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Hank Jones: With Oliver Jones & the Great Jazz Trio
by Joel Roberts
Oliver Jones and Hank JonesPleased to Meet YouJustin Time2010 The Great Jazz TrioMoreoverTest of Time2010 Hank Jones continues his remarkable late-in-life surge of activity with this new release documenting his ...
Life After Rashied: Live at the Woodstock Playhouse 1965; Why Not?; Eddie Jefferson at Ali's Alley; Configurations--The Music of John Coltrane; Mystic Journey
by Gordon Marshall
Burton GreeneLive at the Woodstock Playhouse 1965Porter2010 Marion BrownWhy Not?ESP2009 Rashied Ali QuintetFeaturing Eddie Jefferson at Ali's AlleyBlue Music Group2010 Rashied Ali with Prima ...
Ivo Perelman & Dominic Duval: Nowhere To Hide and Mind Games
by John Sharpe
Ivo Perelman & Dominic Duval Nowhere To Hide Not Two 2009 Ivo Perelman Trio Mind Games Leo Records 2009 While Brazilian saxophonist Ivo Perelman and bassist Dominic ...
Cello Trio: Abbatoir, Joao Lucas & ARC
by Kurt Gottschalk
Audrey Chen / Robert Van Heuman abattoir Evil Rabbit Records 2009 João Lucas Abstract Mechanics Creative Sources 2009 arc The Pursuit of Happiness Emanem 2009
Three by Lieb: Relevance, Turnaround: The Music of Ornette Coleman, Lieb Plays Weill
by Ken Waxman
Dave Liebman/Evan Parker/Tony BiancoRelevance Red Toucan2009 Dave Liebman Group Turnaround: The Music of Ornette Coleman Jazzwerkstatt2010 Dave Liebman Trio Lieb Plays Weill Daybreak-Challenge2009
Vinson Valega: Biophilia
by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Vinson Valega is a devoted environmental and progressive activist who seems engaged with his craft on an aesthetic level but also, it seems, in a profoundly logical, moral way. The drummer's compositions sound significant, as if every note were saying something, down to the slightest tap of the drumstick. This is not to say his records ...
John King: 10 Mysteries
by Wilbur MacKenzie
The point where composition and improvisation meet is often a quite perforated boundary. For a composer looking to engage performers as both interpreters of composed music and also as improvisers, the question of notation becomes of great importance. Composers have long looked to implement systems that determine certain aspects of a performer's behavior but leave other ...
Nnenna Freelom: Homefree
by Fred Bouchard
Nnenna Freelon can be spotted miles off, like neon or a rainbow. The tall, rawboned, outspoken gal from Cambridge, MA via North Carolina owns a musical persona as unique as her name. She nails her ancient/modern, genre-jumping repertoire, embraces it, inhabits it organically and belts it with a hearty, emphatic attack. You can ...
Dave Fisher Founding Member and Lead Singer of the 1960s Folk Group the Highwaymen Dies
Dave Fisher, founding member and lead singer of the 1960s folk group the Highwaymen, whose recording of the Civil War anti-slavery song Michael, Row the Boat Ashore" became a surprise pop hit in 1962, has died. He was 69. Fisher died Friday at his home in Rye, N.Y., of myelofibrosis, a rare blood disease, family friend ...
Doris E. Travis, Last of the Ziegfeld Girls, Dies at 106
For a quarter century, Florenz Ziegfeld auditioned hundreds of thousands of young women vying to become chorus girls, the Ziegfeld Girls, those lace and chiffon visions of glamour who were as much a part of the Jazz Age as Stutz Bearcats, the Charleston and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Doris Eaton Travis may have been the youngest Ziegfeld ...

