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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Charles Gambetta

by AAJ Staff
August 27, 2014

Meet Charles Gambetta: I've been playing bass for nearly 50 years, composing and arranging for over 40 years and conducting for 40 years as well. It has been an incredible journey with many surprises, unexpected turns and several major turning points that have shaped my growth as an artist and person. The first of these ...

Article: My Blue Note Obsession

J.J. Johnson: The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson, Volumes 1 and 2 – Blue Note 1505 and 1506

by Marc Davis
July 3, 2014

Think of jazz, and the trombone almost never comes to mind. Didn't used to be. In the beginning, every jazz band had a trombone. But that was the Dixieland era, and Dixieland bands aren't much in vogue anymore. (Unless you're a fan of HBO's Treme and you listen to Trombone Shorty. Sadly, not enough ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Kai Winding

May 18, 2014

All About Jazz is celebrating Kai Winding's birthday today! Kai Winding - trombone (1922 - 1983) Trombonist Kai Christen Winding (pronounced ki-win-ding) was one of the founding fathers of be-bop music and truly one of the finest-ever jazz trombonists. As a sideman to bop’s reigning kings “ Fats Navarro, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and ...

Article: Album Review

Paolo Benedettini: Paolo Benedettini Quartet

Read "Paolo Benedettini Quartet" reviewed by Francesco Martinelli

by Francesco Martinelli
September 24, 2013

I'm afraid a little local pride is in order here. Bassist Paolo Benedettini hails from my hometown of Pisa, and the disc has been recorded and produced locally in cooperation with the Jazzwide organization, very active in promoting events both in the club of the same name as well as in other venues of the Leaning ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Kai Winding

May 18, 2013

Article: Interview

Michael Carvin: The Making of a Master

by Bob Kenselaar
July 30, 2012

With a career that spans half a century, master drummer Michael Carvin has plenty to look back on, although he's mostly a forward-looking man. To say he's been prolific puts it mildly. By his own count, he's made some 250 recordings and toured the world five times. He has worked with such major jazz luminaries as ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Kai Winding

May 18, 2012

Album

First Impulse: The Creed Taylor Collection 50th Anniversary

By J.J. Johnson

Label: Verve/Hip-O Select
Released: 2011
Track listing: CD1: The Great Kai And J.J.: This Could Be The Start Of Something; Georgia On My Mind; Blue Monk; Alone Together; Side By Side; I Concentrate On You; Moonglow/Theme From Picnic; Trixie; Going Going Gong!; Just For A Thrill; Speak Low; Lil Darlin.' The Incredible Kai Winding Trombones: Doodlin'; Love Walked In; Mangos; Impulse; Black Coffee; Bye Bye Blackbird; Michie (slow); Michie (fast). CD2: Genius + Soul = Jazz: From The Heart; I've Got News For You; Moanin'; Let's Go; One Mint Julep; I'm Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town; Stompin' Room Only; Mister C; Strike Up The Band; Birth Of The Blues. Out Of The Cool: La Nevada; Where Flamingos Fly; Bilbao Song; Stratusphunk; Sunken Treasure. CD3: The Blues And The Abstract Truth: Stolen Moments; How-Down; Cascades; Yearnin'; Butch And Butch; Teenie's Blues. Africa/Brass: Africa; Greensleeves; Blues Minor. CD4: Bonus Tracks: One Mint Julep (Ray Charles); Sister Sadie (Gil Evans); Song Of The Underground Railroad; Green sleeves (John Coltrane); The Damned Don't Cry (John Coltrane); Africa (John Coltrane); Africa (John Coltrane); Laura (John Coltrane); Nakatine Serenade (John Coltrane); The Damned Don't Cry (John Coltrane).

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Article: Big Band Caravan

Westchester Jazz Orchestra / Sandvika Storband / Band of Bones

by Jack Bowers
November 13, 2011

Westchester Jazz OrchestraMaiden Voyage Suite WJO2010 The heavy-hitting Westchester Jazz Orchestra, one of whose ambitions under artistic director Mike Holober is to broaden its musical horizons, devotes its second album to renovating for a sixteen-member ensemble the music of pianist Herbie Hancock's classic recording Maiden Voyage (Blue Note, ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Gerry Mulligan / J.J. Johnson / Sarah Vaughan / Misha Mengelberg & Piet Noordijk: Live At Concertgebouw

by David Rickert
September 15, 2011

The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam was a stop for quite a few notable jazz musicians during the 1950s and '60s, and for the past few years the Dutch Jazz Archive has released a concert from their archive at the rate of one per year. Judging by what has been released, it seems that many of these musicians ...