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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Mose Allison, Lisa Rich, Harry Skoler & Jihee Heo

by Joe Dimino
July 28, 2024

We kick off the 864th Episode of Neon Jazz with new music from a Kansas City treasure, E.E Pointer with the song “Uprights" off his 2024 album Worm. From there, we go old school Kansas City with the great Andy Kirk. The rest of the show focuses on a host of veteran musicians with new work ...

News: Recording

Backgrounder: Miles Davis - Miles Ahead, 1957

July 26, 2024

Miles Davis's Miles Ahead: Miles +19 for Columbia is one of jazz's most exquisite orchestral albums. The LP was arranged by Gil Evans, who, with Davis, selected nine jazz songs plus an Evans-Davis original and dressed them up in a modernist, Thornhillian style. The result is spectacular. Davis on flugelhorn is gentle and at times even ...

Article: Profile

How Ahmad Jamal Got His Groove Back

by Chuck Lenatti
July 26, 2024

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 Though he was well-versed in the musical vernacular of blues, big bands, bebop and hard bop, piano trios and singers, as well as European classical music, pianist Ahmad Jamal seemed out of step as jazz fused with rock and R&B in the 1970s. ...

Article: Live Review

Chad Taylor Quintet at Solar Myth

by Victor L. Schermer
July 25, 2024

Chad Taylor Quintet Ars Nova Workshop Solar Myth Club Philadelphia, PA July 17, 2024 Chad Taylor is a “first call" drummer who is also a composer, band leader, jazz historian and scholar who was recently appointed to lead the University of Pittsburgh Jazz Studies Program. ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Curation Vs. Creation

by Patrick Burnette
July 25, 2024

A lot of listeners worry that jazz has ossified in the last, say, fifty years or so, but Mike decides to do something about it, terminological speaking, anyway. So this fortnight's episode explores the difference between curating a tradition and trying to create something new within it. Our test subjects comprise three brand-new releases (two instrumental, ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Freedom & American Themes + Captain Black Big Band

by David Brown
July 23, 2024

Here is the show from Independence Day weekend with American and freedom themes as explored by jazz artists. From there, we'll check out some works from the Orrin Evans Captain Black Big Band, and more. Welcome friends and neighbors to The Jazz Continuum. Old, new, in, out... wherever the music takes us. Each week, we will ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

The '90s with Steve Coleman, Tunnels, Percy Jones, and Miles Davis

by Len Davis
July 14, 2024

A visit to the '90s with Steve Coleman and Five Elements, Paradox with Billy Cobham,Tunnels with Percy Jones and power trio Niacin. John McLaughlin, Brecker Brothers, Miles Davis, Chick Corea and Mahavishnu Orchestra. Playlist Steve Coleman and Five Elements “Alt-Shift-Return-Live" from The Tao Of Mad Phat (RCA) 00:00 Paradox “Myohmyohyeoye" from Paradox (TipToe) 07:16 ...

Article: Drum Addiction

Mere Noisemakers

by Troy Hoffman
July 13, 2024

Drummers used to be predominantly known as mere noisemakers (not musicians) coming out of the Vaudeville-era, where percussionists were seen as background tools. They often carried out sound effect cues, sent from studios to theaters, for silent films. This left drummers with the responsible task of mimicking the sounds of hurricanes, car crashes and thunderstorms from ...

News: Video / DVD

Perfection: Miles Davis - A Gal in Calico

July 12, 2024

On June 7, 1955, Miles Davis recorded Musings of Miles for Prestige. One of the tracks for the album was “A Gal in Calico," composed by Arthur Schwartz. It was introduced in the 1946 film The Time, the Place and the Girl. Musings of Miles was the trumpeter's first 12-inch LP (earlier ones were 10 inches). ...

Article: Live Review

45th Annual Tri-C JazzFest

by C. Andrew Hovan
July 12, 2024

45th Annual Tri-C JazzFest Playhouse Square Cleveland, Ohio June 20-22, 2024 It has become somewhat of a reoccurring quip on social media to lament that so many so-called jazz festivals have booked acts that stray far from the jazz genre to keep these events afloat financially. Cleveland's Tri-C JazzFest has certainly ...