental jazz solo performance. Two equal performers on one recording may be eligible as one entry. If the soloist listed appears on a recording billed to another artist, the latter's name is in parenthesis for identification. Singles or Tracks only.) ...
MONK’estra, Vol. 2

By John Beasley
Label: Mack Avenue Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: Brake’s Sake; Played Twice; Crepuscule With Nellie; Evidence; Ugly Beauty/Pannonica; I Mean You; Light Blue; Dear Ruby; Criss Cross; Work.
November 2017: Geri Allen, Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Big Band, Thelonious Monk

by Patrick Burnette
Welcome to our monthly look at what's happening on the Jazz Bastard podcast! November is packed, so let's get to it: Episode 127 (live November 1, 2017) looks at the early career of pianist Geri Allen, who died June 27 of this year. Neither of us had listened extensively to her recordings before, so ...
60th GRAMMY Awards: Jazz List

31. Best Improvised Jazz Solo (For an instrumental jazz solo performance. Two equal performers on one recording may be eligible as one entry. If the soloist listed appears on a recording billed to another artist, the latter's name is in parenthesis for identification. Singles or Tracks only.) Can't Remember Why" by Sara Caswell Track ...
Berlin Jazzfest 2017

by Henning Bolte
Haus der Berliner Festspiele Jazzfest Berlin Berlin November 4-5, 2017 This year it was the last edition of Berlin Jazzfest under the aegis of British artistic director Richard Williams. With its In All Languages" adage running through the six-day program as red thread, the festival still had promising ...
John Beasley’s Monk’estra At SFJAZZ

by Walter Atkins
John Beasley's Monk'estra SFJAZZ Thelonious Monk Centennial Celebration San Francisco, CA October 15, 2017 The double Grammy nominated Monk'estra big band lead by conductor/arranger and pianist John Beasley performed Sunday night in SFJAZZ's spacious Miner Auditorium. Released in September of this year, Beasley's Monk'estra Vol. 2 (Mack Avenue Records, 2017) ...
Sunday at the Monterey Jazz Festival

by Dave Kaufman
Friday | Saturday | Sunday Sunday was a spectacularly beautiful day in Monterey which was just perfect for the 12-hour marathon of music. The closing day of the Jazz Festival included a stellar lineup of great jazz artists including Joe Lovano, Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh, Brad Mehldau, Regina Carter and the closing ...
Five Women XI – Cheryl Bentyne, Hilary Gardner, Sinne Eeg, Fay Victor, Andrea Marr

by C. Michael Bailey
Cheryl Bentyne Rearrangements of Shadows: The Music of Stephen Sondheim Artist Share Records 2017 Sometimes, a gathering of our better angels happens, resulting in an exceptional event. In the present case, these better angels are: post-bop jazz, jazz arrangement, Stephen Sondheim and the irrepressible Cheryl Bentyne. All of these elements are ...