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Bobby Zankel & The Warriors Of The Wonderful Sound at the Tritone in Philadelphia
by Edward Zucker
Bobby Zankel & The Warriors Of The Wonderful Sound Tritone/Chris Jazz Café Phildelphia, PA May 4-5, 2006 The first thing one notices about Bobby Zankel & The Warriors Of The Wonderful Sound is what is missing from their music: The usual, “head / solo / head" motif that ...
Bud Shank at Chris' Jazz Cafe in Philadelphia
by Edward Zucker
Bud Shank Chris' Jazz Cafe Philadelphia, PA May 19-20, 2006 The jazz landscape in the late 1940's and 1950's features stories of numerous musicians who died or faded away from drug abuse, alcohol abuse or misadventure. A few survivors from that era are still going strong. Altoist Bud Shank ...
Rob Diener and Anomaly: Some Assembly Required
by Dan McClenaghan
Philadelphia-based trumpeter Rob Diener looks a bit like a New Orleans' own young Dr. John (a younger version, to be sure) on the cover of his sophomore effort, No Assembly Required. He's got the beret and the spiffy duds--but there's no Dr. John keyboard in sight. The trumpet in Diener's hand, angled up by his shoulder, ...
Monkadelphia at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
by Victor L. Schermer
Monkadelphia Philadelphia Museum of Art September 30, 2005Imagine that it's a pleasant Friday evening, with a nip of early autumn in the air. You finish work, maybe meet your hot date, and grab a taxi over to the Philadelphia Museum of Art on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. It's your first attendance ...
Old and New Jazz in Philadelphia
by AAJ Staff
Zanzibar Blue brought in the Vince Seneri quartet Oct. 8-9. Seneri, a Hammond B3 organist from New Jersey with some twenty years experience behind him, has put together an all star quartet. It features David “Fathead" Newman on sax, Doc Gibbs on drums, and Dave Valentin on flute. Senreri has worked such top clubs as Birdland ...
Take the Col'Train with Conrad Herwig, Brian Lynch, Danilo Perez and Ravi Coltrane
by Victor L. Schermer
Take the Col'Train Conrad Herwig, Brian Lynch, Danilo Perez and Ravi Coltrane Mellon Jazz at the Kimmel Center May 14, 2005 The virtues of melding different musical forms vs. adhering to the rigorous jazz tradition were thoughts that weighed heavily on my mind as I attended a very ...
Jazz Surprises in Philadelphia
by AAJ Staff
Jazz with gospel, blues, foreign and local stars brightened up the Philadelphia Spring season over the last few weeks. THE KIMMEL CENTER, Verizon Hall, welcomed back The Blind Boys of Alabama, the gospel-blues powerhouse, four-time Grammy-winning singing group Tuesday night. They were accompanied by Charlie Musselwhite, the harmonica-playing Blues-R&B legend. The Boys program features ...
"Leaves Of Grass" In Philadelphia
by AAJ Staff
Fred Hersch Ensemble Leaves Of Grass Concert Kimmel Center, Philadelphia March 12, 2005 The Perelman Theater, at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, was recently graced by the Fred Hersch Ensemble's performance of Leaves Of Grass, Hersch's magnificent rendering of Walt Whitman's poetry into the jazz idiom. As good as Hersch's ...
Mary Ellen Desmond and Meg Clifton: The Dynamic Philadelphia Songstress Duo
by Victor L. Schermer
In the jazz arena, as is all too often true in opera as well, vocalists, despite their sometimes fine voices and charisma, often lack true musicianship. This shortcoming is so pervasive, that we no longer expect such musical fine-tuning from them. Billie Holiday and the opera diva Beverly Sills were two great exceptions to the rule. ...
Ornette Coleman Ouartet In Philadelphia
by AAJ Staff
The appearance of the Ornette Coleman Quartet at Verizon Hall in Philly's state-of-the-art Kimmel Center was his first performance in the City Of Brotherly Love since 1988. It was both a significant event and an artistic achievement of towering magnitude. The Coleman band, playing before a crowded and enthusiastic but not-quite-full house, let loose with a ...
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