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Flautist Geni Skendo Interviewed at All About Jazz
Flautist and shakuhachi master Geni Skendo does not genre-mash so much as genre-crash, like a late-night interloper joining a lame party and livening it up with exotic sound. It's miraculous, this color he brings to anything, given the drab Iron Curtain he exited under on his flight from his native Albania, traveling to Boston, Massachusetts to ...
Corea, Clarke & White: Forever
by John Kelman
As successful as its massive 2008 world tour was--stopping at the Ottawa Jazz Festival, and yielding both a live CD (Returns) and DVD (Returns: Live at Montreux 2008) from Eagle Entertainment the following year--it was patently clear that Return to Forever couldn't continue with guitarist Al Di Meola. It was, however, equally certain that RTF's remaining ...
ECM 1970s: Part 2
by John Kelman
1970s Part 1 | 1970s Part 2 | 1980s Part 1 | 1980s Part 2 Part two of some of the best music from ECM in its first decade. Sadly, some titles still not yet available on CD (I'm using vinyl>CDR burns), but hopefully that'll change sometime soon! TrackNameTimeArtistAlbum1 Special ...
Pianist Roberta Piket Interviewed at All About Jazz...and More!
Roberta Piket is a jazz pianist, composer, and arranger with an exceptional range of expression. In the same tune or performance, she moves fluidly between bebop, hard bop, blues, soft and mellow, up-tempo, contrapuntal, and advanced harmonic motifs, making it all come together in meaningful, coherent statements of ideas and emotions. Truly a contemporary player, pushing ...
Pianist James Lent Interviewed at All About Jazz
He may not be well-known, but Los Angeles-based pianist, Dr. James Lent has been a mainstay at The Other Side, in the city's Silverlake area, for nearly a decade. He's also not particularly well-recorded, with only one album, 2000's self-produced Blue, to date. But Lent, like so many hard-working musicians for whom the playing's the thing, ...
ECM 1970s: Part 1
by John Kelman
1970s Part 1 | 1970s Part 2 | 1980s Part 1 | 1980s Part 2 Part one of some of the best music from ECM in its first decade. Sadly, some titles still not yet available on CD (I'm using vinyl>CDR burns), but hopefully that'll change sometime soon! TrackNameTimeArtistAlbum1 Mevlevia6:03Gary ...
Soft Machine: Alive & Well: Recorded in Paris
by John Kelman
Despite the controversy that plagued the ever-shifting musical persona of Soft Machine during its 15-year run, the benefits of time and hindsight have largely proven the value of every incarnation--albeit best assessed independently, rather than as part of a single continuum. 1978's Alive & Well: Recorded in Paris was the last of a three-record run on ...
Polar Jazz: Longyearbyen, Svalbard, February 3-7, 2011
by John Kelman
Polar Jazz / Arctic MoodLongyearbyen,Svalbard, Norway February 3-7, 2011 Flying into Longyearbyen is a surreal experience. It's a two-day trip from North America--one day to get to Oslo, Norway, and the second to make the final trek above the Arctic Circle to the islands of Svalbard, about halfway between the ...
Either/Orchestra's Russ Gershon Interviewed at All About Jazz...and More!
Twenty-five years is a long time in jazz. When saxophonist/composer/bandleader Russ Gershon founded the Either/Orchestra back in 1985, trumpeter Miles Davis was on the crest of his jazz/funk comeback wave, and the so-called Young Lions movement fronted by trumpeter Wynton Marsalis was coming into prominence, just as Weather Report—the last of the great '70s fusion bands—was ...
Grammy Award-Winning Bassist Stanley Clarke Interviewed at All About Jazz
When bassist Stanley Clarke won the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album, last week, for The Stanley Clarke Band (Heads Up, 2010), it was particularly meaningful, given he was up against everyone from fellow fusion god John McLaughlin to young up-and-comer Trombone Shorty. But while this particular win has great significance for the bassist who ...
