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London Jazz Festival: No Compromises
by John Sharpe
November 15, 2004 The Royal Festival Hall played host to a double bill to die for, as part of the London Jazz Festival, featuring innovators who came to prominence at opposite ends of the '60s. Cecil Taylor and Bill Dixon were both part of the 1964 October Revolution in Jazz, while Anthony Braxton emerged from Chicago's ...
The Sheryl Bailey 3: Bull's Eye
by Elliott Simon
The patchwork Oriental rug decor and comfortable living room ambiance at NYC's Fat Cat immediately put both musician and audience on intimate terms. Within that friendly context, guitarist Sheryl Bailey's Hammond B3 trio highlighted newly composed material from their latest CD, Bull's Eye. Bailey's intricately elegant chordal improvisations and blisteringly precise leads were willing and equal ...
Gretchen Parlato, David Devoe, Julie Hardy: New Singers Showcase at the 55 Bar
by Michael P. Gladstone
On November 20, a three hour evening of New Singers was held at the 55 Bar in Greenwich Village, NYC, to showcase the talents of Gretchen Parlato, David Devoe and Julie Hardy. The principal attraction of the event was the opportunity to see Parlato, the winner of this year's prestigious Thelonious Monk Award given earlier ...
Skopje Jazz Festival 2004 (23rd Edition)
by Nenad Georgievski
One may choose many words to describe what is happening at the Skopje Jazz Festival each year, but among those you won't hear words such as dull, uniformed, monotonous, as one its main characteristics is its diversity. For years the choice of participants has always been as diverse and as experimental as it can be. Each ...
Jazz Festival Berlin & Total Music Meeting 2004
by A. Henkin
The venerable trombonist Albert Mangelsdorff, during a friendly reunion in the backstage at the Berlin Philharmonie, mused fondly on the unique arrangement that comes to the German capital each November. For the last 36 years, the Jazz Festival Berlin (JFB, established in 1964) and the Total Music Meeting (TMM, founded in 1968) peaceably coexist. Mangelsdorff recalled ...
From The Green Mountains to The Hub: The Derek Trucks Band Live Fall 2004
by Doug Collette
Derek Trucks is a legend in the making. Whether you see him with The Allman Brothers Band or his own quintet, as on two recent dates in the northeast, you are witnessing the constantly evolving young guitarist display an utter command of his instrument as well as the down to earth pragmatics of a working musician(and ...
JVC Paris Jazz Festival 2004
by AAJ Staff
By Jennifer Odell Around the world this fall, politics informed art and culture, making strong statements about war in Iraq, constitutional democracy in the Europe Union and the Presidential election in the U.S. fair game for artists. But at the JVC Jazz Festival in Paris this October, a theme of unity in the face ...
Monheit Madness? Frank & Joe Steal the Show
by R.J. DeLuke
There is a star belonging to vocalist Jane Monheit that some people are waiting to see rise in the jazz world, she of the glamour-girl magazine covers (A recent Downbeat issue, for example). It might be best for these people to settle in comfortably with a vat of strong coffee, perhaps.There is a the sea ...
David Jacobs-Strain: A Night With the Blues
by Jim Santella
Anaheim Downtown Community Center Anaheim, California November 20, 2004 Communicating with his audience like a fired-up veteran of the blues, 21-year-old David Jacobs-Strain brought his acoustic guitars and his powerful vocal style to Anaheim for a thrilling get-together that ushered in the holiday season with open arms. Performing alone on stage ...
Esbjorn Svensson Trio: Live at Dakota Jazz Club
by Joshua Weiner
The latest album by EST, Seven Days of Falling, is in all aspects an excellent record, displaying the musicians' ample talent for mixing strong original songs with a fresh approach to the jazz piano trio that tastefully incorporates moods and textures from rock and electronic music. However, to paraphrase guitarist Robert Fripp, albums are calling cards, ...
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