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Tulsa's Jazz Club
by Jason West
On the east side of Second Avenue, between Blanchard and Bell St., there's something for everyone. For the rockers there's The Crocodile; for the mods there's The Lava Lounge; for margaritas there's Mama's Mexican Kitchen; an for the best local jazz six nights a week, there's Tula's.With blinds drawn and only a modest blue neon ...
Anthony Braxton at Yoshi's
by Robert Spencer
Anthony Braxton's Ghost Trance Festival took Yoshi's the last week of August and introduced West Coast fans to what the master called “the next level of my work." As always, Mr. Braxton's pace and breadth of vision is breathtaking. In the Seventies and Eighties he moved beyond playing simple song forms, stringing composed sections together with ...
The Eric Alexander Quintet Featuring Harold Mabern
by David A. Orthmann
Eric Alexander’s concert at William Paterson University was something of a homecoming for the thirty-two year old tenor saxophonist. In 1990, Alexander and his drummer of choice, Joe Farnsworth, graduated from the University’s highly regarded jazz studies program. To continue the William Paterson connection, Harold Mabern, one of Alexander’s teachers at the University, was the band’s ...
Kurt Elling: Polished and Passionate
by R.J. DeLuke
Don't look now, but isn't singer Kurt Elling just getting better and better?With the pending release of his fifth CD, Flirting with Twilight in late August, he blew into Hartford Connecticut on July 22 for a performance at the Great Hartford Jazz Festival with his trio, pianist Laurence Hobgood, bassist Rob Amster and drummer Paul ...
9th Annual Capital JazzFest
by AAJ Staff
Home again in Bull Run Park! In its 9th year, Capital Jazz has scaled back its size and venue, returning to the Bull Run Park in Fairfax (where it was held most of the first six years), and setting up just one stage. But I expect that most jazz fans won't mind at ...
Andrew Hill Sextet at Iridium
by A. Henkin
New York City, long-time jazz capital, is going through an upheaval. It was once the home of legendary venues like the Village Gate, the Five-Spot, The Half-Note and others; locations graced by every major jazz musician of the last 30 years. In recent years, it had become a rather dry and predictable dichotomy. Avant-garders and downtowners ...
JVC Newport Jazz Festival
by AAJ Staff
Submitted on behalf of Rob Mariani Friday, August 10th: The Newport Casino at The Tennis Hall of Fame.This year's festival opened in a somewhat more intimate locale than the stadium-size Ft. Adams State Park where its two days of main events happen. The Newport Casino at the Tennis Hall of Fame is a perfect outdoor ...
Greg Osby Quartet at The Village Vanguard
by AAJ Staff
Submitted on behalf of Michael Mellia The Greg Osby Quartet continued to enthrall audiences last night, 8/1, during its six-day stint at the Vanguard. Featuring Jason Moran on piano, Mark Helias on bass, Marlon Browden on drums, and Osby himself on alto sax, the group pushed the very boundaries of improvised music. The quartet played almost ...
Brad Mehldau, Solo Piano at Sotheby
by AAJ Staff
Submitted on behalf of Michael Mellia Brad Mehlau's agenda soon became apparent at the 7/25 Sotheby's solo concert. He did not show up intending to play classical music, jazz, or even pop. Brad sat down at the piano and began to play music- that Platonic notion of music in its purest form that often eludes classification. ...
Nancy Kelly And Her Trio
by AAJ Staff
Michael D's July 20-21-2002 Nancy Kelly held the audience in the palm of her hand for two magical nights at Michael D's Santa Rosa Jazz Club. Thomas Beecham was right when he said, “Magical music never leaves the memory" and Miss Kelly was the enchantress that cast her dazzling spell over those ...
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