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Five Easy Pieces Turns 40
Bob Rafelson's film, starring Jack Nicholson in the role that helped make him a star, opens Friday at the Nuart, Santa Monica. You don't sit down and say, I'm feeling alienated today, I think I'll make a movie about alienation,' notes director Bob Rafelson, reflecting on a movie about alienation, of all things, that he ...
'Las Vegas Studio: Images from the Archives
Exhibition review: 'Las Vegas Studio: Images From the Archives of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown' at MOCA-PDC The photographs on display in Las Vegas Studio: Images From the Archives of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown" have been rescued, in essence, from the cutting-room floor. It just happens to be one of the richest, most ...
Tampa Jazz Notes: Child of the Sun Jazz Festival Returns; Don Capone Tribute; Jazz Cellar Underground Orchestra to Play
The Child of the Sun Jazz Festival, a first-class Lakeland event begun in 1988 with major input from late great cornetist Nat Adderley but shuttered after a great 20-year run, will be revived next spring. That's the word from Larry Burke, longtime music professor at Florida Southern ...
The Wayne Escoffery Quartet at the Village Vangaurd - June 8th thru 13th, 2010
Saxophonist/Composer/Bandleader Wayne Escoffery will be performing with his Quartet at The Village Vanguard in NYC from Tuesday, June 8th , 2010 thru Sunday, June 13th, 2010. This is Wayne Escoffery's Village Vanguard debut as a leader. Wayne Escoffery Quartet: Wayne Escoffery - Tenor Saxophone Kevin Hays - Piano Joe Martin - Bass ...
The Terrell Stafford Quartet on Tour
One of the great players of our time, a fabulous trumpet player. - McCoy Tyner A set so solid and enjoyable isnt taking chances; its taking charge. V.R. Peterson JazzTimes The TERRELL STAFFORD Quintet ON TOUR . . . and in the studio May 11-19 The TSQuintet is: ...
Luis Bonilla, "I Talking Now!" (2009)
By NICK DERISO Luis Bonilla's I Talking Now" (NJCO/Planet Arts), from the first bristling blast of trombone on the title track, is dashing down a busy city street. It's difficult to tell, at first, if he's running away from or toward something. Whatever the apprehensions, you are quickly surrounded by all of the nervy ...
Joe Chambers - Horace to Max (Savant)
The arc of drummer Joe Chambers' recording career hasn't matched the magnitude of his merit until relatively recently. Blue Note used him in a sideman capacity on a number of its seminal Sixties sessions, but never tapped him for the leader's chair until decades later and then summarily dropped him after just a single album. A ...
Brotzmann/Drake (Bra /Eremite)
Duets with drummers remain one of Peter Brotzmann's most reliably rewarding formats for expression. An active percussive partner accords him the opportunity to shuck down to his primal self in a manner larger ensembles often don't allow. Of the dozens of drummers he's engaged in such conversations only his old colleague Han Bennink matches the rhythmic ...
Sonny Rollins Elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins is one of 229 leaders in the sciences, social sciences, humanities, arts, business, and public affairs who have been elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, it was announced on Monday. A center for independent policy research, the Academy is among the nation's oldest and most prestigious honorary societies ...
Wilco Guitarist Nels Cline Reconnects with His Jazz Side on New Album
By Tad Hendrickson Nels Cline was been straddling the line between jazz and rock guitar since the late '70s. He got his start working with jazz musicians of the likes of Julius Hemphill, Charlie Haden and Tim Berne, while also doing more rock-oriented stuff with Mike Watt, the Geraldine Fibbers and others, though his major claim ...

