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Guitarist Tim Conley's funky standards and improvisations make for stand-out shows
by Mark Sabbatini
Funky classics. Innovative improvisations. Gritty guitars. No cover charge. This is why I keep wading through so much muck on the Internet. Guitarist Tim Conley joins the tiny percentage of jazz artists with a significant amount of quality work available free of charge online with several live performances between July and October ...
The Heights Of Nepal's Jazzmandu 2005
by Mark Sabbatini
If there's any question Nepal is a world of its own, ask someone the time. When it's noon in India, it's 12:15 p.m. on the other side of the northern border, as Nepal operates in a time zone independent of every country on Earth. Maybe there's a small effort at rounding off to better ...
Drop Trio: Cezanne
by Mark Sabbatini
The unplugged thing is old hat. So are trios doing loose funk jams barely anchored by ear-catching hooks. But that doesn't mean their albums aren't a blast when well done. Cezanne finds the Houston-based Drop Trio doing more of the acoustic thing on its third album, although the fast pace and largely improvisational character ...
A "Dear John" letter to The (Suspicious) Bad Plus
by Mark Sabbatini
Dear Ethan, Reid and David: I love you, but we can't have a relationship if there's no trust. That nickname “The Bad Plus" is a winner and I always considered you an artistic genius when many others saw you as phony, or maybe just a little deranged. Sure that made you popular, ...
Chick Corea: Rendezvous In New York
by Mark Sabbatini
Chick Corea Rendezvous in New York Image Entertainment ID1796IEDVD 2005 This may not be the ultimate Chick Corea collection, but fans aren't likely to find a better one on video anytime soon. A near-complete portrait of the legendary pianist's non-fusion career is captured on the 10-DVD ...
Going to Extremes to find Jazz in Greenland
by Mark Sabbatini
It's an icy land full of improvisational spirit and language meant more for ear than eye. But if Greenland's soul is ideal for jazz, finding the music is a challenge - to say nothing of requesting standards like “Inequnartumik Inuusamik." The secret is starting at the right place. The home of sousaphonist ...
The Moldejazz Festival 2005
by Mark Sabbatini
Picture Norway's most famous pianist, so tranquil he sparks controversy, hammering blues and neo-Dixie jams as a sideman in a basement bar. Or a hip-hop star scandalized for atrocious behavior elsewhere finding peace. In the small coastal town of Molde, its biggest event of the year is often a study in contradictions.
A Finnish Feast: Hundreds of Free Songs from Earth's Least Corrupt Country
by Mark Sabbatini
Considering its 80th birthday is next year, Finnish jazz is awfully young at heart. Finnish-American musicians aboard the M/S Andania brought jazz to the country in 1926, according to urban myth, but a strong presence and identity didn't emerge until the 1960s. Since then versatile musicians, strong government support and high-quality education has produced ...
The 2005 Keitelejazz Festival in
by Mark Sabbatini
Not many festival directors recommend “competing" events in another town. Or are surprised by a foreigner bypassing the advice and showing up on opening night. At least one so distinguishable due to a lack of colorfully spiked hair. But small-town bluntness and surprise appearances by outsiders represent well the quirkiness and quality ...
Jazz In Marciac Festival: Days 14-15 and "Best Of" Awards
by Mark Sabbatini
Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7 | Day 8 | Day 9 | Day 10-11 | Day 12 | Day 13 | Day 14-15 It turns out the “bodily death" of the Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus, has never been “dogmatically defined...and ...
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