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New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Fest 2006
by Gary Firstenberg
All is well in New Orleans! Well, not exactly but from April 28th through May 7th, the 37th Annual Jazz & Heritage Festival brought a sense of celebratory normalcy to a city torn in half by Hurricane Katrina last fall. Boosted by the rock of such megastars as Bruce Springsteen, Dave Mathews and Paul Simon and ...
Marc Copland in Montreal, May 27, 2006
by John Kelman
Marc Copland Upstairs Bar and Grill Montreal, Canada May 27, 2006 Pianist Marc Copland leads a remarkably busy life, often releasing as many as four records as a leader or co-leader in a single year. Yet, despite all that activity, he's perennially underappreciated in his own country, and a far ...
Skip Heller Trio at Ortlieb's Jazzhaus in Philadelphia
by Edward Zucker
Skip Heller Ortlieb's Jazzhaus Philadelphia, PA May 12, 2006 What do Frank Sinatra, The Dead Milkmen, Nat Adderley, Ani DiFranco, Gustav Mahler, and Shirley Scott have in common? You can find the answer in a night of music with guitarist Skip Heller's organ trio, such as the night that Heller, ...
Bobby Zankel & The Warriors Of The Wonderful Sound at the Tritone in Philadelphia
by Edward Zucker
Bobby Zankel & The Warriors Of The Wonderful Sound Tritone/Chris Jazz Café Phildelphia, PA May 4-5, 2006 The first thing one notices about Bobby Zankel & The Warriors Of The Wonderful Sound is what is missing from their music: The usual, “head / solo / head" motif that ...
11th Annual Women in Jazz Festival
by Franz A. Matzner
11th Annual Women in Jazz Festival Kennedy Center Washington, D.C. May 11-13,2006 Women have been involved in jazz since its beginning. They just never received due credit. This truism led Dr. Billy Taylor to found the Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Festival more than a decade ago. Though progress ...
The Vince Ector Group at Cecil's Jazz Club
by David A. Orthmann
The Vince Ector Group Cecil's Jazz Club West Orange, NJ April 28, 2006 The opening set at Cecil's Jazz Club was the first time The Vince Ector Group worked together as a unit. Instead of the familiar language of a standard repertoire, Ector choose to perform mostly material from his ...
Angelica 2006
by AAJ Italy Staff
Teatro San Leonardo, Bologna - 11-14 maggio Anthony Braxton, dopo essere entrato di diritto nella storia del jazz più creativo come uno dei protagonisti degli anni Settanta, si era non poco defilato dalla scena internazionale nel corso del decennio successivo. Negli ultimi anni, come molti altri esponenti dell'avanguardia afroamericana, è tornato prepotentemente alla ribalta, grazie anche ...
"Francesco d'Assisi" - Opera lirica di Orio Odori
by AAJ Italy Staff
Teatro Garibaldi - Figline Valdarno - 23.04.2006 Musicista dalle mille risorse, il clarinettista e compositore Orio Odori (clicca qui per leggere una sua intervista), dopo le esperienze di Harmonia Ensemble e di Banda Improvvisa (clicca qui per leggere la recensione del disco più recente, Lesamoré), approda all’esperienza più ardita per un compositore - l’opera lirica - ...
Bud Shank at Chris' Jazz Cafe in Philadelphia
by Edward Zucker
Bud Shank Chris' Jazz Cafe Philadelphia, PA May 19-20, 2006 The jazz landscape in the late 1940's and 1950's features stories of numerous musicians who died or faded away from drug abuse, alcohol abuse or misadventure. A few survivors from that era are still going strong. Altoist Bud Shank ...
La sacralità di Annette
by AAJ Italy Staff
Teatro Rasi, Ravenna 19 maggio 2006 Ritrovare nuovamente Annette Peacock in Italia, dopo la bella tournée di fine gennaio 2005 che segnava il suo ritorno alle scene dopo anni di silenzio, è stato davvero piacevole. Va detto che nei 15 mesi che sono trascorsi da quel primo assaggio carico di significati e promesse, Annette è tornata ...
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