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Dave Douglas & Keystone: Live at Jazz Standard
by Ted Gordon
In 1961, Bob Thiele set up a portable reel-to-reel tape recorder at the Village Vanguard to record John Coltrane's quintet. Though there was no official plan for releasing the tapes, Thiele knew that recording every single night of these performances had to be done. The resulting release proves his historical foresight. In 2006, Greenleaf music took ...
Robert Dick / Steve Baczkowski / Ravi Padmanabha: Doh Tala
by Marc Medwin
The duo of Steve Baczkowski and Ravi Padmanabha has been engaging in exploratory improv for some time and the addition of master flutist Robert Dick is a stroke of genius. A certain world-beat vibe pervades much of the disc, as it does many of Padmanabha's projects, but this is no mere new-age feel-good ...
Guitarist Dan Adler's Debut Release "All Things Familiar"
All Things Familiar is guitarist Dan Adler’s first CD as a leader. Born and raised in Israel, Dan Adler studied music and composition privately while learning the craft of Jazz by playing with some of Israel’s best known musicians while he was still a teenager. After moving to the US in 1986, Dan Adler has made ...
Pure Jazz Radio Special: Monk & Trane at Carnegie 1957
March 21, 2009 10am & pm (est) ”At Carnegie Hall” is a much acclaimed live album by The Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane. It was recorded on 29 November 1957 at “Thanksgiving Jazz", a benefit concert produced by Kenneth Lee Karpe for the Morningside Community Center in Harlem. The recording, by Voice of America. The ...
You're Gonna Keep On Drinking? O.K., They'll Keep on Playing
Michael Blake Quartet with the bassist Ben Allison and the guitarist Steve Cardenas at City Winery in a series titled Wine & Jazz — A Great Pairing. The saxophonist Michael Blake gamely addressed his audience between songs at City Winery on Tuesday night, though that exercise must have felt a little disheartening. Most of the club’s ...
Actress Natasha Richardson Dies After Skiing Accident
The wife of actor Liam Neeson and member of the Redgrave theatrical family was 45. Natasha Richardson, the luminous British actress from one of the world's great acting families, whose performances ranged from the highbrow drama “The Handmaid's Tale" to the lightweight comedy “The Parent Trap" and the Tony-winning Broadway production of “Cabaret," died Wednesday. She ...
Playing Langston Hughes's Jazzy Verse
Among the challenges confronting any composer intent on setting to music Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz, a set of poems completed by Langston Hughes in 1961, probably the most daunting is that Hughes already called the tunes. His dazzling poems, by turns earnest, raffish and folksy, bulge with references to famous musicians and familiar ...
A Jazz Season Lineup with a Focus on Piano
Wynton Marsalis, the artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, plans to announce the organization’s 2009-10 season Wednesday with a lineup that includes a season-opening Rose Hall performance by Ornette Coleman and his band on Sept. 26; programs built around the work of Bill Evans, Mary Lou Williams, Fats Waller and Count Basie; and concerts with ...
SFJAZZ Colective: Live 2008: 5th Annual Concert Tour
by Joel Roberts
Each year since 2004, the SFJAZZ Collective has brought together eight of the top names in jazz (including, in its latest lineup, Joe Lovano, Dave Douglas, Stefon Harris and Miguel Zenon) to focus on the work of a single modern jazz giant. Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk and Herbie Hancock were featured in past years ...
Jeremy Manasia: After Dark
by Terrell Kent Holmes
Pianist, composer and arranger Jeremy Manasia is the driving force behind After Dark, an excellent group of originals and standards rendered by Manasia, drummer Charles Ruggiero and bassist Barak Mori. Manasia wrote most of the songs with classic jazz as his guiding principle. Up-tempo tunes like “Ruggburn" or the cool mid-tempo blues “Arch ...
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