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The Jazz Session #125: Harry Babasin
You'd think that helping to invent a new genre of music and being the first person to play your instrument in a jazz setting would be enough to get you some headlines in the jazz history books. You'd be wrong. Meet Harry Babasin, the bassist who played on the very first recordings of what became bossa ...
Seleno Clarke: Bringing The Music Back To Harlem
by AAJ Staff
Seleno ClarkeAmerican Legion248 W. 132nd St., New York City Jazz went east in the 1920s and '30s, moving from New Orleans and Chicago to Harlem. But jazz left Harlem in the 1960s, when it moved to clubs downtown and R&B and rock began to take over. Music in general began to leave; for ...
Bebel Gilberto at The Hiro Ballroom, NYC
by Ernest Barteldes
Bebel Gilberto Hiro Ballroom New York, New York November 25, 2009 Playing in celebration of her latest release before a large crowd of dedicated fans, Bebel Gilberto took the stage at Downtown Manhattan's Hiro Ballroom backed by a tight four-piece band, kicking off the set with “Aganju," ...
Pirai Vaca At Americas Society, NYC
by Ernest Barteldes
Pirai Vaca Americas Society New York, New York December 2, 2009 Playing in an intimate setting before a crowded room in New York's Upper East Side, Bolivian-born Pirai Vaca took the stage for his solo acoustic guitar performance with no more than a studio microphone before him as ...
Umbrella Music Festival 2009
by A. Henkin
Umbrella Music FestivalChicago, ILNovember 5-8, 2009 If jazz is to survive in a modern world without the support of major labels or corporate funding, it will be through the efforts of organizations like Umbrella Music, “a group of Chicago-based musicians and presenters working together to provide concert opportunities for creative and improvising musicians." ...
Peter Brotzmann: Die Like A Dog
by Clifford Allen
Peter Brotzmann Die Like a Dog Jazzwerkstatt 2008 German reedman-composer Peter Brotzmann is, despite an immense catalog spanning over forty years of activity in free music, criminally underrepresented in the format of a “standard" piano-less quartet. From reed-heavy octets and orchestras to the winds-bass-drums power trio, not to mention a ...
Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original
by Russ Musto
Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original Robin D.G. Kelley Free Press ISBN: 0684831902 2009 This is an authoritative tome that pulls aside, without completely lifting, the shroud of mystery that has long surrounded one of the most enigmatic figures in the history of jazz. Exhaustively ...
Saxophone and Drum duets: rue victor masse; Control This; Common Denominator; Two in NYC.
by John Sharpe
Ray Warleigh rue victor masse psi 2008 Michael Blake / Kresten Osgood Control This Clean Feed 2009 Bonnie Kane / Federico Ughi Common Denominator W.O.O. Music ...
My Top 10 Jazz CDs of 2009
These lists are always a bit ridiculous to compile, given the near impossibility of rating art and the sheer number of CDs released each year. That said, I compiled the list below for the 2009 Village Voice Jazz Critics Poll. TOP 10 Artist Album (Label) Fay Victor The FreeSong Suite (Greene Avenue) Vijay Iyer ...
The Jazz Session #124: Ted Sirota
Drummer Ted Sirota is using his powers for good. On his most recent album, Seize The Time (Naim, 2009), Sirota once again chooses to make a political statement with his song titles and choices. In this interview, Sirota talks about making political jazz; why hes not going to use liner notes again; and the fine balance ...
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