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Photographer William Ellis Interviewed at All About Jazz
Black and white photographs of jazz legends taken by the likes of Leonard Feather, William P. Gottlieb and William Claxton have gained iconic status over the years. Decades on, their photographs of Charlie Parker, Dexter Gordon, Billie Holiday, John Coltrane, Chet Baker and Miles Davis adorn countless walls of jazz aficionados around the world. These photographs ...
Ratko Zjaca: Continental Talk
by Karl Ackermann
When a group's credentials include bassist John Patitucci, drummer Steve Gadd and trumpeter Randy Brecker, it's not an unreasonable expectation to hear some quality jazz. What may be more surprising is that leader, guitarist and composer, Ratko Zjaca and his longtime collaborator, saxophonist, Stanislav Mitrovic, steal the show on Continental Talk. This revelation is almost entirely ...
The Genius Of Miles Davis: 43-CD Collection Assembles All Eight Multi-CD Box Sets Released Between 1996 and 2007, Winners of Eight Grammy Awards
HOUSED IN AN ACTUAL TRUMPET CASE! Eight original box sets packaged in an individually-numbered, full-size trumpet case (21½" x 11" x 8"), with extras: replica of Miles' trumpet mouthpiece, previously unseen lithograph by Miles, exclusive t-shirt, and more 21-pound box set not available at standard retail; AVAILABLE EXCLUSIVELY at GeniusOfMilesDavis.com for $1199.00; pre-order now for September ...
Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2010
by Jakob Baekgaard
Copenhagen Jazz Festival Various Venues Copenhagen, Denmark July 2-11, 2010With the current crisis of the major record labels and the folding of venues all over the world, it could be argued that jazz, as an art form, has entered the age of survival where it is simply a basic matter of ...
Norwegian Road Trip, Part 6: Molde Jazz, Days 3-4
by John Kelman
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 [Editors Note: From July 6 to July 26, 2010, All About Jazz Managing Editor John Kelman will travel throughout Norway to cover both the Kongsberg Jazz Festival (also participating in Silver City Sounds) and Molde ...
TD Toronto Jazz Festival 2010
by Alain Londes
TD Toronto International Jazz FestivalToronto, Ontario, CanadaJune 25-July 4, 2010 The TD Toronto Jazz Festival enjoyed its 24th edition this year in a city dominated by a focus on the G8 and G20 Summit meetings for the first few days. Despite very minor delays for a couple of shows and some instances ...
Various Artists: Larkin's Jazz
by Bruce Lindsay
Philip Larkin is one of the best-loved British poets of the twentieth century--the man who claimed in Annus Mirabilis that “Sexual intercourse began in nineteen-sixty-three..." A librarian at the University of Hull in the north-east of England, he was a complex character whose poems were often witty and well-observed but could also appear cynical and contemptuous. ...
Mundell Lowe Quartet Live At The Saville Theater
by Robert Bush
Mundell Lowe Quartet Saville Theater, San Diego City College San Diego CA July 13, 2010 Tuesday night's affair was standing-room-only for the rare appearance by Mundell Lowe, an iconic figure in the annals of jazz history. Lowe cut his teeth as an improviser in the Roosevelt administration--that he ...
Take Five With Max Blumentrath
by AAJ Staff
Meet Max Blumentrath: Jazz organist Max Blumentrath, (born in 1986 in the very west of Germany), graduated from the conservatory of Enschede, the Netherlands in May 2010. In fall 2010, he will contine his studies in Dresden, Germany. He took classes and masterclasses from international reknowned organists like Larry Goldings, Joey DeFrancesco, Alberto Marsico, ...
Introducing Anthony Braxton
by Robert Levin
[Editor's Note: This article first appeared in Jazz & Pop Magazine, 1970]To anyone still questioning the validity of the systems and methods at which Cecil Taylor and Ornette Coleman arrived, I would first of all recommend that he listen more attentively to the work of those men. But I'd also suggest that he make ...
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