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Kenny Barron: A Musical Autobiography
by Victor Verney
Kenny Barron has achieved recognition, long overdue, as one of the giants of modern mainstream jazz piano. Born in Philadelphia in 1943, he moved to New York in 1961, where he worked briefly with James Moody, Lee Morgan, Roy Haynes and Lou Donaldson. He then had extended gigs with Dizzy Gillespie, Freddie Hubbard, Yusef Lateef and ...
Donny Hathaway: Celebrating the Spirit and the Soul
by C.N. Harold
Few artists in Soul music incorporated the rhythms, technological interventions, and spiritual ethos of American jazz more fully than the late Donny Hathaway. Over the course of his recording career, the Chicago soul legend produced music which reminded many listeners of the fusion work of Donald Byrd, Bobbi Humphrey, Archie Shepp, Alice Coltrane, and Yusef Lateef. ...
Ornette Coleman: Sound Catalyst
by Clifford Allen
Catalyst (n.)--an agent that facilitates a change.Catalysis (n.)--the action or effect of a substance in increasing the rate of a reaction without itself being consumed. --Shorter Oxford English DictionaryWhile change occurs all around, the agent stands apart, its own dynamism existing somewhere askance from the rest of the world. Though Picasso had ...
Nancy King: Overdue Accolades
by Suzanne Lorge
Before her October 23, 2004 gig at the Jazz Standard, singer Nancy King hadn't played a major New York club in several years. She's never been signed to a major jazz label, although she's come close. By 2004 King had been touring regionally and internationally for four decades and jazz insiders knew who she was, even ...
Chuck Israels
by Elliott Simon
An infrequent visitor to his hometown, bassist Chuck Israels is returning to NYC this month for rehearsals of his new music with David Berger's Sultans of Swing big band. Israels and Berger have a musical relationship that dates back to the National Jazz Ensemble, a groundbreaking jazz repertory orchestra that Israels conceived in the mid '70s. ...
J.J. Jones: Reunited With His Horn
by Harold Lamar
Back during the so called “swing era of the 1940s and 50s, Jesse James “J.J. Jones Junior of Atlanta was considered one of America's most celebrated saxophone players. Jones and his tenor sax had come to prominence amidst a plethora of horn players of the day like Eddie Harris, Earl Bostic, Sil ...
Profiles
By Jimmy Scott
Label: Milestone
Released: 2006
Track listing: Smile; Moonglow; Mood Indigo; Without A Song; Darn That Dream; Pennies From Heaven;
Strange Fruit; How Long Has This Been Going On; If I Should Lose You; Please Send Me
Someone To Love.
Buddy DeFranco: The Stick Around Kid
by Andrew Velez
At 83, he continues to practice on the clarinet every day so as to not “lose that edge." The countless artists whom he has played and recorded with include Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Art Tatum, Oscar Peterson, Art Blakey, Roy Eldridge, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Gene Krupa, Tal Farlow, Billie Holiday, Charlie Barnet, Count Basie, Stan ...
Paul Dunmall
by Andrey Henkin
“I think what's actually happened in free improvisation...there's nothing that's barred. We want to use it all. We want everything. We want melody, we want time, we want abstraction, we want no time, we want the whole package so that you are truly free to play what you want. Musicians do not usually ...
Selwyn Lissack
by Andrey Henkin
The discographies of jazz are filled with obscure artists, role players to the superstars that become legendary. Some are mysterious because of early deaths, others because of careers ended prematurely. But there are a few who transcend this anonymity. South African drummer Selwyn Lissack, whose playing was limited to a decade and who participated in only ...
