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Happy Birthday Newport: 50 Swinging Years
by Ken Franckling
Various Artists Happy Birthday Newport: 50 Swinging Years Columbia Legacy 2004 Other than going one more time, what better way to help celebrate the 50th anniversary of America's oldest continuing and best known jazz festival than by listening to 27 of its finest and most unusual moments? Festival ...
Scott Hamilton and Harry Allen: Heavy Juice
by Ken Franckling
Heavy Juice has been waiting to happen for twenty years. Back then, teenager Harry Allen, still in high school, joined Scott Hamilton on stage at the Newport Jazz Festival for a cameo performance with the George Wein-led Newport All-Stars. Allen spent his formative years growing up in Rhode Island, which also claims Hamilton as a native ...
Allison Miller: 5 am Stroll
by Ken Franckling
Allison Miller has been a busy member of the New York jazz scene for the past eight years, touring and/or recording with notable leaders from jazz as well as folk and pop music worlds, including Marty Ehrlich, Kitty Margolis, and Natalie Merchant. After some thirty recordings under her belt as a sidewoman, 5 am ...
Jean-Michel Pilc: Follow Me
by Ken Franckling
French pianist Jean-Michel Pilc has made a name for himself as an adventurous musical explorer. Follow Me is his first solo CD after four trio recordings and one large ensemble project. The opening title track is sort of an invitation to follow him through his many moods. He shows himself to be a musical ...
Matt Wilson's Arts & Crafts: Wake Up! (To What's Happening)
by Ken Franckling
"Arts & Crafts" is the perfect name for versatile drummer Matt Wilson's band for this session. For the music they make is indeed an art--and it involves much musical craft. And then there's the title of this, the band's second recording. A title like Wake Up! (To What's Happening) could lead one to guess that Wilson ...
Tanglewood Jazz Festival 2004
by Ken Franckling
Tanglewood's 15th annual Labor Day jazz festival weekend opened with two distinct sides of Latin jazz that together offered a shifting balm for a mild end-of-summer evening. Brazilian pianist Eliane Elias' quartet offered the cool and warm portions of the evening, with a long set that covered her lilting approach to the American Songbook and many ...
Newport at 50: A Golden Weekend
by Ken Franckling
Festival Productions Inc. knew how to throw a party Aug. 11-15 for the 50th anniversary of one of the great events in jazz. It was unfortunate that the host, founding producer George Wein, couldn't be present for most of it. Everywhere you turned, there was great music by high-caliber jazz artists at the 2004 edition of ...
Montreal
by Ken Franckling
Several blocks from the fuss and hype of the headlining acts at the Montreal International Jazz Festival resides one of the festival's great developments through the years. Club Soda, a rather intimate shoebox of a room holding 550 people on three seating levels, is home to an early evening singers' series appropriately called “Voix du Monde" ...
Montreal Jazz Festival 2004 Notebook, Part 3-3
by Ken Franckling
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 Haden winds down Invitation series Bassist Charlie Haden concluded his four-night “Invitation" series of concerts Friday night at Montreal's Monument-National featuring his Quartet West band with pianist Alan Broadbent, tenor saxophonist Ernie Watts and drummer Rodney Green. There was no doubt why Haden considers this unit his favorite ...
Montreal Jazz Festival 2004 Notebook, Part 2-3
by Ken Franckling
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 World Music honors Buena Vista Social Club icon Ibrahim Ferrer was honored July 8 with the Montreal International Jazz Festival's first “Antonio Carlos Jobim Award" for world music excellence. It was the fourth significant lifetime achievement award the festival has created to mark its own milestone anniversaries. The ...
