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Lawrence Killian
by AAJ Staff
By Robert Paul Silverman Lawrence Killian's drums talk, harkening back to the days in Africa when the drum was played as a form of communication, giving lightning power to communal dances. Born September 5th, 1942 in Jersey City, Killian's uncle Al played trumpet with the legendary Ellington orchestra during one of its ...
Bennie Maupin
by Andrey Henkin
In AllAboutJazz-New York's Best of 2006 spread, three of the four Best Album lists included Bennie Maupin's Penumbra. The disc was his first since 1998's Driving While Black (Intuition), an album few in the jazz world really knew. A listener would have to go back to the '70s when Maupin released a couple of funk albums ...
Uri Caine: Developing That Third Ear
by Celeste Sunderland
Mozart's “Piano Sonata in C Major is one of the most well-known compositions in the entire musical canon. Last month pianist Uri Caine strutted across the stage at New York City's Merkin Hall, took his seat and dove into the familiar piece with genteel precision. But quickly, under the influence of his classically trained, but jazz-infected ...
Jean DuShon: A Lifetime of Blues on the Road
by Ralph McKnight
It is not well known, but Detroit native, Jean DuShon (born Anna Jean Harris) was the very first artist to record the legendary Ron Miller/Orlando Murden classic, “For Once in My Life. Others have claimed to be the first, but it was DuShon who was invited to Miller's home to interpret the tune. So pleased with ...
Lou Donaldson: Lou's Boogaloo
by Rex Butters
2007 already has alto saxophone legend Lou Donaldson in a New York state of mind. He began the year receiving honors at Jack Kleinsinger's Highlights in Jazz series at the Tribeca Peforming Arts Center, also stealing the show with his quartet. This month he checks into Birdland for a short stay with his quartet including old ...
Mark Helias
by Celeste Sunderland
Perpetually in the moment, musicians have a unique perception of things, according to bassist Mark Helias, an advantageous attribute in a world where most of the population slumbers and self-expression is the goal. “It's a Darwinian thing. Some people believe 20 percent of the population is awake, the rest is asleep, just follows the flow. In ...
Remembering Etta Jones
by Mathew Bahl
There always seemed to be something indestructible about Etta Jones. You could hear it best on up-tempo tunes when she would swing with a joyful abandon and an almost godlike authority. But even when she sang the most tragic and heart wrenching of ballads--and she sang more than her share of tragic, heart wrenching ballads--Jones conveyed ...
Sol Yaged
by Elliott Simon
1960s 2000s There are few, if any, continuously working jazz musicians that can match the incredible longevity of clarinetist Sol Yaged. Born in Brooklyn, Yaged has been, with the exception of three years of military service, playing clarinet continuously in and around the ...
Awilda Rivera: On the Air
by Steven Maginnis
The sonorous, silky voice of Awilda Rivera is a comforting presence for listeners of WBGO-FM, the universally acclaimed jazz radio station in Newark, N.J. Every weeknight, from eight at night until one in the morning, Rivera plays a sophisticated set of classic jazz recordings and new releases, addressing her audience in an intimate tone that suggests ...
Dan Morgenstern: Jazz Master Award
by Tom Dwyer
I first met Dan Morgenstern more than five years ago when I picked him up one Saturday morning outside his Journal Square apartment in Jersey City. Our destination was the Catskill Mountains home of the late George Handy, a genius experimental jazz composer/arranger from the 1940s' and 50s' with whom I had studied piano after getting ...
