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Bill Carrothers - Joy Spring (Pirouet)
June 26, 1956 - a day that will forever register in the ledger of jazz tragedy. Pianist Bill Carrothers pays tribute to the two jazz icons lost on that faithful date, Clifford Brown and Richie Powell, on this consistently engaging trio session. Carrothers covers the major bases of the Brown and Powell songbook, also pulling in ...
Konitz/ Cheek/ Furic Leibovici - Jugendstil II (ESP)
How to improve on an already winsome formula? Such was a question facing producer Jim Black and bassist/composer Stephane Furic Leibovici in the wake of their first chamber jazz project for ESP. The answer came in an unexpected and inspired conscription, altoist Lee Konitz. Konitz has been influential party to these types of projects for well ...
Sunday June 27 2010 Andy Milne and Dapp Theory @ Royal/T
SUNDAY MAY 27 2010 @ 7PMANDY MILNE & DAPP THEORYROYAL/T8910 WASHINGTON BLVD. CULVER CITY, CA 90232310.559.6300$18 admission at the door. $12 for studentsDAPP THEORY is a quintet that blends contemporary funk, groove and hip-hop into jazzwith such seamless, casual precision its almost freaky. (LA Weekly)ANDY ...
James Blood Ulmer - In and out (in and Out)
A rare case of record title matching record label, James Blood Ulmer's latest carries that parity over to the music by not tinkering much with the successful strategy of past outings. Fronting a trio session, Ulmer's guitar positions up front with athletic support from bassist Mark Peterson and drummer Aubrey Dayle in close proximity. Peterson plucks ...
The Heft of Miles
How much musical weight do you give to trumpeter Miles Davis's 30 years of recordings for Columbia? Everyone may have a different answer, depending on the stylistic preferences of the listener, since Davis was always a groundbreaker in pushing style and sound. While it clearly doesn't include everything he recorded ...
Does Spotify Already Have 30,000 Users in U.S.?
And WMG The Reason It Has Not Launched Here? Spotify already has 30,000 users in the U.S. according to chatter from the Stockholm (Spoitfy's home) tech scene and first reported TechCrunch. So why not just launch the damn thing in the U.S. officially? Not so fast, says Spotify, the report is “completely factually incorrect". But Glenn ...
Post-War R&B a Bridge for Jazz and Rock 'N' Roll
Here is a great discussion between KPLU's Nick Morrison and Kirsten Kendrick. Below is video and a transcript of the interview. To hear the audio from the interview, click here. SEATTLE, WA (KPLU) Without jazz, rock 'n' roll might have never happened. At least it wouldn't have happened as it did. And the link between jazz ...
Ray Lamontagne: New Album in August
SUMMER TOUR WITH DAVID GRAY Ray LaMontagne Ray LaMontagne is set to release his new album, Ray LaMontagne & The Pariah Dogs - God Willin' & The Creek Don't Rise on August 17th, 2010 on RCA Records. This is his fourth studio record, and the follow-up to his heralded Gossip in the Grain (see the JamBase ...
Interview: Dick Collins (Part 1)
In the big band era of the 1950s, the jazz trumpeter was perhaps the most important musician of all in an orchestra, along with the band's drummer, of course. The first trumpet was the section's leader and set the tone for the horns. But the third chair, or jazz trumpet, had the solos and gave a ...
Monterey Jazz Festival Announces Members of 2010 Next Generation Jazz Orchestra
21 High School Musicians from California, Maryland, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin Comprise MJFs Renowned National High School All-Star Big Band NGJO's 10-Day Tri-C to NYC North American Tour Includes Performances in Cleveland, Toronto, Montreal, and New York City, June 30 - July 7, 2010 NGJO Performs with Dianne Reeves at 53rd Annual Monterey Jazz ...
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