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Mickey Roker: You Never Lose the Blues
by Victor L. Schermer
Drummer Mickey Roker is a mainstay and icon of the jazz world, having a played with Dizzy Gillespie, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Lee Morgan, and many of the other signature groups of modern jazz. Yet he has always maintained his Philadelphia roots, and is and has been a regular at Ortlieb's Jazzhaus in that ...
David "Fathead" Newman: The Blessing
by Andrew Velez
What an apt name The Blessing is for David Newman's final recording before his death ended a long career last January (2009). He played for more than a decade with Ray Charles and alongside Herbie Mann, Aretha Franklin and Roy Ayers, among many others. For this last studio session he was in fine form. A Milt ...
Mike Mainieri: Man Behind Bars
by John Kelman
It's hard to imagine vibraphonist Mike Mainieri in his seventies. Not only does he look and sound like a man 10 years (or more) his junior, but a quick look at the projects he's been involved in over the past few years sound like anything but a septuagenarian resting on his not inconsiderable laurels.
Monkadelphia at Chris' Jazz Cafe
by Victor L. Schermer
MonkadelphiaChris' Jazz CaféPhiladelphiaJanuary 2, 2010 This reviewer decided to kick off the New Year jazz season by going to hear Monkadelphia at Chris' Jazz Café. Recently, he has been immersed in Robin D.G. Kelley's excellent new biography, Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original (Free Press, 2009); he ...
Milt Jackson & The Jazz Giants, Bean Bags Plus Bags' Opus
By Milt Jackson
Label: Phoenix Records (15)
Released: 2009
Track listing: Close Your Eyes; Stuffy; Don't Take Your Love From Me; Get Happy; Sandra's Blues; Indian Blues; Ill Wind; Blues For Diahann; Afternoon In Paris; I Remember Clifford; Thinking Of You; Whisper Not;
Stefon Harris and Blackout in Golden, CO
by Geoff Anderson
Stefon Harris and Blackout Mt. Vernon Country Club Golden, CO October 15, 2009 Stefon Harris is like one of those small, wiry running backs that gets the job done through finesse and quickness rather than brute force. Indeed, at his concert Thursday night at the Mt. Vernon Country Club, ...
The State of the Trombone 2009: Steve Davis and Luis Bonilla
by C. Michael Bailey
Jazz offers ample opportunity to hear diametrically opposed ideas and approaches coming from similar ensembles (and sometimes the same ensemble, as with saxophonist John Coltrane). Consider, on one side, the middle-of-the-road, mainstream, standards jazz made early on by trumpeter Miles Davis and the free jazz of saxophonist Ornette Coleman. The trombone has had players in both ...
Take Five With Les Blachut
by AAJ Staff
Meet Les Blachut:Les Blachut is a performing and recording artist. He is a multi-instrumentalist; keyboards, mallet percussion, vibraphone, marimba, steel-pans, arranger, composer, mobile and studio recording engineer, music teacher, private instructor, music competition judge, and radio program producer. Blachut is a South Florida-based versatile musician experienced in jazz improvisation, ethnic music world-wide, experimental collaborations, ...
Jason Marsalis: Music Update
by J Hunter
It's not like Jason Marsalis has been invisible since he released Music in Motion (Basin Street, 2002); his name's just been on the back of CD booklets instead of the front. With Music Update, Marsalis is back at the top of the bill, except he's brought a different set of sticks with him, or more specifically, ...
Woodlawn Cemetery Walking Tour of Jazz Greats
This Sunday, September 27, join the Friends of Woodlawn for a walking tour of the final resting places of the Jazz Greats of Woodlawn Cemetery. Among the notable musicians buried at the historic cemetery are: Duke Ellington, Lionel Hampton, Miles Davis, Coleman Hawkins, Bricktop, William Sonny Greer, W.C. Handy, Charles “Cootie" Williams, King Oliver, ...
