Results for "Miles Davis"

The Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University presents: African Rhythms: The Autobiography of Randy Weston

January 27, 2011

A book reading and signing with Randy Weston and Willard Jenkins Packed with fascinating anecdotes, African Rhythms is Randy Weston's life story as told to the music journalist Willard Jenkins. It encompasses Weston's childhood in the Brooklyn neighborhood where his parents imbued him with pride in his African heritage, his introduction to jazz, and his early ...

Marcus Miller: A Night in Monte-Carlo

by Woodrow Wilkins
January 26, 2011

He's the man in the porkpie hat. Bassist, composer, arranger and producer Marcus Miller matches classical with jazz on A Night in Monte-Carlo, featuring L'Orchestre Philharmonique De Monte-Carlo. Miller, a two-time Grammy Award-winner, has a diverse and vast discography as a leader, producer and sideman. Among his numerous credits are work with Miles Davis, ...

Tomasz Stanko Quintet: New York City, January 14, 2011

by Warren Allen
January 25, 2011

Tomasz Stanko Quintet with Chris PotterJazz StandardNew York, NYJanuary 14, 2011 Polish trumpet legend Tomasz Stanko has long had a close relationship with New York City. One of the first great jazz musicians to come out of Eastern Europe in the late 1970s, Stanko today splits his time between Warsaw ...

Laurindo Almeida, Charlie Byrd, and Ralph Towner

by Sean Dietrich
January 25, 2011

The concert guitar is hailed by many as the perfect instrument. After being perfected in the Baroque age, virtuosos believed the wooden torso to posses the variety of an orchestra. The concert guitar produces a wide range of tone, timber, color, and dynamic expression unlike any other stringed instrument, capable of projecting a delicate voice of ...

Colin Towns & The NDR Big Band: John Lennon - In My Own Write

by John Kelman
January 23, 2011

Since 2005, British arranger/conductor Colin Towns has trawled the discographies of Frank Zappa, Mahavishnu Orchestra and Miles Davis for collaborative potential with Germany's NBR Big Band. In every case--most recently, on Visions of Miles (In + Out, 2009)--the focus was on source material in and around the jazz sphere, with plenty of built-in grist for Towns' ...

Take Five With Jay Smith

by AAJ Staff
January 23, 2011

Meet Jay Smith:Jay Smith has performed with dozens of groups all over California, France, Italy, Germany, and Spain in a wide range of music, from bebop and gypsy jazz to Latin rock and funk. He has worked with groups and musicians as Kelulu, Mento Buru, The Fresno Philharmonic, David Baron Stevens, Andre Bush, Mike ...

Nordic Connect: Spirals

by Nicholas F. Mondello
January 23, 2011

Spirals manifest themselves across art, nature and life in varied ways. The geometric spiral image might even be seen three-dimensionally, with infinite depth or point-of-view added or perhaps spinning in perpetual motion. There's movement and implied energy in the curling image. Engendering reflection, a spiral goes from and to somewhere. Like its namesake, ...

Luther Hughes / Cannonball-Coltrane Project: Things Are Getting Better

by Woodrow Wilkins
January 23, 2011

Match the stylings of two of the most revered jazz saxophonists, and you're likely to come up with The Cannonball-Coltrane Project. This five-piece ensemble pays homage to Julian “Cannonball" Adderley and John Coltrane. Bassist Luther Hughes says the idea came to him as he was listening to The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in Chicago (Mercury, ...

Donny McCaslin: Perpetual Motion

by Dan McClenaghan
January 21, 2011

Saxophonist Donny McCaslin can be called, quite accurately, a fearless player, whether it's for his prodigious and always adventurous work as a sideman--very notably with trumpeter Dave Douglas' quintet and with Maria Schneider's award-winning orchestra (for which he garnered a Grammy nomination), or on his own discs as a leader.McCaslin's musical spirit is a ...

New Miles Davis Audio and Video at Wolfgang's Vault

January 20, 2011