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A "Sweet Sweet" Valentine From Grace Kelly
Crossover single from the jazz prodigy bodes to be her first mainstream hit Gainesville, FL: After wowing the straight-ahead jazz world and garnering worldwide acclaim, 20-year-old wunderkind Grace Kelly has set her sights upon winning hearts in the mainstream with an infectious crossover confection that will be delivered on Valentine’s Day. Putting the saxophone aside to ...
ECM: A Cultural Archeology
by John Kelman
ECM: A Cultural ArcheologyHaus der KunstMünchen, GermanyNovember 23, 2012-February 10, 2013A trip to München (Munich) is a bit like a pilgrimage for fans of Germany's ECM label, especially right now, with the city's Haus der Kunst hosting a three-month exhibition, ECM: A Cultural Archeology, celebrating the music of this nearly 44 ...
Lee Konitz: Four Classic Albums
By Lee Konitz
Label: Avid Records UK
Released: 2012
Track listing: CD1: ‘Round Midnight; The Daffodil’s Smile; I Got It Bad; Music for Alto Saxophone and
Strings, Part 1; Music for Alto Saxophone and Strings, Part 2; Music for Alto Saxophone
and
Strings, Part 3; What’s New; Blues For Our Children; An Image Of Man Parts 1-7,
Ev’rything
I’ve Got (Belongs to You); You Don’t Know What Love Is; You’re Driving Me Crazy; I
Didn’t
Know About You; You’re Clear Out of This World; The More I See You; You Are Too
Beautiful.
CD2: I’m Getting Sentimental Over You; No Splice; She’s Funny That Way; Time On My
Hands; Foolin’ Myself; Ronnie’s Tune; Froggy Day; My Old Flame; If I Had You; Foolin’
Myself;
Ablution; Easy Livin’; Nursery Rhyme; Limehouse Blues; I’ll Remember April; Skylark;
Mean To
Me; East 32nd; Bob Goes the Leesel.
Enfants Terribles: Live at the Blue Note
By Lee Konitz
Label: Half Note Records
Released: 2012
Track listing: What Is This Thing Called Love?; Body & Soul; Stella By Starlight; I'll Remember April; I
Remember You; I Can't Get Started.
Lee Konitz: Four Classic Albums
by David Rickert
Besides being one of the few altoists that emerged in the 1950s that doesn't sound like Charlie Parker, Lee Konitz was a true musical adventurer whose explorations in free jazz, electronic instruments, and just all around anything goes sessions resulted in some of the most exciting music that came out of the fifties and beyond. His ...
Dan McClenaghan's Best Releases of 2012
by Dan McClenaghan
Scores of excellent CDs were released in 2012. These are some of the finest. Click on the CD titles for more in depth reviews. Hal Galper Airegin Revisited Origin Records Pianist Hal Galper has been delving deeply into his rubato explorations of the standards, along with his ...
New Orleans Bassist Ed Wise In Cheltenham Pa On Wednesday January 2nd!
Jazz Bridge in Cheltenham PA presents bassist Ed Wise and his New Orleans Jazz Band at the Cheltenham Center for the Arts, 439 Ashbourne Road in Cheltenham, on Wednesday January 2nd. Tickets are $10, $5 for students, and are available only at the door. Show time is 7:30. Bassist Ed Wise, a native of Houston, Texas, ...
Hal Galper Trio: Airegin Revisited
by Dan McClenaghan
Hal Galper's Airegin Revisited is exhilarating. The pianist has been working at his artistry for more than a half century, and he is moving surely into the “elder statesman of jazz" category, riding the furious wave of several distinctive and idiosyncratic trio recordings. Galper, like alto saxophonist Lee Konitz and pianist Martial Solal, has gone deeper ...
Klare / Platz / Kneer / Elgart: Modern Primitive
by Dave Wayne
Steeped in various aspects of jazz tradition as much as it is on the cutting edge, the sonic territory covered by Modern Primitive is vast, to say the least. The music here, all freely improvised, has a warmth and immediacy that comes from intense, shared listening. Though there are no tunes or changes per se, that ...
