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Bobby Zankel: Peaceful Jazz Warrior
by Victor L. Schermer
For many decades, Philadelphia has been home to a cadre of multi-generational jazz musicians who go on year-after-year composing, arranging and performing some of the best, highest level music to be heard anywhere. This tradition is exemplified in no better way than by alto saxophonist, composer and bandleader Bobby Zankel. Zankel apprenticed with legendary ...
September 2010
by Mr. P.C.
Dear Mr. P.C.:In jazz music, much is spoken of the virtue of leaving space. If I don't, they'll say I'm too busy; if I do, I they'll say I can't play. Count Basie played sparsely, and I bet he didn't get the applause or the chicks; I bet they gave him a wide berth. ...
Tomasz Stanko Quartet: Dark Eyes
by Ian Patterson
As a trumpeter, Tomasz Stanko clearly owes a debt to Miles Davis; yet, after four decades making some of the most arresting small ensemble jazz music in Europe, the Polish veteran perhaps deserves to be considered in the same category as the iconic legend. As a trumpeter, composer and leader, Stanko has few peers, past or ...
Michael Landau / Robben Ford / Jimmy Haslip / Gary Novak: Renegade Creation
by John Kelman
While by no means an absolute, there's a strong case for great jazzers making great rockers: Larry Carlton with Steely Dan and Michael Jackson; drummer Steve Gadd with Eric Clapton and Paul Simon; and saxophonist Michael Brecker with Billy Joel and Blue Oyster Cult. Renegade Creation's four artists may possesses a broader jazz vernacular, but it's ...
"Sex for Money" (Mirko Fait - John Toso) included in a giant jazz compilation: 70 relaxing masterpieces
In July 2010 the French label company Believe chosen the song “Sex for money" from the album “Just for you" of Mirko Fait & John Toso for the great jazz compilation “70 relaxing holiday masterpieces". A compilation including major jazz players such as Miles Davis, Louis Amstrong, Billie Holiday, Chet Baker, Toquinho, Stefano Bollani, Enrico Rava, ...
Bologna Jazz Festival - The Italian Autumn Jazz Event
Bologna has been loving jazz since 1958. All the greatest musicians played at its Jazz Festival, the most ancient one in Italy: Chet Baker, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Keith Jarrett, Miles Davis... After a few occasional editions, the Bologna Jazz Festival (previously Festival Internazionale del Jazz) was born again for good in 2006, keeping ...
Gato Libre: Shiro
by Raul d'Gama Rose
The elemental sadness of Natsuki Tamura's trumpet, as it ascends the temperate scale he has created in “Dune and Star," defines the desolate beauty of Shiro, the fourth album from duo-turned-quartet, Gato Libre. Tamura also evokes the soft colors and textures of dawn, dusk, and the time in between, as if it has been caught in ...
Matt Slocum Trio Live At The Saville Theater
by Robert Bush
Matt Slocum Trio Saville Theater, San Diego City College San Diego, CA August 10, 2010 Matt Slocum is a promising young drummer/composer who appears to be going places in jazz. A graduate of the prestigious Thornton School Of Music at USC, where he studied with Peter Erskine, (Weather Report, Stan ...
Eclectic electric jazz comes of age
by Mark Corroto
Back in the 1980s, the marriage of jazz and electronics produced the unfortunate, creativity destroying “jazz fusion" genre. That was because drum machines, synthesizer produced horn lines and computer generated hand claps were often too perfect. A sort of “sanitized for your protection" version of motel drinking glasses. Think about the then innovative trumpeter Miles Davis' ...
Nobu Stowe: Beyond Free
by Glenn Astarita
The music of NS (Nobu) Stowe is synonymous with the musical storytelling characterized with spontaneity and melodic romanticism--a true rarity in the field of fully improvised music. Stowe has not only mastered the art of total improvisation--a method of fully improvised music that embraces song-like melody, tonal harmony and rhythmic propulsion as well as more commonly ...
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