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Ivan Lins at Jazz Alley
by Jason West
Those with high expectations of Ivan Lins were likely disappointed with his opening night performance at Jazz Alley on Friday, May 6. A bad cold severely hampered Lins' singing voice, confining it to rare moments of musical brilliance; and while his illness was unfortunate, his lack of professionalism onstage was much harder to forgive.At age ...
Soundtrack to a Legend: Jack Johnson & Jack DeJohnette in London
by Daniel Spicer
Jack Johnson: Soundtrack to a Legend The Barbican London, UK May 30, 2005Drummer Jack DeJohnette was a driving force in helping to take Miles Davis's music into interesting realms in the 1970s, providing a fluid yet powerful backbone that somehow combined funk, free jazz and rock on such overdriven ...
Romanian Jazz Education Summit
by Jason West
The first-ever Romanian Jazz Education Summit will begin June 26, and last until July 3, 2005. All jazz music educators in Romania will attend. The purpose of this summit is to provide intensive/detailed instruction of American jazz education techniques for Romanian educators through the assistance of dedicated American jazz educators.The approximately 100 educators and/or selected ...
Legends of Jazz: The Jazz Masters
by Jim Santella
Ramsey Lewis Public Broadcasting Service June 16, 2005 The PBS television network introduces its jazz series next week with a one-hour special that features Ramsey Lewis in a panel discussion with several leaders of today's jazz world. The series will debut in the fall, with thirteen 30-minute episodes. Lewis, host of ...
Joe Lovano Quartet at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola
by David Miller
Joe Lovano with Paul Motian, George Mraz and Mulgrew Miller Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola New York City There's nothing like accompanying a musician to see a show. As well as the constant barrage of, Hey, that's one of Bird's licks! and You think that pianist likes Monk, they provide great company. Musicians are ...
John Geggie & Mark Dresser at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa
by John Kelman
John Geggie/Mark Dresser National Arts Centre Ottawa, Canada May 14, 2005 To close out this year's season of Five Shades of Geggie--five performances that continue to demonstrate local bassist John Geggie's breadth of style and ability to recruit a remarkable variety of collaborators, this year including pianist Myra Melford and ...
St. Lucia Jazz 2005
by Michael A. Edwards
The rain that I left at home had followed me across the Caribbean to the small, volcanic isle of St. Lucia, temporarily dampening my first evening there. with flight delays and document problems, I barely had time to chuck my bags and board a shuttle tothe evening's first event, a doubler bill at the Gaiety Theatre ...
Vlatko Stefanovski, Miroslav Tadic and Teodosii Spasov at the Novi Sad Synagogue
by Nenad Georgievski
Vlatko Stefanovski, Miroslav Tadic and Teodosii SpasovNovi Sad SynagogueApril 26, 2005 Something beautiful happens when one observes a master craftsmen doing his work. It is even more fulfilling when you see that the result of what he does is astounding and brilliant. This is just what happened during the performance of Vlatko ...
International Festival Musique Actuelle Victoriaville, Day 5-5
by John Kelman
Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 Following day four's triple threat of Anthony Braxton Sextet, Peter Brötzmann's Chicago Tentet and William Parker's Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra, one might expect the final day to be anticlimactic. And to some extent they'd be right, but, for the ...
Gutbucket at the Barnsdall Gallery Theater
by Andrew Durkin
Gutbucket Barnsdall Gallery Theater Los Angeles, CA April 18, 2005 Someone recently hipped me to Joel Dorn's comment that You haven't heard Monk until you've seen him. I must admit that I'm a bit of a purist when it comes to the sound / vision distinction. Although I love live ...

