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Lisbon's Jazz em Agosto
by Kurt Gottschalk
Over the course of nine hot August days in Lisbon, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation managed to present major figures in European free improvisation (Alexander von Schlippenbach, Evan Parker, Paul Lovens, Paul Lytton, Paul Rutherford, Conrad Bauer, Irene Schweizer, Pierre Favre), American master instrumentalists (Mark Dresser, Gary Lucas, Erik Friedlander), some of the smartest piano preparers in ...
Rossano Sportiello: Milano Stride Piano
by Robert R. Calder
Starbucks Edinburgh Jazz Festival The Hub Edinburgh August 6, 2005The cliches supplied in the programme blurb about this concert were wrong. The pianist isn't an Earl Hines-Jelly Roll Morton specialist. He's been a pupil of Barry Harris, and his music includes beside a Dave McKenna walking left hand some bebop, ...
Jim Ridl Quintet at the Deerhead Inn
by Victor L. Schermer
Jim Ridl Quintet Deerhead Inn Delaware Water Gap, PA September 3, 2005 Pianist Jim Ridl's new CD, Your Cheatin' Heart, is a jazz take on some country and western classics along with some standards and original compositions. It is rich with novel ideas and textures and is bound to attract ...
Dwight Trible at 5th St. Dick's
by Rex Butters
A warm lively summer night in Leimert Park found the Dwight Trible band celebrating their imminent departure on a European tour. 5th St. Dick's cozy environs hosted the festivities, providing an intimate visit with one of LA's jazz giants. Core band members wind player Joshua Spiegelman and percussion master Derf Reklaw joined Jeffrey Littleton on bass, ...
Go: Organic Orchestra Plugs In at the Electric Lodge
by Rex Butters
Adam Rudolph convened a ten night ritual in his Temple of the Infinite Now with the Go:Organic Orchestra. Venice's Electric Lodge housed the spontaneous combustion and over the ten days saw a parade of talent that included Bennie Maupin, Mark Dresser, Jeremy Drake, Harris Eisenstadt, Trevor Ware, Ralph Jones, Sara Schoenbeck, and others. Rudolph has created ...
New Birth For New Orleans Brass Bands
by Todd R. Brown
You could hear it almost every night of the week: the call of a trumpet piercing the air, saying, “Here is where the party's at! The booming bass drum pounding out a hip hop rhythm, and the sizzling snare building on that beat with choppy, Latin-style syncopation. The trombone crying out with baritone joy, the sousaphone ...
Michael Session Sextet Rocks LAACMA
by Rex Butters
An enthusiastic crowd filled the Los Angeles Times Central Court at LACMA to cheer on hometown heroes, The Michael Session Sextet. After more than a dozen years with the event it could be renamed Michael Session Court, and no one attending the Friday night weekend kickoff would have voted against a re-christening. Session remains a dominant ...
Kamau Daaood/Jesse Sharps & the Return of the Medicine Men at the Temple Bar
by Rex Butters
Santa Monica's Temple Bar once again played Culture House hosting Fela congo player, Najite, as well as LA icons poet Kamau Daaood, and longtime Pan Afrikan People's Arkestra mainstay Jesse Sharps. A gifted wind player, Sharps broke out of his usual jazz mode and joined the Return of the Medicine Men, a solid roots reggae quartet ...
Miguel Zenon Quartet at the Jazz Showcase
by Paul Olson
Miguel Zenón QuartetJazz Showcase, ChicagoSeptember 6, 2005Altoist Miguel Zenón's recordings do a pretty good job of demonstating his fusion of Latin music--especially the rural música jibara of his native Puerto Rico--with the instrumentation and harmonic language of jazz. Looking Forward (2001, Fresh Sound New Talent), Ceremonial (2004, Marsalis Music) and the new Jibaro ...
Sonny Rollins: Tanglewood 2005
by Scott H. Thompson
It was a beautiful, sunny Sunday morning in New England, while down South, New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz, lay in ruin. Devastated by Hurricane Katrina. I made my way to a 9:15am church service, and then headed out onto the highway for another church service. The church of Sonny Rollins. Driving straight north ...
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