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Article: Live Review

Jonathan Batiste: New York, NY, December 12, 2012

by Bob Kenselaar
December 31, 2012

Jonathan Batiste and the Stay Human Band National Jazz Museum in Harlem Metropolitan Community United Methodist Church New York, NY December 12, 2012Go to any of the major New York City jazz venues and you'll sometimes get the feeling you're in church. The crowds are polite and ...

Article: Album Review

Wave Mechanics Union: Further To Fly

Read "Further To Fly" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
December 12, 2012

Rock music has been mined to the nth degree by jazz prospectors. Trumpeter Miles Davis was doing Michael Jackson and Cyndi Lauper a quarter century back; pianist Brad Mehldau has made Radiohead his own; jazz legend Herbie Hancock spoke of new standards by Peter Gabriel and Nirvana; and organ guru Dr. Lonnie Smith has delivered a ...

Article: Album Review

Marcus Miller: Renaissance

Read "Renaissance" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
December 4, 2012

Some things change, other things stay the same. Marcus Miller--producer and performer with everyone from soul singer Luther Vandross and pianist Herbie Hancock to guitarist George Benson and Miles Davis, composing and producing the trumpeter's late period classic Tutu (Warner Bros., 1986)--has been releasing solo albums since 1983, but it was with The Sun Don't Lie ...

Article: Profile

Marcus Miller: Renaissance Man

by Pheralyn Dove
December 4, 2012

[Editor's Note: On Sunday, November 25, 2012, All About Jazz learned that Marcus Miller sustained non-life-threatening injuries during a bus crash on the A2 highway in central Switzerland. Unfortunately, the driver was killed in the accident. Online sources report that the bus was carrying 13 people, including two drivers and the 11 members Miller's band. The ...

Article: Album Review

Iris Ornig: No Restrictions

Read "No Restrictions" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
October 8, 2012

Intrepid bassist Iris Ornig's second release follows the thematic structure of her remarkable debut, New Ground (Self Produced, 2009), but is more polished and coherent, hence more engaging. This is a hard goal to achieve, as the first was a thoroughly enjoyable and stimulating album. If New Ground was a collection of short ...

Article: Live Review

Donald Harrison & Quantum Leap: New York City, NY, September 20, 2012

by Ernest Barteldes
October 6, 2012

Donald Harrison & Quantum LeapThe Jazz StandardNew York City, New YorkSeptember 20, 2012New Orleans-based saxophonist Donald Harrison kicked off the evening's first set with a shuffle-based groove, immediately starting with an improvised solo. The quintet, rounded out by pianist Zaccai Curtis, bassist Max Moran, drummer Joe Dyson and electric guitarist Detroit ...

News: Event

George S. Clinton Named Film Scoring Chair

October 8, 2012

Berklee College of Music announces that noted composer George S. Clinton has been named chair of the college’s Film Scoring Department. Clinton will build on the 32-year legacy of the department and ensure that graduates have the skills to thrive in a field that is undergoing continual transformation. Berklee offers the world’s only undergraduate film scoring ...

Article: Scumbles

Block and Roll and All That Jazz

by Sammy Stein
September 29, 2012

There are just a few bands that can fill a jazz venue as easily as they fill one more used to contemporary pop music, and it seems right to acknowledge one of the best jazz-influenced, long-lived and popular groups from the late '70s to the present day, The Blockheads. This band filled Ronnie Scott's and The ...

Article: Album Review

Manner Effect: Abundance

Read "Abundance" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
September 1, 2012

Manner Effect is not merely an energetic group consisting of a vocalist backed by a four- piece band, but a quintet with two frontline instruments and a rhythm section. This is primarily due to Sarah Elizabeth Charles's utilization of her amazing vocal cords as a wind instrument, and in her delivery of songs in the tradition ...

Article: Catching Up With

Ben Williams: The Effect of Sound

by Daniel Lehner
August 23, 2012

It's continuously perplexing that Ben Williams did not set out on playing the bass first. Forced to pick the most attractive string instrument amongst the cellos and violins, the 7th grade aspiring guitarist ended up picking the instrument that he, now in his upper twenties, is in massively high demand for and is unsettlingly proficient in. ...