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Various Artists: Jazz For Japan
by DJ Marc Antomattei
In the wake of the barrage of natural and man-made disasters that struck Japan in early 2011, a large group of fine musicians got together for Jazz For Japan. One of the strongest compilations of the year, all proceeds are being donated to help the victims of this great tragedy. The standards featured ...
Vivian Buczek: Dedication To My Giants
by Bruce Lindsay
Dedication To My Giants, is Vivian Buczek's tribute to those giants of jazz who have inspired the Swedish vocalist's own work. While Frank Sinatra and Ray Charles get a mention, Buczek's giants for are predominantly instrumentalists--John Coltrane, Miles Davis and Clifford Brown included--and as a result her song selection for this, her third album, avoids the ...
Re:konstruKt: New Music Online from Istanbul
by Gian Paolo Galasi
The online independent label re:konstruKt was founded in 2008 by Umut Çağlar, an Istanbul-based guitarist and leader of the konstruKt quartet. The label was formed few months after the band's first rehearsals. Its initial purpose was to document the evolution of the Istanbul experimental scene.Çağlar's development as a musician is a good example of ...
David Sanchez: Ninety-Mile Bridge
by Ian Patterson
What, besides music, transcends geopolitical divides so gracefully? What else unites people of different nationalities, political persuasions and religious creeds in common celebration just quite as harmoniously? Religions may have captured the hearts and minds of the majority of the planet's people, but remain bastions of ultra-conservatism and mistrust, despite all the rhetoric to the contrary. ...
Stve Slagle "Scenes, Songs & Solos"
Scenes, Songs & Solos: A Composition and Improvisation Workbook for the Creative Musician by Steve Slagle “Steve Slagle speaks of things that need to be heard."—Joe Lovano “Full of fresh, original, and inspirational ideas about music and life."— Randy Brecker “I loved this book! And I'm not even a professional musician."—Sue Mingus Master jazz saxophonist, educator ...
Ornette Coleman: This is Our Music
by C. Michael Bailey
Ornette ColemanThis is Our MusicAtlantic1961 This is Our Music is the militantly expressed jumping-off point for alto saxophonist Ornette Coleman on the way to the epochal Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation (Atlantic, 1961). Coleman picks up exactly where he left off on Change of the Century and never ...
Jackie Cain & Roy Kral: A Wilder Alias
by Chris May
Jackie Cain & Roy KralA Wilder AliasCTI Masterworks2011 (1974) Producer Creed Taylor's 1970s' label, CTI, has had a controversial history. Some of its detractors, averse to the lush sound and embrace of fusion, have been reluctant even to recognize CTI as a jazz label. The New Grove ...
Patrick Brennan: Rhythms of Passion
by Ludwig vanTrikt
Since moving to New York City in 1975, one-time bassist/painter Patrick Brennan has crafted a musical path that is open in its candor and indebtedness to all facets of black music. Much like trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith, the alto saxophonist brews a thicket of his own distinct musical language that “unlike much contemporaneous vanguard music is ...
Deep Blue Organ Trio: Wonderful!
by Dan Bilawsky
When it came time for the SFJAZZ Collective to choose a composer to honor in their eighth season, they surprised a lot of people when they went with the one and only Stevie Wonder. While some likely view this decision as a statement that, after covering Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Wayne Shorter, McCoy Tyner, ...
Tanglewood Jazz Festival Presents NEA Jazz Master Jimmy Cobb in Master Class for Drummers
LENOX, Mass.—NEA Jazz Master Jimmy Cobb will present a Master Class for Drummers on Sunday, September 4, at the Tanglewood Jazz Festival. The master class —which is free to drum students of all ages— will begin at 12:30pm in the Jazz Café Tent, on September 4, closing day of the 3-day festival. Jimmy Cobb is the ...
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