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2014: The Year in Jazz
by Ken Franckling
The year 2014 turned out to be a year noteworthy for its numbers. Newport turned 60, Blue Note turned 75, International Jazz Day's third edition featured 900 events in more than 190 countries. The jazz world lost seven of its NEA Jazz Masters, and New Orleans trumpeter Lionel Ferbos died at 103. Sad but not unexpected, ...
Marc Ribot a Brescia
by Luca Canini
Marc Ribot Trio Jazz in Eden Nuovo Eden 13.11.2014 Di Albert Ayler ce n'è sempre stato parecchio nella musica di Marc Ribot. Forse non tutti se n'erano accorti, ma già prima del disco manifesto Spiritual Unity, uscito nel 2005, la fatale attrazione per il sassofonista di Cleveland aveva fatto capolino ...
37th Paradise Valley Jazz Party at Scottsdale Hilton Resort
by Patricia Myers
37th Paradise Valley Jazz Party Scottsdale Hilton Resort Scottsdale, Arizona March 22-23, 2014 An A-team of East Coast, West Coast and Arizona musicians played a mix of swing and bebop sounds in 14 jam-session-style sets at the 37th annual Paradise Valley Jazz Party. A special element at this party ...
Herb Alpert-Lani Hall Quintet at Musical Instrument Museum
by Patricia Myers
Herb Alpert-Lani Hall Quintet Musical Instrument Museum Phoenix, Arizona March 17, 2014 Trumpeter-vocalist Herb Alpert and vocalist Lani Hall performed a lively and captivating concert that linked their past triumphs to their newest collaborations. The uber-professionalism of this concert conveyed the ambience of a New York City cabaret show, an informal ...
Chicago Loves Bobby Broom
By Don Howze When it comes to jazz, Bobby Broom is the quintessential jazz guitarist and composer. Like Wynton Marsalis, Broom stands true to the history and culture of the founding pioneers of the jazz genre. Broom's style of performing with the same delicate strumming and interpretation made popular by legendary jazz guitarists Wes Montgomery and ...
Mosaic Records: Making Jazz History
by Bob Kenselaar
No one is more astonished by the longevity of Mosaic Records than Michael Cuscuna, the veteran record producer and one-time disc jockey who founded the label together with Charlie Lourie, a former clarinetist who worked in both jazz and classical contexts before becoming an executive at CBS records, Blue Note, and elsewhere. Arguably the premier reissue ...
The Royal Southern Brotherhood at B.B. King’s Blues Club & Grill
by Mike Perciaccante
The Royal Southern Brotherhood B.B. King's Blues Club & Grill New York, NY September 4, 2013 The Royal Southern Brotherhood is well-named. It is exactly what it should be: an all-star group of virtuoso musicians with roots in the south who play an amalgam of blues, soul, funk and southern- influenced ...
Bern Nix Quartet: Negative Capability
by Florence Wetzel
Guitarist Bern Nix has participated in many fine groups over the course of his career, most notably saxophonist Ornette Coleman's historic Prime Time, where Nix became one of the foremost interpreters of Coleman's groundbreaking harmolodic approach. These days Nix has created a quartet that's exploding onto the jazz scene in a big way. After a fiery ...
Talking Jazz Guitar With Peter Bernstein and Jimmy Bruno
by Scott Krane
For many years Les Paul held a regular concert at the Iridium Jazz Club in Manhattan on Monday nights. After his death in 2009, others who are loosely considered to be in the same genre as Les Paul's jazz trio have performed the traditional gig at the Iridium. On Monday, July 8, on the ...
Chet Atkins and Les Paul: Guitar Monsters
by Skip Heller
The seventies were bountiful years for guitar fans. Looking now at Guitar Player magazines of the period, it's almost dizzying to see how many veteran guitarists were doing some of their most interesting and liberated work. Bop stalwarts, blues greats (often obscure), and notable country pickers were all well-represented on vinyl throughout the decade, on a ...
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