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Iván 'Melón' Lewis Quintet: Travesía
by Antonio Álvarez Barthe
Como Kenny Kirkland, al que está dedicada la excelente Big Kenny," una de las piezas de Travesía, Iván Melón Lewis se ha tomado su tiempo para presentar su primer disco como líder. Nacido en La Habana, y residente en Madrid desde 1998, ha sido durante años subalterno de lujo y, también como el malogrado pianista de ...
Kenny Werner: New, Transcendent Sounds
by R.J. DeLuke
Inspiration behind art is a curious thing. It takes many forms, from personal to universal perspectives. Many times it's unexpected. It is intertwined with one's life and the vicissitudes therein. As Charlie Parker famously said, If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn."For pianist/composer/arranger Kenny Werner, music has evolved, over ...
Joe Alterman: Piano Tracks, Volume 1
by Dan McClenaghan
The late Miles Davis had a hand in pushing the standard-playing piano trio out of fashion. The iconic trumpeter's Bitches Brew (Columbia Records, 1970) moved jazz in new and bold directions, and it didn't take long for the piano/bass/drums format to slip into the quaint and old fashioned--and very un-hip--category.Then along came Keith Jarrett--a ...
Am I "Jazz People?"
by Bruce Lindsay
I rarely write anything too serious in a JazzLife UK article and, for the most part, this month's missive will be no different. However, the summer of 2010 started very sadly for UK jazz with the deaths of four popular, talented and influential musicians, and it seems appropriate to write a few words to remember each ...
Dave Morgan: The Way of the Sly Man
by Matt Marshall
Dave MorganThe Way of the Sly Man Being There2010 The teachings of 20th century mystic G. I. Gurdjieff have appealed to their share of artists, pianist Keith Jarrett, guitarist Robert Fripp and singer Kate Bush being among the more famous musicians to fall under Gurdjieff's spell. Jarrett, in ...
Chucho Valdes: The Music Never Ends
by Joan A. Cararach
Chucho Valdés arrived at his All About Jazz interview confident: of his music and of Spain's victory in the South African FIFA World Cup. It was July 11th 2010, and for the first time in its history, Spain's national team had reached a World Cup final, in South Africa. A Cuban interested in football? A lot ...
Chucho Valdés, música sin fin
by Joan A. Cararach
Chucho Valdés acude al encuentro con AllAboutJazz confiado. En su música y en la victoria de España en el Mundial de fútbol de Sudáfrica. Es el 11 de julio del 2010, y por primera vez en su historia la selección española ha llegado a una final del Mundial, en Sudáfrica. ¿Un cubano interesado en el fútbol? ...
Miles: The Autobiography... Two Decades Later
by Victor L. Schermer
Miles: The AutobiographyBy Miles Davis with Quincy TroupeNew York: Simon and Schuster Paperbacks, 2005(Originally published in 1989)Miles Davis knew how to keep himself on the radar screen. He did it musically throughout his life, except for a five year period of silence" when he isolated himself in his ...
Charles Lloyd Quartet: Mirror
by Warren Allen
Charles Lloyd QuartetMirrorECM Records2010 The perception of Charles Lloyd has changed since he first rose to popularity as a 1960s-saxman, sporting flower power colors and a momentous afro, and was somehow tied to mainstream jazz, the avant-garde and the popular psychedelic movement. A brief recess from recording, ...
Charles Lloyd: Mirror
by Hrayr Attarian
Charles Lloyd's Mirror is an intensely personal almost autobiographical work. This is apparent from the opener, a deconstructing of the standard I Fall in Love Too Easily," where the saxophonist's urgent and pleading tone accurately conveys the feeling of unrequited love. The first track bleeds into the next, the traditional gospel tune Go Down Moses," rearranged ...


