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Oscar Peterson: Debut: The Clef / Mercury Duo Recordings 1949-1951
by Ken Dryden
Oscar PetersonDebut: The Clef / Mercury Duo Recordings 1949-1951Verve Music Group2010 Piano giant Oscar Peterson's professional career spanned approximately 60 years and produced a prolific amount of recordings, though most of what he waxed during his first two decades was for labels launched by jazz impresario Norman Granz. But Peterson's ...
Jim Staley: Scattered Thoughts
by Kurt Gottschalk
Jim Staley's career has been either made by or hastened by (or more likely both) his work as a producer and promoter. He rarely performs outside of Roulette, the longstanding Downtown venue he oversees and appears there only a few times a year at best. His recorded output is largely limited to occasional releases on Einstein ...
Edmar Castaneda: Entre Cuerdas
by Russ Musto
Although jazz aficionados have become accustomed to the regular expansion of the music's vocabulary coming from the Caribbean and South America, virtually nothing in the history of the increasingly diverse genre known as “Latin jazz" has prepared audiences for the uniquely innovative sound of Edmar Castaneda. A native of Colombia, Castaneda plays “el arpa llanera," the ...
Marc Mommaas: Landmarc
by Thomas Conrad
It has been said that if you throw a quarter off the Empire State Building you are almost as likely to hit a tenor saxophonist as concrete. But in the Selmer-toting multitudes of Manhattan, Marc Mommaas has established a unique voice and vision. He was born into an artistic family in Amsterdam in 1969 and took ...
Jazz Guitarist and Composer Michael-Louis Smith to Release Debut Album Portrait of MLS
Jazz guitarist and composer Michael-Louis Smith will release his debut album Portrait of MLS. The album, which be available to the public soon, consists of seven original compositions by Smith including the jazz/pop favorite “Up in the Air" and features some of the best jazz musicians in NYC including long time collaborators Stacy Dillard on tenor ...
Jazz Guitarist and Composer Michael-Louis Smith to Perform April 10 & 24 at the Willamsburg Music Center
Jazz guitarist and composer Michael-Louis Smith will bring two of his projects, The Left Ear Trio and the Michael-Louis Smith Quintet, to perform two sets of original music at Brooklyn's Williamsburg Music Center on Saturday April 10, and Saturday April 24. The Left Ear Trio will appear on April 10 for a live, recorded performance of ...
Moja Radio/Weekly Features (12-18 April 2010)
This Monday, April 12th, we'll present another “Happy Birthday" edition of our special feature, MONDAY WITH THE MASTERS on MOJA Radio. This time the focus is on one of the most important figures in all of jazz history, HERBIE HANCOCK, on the very day that marks his 70th birthday. You'll hear all about his beginnings in ...
April 2010
by AAJ Staff
Myron Walden Jazz StandardNew York, NY March 9, 2010One of saxophonist Myron Walden's four new albums this year is called To Feel and, indeed, if a single quality stands out in Walden's music, it is deep and palpable feeling, a big emotional sweep carried off with great finesse by his ...
Tenor Sax Legend: Live and Intimate
by Michael Steinman
Ben Webster Tenor Sax Legend: Live and Intimate Shanachie 2009 Although he looked like a frog or a bullmastiff (hence his nicknames Frog and The Brute), saxophonist Ben Webster was splendidly photogenic, his emotions nakedly on his face. This DVD brings together three concert performances and one documentary ...
Ernst Reigseger: Tell Me Everything
by Kurt Gottschalk
The German label Winter & Winter has a beautiful way of capturing senses of place and preserving them in elegant, corrugated covers. From audio travelogues through Cuba and Trinidad to Sardinian vocal music, the albums feel like books for your ears. Ernst Reijseger, a central figure among the Amsterdam players swimming in the ...
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