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Finding Sonny Clark
Sam Stephenson's JAZZ LOFT PROJECT blog is one I visit regularly—not only for its subject matter but for the caliber of Sam's prose. Often the site's subject is the magical and mysterious music and life revolving around Eugene Smith, photographer and thinker and friend of jazz. But today I was captivated by a black-and-white picture of ...
Exclusive Giant Step Interview with Esperanza Spalding + MP3
Esperanza Spalding, the beautiful bassist (and vocalist and songwriter) who just released her album Chamber Music Society graciously gave us a little interview. After working with her idols, rapidly gaining critical acclaim and crafting her latest album to perfection, she's at another turning point in her amazing career. Read the full Q&A and get your free ...
The Jazz Session #193: Jimmy Amadie
Pianist Jimmy Amadie has recorded seven albums, despite being able to play for just a couple hours every few months as a result of severe problems with his hands. On his most recent record, Kindred Spirits (TP Recordings, 2010), Amadie is joined by Lee Konitz, Joe Lovano and Lew Tabackin, among others. In this interview, Amadie ...
For Louis and Sidney Bechet (June 2010)
Thanks to “jazze 1947," here is a video clip from the June 2010 Askersunds Jazz Festival—featuring Bent Persson's Hot Five focusing on the repertoire of Louis Armstrong and Sidney Bechet in the early Twenties — from the Clarence Williams Blue Five to the Hot Fives and Sevens. Bent is, as always, luminous on trumpet and cornet; ...
Deep Passion: Menno Daams - David Lukacs and Friends
It's been a wonderful day for swinging jazz—tender and hot—because I found these four performances on YouTube. The peerless (and under-heralded) trumpeter, arranger, composer Menno Daams has started his own YouTube channel ("menno779") and its videos include these four delightful performances by the “Daams-Lukacs Orchestra" of jazz classics—homages to Bix, to Louis, and Duke—that are evocations ...
Now Hear This: Hal Smith on Zutty Singleton
Zutty Singleton: Face Drives the Train A friend once remarked that playing in a band with Zutty Singleton “was like trying to stay ahead of a freight train that was bearing down on you." Indeed, when Singleton was inspired, the pulse of his drumming took on the power of a highballing freight! One of the best ...
Popular Jazz Artist Euge Groove Converts Top Hits Into Interactive Format
Popular Contemporary Jazz Artist Euge Groove Develops Interactive Album to Play and Listen to with the Beamz Player Interactive Music System Groove on This! Album Debuts at J&R MusicWorld MusicFest in New York City August 26-28. Beamz Interactive, an interactive music products company that develops innovative musical instruments and music entertainment products to enable people of ...
Juanita Rynum + Kiera 'Kiki' Sheard + The Clark Sisters at Central Park Summerstage, August 7, 2010
by Ernest Barteldes
Juanita Rynum + Kiera 'Kiki' Sheard + The Clark SistersCentral Park SummerstageNew York, NYAugust 7, 2010 Devotional music was the centerpiece for a warm afternoon in Central Park, and kicking off the ng the proceedings was singer/preacher Juanita Rynum, who came on with an acapella spiritual (she had no backing band), ...
Ensemble Joys: "Say 'Si Si'"!
The New Orleans musicians—even the ones who took expansive solos as the nature of jazz changed—knew how important inspired ensemble playing was. It would have been very bad form to cut short a romping group effort and simply dilute its force into a series of solos with the rhythm section. And this principle is perfectly demonstrated ...
Savory Delights
Like many other jazz fans, I first heard the name Bill Savory in the liner notes (by George Avakian) to a series of Benny Goodman airshot performances issued on Columbia Records after the astonishing success of their 1938 Carnegie Hall jazz concert issues. I learned that Savory was a pioneering engineer, friend to many jazz musicians, ...
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