Home » Search Center » Results: New York City

Results for "New York City"

195

Article: Album Review

Gerald Wilson Orchestra: New York, New Sound

Read "New York, New Sound" reviewed by Russell Moon

by Russell Moon
October 14, 2003

The great West Coast arranger Gerald Wilson has taken the charts from some of his most popular recordings, brought them to New York, and recorded with a band made up of many widely respected musicians. The result is New York, New Sound on Stix Hooper's Mack Avenue label. There is good and bad news here. The ...

106

Article: Album Review

Gerald Wilson Orchestra: New York, New Sound

Read "New York, New Sound" reviewed by J. Robert Bragonier

by J. Robert Bragonier
October 14, 2003

Of all of the historic big bands of the ‘40s, none has been more perennially overlooked than that of Gerald Wilson. For those of us on the left coast who wear insecurity on our sleeves like epaulets, the fact that Wilson’s career has primarily been associated with the Los Angeles jazz scene seems explanation enough for ...

2,351

Article: Interview

Sunny Murray

by Clifford Allen
October 14, 2003

Drummer, composer, and bandleader Sunny Murray was born in Idabel, Okla. in 1936. After moving to New York, a brief period of involvement with bebop musicians quickly gave way to several years of playing with Cecil Taylor (CT) in trio, quartet, quintet and septet settings (1959-1965). In addition to his longstanding association with the “88 Tuned ...

441

Article: Multiple Reviews

Art Ensemble of Chicago: After Lester Bowie

by Clifford Allen
October 12, 2003

After Lester Bowie, renowned trumpeter and regular Art Ensemble of Chicago (AEC) member (daresay frontman) passed away in 1999, there was some question as to what the fate of the group would be. Of course, many lesser groups have folded with fewer catalysts than the death of a major contributor. But continue the group did, as ...

767

Article: Profile

Abbey Lincoln: Through the Years

by AAJ Staff
October 12, 2003

Submitted on behalf of Russ Musto Abbey Lincoln is jazz' golden lady, the music's marvelous magical matriarch whose impressive 50 year career has taken her from smooth supper club singer and movie star to distinctive jazz vocalist, fiery social activist, and highly regarded lyricist and composer. Her unique and inspiring body of work ...

589

Article: Profile

John Zorn: Not All About Jazz

by Elliott Simon
October 11, 2003

Over a 30-year period, John Zorn has produced a compendium of original work that while daunting in scope and complexity is equally enticing for its musical and cultural sensibility. As a musician, composer and producer, he has expanded the way we think about art, cultural identity and the artificial boundaries that exist among musical genres. John ...

401

Article: Live Review

A Symposium - Cymbalism: The Drums in Jazz

by Daniel Kassell
October 9, 2003

A Jazz at Lincoln Center program at Columbia University consisted of two learned moderators interviewing two panels of well recognized working drummers on May 3, 2003 in Held Auditorium on the Barnard College campus. Robin D. G. Kelley, Chair of History and Professor of Africana Studies at NYU, posed leading questions to each morning session ...

189

Article: Live Review

JVC Jazz Festival - New York 2003

by AAJ Staff
October 9, 2003

George Wein, “the grandfather of jazz festivals" announced this year's JVC Jazz Festival lineup with a little help from his friends. Bill Cosby was smiling brightly as this American icon threw his support behind the American art form of jazz. Held every year at Manhattan's Supper Club on the upper westside, we hopped a New Haven ...

298

Article: Live Review

Jeff Beck Rocks NYC

by AAJ Staff
October 9, 2003

The date: 9/11. The place: Manhattan-New York. The purpose: Jeff Beck is in town. As I take the New Haven line train down to Grand Central Station, I am reminded of this day two years ago. There is a certain reverence in the air. Lots of cops and firemen. It's a feeling that kinda hits ya ...

682

Article: Megaphone

Ron McClure: Making Music

by AAJ Staff
October 9, 2003

Submitted on behalf of Ron McClure Remembering one's self, or having an internal awareness file, with constant access capability, is a wonderful and necessary thing in the process of making music, since we all forget ourselves. The term making music means different things to different people. In 1964, bassist Chuck Israels ...