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JJA Marches On
Monday, June 14 marked the annual Jazz Journalists Association Jazz (JJA) Awards event. The venue City Winery proved to be quite the ambient locale for what has become a jazz community tradition. As the tribes gathered to schmooze, catch-up on news, hugs and air kisses, and just generally revel in the greatness of jazz music (and ...
The Jazz Session #178: Taylor Ho Bynum
Cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum has his fingers in so many pies, he should open a bakery. In addition to his recent CD Madeleine Dreams (Firehouse 12 Records, 2009) with his band SpiderMonkey Strings, hes also on a new duo CD, Stepwise (Not Two Records, 2010), with drummer Tomas Fujiwara. And hes helping run the Tri-Centric Foundation, ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Tony Scott
All About Jazz is celebrating Tony Scott's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Tony ScottTony Scott, a distinguished jazz clarinetist who in the 1950s helped steer his instrument out of the swing era and into the sax-infested waters of bebop. With Buddy DeFranco, Mr. Scott was considered one ...
Bill and Fred
Bill Dixon is gone. Fred Anderson is ailing. This week has been one of the worst in recent memory for creative improvised music. Reason enough to interrupt the relatively rigid format under these rafters for a salvo of positive thoughts beaming out to the families and loved ones of both men. I haven't been ...
Jazz This Week: Peter Martin, Tim Cunningham, Peter Schlamb and More
It's a relatively light week for jazz performances in St. Louis, but there are at least a handful of shows worth noting around town. Here's a quick look:Tonight, pianist Peter Martin leads his trio in a free concert for the Whitaker Music Festival at Missouri Botanical Garden. For more on Martin, see StLJN's previous ...
Brubeck, Mulligan, Six and Dawson, Parts 4 and 5
Two more pieces have emerged from the Dutch YouTube contributor who is posting segments of a remarkable Dave Brubeck concert in Rotterdam in 1972. The core unit was the Brubeck trio with bassist Jack Six and drummer Alan Dawson. Paul Desmond and Gerry Mulligan were the guest saxophonists on the Newport Jazz Festival tour. Unlike many ...
Rich Corpolongo Trio - Get Happy (Delmark)
Tenor, bass and drums projects will probably forever be name checked against Sonny Rollins' pioneering parables with the form. In the case of Rich Corpolongo the connection fits. As one of the younger “old reliables" of Delmark's current tenor stable, his latest release is a long overdue showcase for his talents sans piano. Along for the ...
Domenic Landolf - New Brighton (Pirouet)
The cover shot to Swiss-born saxophonist Domenic Landolf's Pirouet debut offers a clever visual analogue to his music with a stark sepia tone view of Coney Island's Hell Hole attraction, now defunct some 15 years. Landolf's overarching concept on the date is an intriguing variant on chamber jazz past and present. Bassist Patrice Moret and drummer ...
Carefusion Jazz Festival Partners with Brooklyn's Barbes, Puppets & Zebulon
CareFusion Jazz Festival New York Crosses Bridges for Concerts at Barbes, Puppets Jazz Club and Zebulon NEW YORK, NY- The CareFusion Jazz Festival New York is crossing the Brooklyn, Manhattan and Williamsburg bridges to present concerts at three of Brooklyn's finest clubs. Barbes, Puppets Jazz Club and Zebulon will host critically-acclaimed artists and bands in affordable ...
Are You a 'Jazz Nerd'? Jason Marsalis Revisits and Clarifies the Term
In the wake of causing a minor firestorm in the online jazz community last month with a playful video decrying the influence of “jazz nerds," drummer Jason Marsalis emailed me a clarification this morning that both expands on the definition, shares his inspiration for the video and offers further talking points that amount to a calling ...
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