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Bob Dorough & Friends: Through the Years
by Craig M. Cortello
There was a sense of familiarity when I listened to the late night jazz radio concert introduced as Three Duos and a Trio circa 1983-84. The voices seemed stunningly familiar. Upon further investigation, I came to realize that those voices had been a part of my life for years, influencing an entire generation. ...
Francois Houle: Making the Clarinet Sing
by Celeste Sunderland
Nearly two decades ago, during an interlude in Europe researching 18th and 19th century clarinets, clarinetist François Houle found himself in a Paris jazz club watching soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy. “I knew nothing about him whatsoever, he explained. “When I heard him play I was quite floored. I didn't know that this type ...
Ira Sullivan
by Russ Musto
When Ira Sullivan makes his eagerly anticipated appearance as a featured soloist with Eric Alexander's quintet at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola this month, it will be the first time the amazing multi-instrumentalist will be playing a weeklong engagement in New York in twenty years. Sullivan was a regular visitor to the city from 1980 to 1986, when ...
Roger DeVito: Jazz Promotion in the Windy City
by Michael Jeffers
It's easy to take a night of good live jazz for granted. Sure, we all admire the skill with which jazz musicians perform their instruments and in the end, they're the ones we applaud while nodding our heads in approval. But how did these musicians get booked? Who brought them to the venue? Who was responsible ...
Oliver Lake: From Which Freedom Continues
by Kurt Gottschalk
It's not a term to toss around, but sometimes it fits. Oliver Lake, one could say with little worry of hyperbole, is a renaissance man. Best known as an original member of the longstanding World Saxophone Quartet, he is also an organizer with a sense for business--from founding the Black Artists Group (BAG) in St. Louis ...
Annie Poulain: The Real Thing
by Robert J. Lewis
Annie Poulain from Quebec City, Canada sings in French; Astrud Gilberto ("The Girl from Ipanema"Âť) sings in Portuguese; Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau in German. We English speakers don't know the languages, but we love to listen because, like the violin, the piano and the saxophone, the voice--before it speaks or sings--is an instrument that emotes. Since music is ...
Coco Zhao: Dream Situation
by Robert J. Lewis
I once mentioned to a friend that catching a singer who looks like he or she is a year or two away from imminent demise, in other words at his or her performing best, is often a matter of serendipity -- being at the right venue at the right time. By that standard, Coco Zhao, who ...
Buck Hill
by Elliott Simon
Our nation's capitol once had a vibrant and creative jazz scene centered on and around U Street. Home to the fabled Howard Theatre, one of the first African-American venues to feature major jazz talent, the U Street area boasted many clubs and an innovative landscape that rivaled any city in the country. The place during the ...
Jimmy Scott: Profiles
by Joel Roberts
No singer in jazz or popular music can convey heartache and loss with the conviction of Jimmy Scott. Then again, few have endured the struggles and overcome the challenges that the Cleveland native with the inimitable soprano has faced over his long and remarkable career. This compilation in Milestone's Profiles series draws from ...
Marilyn Crispell
by Tom Greenland
Soft-spoken and unassuming in person, pianist Marilyn Crispell's modest mien belies her dynamic musical personality, a key force and central voice in modern jazz piano since the early '80s. A native of Baltimore, MD, Crispell had early training in classical music at the Peabody Music School, followed by tenure at the New England Conservatory of Music, ...
