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Announcing Smoke Jazz Club’s May 2025 Line-up Featuring A Miles Davis Celebration, Louis Hayes And The Jazz Communicators, And More
SMOKE Jazz Club today announced its concert schedule for May 2025. Some of today’s top ensembles reunite on the SMOKE stage including: supergroup Something Else! featuring Vincent Herring (Apr 30-May 4) and The Jazz Communicators led by NEA Jazz Master Louis Hayes (May 21-25). The month culminates with the Miles Davis Celebration (May 28-Jun 1). An ...
Freddie Hubbard: On Fire: Live At The Blue Morocco
by Dan McClenaghan
Trumpeter Freddie Hubbard (1938 -2008) began his professional jazz journey in 1960 as a full-blooded hard bopper, recording his first album in that year for Blue Note Records, Open Sesame. Much of the ensuing decade saw him in several Blue Note outings under his own name and as a side man. He also recorded sets for ...
The Vision of Raul Midón
by Leo Sidran
Raul Midón is a man who sees with sound. Blind since infancy, he has made a life--and a formidable body of work--guided by his ears, his intuition, and his insistence on carving his own path. To speak with Raul is to be reminded that perception is far more than a function of the eyes. ...
Zhengtao Pan Jazz Orchestra: Scenery in My Story
by Jack Bowers
Zhengtao Pan, born in Shanghai, China, less than twenty-five years ago, was already well-known as a designer of video games when he chose to move to Boston, MA, to study jazz composition at the Berklee College of Music. Scenery In My Story is Pan's debut recording as leader of his Jazz Orchestra, and as its title ...
Mike McClelland Rm 210: You'll Hear It: The Music of Bob Fenton
by Pierre Giroux
The Mike McClelland Quartet in this release has adopted the title of Mike McClelland Rm 210, led by McClelland on drums and joined by a stellar trio of Toronto musicians, including Mike Murley on tenor and soprano saxophones, Reg Schwager on guitar, and bassist Neil Swainson. The band pays a heartfelt tribute to pianist and composer ...
Miles Davis: Doo-Bop-A-Lu-Wah: The Musical!
by Geno Thackara
Easy Mo Bee is a fellow who does not like to leave things unfinished. Like any good producer, he is restlessly willing to shape and hone a work until things are fine-tuned down to the smallest details--a fine quality in rap recording, where a person really needs a sharp ear for slick beats and hooks. But ...
Tadd Dameron: Fontainebleau & Magic Touch Revisited
by Maurizio Zerbo
Le linee guida di Fontainebleau e Magic Touch, i due capolavori di Tadd Dameron qui riuniti in un solo CD, furono teorizzate dal pianista di Cleveland sulle pagine della rivista Record Changer, in cui descrisse come la sua adesione all'estetica del bebop fosse mediata dalla classica scrittura swing. Le forme multitematiche ABA e i ...
David Robbins: Happy Faces
by Pierre Giroux
The release of Happy Faces by the Dave Robbins Big Band is a landmark event in Vancouver, B.C. jazz history. More than a mere archival recording, this revelatory issue celebrates the enduring legacy of a seminal figure who shaped the course of large ensemble jazz in Canada and beyond. Robbins, a trombonist, composer and visionary band ...
Michael Bisio: NuMBq
by Mark Corroto
Michael Bisio borrows the phrase “and now for something completely different" from Monty Python's Flying Circus to describe his new quartet, NuMBq. Joining the bassist is longtime collaborator Jay Rosen on drums, along with two musicians traditionally rooted in classical music: violist Melanie Dyer and English horn player Marianne Osiel. With NuMBq, Bisio blurs the line ...
Jauron Perry: Jauron Perry Quintet Live at the 2024 Detroit Jazz Festival
by Paul Rauch
The Detroit Jazz Festival is the largest free jazz festival in the world, staged smack dab in the middle of one of the great jazz cities in the world. The city and surrounding area is a hotbed for jazz talent as well, historically and presently. Trumpeter Jauron Perry is one of the latest such talents to ...
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