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Jacqui Naylor to Perform at Blue Note on September 25 and 26
Vocalist/songwriter showcases trademark “acoustic smashing" technique with songs from current album and a preview of tunes from upcoming holiday release Vocalist and songwriter JACQUI NAYLOR will perform at the Blue Note, 131 West Third Street, on Tuesday, September 25 and Wednesday, September 26, 2007 at 8pm and 10:30pm. Tickets are $20 at a table, $10 at ...
John Coltrane Birthday Concert Opens Music Program at Middle Collegiate Church
A jazz concert celebrating the life of legendary saxophonist and composer John Coltrane inaugurates a series of musical events in Middle Collegiate Church's “Music at Middle" program this season. The Coltrane concert will take place in the sanctuary of Middle Church on his birthday, Sunday, September 23, 2007, with a jazz quintet playing two sets, at ...
Big Bands: William Parker and the Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra; UMO Jazz Orchestra; Nublu Jazz Orchestra; Kahil El'Zabar's Infinity Orchestra
by Seamus Seoighe
For a good 15-year period starting in the '30s, jazz in the incarnation of big band swing enjoyed its heyday at the helm of American pop. Out of this period came some of America's greatest composers, including Duke Ellington and Fletcher Henderson and, being pop music, some of America's schmaltziest, including the band credited with igniting ...
Pat Martino: El Hombre
by Jim Santella
Recorded May 1, 1967, this session was Pat Martino's first album as leader. His guitar moves valiantly with all the swagger of a cowboy; smoking guns and flying fingers dot the landscape of his trail. The allusion, of course, is to Paul Newman's Western film Hombre that came out the same year. Both ...
Don Cherry Quintet: Live at Cafe Monmartre 1966
by Jeff Stockton
Don Cherry's career was unavoidably defined by his spot in the classic Ornette Coleman quartet of the late 1950s and early 1960s. When that group had gone as far as it could go, Cherry went on to bring the same sense of improvisational freedom to a brief stint with Sonny Rollins on Our Man in Jazz ...
Caramoor Jazz Festival 2007
by Seamus Seoighe
Caramoor Jazz Festival 2007 Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts Katonah, New York July 28, August 4, 2007 New York has the most cutting-edge jazz scene in the world. However, it's sometimes nice to catch a show outside the city limits for a change of pace. Caramoor Jazz ...
The Art of the Duo
by Ken Dryden
The pairing of a pianist and a reed player sans rhythm section always invites interesting possibilities. Three separate duos are all sessions worth exploring. Mike Nock & Dave Liebman Duologue Birdland Records 2007 Mike Nock, a New Zealand native but longtime Australia resident, is joined by saxophonist Dave ...
Eddie Henderson: The Doctor is In
by Ken Dryden
Now in his late 60s, Eddie Henderson was at one time torn between medicine and jazz; he completed training to be a psychiatrist but chose a performing career. The trumpeter has gone back and forth between fusion and various forms of bop, though he seems to be leaning more toward post-bop in recent years. ...
Dayna Stephens: The Timeless Now
by Jim Santella
"But Beautiful , the final track from saxophonist Dayna Stephens' debut album, summarizes his session. This modern mainstream performance centers on his warm tenor saxophone conversations, and includes seven originals as well as two standards. Pianist Taylor Eigsti, bassist Ben Street and drummer Eric Harland are seamlessly cohesive throughout and, with guests guitarist John Scofield on ...
Paul Rutherford In Memoriam: 1940-2007
by AAJ Staff
The passing of Paul reminds us of the fragility of living life as a pioneer in an uncertain musical world. Our work together in Iskra 1903 represented the buoyant days of intense experimentation in the small ensemble, but Paul was also busy working with several large groups -Westbrook, Globe Unity, London Jazz Composers Orchestra and later ...
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