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Article: Album Review

Michael Bates: Northern Spy

Read "Northern Spy" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
June 24, 2015

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, ...

Article: Lyrics

I 10 CD nel CD-Player di... Chris Speed

by Vincenzo Roggero
June 24, 2015

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 ...

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Article: Album Review

Natasha Agrama: The Heart Of Infinite Change

Read "The Heart Of Infinite Change" reviewed by Walter Atkins

by Walter Atkins
June 12, 2015

The Heart Of Infinite Change (Roxboro Entertainment Group), the debut album from songwriter/vocalist Natasha Agrama is an intriguing ten-track mix of original compositions and impeccable jazz standards. The album consists of 3 songs with music and lyrics by Agrama, plus one each by Joni Mitchell and Osho with additional lyrics. The balance comes from personalized arrangements ...

Article: Interview

Daniel Schnyder: The Anatomy of an Opera: Charlie Parker’s Yardbird Suite

by Victor L. Schermer
June 3, 2015

Saxophonist Charlie Parker revolutionized the world of music with his legendary approach to jazz. Unfortunately, his life was much too short and filled with tragedy. In 1955, Parker died at the age of 34 from excessive drug use. He died in the apartment of the Baroness Nica von Koenigswarter in New York City, but ironically his ...

Article: Album Review

Matana Roberts: Always

by Mark Corroto
June 1, 2015

The saxophone is possibly the musical instrument that produces a sound closest to the human voice. Listening to a virtuoso saxophonist like Matana Roberts, one hears more than just breath through a reed instrument. Her solo recording Always, travels beyond voice, to mind, body, and spirit. Recorded in studio, without the benefit of a ...

Article: Live Review

Norfolk And Norwich Festival 2015

by Bruce Lindsay
May 28, 2015

Norfolk And Norwich Festival Norwich, UK May 8-24, 2015 With a program that includes dance, visual arts, site-specific theatre in city streets and ancient woodland and a few almost impossible to define events, a festival such as the annual Norfolk and Norwich Festival still manages to find space for jazz. ...

Article: Live Review

Jakob Bro, Lee Konitz, Bill Frisell, Thomas Morgan at DR Koncerthuset Copenhagen

by Henning Bolte
May 23, 2015

Jakob Bro, Lee Konitz, Bill Frisell and Thomas Morgan DR Koncerthuset (Danish Broadcasting Corporation) Balladeering tour Copenhagen, DenmarkMay 15, 2015 In Copenhagen on May 15th, at the new concert hall of the Danish Broadcasting Corporation: acclaimed Danish film director Jørgen Leth welcomed an audience of 800 spectators to announce the ...

News: Festival

George Wein Brings Storyville To Newport Jazz Festival

May 20, 2015

NEWPORT, RI – George Wein’s life in music took its most important turn when Newport socialite Elaine Lorillard walked into his jazz club, Storyville, with a Boston University professor in 1953. Lorillard and her husband Louis were interested in bringing some excitement to Newport and the professor thought Wein was just the person to help. From ...

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Article: Building a Jazz Library

Tag Team Jazz, Part 2-2

by Nathan Holaway
May 16, 2015

Part 1 | Part 2 Jazz has always celebrated rugged individuality, praising those who appreciate others but stay on their own path. So what happens when two (or more intelligent and original musicians come together? Most of the time, pure magic. Stellar tag teams have made some of the finest records in jazz history. ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Cassandra Wilson: Coming Forth by Day

by C. Michael Bailey
April 21, 2015

Cassandra Wilson is the most important jazz vocalist of the past thirty years. There. I said it. I meant it. It is out in the open (not that this was any secret). After an impressive jazz debut with Point of View (JMT, 1985), Wilson would release seven ...