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Giacomo Gates: Everything Is Cool
by Jack Bowers
Giacomo Gates was almost forty years old when someone suggested that he try his hand at singing. Luckily for the rest of us, Gates thought that was a good idea, moved to New York City later that year (1989) and began singing in clubs. Six years later Gates recorded his first CD, Blue Skies, and Everything ...
Sonny Rollins, Volume One – 1956
by Marc Davis
It's easy to like Sonny Rollins. The guy is bluesy, edgy and clever. And it almost doesn't matter which period of Rollins' career you choose. It's all pretty terrific. But there's an unexpected down side: Because Rollins has so many fantastic recordings, listening to ones that are merely good can be a little disappointing. ...
Three Shots from Siwula: Blaise Siwula & NoFrillsMusic
by Jakob Baekgaard
The emergence of free jazz in the 1950s and 1960s pioneered a new way of thinking about music that not only affected the way music sounded, but also the way it was shared and distributed. In many ways, free jazz was a movement away from mainstream and mass-distribution and the rediscovery of music as art, but ...
James Clay: Texas Tenor, Second Generation
by David Perrine
The term “Texas tenor" was originally coined to describe the sound and style of such swing era players as Herschel Evans, Illinois Jacquet, Buddy Tate, Budd Johnson, Arnett Cobb and others, and has subsequently been applied to second generation players from Texas that included James Clay, David “Fathead" Newman and Marchel Ivery. What these players had ...
The Word is Beat: Jazz, Poetry & the Beat Generation
by Jakob Baekgaard
It is the aspiration of much literature that it wants to change the way we look at the world, but few authors and poets have been as influential as the group of writers labeled the Beat Generation. They saw a lot that they did not like about American society in the fifties when they came of ...
I 10 CD nel CD-Player di... Samuel Blaser
by Vincenzo Roggero
01. Clifford Jordan plays Leadbelly -These Are My Roots (Atlantic Records -1965). Ho condiviso l'ascolto di questo fantastico disco durante una session a Brooklyn circa due anni fa con il sassofonista Michael Blake e il bassista Michael Bates. 02. Michael Blake -Tiddy Boom (Sunnyside Records -2014). Con Michael, che è uno ...
Tony Adamo & The New York Crew Is Reviewed By Kirpal Gordon
By Kirpal Gordon The killin’ist thing about Tony Adamo = 1728 and the New York Crew is that everybody in the band, especially the dope rhyme sayer, has got big ears all the way back to New Orleans and ancient-forward into the ever-evolving multi-new thing. It’s big ears working together that’s keeping this CD in Jazzweek's ...
Jazz and Politics
by Douglas Groothuis
My title is ambiguous since relating jazz to politics with only a conjunction ("and") might indicate several things. It could mean the politics of jazz--how jazz forms a culture, negotiates power relations, grants status to performers, and more. Or, it could mean the jazz of politics--how politicians learn the standards of political theory, improvise, and develop ...
Michael Bates: Northern Spy
by Mark Corroto
Did you ever get a bit envious listening to a recording and thinking the band is having way too much fun making music? I'm not saying Northern Spy stirs up jealousy, but damn the trio of bassist Michael Bates, saxophonist Michael Blake and drummer Jeremy “Bean" Clemons are up to some serious jollification here.This, ...
I 10 CD nel CD-Player di... Chris Speed
by Vincenzo Roggero
01. Skuli Sverrisson, Oskar Gudjonsson -The Box Tree (Mengi -2013). I miei musicisti preferiti del momento, alle prese con musica meravigliosa. 02. Billie Holiday -The Complete Verve Studio Mastertakes (Verve) Con Teddy Wilson, Lester Young, Roy Eldridge etc... Un classico! 03. Duke Ellington -Duke Ellington and his Orchestra ...
