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News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Julian Priester

June 29, 2013

All About Jazz is celebrating Julian Priester's birthday today! Julian Priester is an American jazz trombonist and composer. He has played with many artists including Sun Ra, Max Roach, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane and Herbie Hancock. Priester attended Chicago\'s DuSable High School, where he studied under Walter Dyett. In his teens he played with blues and ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Fontanelle: Vitamin F

by Dave Wayne
March 1, 2013

The sheer improbability of Vitamin F alone is almost reason enough to savor it. But this is one heck of a great jazz recording, so Fontanelle's back story is worth pondering. Formed out of the ruins of Jessamine, one of the few Seattle bands from the mid-1990s to buck the grunge craze, Fontanelle recorded three albums ...

News: Advocacy

Please Help Julian Priester

February 9, 2013

Julian Priester, the well-known trombonist who has, in a career now well into its sixth decade, played with everyone from Duke Ellington, Max Roach, Dinah Washington and Booker Little to Herbie Hancock, Sun Ra, Freddie Hubbard, Eric Dolphy and John Coltrane —not to mention a small but superb discography as a leader that includes Love, Love ...

Album

Africa/Brass

By John Coltrane

Label: Impulse! Records
Released: 2012
Track listing: Africa; Greensleeves; Blues Minor.

Article: Album Review

Tim Carey: Room 114

Read "Room 114" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
December 16, 2012

Dedicated to his father, Seattle-based composer, educator and bassist Tim Carey's debut, Room 114, is a very intimate affair. Carey has been a professional musician for the past nine years and during that time he has honed his skills with such luminaries as trombonist Julian Priester, as well as, creative ethnic jazz ensembles. ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Julian Priester

June 29, 2012

News: Performance / Tour

Michele Rosewoman Trio With Special Guest Julian Priester At The Healdsburg Jazz Festival, June 8, 2012

May 21, 2012

On June 8, 2012 at 9:00 p.m., the pianist/composer Michele Rosewoman leads her trio, featuring bassist Andy McKee and drummer Billy Hart, with special guest trombonist Julian Priester, in a concert at the Healdsburg Jazz Festival, performing a selection of original works by Rosewoman and by Priester. Hailed by AllAboutJazz.com as a “propulsive bandleader [who] guides ...

Article: Album Review

Mike Reed's People, Places & Things: Clean on the Corner

Read "Clean on the Corner" reviewed by Troy Collins

by Troy Collins
May 16, 2012

Originally founded in 2008 to commemorate the lesser known “people, places & things" that have historically supported Chicago's progressive jazz scene, Mike Reed's ensemble of the same name continues to ply its bold interpretations of lesser known covers and swinging originals on Clean on the Corner, their fourth recording for 482 Music. Although this session breaks ...

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Article: Book Review

Kathy Sloane: Keystone Korner - Portrait Of A Jazz Club

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
January 26, 2012

Keystone Korner: Portrait Of A Jazz ClubKathy Sloane 220 pages; audio CDISBN: 978-0-253-35691-8Indiana University Press2012 Photographer Kathy Sloane's Keystone Korner: Portrait Of A Jazz Club is a love letter: a love letter to something more than just a business, to something less than ...

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Article: Album Review

Samuel Blaser Quartet: Boundless

by Dave Wayne
October 17, 2011

In a relatively short time, Swiss-born trombonist Samuel Blaser has established himself as one of the most interesting and innovative low brass players to emerge from the international avant-jazz scene at the beginning of the 21st Century. He's also becoming quite prolific, releasing four CDs under his own name over the previous 12 months.Boundless, Blaser's debut ...