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The David Liebman Trio: Lieb Plays The Blues A La Trane
by Dan McClenaghan
Saxophonist Dave Liebman's rise into the jazz big time came from his stint in Miles Davis' band in the early seventies, playing soprano sax on the iconic trumpeter's often maligned but groundbreaking and excellent On the Corner (Columbia Records, 1972). It didn't hurt, profile-wise, working with drummer Elvin Jones, on Live at the Lighthouse (Blue Note ...
California Concert: The Hollywood Palladium
by John Kelman
CTI All StarsCalifornia Concert: The Hollywood PalladiumCTI Masterworks1971 (Reissued 2010) With the emergence of CTI Masterworks and the firing salvo of its comprehensive, four-CD box set, CTI Records--The Cool Revolution (2010), CTI Records is back and better than ever. With upgraded sound and packaging that lovingly recreates, albeit ...
Various Artists: CTI Records - The Cool Revolution
by John Kelman
Various ArtistsCTI Records--The Cool RevolutionCTI Masterworks2010 The late 1960s was, in many ways, a time of reckoning for jazz. While the music had continued to evolve over the previous half century, it was coincident with the emergence of rock music as a serious force that jazz began to ...
Storyville Records: A Treasure Trove of Swinging Jazz
by Chris May
Since its foundation during the European revivalist movement of the early 1950s, Copenhagen-based Storyville Records has grown into a major repository of New Orleans, big band and mainstream recordings. With something approaching 600 releases in its back catalogue, the label is a treasure trove of jazz that swings. Founded in 1952 by Danish jazz ...
Quest: Re-Dial: Live in Hamburg
by John Kelman
The new millennium seems to be a time when groups are reuniting, sometimes to even greater acclaim than they achieved the first time around. It's also a time when aging jazz musicians are lighting a fire under their own careers, ramping up their output and broadening their reach. Saxophonist Dave Liebman's activity in the past year ...
Penang Island Jazz Festival: Malaysia, December 2-5, 2010
by Ian Patterson
7th Penang Island Jazz FestivalPenang, MalaysiaDecember 2-5, 2010 There was talk of bringing in a bomoh, or witchdoctor, to chase away the ominous-looking black clouds that hovered over the beachside gardens of the Bayview Hotel, home to the Penang Island Jazz Festival. The south-west monsoon that feeds the lush tropical growth of ...
The David Liebman Trio: Lieb Plays The Blues A La Trane
by Bruce Lindsay
One day in April, 2008, saxophonist Dave Liebman, on tour in Belgium, was feeling a little under the weather. He decided to replace his trio's planned set list for the evening with a set of blues tunes associated with John Coltrane. Kris Roevens recorded the set, at De Singer in Rijkevorsel, and two years later it ...
Take Five With Scott Lee
by AAJ Staff
Meet Scott Lee:Scott Lee switched from a career in tennis at UNC-CH to jazz, after hearing the Bill Evans Trio. Arriving in NY in the '70s, he worked with Chet Baker, Lee Konitz, Al Cohn, Red Rodney, Freddie Hubbard, Joe Lovano, Kenny Werner, Andy Statman, Chris Conner, Morgana King, Helen Merrill, Betty Buckley, and ...
John Coltrane: Last Performance at Newport July 2, 1966
by AAJ Italy Staff
Partiamo da qualche nota esplicativa: il materiale di questo CD riproduce quanto a suo tempo incluso (su vinile) dalla giapponese VideoArts Music in The World According to John Coltrane e, in quanto a discografia ufficiale, si colloca alla vigilia della partenza del quintetto sorto a fine '65 sulle ceneri del golden quartet (unico sopravvissuto, com'è noto, ...
Ray Brown’s Great Big Band: Kayak
by Robert J. Robbins
Not to be confused with the late, legendary bassist of the same name, San Francisco-based bandleader/arranger Ray Brown, an ex-trumpeter with the Stan Kenton and Full Faith and Credit big bands, drives his own nineteen-piece ensemble populated by the Bay Area's A-list musicians. Brown, whose percussionist father pioneered jazz education in the public schools of Long ...


