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Joelle Leandre
by Kurt Gottschalk
Joelle Leandre has a huge voice. Not just a formidable singing voice, which can be friendly and frightening, charming and vulgar. And not only on her instrument which can be firmly grounded one moment and soar the next. Leandre's voice unabashedly carries conversation, carries it to unexpected places, making quick turns, never slowing down or backing ...
Impressions of Eric Dolphy
by Clifford Allen
Note: The title refers to a composition by Prince Lasha, recorded on his 1966 UK CBS album Insight. The history of jazz is a recorded history, one that exists on commercially-issued albums (many of which, thankfully, are in print or have been reissued) as well as a vast amount of concert recordings passed ...
Stefano Bollani
by Celeste Sunderland
In December, 2007 Italian pianist Stefano Bollani got the chance to play in one of Rio de Janeiro's poorest places, the favela. For most, performing in such a dreary locale would not be so pleasant, but for Bollani it was extraordinary. “They never have concerts there," he explained. “It's the poorest place on Earth and there ...
Jimmy Scott: Counting His Blessings
by Andrew Velez
“Jimmy had soul way back when people weren't using the word," observed Ray Charles. Even though through the years he's inspired champions like Quincy Jones, Lou Reed, Elton John and director David Lynch, NEA Jazz Master Jimmy Scott's career has been a rollercoaster for over seven decades. He's unlikely ever to become a household name and ...
Reuben Radding: More Than Just a Free Jazzer
by Marc Medwin
A low trilling crescendo, replete with harmonics, a sharp rise and sudden plummet as one of those upper partials is tossed off a cliff and fades into the distance. Yet, after a brief pause and in the very next gesture, it returns to create a triumphant major third. Such pithy compactness is typical of bassist/composer Reuben ...
Marion Brown
by AAJ Staff
By Michael Hittman It's probably known that since his last recorded gig, Gemini (play Sun Ra Live in Concert) on Birth Records, a 1993 duo with Gunter Hampel in West Germany), serious illnesses--diabetes that led to the loss of a leg followed by additional surgery for a brain tumor--has confined Marion Brown to ...
David Murray: Black Saint
by Russ Musto
The most widely recorded saxophonist of his generation, David Murray's brawny tenor has been heard in a dizzying array of configurations: solo recitals, piano-less trios, duets with pianists and drummers; with the World Saxophone Quartet and his own quintets, sextets and octets; fronting big bands and orchestras with string sections and Afro-Cuban percussion ensembles; in the ...
Bill Dixon: In Rehearsal, In Performance
by Marc Medwin
"Composition is the assembling of musical materials that are generally accessible to every musician and their placement into a new order." “Improvisation is the instantaneous realization of composition without the benefits or demerits of change or alteration." --Trumpeter/Composer Bill Dixon on Composition and Improvisation. “Don't just jump in--don't play right away." Bill Dixon's rich ...
Lorraine Foster: Eyeing Cross-Border Prospects
by Fradley Garner
Lorraine Foster, a veteran vocalist with a growing reputation as Canada's first lady of jazz, would like to sing south of the border. Ella Fitzgerald was Foster's first vocal idol and spark for a career choice in her late teens. Decades later, another icon has inspired concerts and a CD: Rosemary Clooney.
Bobby McFerrin: Music's Renaissance Man Does It All
by Larry Taylor
Bobby McFerrin--master of all music, a man whose career embraces, jazz, pop and classical has one busy schedule coming up in 2008. This world famous vocal innovator and improviser, who added classical to his repertoire in the nineties, began the year in Southern California with concerts at the Orange County Performing Arts Center with the Pacific ...
