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The New Orleans Jazz Scene, 1970-2000: A Personal Retrospective
by Charles Suhor
The New Orleans Jazz Scene, 1970-2000: A Personal Retrospective Thomas W. Jacobsen 208 Pages ISBN: 0807156981 LSU Press 2014 Full disclosure: I've long been an admirer of Thomas Jacobsen's writing, the catholicity of his musical tastes, and his warm personal regard for New Orleans musicians. The last was evident ...
The Best Gig in Town: Jazz Artist at the White House 1969-1974
by C. Michael Bailey
The Best Gig in Town: Jazz Artist at the White House 1969 -1974 Edward Allan Faine 229 Pages ISBN: #9780985795245 IM Press 2014 There is something puzzling and curious about a book documenting jazz performances at the White House specifically during the Nixon Administration. A thoroughly divisive historical figure, ...
2014: The Year in Jazz
by Ken Franckling
The year 2014 turned out to be a year noteworthy for its numbers. Newport turned 60, Blue Note turned 75, International Jazz Day's third edition featured 900 events in more than 190 countries. The jazz world lost seven of its NEA Jazz Masters, and New Orleans trumpeter Lionel Ferbos died at 103. Sad but not unexpected, ...
This Week On Riverwalk Jazz; New Orleans Jazz Pioneers And Their Legacy
In the early 1960s cornetist Jim Cullum was a young man in his 20s. He made a pilgrimage to New Orleans to explore the roots of jazz, meet jazz greats and sit in on jam sessions. This week on Riverwalk Jazz Jim recalls a jam session with cornetist Johnny Wiggs and Mardi Gras parades when he ...
A Trio Of New Orleans Jazz Pioneers This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
In the early 1960s cornetist Jim Cullum was a young man in his 20s. He made a pilgrimage to New Orleans to explore the roots of jazz, meet jazz greats and sit in on jam sessions. This week on our show, Cullum recalls a jam session with cornetist Johnny Wiggs and Mardi Gras parades when he ...
Dave Weckl: On Time
by Scott Mitchell
Dave Weckl hit the New York fusion scene in the early 1980s. It didn't take long for this talented drummer from Saint Charles, Missouri to get recognized and hired by artists like singers Madonna, Robert Plant, Diana Ross, and Paul Simon, as well as guitarist/vocalist {George Benson}}. Weckl toured with the keyboardist Chick Corea's Elektric Band ...
Jimmy Herring: Talkin' Blues, Bluegrass and More
by Alan Bryson
The spark of bringing together unusual combinations, like a classically trained bluegrass fiddler, a Cameroonian bassist, and a high energy guitarist, could have resulted in a musical culture clash, but for Jimmy Herring the bet paid off. While he might be modest and deferential on a personal level, his latest album is bold and expansive. It ...
Fritzel's New Orleans Jazz Band: Fritzel's New Orleans Jazz Band Volume Two
by Wade Luquet
Coming off of the success of its first studio CD, Fritzel's Jazz Band delivers once again with its fifteen-song Volume Two. Fritzel's is the venerable forty year-old New Orleans jazz club, located in the 700 block of Bourbon Street that has established an international reputation for Dixieland jazz in a fun European-style bar setting. This CD ...
Pete Fountain Salutes the Great Clarinetists
Pete Fountain has reached that enviable stage at which the compilers of catalogues for use in record shops are uncertain whether to list him under “jazz" or in the “popular" category. In fact, Pete's success helps to underline the inherently false implication of this listing system that jazz cannot be popular music in the broadest sense. ...
Frank Glover: Going A Different Way
by AAJ Staff
Intelligent and outspoken, Frank Glover began playing clarinet when he was eleven years old. On entering college, he trained for nearly two years at Indiana University before striking out on his own; upon the independent release of Politico in 2004, he was signed by Owl Studios and the album was re-released under that label in 2009. ...
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