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The Jazz Session #195: Andrew Lamb
Two weeks after Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, Andrew Lamb's trio went into the studio to record a response, the album New Orleans Suite (Engine Studios, 2005 & 2010). Now that album has been remastered and reissued to mark the fifth anniversary of the storm and the engineering disaster that flooded New Orleans. In this ...
Ted Brown and Joel Press Live (June 30, 2010)
The great encounters between jazz musicians playing the same instrument are rarely cutting contests" as seen in the movies. More often, they are thoughtful, musing conversations. The dialogues that took place between tenor saxophonists Ted Brown and Joel Press in an informal session at Sofia's in New York City on June 30, 2010, resonate. It didn't ...
The Jazz Session #194: Shane Endsley of Kneebody
For more than a decade, Kneebody has been making music thats hard to classify and harder to resist. Their new album is You Can Have Your Moment (Winter & Winter, 2010). In this interview, trumpeter Shane Endsley talks about the bands different approach to recording the new album; the complex series of musical cues the band ...
Chris Dingman's Waking Dreams to perform at Cornelia Street Cafe on September 30th
CHRIS DINGMAN'S WAKING DREAMS with Loren Stillman, Fabian Almazan, Aidan Carroll, and Eric McPherson WILL PERFORM SEPTEMBER 30th at CORNELIA STREET CAFE Thursday, September 30th, 2010 2 Sets: 8:30pm and 10pm Cornelia Street Café 29 Cornelia Street New York, NY 10014 Tickets: $10 Info: ...
Billy White releases debut album "First Things First" on Porto Franco records
Pianist Billy White's debut recording, First Things First, is a glimpse into a musically omnivorous world reminiscent of a young Herbie Hancock. The San Francisco-born and New York-based 27-year old has already packed a panoply of experience into his young career: a degree in ethnomusicology from UCLA, a stint with French jazz/hip-hoppers Heezbus while living in ...
Even More Savory: "Never Before Heard Clips"
I find the media coverage of the discovery of the Bill Savory jazz collection simply amazingand am both grateful and astonished. It would appear that the world has gone jazz crazy now, at least for a minute. Here's the latest story from NEWSWEEK, complete with music from Mildred Bailey, Jack Teagarden, Bobby Hackett, Vernon Brown, George ...
Esperanza Spalding, Herbie Hancock, Robert Glasper and More in Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present Tense + MP3
When you ask most people, name a jazz musician today," 9 out of 10 times you will get the name of someone who is already dead. But jazz today is undergoing some monumental changes and in this documentary filmIcons Among Us: jazz in the present tense, by filmmakers Michael Rivoira, Lars Larson and Peter J. Vogt, ...
Antonio Sanchez: Live in New York at Jazz Standard
by John Kelman
With a schedule as busy as Antonio Sanchez's, it's hard to image where the tremendously in-demand drummer finds the time to write, much less put together a group to record. Amidst a relentless touring schedule with artists including Pat Metheny, Gary Burton and Chick Corea, Sanchez released Migration (Cam Jazz, 2007), a heavyweight session featuring his ...
15th Anniversary of the Litchfield Jazz Festival
by Marcia Hillman
Litchfield Jazz FestivalKent, ConnecticutAugust 6-8, 2010 The green hills of Kent, Connecticut resounded once more with the sound of jazz as the 15th Anniversary of the Litchfield Jazz Festival settled in from Friday, August 6th through Sunday, August 8th. This year the main stage was again indoors in the newly air-conditioned hockey ...
Standard Time: Neal Miner and Friends
Neal Miner is not only a fine bassist and composer; he's also a remarkable jazz videographer who gets splendid results without a truckload of equipment. His YouTube channel is gutstringrecords," and I've taken two of his recent videos to share (and applaud) here. The first is a nimble, sustained reading of the Schertzinger-Mercer I REMEMBER YOU ...

