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Jazz Legacy Productions: Sprucing up the Old School
by J Hunter
At a time when most entrepreneurs blanche at even a mention of the economy, bassist John Lee has damned the torpedoes and gone full speed ahead with his new label, Jazz Legacy Productions. Structured as an artists-for-artists'-sake venture, JLP gives established, non-"flavor of the month" players a place to be heard again. What's more, for every ...
Brandi Disterheft: Second Side
by Raul d'Gama Rose
The leap forward from Debut (Superfran Records, 2007) to Second Side is, quite literally, a significant one for Canadian-born bassist, Brandi Disterheft. Now enjoying herself immensely, the bassist appears to greet her emerging music with infinite self-assurance and unabashed style. Claiming spiritual (and therefore musical) ancestry from Charles Mingus, Disterheft plays with a rare muscularity, thrusting ...
John Patitucci: Celebrating Jazz Heroes
by R.J. DeLuke
As sayings go, “One man's trash is another man's treasure" is pretty straightforward, especially for those enamored with garage sales. For lovers of jazz music, it may hold a bit more significance, for it played a fateful role in the life of one of today's superlative artists in the genre. John Patitucci is one ...
Modern Jazz Quartet: Bluesology: The Atlantic Years 1956-1988
by Chris May
Asked to name the most insurrectionary artists associated with the Atlantic label, most jazz fans would probably think first of saxophonists John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman. Pianist John Lewis' Modern Jazz Quartet would come much further down the list. Yet in its own, more velvet manner, the MJQ was as radical as Coltrane and Coleman. When ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Percy Heath
All About Jazz is celebrating Percy Heath's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Percy HeathThe American jazz musician and bassist with the Modern Jazz Quartet, Percy Heath, began his musical apprenticeship in 1946, after Air Force service. It was just the right time... more Website | ...
Jim Hall: The Elegant Guitarist
by R.J. DeLuke
There's good news and better news for the many fans of guitar great Jim Hall--counted among them a number of established guitarists who are, themselves, eminent. It would be hard to find a guitarist who doesn't look up to Hall and whose playing has not been influenced by him in some way. Players relish Hall's rich ...
The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery
Label: Riverside
Released: 2008
Track listing: Airegin; D-Natural Blues; Polka Dots and Moonbeams; Four on Six; West Coast Blues; In Your Own Sweet Way; Mr. Walker; Gone With The Wind.
Paul Desmond: Take Ten
by Doug Ramsey
This article appears in Chapter 28 of Take Five: The Public and Private Lives of Paul Desmond by Doug Ramsey (Parkside Publications, 2005). When Desmond had time off from the Brubeck group, he was likely to be recording under his own name. Beginning with the first Desmond Blue session, he and Jim Hall ...
How High The Moon
Featuring the music of Percy Heath
Duration: 4:47
A Love Song
By Percy Heath
Label: Daddy Jazz Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: A Love Song, Watergate Blues, Django, Century Rag, No More Weary Blues, Suite for Pop, Hanna's Mood.
