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Jason Moran's Bandwagon Packs Kennedy Center
by Franz A. Matzner
The year separating their debut at the Kennedy Center Jazz Club and last week's performance has been a good one for Jason Moran and his Bandwagon trio. The success of their album Live at the Village Vanguard secured Moran's standing as one of jazz's ascending stars, and the follow-up quartet release Same Mother has served to ...
Raoul Bjorkenheim and Lucas Ligeti at Savoy Theatre, February 26, 2005
by Anthony Shaw
Attending a concert by Raoul Bjorkenheim can I think be compared to watching a lightening storm. It's a rare occurrence - at least in Nordic climes, offers constant surprise though requiring concerted focus of all the senses. Bjorkenheim is now based in is childhood home New York, so appearances in Finland, his mother's homeland and Bjorkenheim's ...
Jim Hall Quartet with Greg Osby at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola
by AAJ Staff
There's a reason why jazz guitarists like Pat Metheny are humbled and respectful of senior statesman stringmaster Jim Hall. Since the days of the first recorded examples of free form improvisation, “Free Form", with the Chico Hamilton Quintet in 1955, Hall has been leading by example. The seasoned veteran did his thing at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola ...
Sun Ra Arkestra + DKT/MC5 in London
by Rob Witts
Royal Festival Hall London UK25 February 2005The Sun Ra Arkestra take the stage in glittering costumes and outlandish headgear, looking like the house band at a particularly wild Star Trek convention and sounding like nothing else on earth - or indeed on Saturn. Since Sun Ra's death in 1993, the patented mixture of swampy ...
Cyro Baptista & Beat The Donkey at The Wardrobe, Leeds, UK
by Philip Songa
In Cyro Baptista's new “home country" of New Jersey, people like to renovate their homes - for fun. Baptista prefers to take his apart and create odd-looking musical instruments out of them, like the PVC-pipe contraption (played with sandals) that inspired the home renovation joke. He appeared with these and more together with his 7-person Beat ...
Jack DeJohnette Latin Project
by C. Andrew Hovan
Hill Auditorium (University of Michigan) February 19, 2005 For some 40 years now, Jack DeJohnette has been one of the leading jazz drummers in the country, chameleon-like in his ability to adapt to any situation. Last year, he truly expressed the disparate and variegated nature of his musical personality while recording Don Byron's Ivey ...
Directions in Music: Herbie Hancock, Michael Brecker, and Roy Hargrove
by Victor L. Schermer
Herbie Hancock, Michael Brecker, and Roy HargroveThe Kimmel Center (Verizon Hall)Philadelphia, PAFebruary 23, 2005 It could be said with some justification that Herbie Hancock is the world's greatest jazz pianist. Certainly, at the very least, he challenged the limits of technical virtuosity and musical expression at his Kimmel Center Mellon ...
Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra: The Music of Paul Whiteman
by Daniel Kassell
To appreciate how Paul Whiteman's Orchestra advanced music after the Ragtime Era an understanding of what preceded the First World War is required. Before recorded sound there was a piano in every house, John Philip Sousa's Marching Bands, Ringling Circus Bands, Community Bands, School Bands performed for every holiday or event in America. What most would ...
Charlie Haden Quartet West at the 2005 Portland Jazz Festival
by Jason West
Last February, Wayne Shorter and his quartet played the Portland Marriott ballroom, christening the city's inaugural jazz festival with a performance that over the next twelve months has remained a source of inspiration for musical circles on both sides of the Willamette River. This year it was Charlie Haden's turn to make waves. The venerable Grammy-winning ...
Basso Profundo: Oteil & The Peacemakers Live at Nectar's Burlington Vermont
by Doug Collette
History will show that the enistment of Oteil Burbridge as bassist for The Allman Brothers Band was the first major step towards the reconfiguration of that seminal Southern group that now boasts all the potency of any lineup that's ever worked under that name. Recruited in 1997 to take the place of Allen Woody when he ...
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