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Ryan Cohan/Geof Bradfield: Chicago, IL, August 11, 2011
by Alex Marianyi
Ryan Cohan, Geof BradfieldMillennium Park Pritzker Pavilion Chicago, ILAugust 11, 2011 The heat wave broke in Chicago and, weather-wise, the night was shaping up to be one of the best all summer. African Journeys, featuring Ryan Cohan and Geof Bradfield, began as saxophonist Bradfield's group took the stage to perform his ...
Sonny Brings the Presents to His Own 80th Birthday
by Dan Morgenstern
Sonny Rollins threw himself an 80th birthday party at New York's restored Beacon Theater on September 10---he was born on the 7th---and it was he who brought the gifts. And what a cornucopia! This was one of those rare times when you know that you're in the best of all possible places in the world. In ...
Involved
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Spastic; Expressions; Sonny Like; Taboo To Love; Congo; Gentle Souls; Short Story; Affectious; Third Pew; Movin' On.
Jazz Icon Sonny Rollins Kicks Off Kimmel Center Presents 2009/10 Season, September 25
“...Rollins is still the reigning god of the tenor saxophone, one of jazz's most innovative and influential pioneers... a volcano of fierce inventiveness and raw, urgent power." Washington Post “Nobody rivals his fluid mastery..." Boston Globe Jazz icon Sonny Rollins kicks off Kimmel Center Presents 2009/10 season on Friday, September 25, 2009 at 8pm in Verizon ...
Kobie Watkins: Involved
by Mark F. Turner
More recently recognized as a member of guitarist Bobby Broom's illustrious trio, Kobie Watkins has proven his savvy as a fearless drummer and now a leader on his debut Involved. Watkins is no neophyte. A native of Chicago who is also an educator, he was once dubbed in a newspaper article as “Teacher has Alter Ego ...
In Walked Monk: Bobby Broom on His New Album and Personal Jazz Heroes
Bobby Broom was just a teenager when he became enamored with jazz, but even then he figured hed started too late. As the Chicago-based guitarist explains in the interview below, he realized even in 1976 that human mortality being what it is it would be years before he acquired the chops needed to play with his ...
Etienne Charles: Folklore
by Larry Reni Thomas
Trumpeter Etienne Charles' Folklore is a wonderful, colorful, vibrant recording filled with Caribbean flavor, Latin grooves and solid jazz arrangements and solos. A percussionist and composer as well, the 26-year-old Charles has an extremely unique trumpet sound that is his and his alone. He doesn't sound like Wynton Marsalis, Roy Hargrove, or Miles Davis, nor does ...
Thelonious Monk Tributes: Bobby Broom & Dominic Duval/Jimmy Halperin
by Stuart Broomer
Bobby Broom Plays for Monk Origin Records 2009 Jimmy Halperin/Dominic Duval Monk Dreams No Business 2009 There's something almost contradictory about Monk compositions: they're insistently individualistic, built on odd ...
Kobie Watkins: Involved
by John Barron
Perhaps the title to drummer Kobie Watkins' debut, Involved, makes reference to the Chicago native's involvement with some of the highest profile jazz artists around. A regular in the bands of saxophonist Sonny Rollins, guitarist Bobby Broom, and vocalist Kurt Elling, Watkins has proven himself a stand-out accompanist, possessing a confident blend of fire and sensitivity. ...
