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Tierney Sutton Stuns at Montreal
by Ken Franckling
2004 is turning out to be Tierney Sutton's year. The California-based singer, who has been building her reputation and her musical art for more than a decade, resulting in a series of five albums with her band. She played a full month at the Algonquin Hotel's famed Oak Room in New York in late winter. She ...
Montreal Jazz Festival 2004 Notebook, Part 1-3
by Ken Franckling
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 Silver anniversary spectacle In addition to its 150 indoor ticketed concerts over 12 nights, downtown Montreal was bubbling with its usual crowd-pleasing mix of musical on 10 outdoor stages, street performers and people watching. If anything, the fact that it is the festival's 25th year, has intensified the ...
Harvie S: Texas Rumba
by Ken Franckling
The bassist formerly known as Harvie Swartz discovered something over the course of his varied career in jazz. Whenever he worked with a Latin band, he found it is nearly impossible for musicians and fans alike not to get caught up in the swaying, percussive and often steamy energy created on stage. Afro-Cuban music and other ...
Gypsy Schaeffer: Gypsy Schaeffer
by Ken Franckling
Some of the greatest, and often warped, band names bubble out of New Orleans. Consider the Molly Ringwalds, Late As Usual, Hipatitis, and the Can’t Hardly Playboys. Then there’s Gypsy Schaeffer, a foursome that hails from Boston, but borrowed its name from N’Awlins—specifically, from the name of the Storyville bordello where legendary pianist Jelly Roll Morton ...
Ingrid Jensen: Here on Earth
by Ken Franckling
From her arrival on the New York City jazz scene ten years ago, it was clear to those listening closely that trumpeter Ingrid Jensen was blessed with a fresh, confident sound and versatile musicality. She had followed studies at Boston's Berklee College of Music with three years of teaching and performing in Europe. And she'd spent ...
Jon Mayer: The Classics
by Ken Franckling
This is hard bop pianist Jon Mayer’s fifth release since he resurfaced on the Los Angeles music scene in the early ‘90s after more than twenty years away from jazz, having last been sighted and heard in the Big Apple at the Jazz Gallery June 26th. He first made his mark here in the late ‘50s ...
2004 Jazz Journalist Awards
by Ken Franckling
The 2004 edition of the Jazz Journalist Association’s 8th annual Jazz Awards was highlighted by poignancy and remembrance. The June 15 event at B.B. King’s in midtown Manhattan had several twists to its presentation of the traditional music and journalism category winners for the jazz industry. One winner (Steve Lacy) and one nominee (Elvin ...
Shirley Horn at Scullers
by Ken Franckling
Scullers Boston, MA June 11, 2004 When Shirley Horn is deep in the groove, it is clear that she is getting used to – and in fact downright enjoying – the singular art of singing, even though the hyphenated role of singer-pianist had been her musical forte for all but this twilight ...
