Home » Search Center » Results: New York

Results for "New York"

158

Article: Film Review

Jazz Icons

by Andrew Velez
October 15, 2006

Various Artists Jazz Icons Reelin' in the Years 2006 “The Golden Era of jazz is back! proclaims the press release for this DVD series featuring full-length concerts and studio performances by some of the greatest jazz stars ever. Mostly filmed in B&W in Europe from the '50s-'70s, none ...

219

Article: Album Review

Eri Yamamoto: Cobalt Blue

Read "Cobalt Blue" reviewed by Terrell Kent Holmes

by Terrell Kent Holmes
October 15, 2006

Eri Yamamoto's two previous releases, Three Feel (Jane Street, 2003) and Colors (Jane Street, 2004), displayed her prowess as a pianist, composer and arranger. Her contribution to Thirsty Ear's Blue Series, Cobalt Blue, marks a significant change in her musical landscape. She's managed to step up her game further by adding new dimensions to her already ...

374

Article: From Far and Wide

The House That Satch Built

by Terrell Kent Holmes
October 15, 2006

Many jazz-loving New Yorkers and visitors to the city do not know that an unassuming but significant part of jazz history is just minutes away from midtown Manhattan. From 1943 until his death in 1971, trumpet legend Louis Armstrong lived with his wife Lucille in a house nestled in quiet, working-class Corona, Queens. The area suited ...

322

Article: Album Review

Bill Frisell: Bill Frisell, Ron Carter, Paul Motian

Read "Bill Frisell, Ron Carter, Paul Motian" reviewed by Matthew Miller

by Matthew Miller
October 15, 2006

It's fitting that the title of this disc contains only the names of its participants. After all, who needs a catchy title to sell a Bill Frisell album with Ron Carter and Paul Motian on it? More than anyone from his generation, Frisell has succeeded in cultivating a sound so distinct that it ...

121

Article: Album Review

Jimmy Scott: Profiles

Read "Profiles" reviewed by Joel Roberts

by Joel Roberts
October 15, 2006

No singer in jazz or popular music can convey heartache and loss with the conviction of Jimmy Scott. Then again, few have endured the struggles and overcome the challenges that the Cleveland native with the inimitable soprano has faced over his long and remarkable career. This compilation in Milestone's Profiles series draws from ...

586

Article: Live From New York

October 2006

by AAJ Staff
October 14, 2006

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the New School's innovative jazz program, which boasts alumni on the order of Brad Mehldau, Larry Goldings and Robert Glasper. To kick off the new academic season, guitarist Rory Stuart held a faculty concert in the school's intimate performance space (Sep. 5th), recruiting tenor saxophonist Billy Harper, pianist Francesca ...

598

Article: Megaphone

The Cape Town Jazz Scene

by AAJ Staff
October 14, 2006

By Sathima Bea Benjamin Its jazz is both similar and different from American jazz. First of all, at the time--the late '40s-50s--we wouldn't even call it jazz if we didn't identify so completely with Black Americans, both in social and political ways. In South Africa and Cape Town especially, you've got the White people and African ...

350

Article: Book Review

The Future of Music: Manifesto for the Digital Music Revolution"

by Francis Lo Kee
October 14, 2006

The Future of Music: Manifesto for the Digital Music Revolution David Kusek and Gerd Leonhard Hardcover; 197 pages ISBN: 0876390599 Berklee A friend who is a computer wiz says “I don't think that I can ever get into simply downloading music. To which I ...

336

Article: Multiple Reviews

Ray Brown: The Final Concerts & The Three

by Francis Lo Kee
October 14, 2006

Oscar Peterson/Ray Brown/Ed Thigpen The Final Concerts Limelight/Moon-Gambit 2006 Joe Sample/Ray Brown/Shelly Manne The Three East Wind-Test Of Time 2006 To even merely mention all of Ray ...

160

Article: Album Review

Jason Moran: Artist in Residence

Read "Artist in Residence" reviewed by Joel Roberts

by Joel Roberts
October 14, 2006

While most jazz artists, even the great ones, tend to stick to the tried and true, Jason Moran has risen to the upper echelon of the jazz world by constantly challenging his audience. Listeners never really know what to expect from the 31-year-old pianist except that it's going to be fresh, intellectually rigorous, exceedingly of-the-moment music ...