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Chad Eby: Broken Shadows
by Raul d'Gama Rose
On Broken Shadows his wonderful second album, Chad Eby doffs his proverbial hat to the magnificent American music that came before him and in doing so, puts it in the current context. He also goes a step further, adding not only his own vocal-style interpretations of music from Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Thad Jones, Ornette Coleman ...
Oles Brothers with Rob Brown: Live At SJC
by Mark Corroto
It's funny how certain jazz players find other kindred spirits to play with. Where would Ornette Coleman have been if he hadn't found Charlie Haden? Or McCoy Tyner without John Coltrane? Like minds always seem to find and sometimes track down each other. Such is the case with the Polish brothers Marcin Oles (bass) and Bartlomiej ...
Cedric Caillaud Trio & Harry Allen: Emma's Groove
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
What if bassist Cedric Caillaud's sophomore effort had been recorded at Rudy van Gelder's fabled Englewood Cliffs studio and released on Blue Note Records in 1959, rather than France in 2009? The sound of Patrick Cabon's piano might have been slightly less warm (succumbing to engineer van Gelder's tendency to render pianos with a metallic tinge). ...
The Dave Liebman Group: Turnaround: The Music of Ornette Coleman
by John Kelman
When listening to Ornette Coleman's music from the fertile period of his 1959-1961 Atlantic albums--beautifully documented on the aptly titled Beauty is a Rare Thing (Rhino, 1993) box set--it's perhaps a little difficult to understand what all the hubbub was about. As is so often the case, time turns naysayers into champions, and many of the ...
Amir ElSaffar / Hafez Modirzadeh: Radif Suite
by Stuart Broomer
This is an illuminating meeting between musicians who share similar cultural background and creative directions. Trumpeter Amir ElSaffar is an Iraqi-American whose work has fused elements of jazz and the maqam music of Iraq. His CD-length suite from 2007, Two Rivers, was a triumph of synthesis and vision. Tenor saxophonist Hafez Modirzadeh is an older Iranian-American ...
Jemeel Moondoc: Muntu Recordings
by John Sharpe
Jemeel Moondoc Muntu Recordings NoBusiness Records 2010 Lithuanian based NoBusiness records has put together a wonderful retrospective on under celebrated saxophonist Jemeel Moondoc and his pioneering ensemble Muntu, sumptuously packaged in a three-audio disc plus booklet box set. It's a bulletin from another era, the late 1970s, a ...
Monkadelphia: All Monk, All the Time
by Victor L. Schermer
Over the past several years, there has been a revival and reconsideration of the music of Thelonious Monk. No one embodies this trend better than Monkadelphia, a group of Philadelphia-based jazz musicians who play his music exclusively--a difficult challenge which they embrace with vitality, panache, and sophistication. With Chris Farr on saxophone, Tony Miceli on vibes, ...
Prana Trio: The Singing Image of Fire
by Raul d'Gama Rose
One of the great fallacies of modern education is that it chooses to ignore much of the past--especially when it comes to cultures alien to the one that is subscribed to. This cultural insularity has prevented the enjoyment of some centuries-old art that is particularly poignant in today's turbulent and finite times. Fortunately ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Ornette Coleman
All About Jazz is celebrating Ornette Coleman's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Ornette ColemanEarly on in his career, alto saxophonist Ornette Coleman, recorded an album entitled, The Shape of Jazz To Come. It might have seemed like an expression of youthful arrogance - Coleman was 29 at ...
Creators of "Chaography," a New Kind of Jazz Film, Interviewed at AAJ
Who wants to see a movie about jazz musicians that tells a good story, accurately portrays the lives of musicians and contains good, happening music? Show of hands not necessary. Skepticism understood, based on past history. Yet that's exactly the lofty goal of young filmmaker Doug Chang, a jazz fan who is hoping to start filming ...
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