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Phil Woods and Bill Mays: Woods & Mays
by Dan Bilawsky
Putting two musicians of this caliber in a room and recording the results is a surefire recipe for success. Pianist Bill Mays and saxophone icon Phil Woods have little to prove at this point in their respective careers and their music isn't about defying expectations. Both men, on the contrary, carry the reputations that they do ...
Stan Kenton Orchestra - DePaul University Jazz Ensemble / Captain Black Big Band / Washington State University
by Jack Bowers
Stan Kenton Orchestra / DePaul University Jazz EnsembleDouble Feature, Vol. 1Tantara Productions2010 Some of us are old enough to remember double features, but they were in movie theatres, not concert halls or recording studios, and, as memory serves, were never quite as enchanting or memorable as this ...
Marty Nau Group: Mood Ebony
by Greg Simmons
An all-clarinet album is a rare thing in jazz these days. The B-flat clarinet has an old-fashioned sound, ubiquitous in the early days of jazz, but gradually replaced by the bigger, deeper, and often more aggressive reed sound of the saxophones. Early New Orleans bands at the birth of the form almost always featured the “stick," ...
"What Could Be"- The New Release for the N. Glenn Davis Trio Featuring Mark Soskin and Peter Dominguez
Drummer and composer N. Glenn Davis leads this swinging trio of talented veteran jazz musicians for his third release as a leader. This recording continues the classic tradition of the piano trio performing creative music that will appeal to listeners on many levels. Featured here are three new original compositions by N. Glenn Davis and three ...
Jon Eardley and Phil Woods: Pot Pie
Jazz was so crowded with talent in the 1950s that it's easy for great artists from the decade to slip into obscurity today. This is especially true of trumpet players. We fixate on Miles Davis, Chet Baker, Kenny Dorham and Clifford Brown, not to mention Dizzy Gillespie, Harry “Sweets" Edison and Roy Eldridge. Rightfully so, but ...
Joseph Polisi: Juilliard Jazz Hits Ten
by Greg Thomas
He's been president of the Juilliard School, the most prestigious performing arts institution in America, since 1984. Also an accomplished bassoonist, Dr. Joseph Polisi has performed as both soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States, as well as at The Juilliard School, Alice Tully Hall, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, and Avery Fisher Hall. ...
Animation: Asiento
by C. Michael Bailey
Jam bands Phish and Gov't Mule have been making a cottage industry of covering a famous LP for their respective Halloween concerts (the bands' “costumes," so to speak). In 2010, we were treated to Little Feat's Waiting for Columbus (Warner Brothers, 1978) and The Who's Who's Next (MCA, 1975), respectively. It is not ...
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 ...
Phil Woods – Jesse Green: Songs for COTA
by AAJ Italy Staff
Registrato lo scorso 26 maggio, questo album vede l'ormai quasi ottuagenario sassofonista del Massachussets duettare col pianista (di quarant'anni esatti più giovane) Jesse Green in ambito COTA (Celebration of the Arts), organismo/evento fondato anni fa in Pennsylvania dallo stesso Woods. Il materiale comprende tutti standard, tranne il conclusivo (e molto ampio: oltre sedici minuti, e ben ...
Let's Give Thanks for the DVD
by Jack Bowers
As there isn't much to report--well, nothing, actually--about big bands this month, I'll use the space to say a few words in praise of the DVD. Yes, I know there aren't a whole lot of jazz DVDs on the market, especially big band videos, but there are a few, and I'm grateful for every one of ...
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