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Tomasz Stanko Quintet at Dazzle in Denver
by Geoff Anderson
Tomasz Stanko Quintet Dazzle Restaurant and Lounge Denver, CO April 10, 2010 The ECM record label has been issuing innovative music since 1969. Although it has released over 1,000 albums by now, most share an aesthetic that makes their sound instantly recognizable. While usually lumped into the jazz camp, ...
Earl MacDonald: Re: Visions
by Dan Bilawsky
The big band era ended long ago, but the world is a better place because people like pianist Earl MacDonald still yearn to keep it alive in some way. MacDonald--a composer, arranger, pianist and Director of jazz studies at the University of Connecticut--is probably best known for his work in jazz education and his time spent ...
Earl MacDonald: Re:Visions
by Mark Corroto
There is a reason that the saying, “keeping it fresh" is rarely uttered in the same sentence as “17-piece jazz orchestra"--because a large orchestra in the world of jazz tends to maneuver about as delicately as an army deploys. Well, that is unless your jazz army is under the direction of Earl MacDonald. He commands his ...
Maynard Ferguson Birthday Bash @ Chris' Jazz Cafe (Philadelphia) on May 1
Maynard Ferguson Birthday Bash! Featuring Maynard Ferguson alumni: Denis DiBlasio, Reggie Watkins and Dennis Noday at Chris' Jazz Cafe on May 1. Come experience the high energy big band jazz that only Maynard Ferguson and his band could deliver on what would have been his 82nd birthday. The alumni will be backed by the John Hoey ...
For the Grand Prize: April Is . . . ?
by Jack Bowers
Did you know that April is Jazz Appreciation Month? Neither did I until I chanced upon a press release to that effect. According to the Smithsonian Institution's Smithsonian Jazz website, there are “celebrations in all 50 states and 40 countries." If I'm not mistaken, New Mexico is one of those 50 states, and no one here ...
Stan Kenton Alumni Band: Have Band Will Travel
by Nicholas F. Mondello
Stan Kenton Alumni Band Have Band Will Travel Summit Records 2010 In the golden era of television, the late 1950s and early 1960s, there was a popular Western series titled Have Gun Will Travel. It starred Richard Boone as the San Francisco-based Paladin, a dressed all in black ...
Don Ellis: Haiku
by John Kelman
One of the more tragic casualties of the 1970s was Don Ellis. Emerging from the big bands of Maynard Ferguson, Charlie Barnet, and Ray McKinley, the trumpeter began releasing albums under his own name in the early 1960s, distanced from his mentors' more mainstream big band sound. Beginning in small ensembles with free-thinking players such as ...
Mark Weinstein: Timbasa
by Woodrow Wilkins
First came the transition from trombonist to flutist. Then came the transition to Latin jazz. For Mark Weinstein, a confluence of worlds has become modus operandi. Brooklyn-born Weinstein's experience has included a fusion of post-bebop music with traditional Afro-Cuban drumming. As a trombonist, he worked with Chick Corea, Cal Tjader, Tito Puente, Maynard Ferguson, ...
Lew Tabackin
by Ken Dryden
Lew Tabackin needs no introduction to serious jazz fans. The tenor saxophonist and flutist worked with Maynard Ferguson, Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra, Joe Henderson, Duke Pearson, Donald Byrd, Elvin Jones and The Tonight Show Band; was a star soloist with the Danish Radio Orchestra in the late '60s; and joined alto saxophonist Phil Woods for a ...
Carl Fischer & Organic Groove Ensemble: Adverse Times
by Nicholas F. Mondello
Carl Fischer & Organic Groove Ensemble Adverse Times Fisch Music 2010 Sometimes it seems that trumpet players get more of the spotlight than other instrument-playing bandleaders. Perhaps it's because of the tremendous legacy emanating from Louis Armstrong's tree. The nature of the trumpet speaks of leadership, ...
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