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Robert Levin: The War is Over - A Conversation About Jazz
by AAJ Staff
[Editor's Note: Interview conducted by Eleanor Brietel, New York Editor of The Drill Press. Most of this interview, originally published on the Buzzle website, was conducted via email.] Eleanor Brietel: You've published fiction and you also write essays on a variety of subjects. I want, however, to confine this discussion to your ...
Zbigniew Seifert Quartet: Nora
by John Kelman
With a trajectory only starting to expand beyond his native Poland, before succumbing to complications from cancer in 1979 at age 32, it's little surprise that Zbigniew Seifert has flown largely beneath the radar of even the most knowledgeable jazzer. Still, it appears as though overdue attention is finally returning to this remarkable violinist, whose Man ...
New York Art Quartet: Old Stuff
by Nic Jones
Hindsight can be a wonderful thing. For instance, if this music is imbibed with a measure of it, it's possible to hear that the frontline of trombonist Roswell Rudd and saxophonist John Tchicai is one of the most distinctive in improvised music of recent decades. Rudd enjoyed, of course, a similar musical relationship with Steve Lacy, ...
Free Jazz: The Jazz Revolution of the '60s
by Robert Levin
The following is a chapter from the book “Going Outside: Fiction * Commentary * Jazz." robert-levin.com. [Editor's note: Revised and expanded here, this piece originated as an oral essay for an installment of the Cosmoetica Omniversica internet radio series on the arts and sciences. The series was hosted by Dan Schneider and Art Durkee.] ...
Ornette Coleman Quartet
by AAJ Italy Staff
Gezmataz Arena del Mare - Genova - 21.7.2010 “Speriamo che suoni i pezzi vecchi, perché è un po' che non fa granché," ammoniva uno dalla platea (gremita, ma non del tutto) prima dell'inizio del concerto. E non era dato sapere se il punto di demarcazione fosse rappresentato da In All Languages, o se si dovesse risalire ...
Introducing Booker Little
by Robert Levin
[Editor's Note: This interview last appeared in Jazz & Pop, 1970. Little died in 1961, just a few months after it was originally published in Metronome.] Booker Little, twenty-three year-old composer, arranger and trumpet player (the order is arbitrary, each role has equal importance to him), has lately come to demonstrate, in recordings and ...
Cecil Taylor at the Take 3, 1962-'63
by Robert Levin
The following is a chapter from “Going Outside: Fiction * Commentary * Jazz." robert-levin.com. In the summer of 1962, Cecil lands a three-month, four-night-a-week gig at The Take 3, a coffee house on Bleecker Street. It's right next door to The Bitter End where Woody Allen had performed just weeks ...
TD Toronto Jazz Festival 2010
by Alain Londes
TD Toronto International Jazz FestivalToronto, Ontario, CanadaJune 25-July 4, 2010 The TD Toronto Jazz Festival enjoyed its 24th edition this year in a city dominated by a focus on the G8 and G20 Summit meetings for the first few days. Despite very minor delays for a couple of shows and some instances ...
Introducing Anthony Braxton
by Robert Levin
[Editor's Note: This article first appeared in Jazz & Pop Magazine, 1970]To anyone still questioning the validity of the systems and methods at which Cecil Taylor and Ornette Coleman arrived, I would first of all recommend that he listen more attentively to the work of those men. But I'd also suggest that he make ...
Freihofer's Jazz Festival 2010: 33rd Edition is Strong
by R.J. DeLuke
2010 Freihofer's Jazz FestivalSaratoga Springs, NYJune 26-27, 2010 Watching Kendrick Scott's Oracle band in the warmth and sunshine of the Saratoga Performing Arts Center recently brought into focus everything that's good about the two-day event created by legendary impresario George Wein in 1978 and carried on more than capably by Danny Melnick's ...
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