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Kyle Eastwood: Songs From The Chateau
by Bruce Lindsay
Kyle Eastwood's career encompasses the writing of film soundtracks, as well as the life of a jazz composer, bandleader and bassist. On those seemingly rare occasions when he isn't working, Eastwood spends much of his time in France. Songs From The Chateau is his fifth album since 1998's debut, From There To Here (Sony), and his ...
Sachal Jazz: Jazz Standards Recorded in Lahore, Pakistan
Sachal Music presents Sachal Jazz: Interpretations of Jazz Standards & Bossa Nova by the Sachal Studios Orchestra, Lahore Recorded at Sachal Studios Lahore, Pakistan and Abbey Road Studios, London, a collection of jazz classics fused with the traditional classical music of Pakistan and India Physical release date May 17th; Digital release date April 12th On May ...
Take Five With Ed Barrett
by AAJ Staff
Meet Ed Barrett: I began my musical studies at the age of six on the piano. I then began playing the French horn in fourth grade, and continued till the end of high school. I began playing jazz guitar in1988. I have a guitar performance degree from Berklee and a Master's in Jazz Studies ...
Great Sidemen - Great Leaders
by Greg Simmons
Being a sideman can be a thankless job. Sure, you might get to play regularly, but you rarely get to call the tune. If your boss is a big star, the gig might even pay pretty well, but if the band is going to Fargo, North Dakota in January, brother, so are you, and you weren't ...
CTI Records 40th Anniversary Celebration Continues
MASTERWORKS JAZZ continues the celebration of the 40th anniversary of CTI Records, the beloved jazz label founded in 1970 by producer Creed Taylor with the release of 4 more classic reissues available on April 12, 2011. They include: George Benson's Beyond the Blue Horizon, Freddie Hubbard's First Light, Don Sebesky's Giant Box and Stanley Turrentine's Salt ...
Are You Sure, Bobby?
by Jack Bowers
In late March, I received an e-mail from trumpeter Bobby Shew. He said he'd performed a gig in West Palm Beach, FL, and had met my brothers, whom he described as “nice guys." My first impulse was to write back and ask if he could have been mistaken. My brothers? Nice guys? Well, the fact is ...
Jazz vs Racism
by Greg Thomas
Jazz saved me from becoming a racist. Back in the early to mid-1980s, while attending Hamilton College in central New York, I learned details about the transatlantic slave trade that sickened and angered me. I read about the history of the abolitionist movement in the 1800s, and the civil rights movements of last ...
Allen Smith RIP
From San Francisco comes word that trumpeter Allen Smith died last week at the age of 85. Smith's musical career got underway at the same time as those of his San Francisco State College classmates Paul Desmond and Cal Tjader. He worked with both in various bands and with other Bay Area jazz mainstays, including guitarist ...
Milt Jackson and Paul Desmond: Elder Statesmen on CTI
by Dan Bilawsky
Popular music is usually a young person's game. Older artists, in any genre, often get pushed to the periphery to make way for the next big thing that can sell in numbers. But the CTI label was age-blind when it came to its artist roster. While it's certainly true that the stable of musicians on the ...
The Guitar Stylists of CTI Records
by Dan Bilawsky
In many ways, the guitarists who recorded for the CTI label owe a great debt to the late Wes Montgomery. Guitarist Montgomery's last recordings, before his untimely death from a heart attack, were like a laboratory test for producer Creed Taylor. At the time, Taylor was still trying to work out a formula to balance the ...
