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Kneebody Arrives
by Rex Butters
The next major quake to hit LA may have less to do with shifting tectonic plates than with a crackling quintet thundering up the jazz charts with a powerhouse collection, at once challenging and accessible. Kneebody's eponymous album floats like an iron butterfly and stings like a diesel. “It's got a lot of testosterone. It's a ...
Ursel Schlicht: Piano Colors - Inside and Out
by Miriam Zolin
It's impossible to ignore - Ursel Schlicht has a taste for interesting collaborations. She works with musicians from diverse genres and cultures; her musical partners come from Afghanistan, Argentina, Australia, East and West Africa, India, Japan, Mexico, Russia, and of course colleagues from her native Germany and New York where she spends most of her time ...
Eddie Palmieri
by Elliott Simon
Thelonious Monk once said, “Jazz is New York. You can feel it in the air." This is an observation that can be easily recast to produce another truism: “Salsa is New York. You can feel it in the streets." Both musics are integral to NYC culture and come together no more eloquently than they do in ...
Vijay Iyer
by Celeste Sunderland
Four years ago saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell needed a last-minute replacement to fill the piano seat on his European tour. He called Vijay Iyer.It was a breakthrough gig for the young pianist. When he got home to New York he played a tape recording for some friends. “I was like, 'Guess who this ...
Ian Carr: The Maestro and His Music
by Roger Farbey
Ian Carr has been at the forefront of British modern jazz for over 40 years. He started playing trumpet in his brother Mike's band, the EmCee 5 in the very early 1960s. This bebop-influenced band even boasted a young John McLaughlin in its lineup at one point. He moved down to London from his home turf ...
The Columbus Jazz Orchestra: Swingin' the Midwest
by David Rickert
When Kenny Drew Jr. came into town as a guest soloist with the Columbus Jazz Orchestra, he couldn't believe he'd be performing six shows. He wondered who exactly the audience would be. In a similar fashion, when Byron Stripling took over as artistic director for the CJO, many people asked him which university had ...
Ken Mathieson: Classic Jazz Redefined
by Robert R. Calder
Though the veteran drummer, arranger and bandleader Ken Mathieson shouldn't be confused with his fellow namesake the critic Kenny Mathieson, he's also a very articulate jazz thinker based in their native Scotland.Ken began as a schoolboy drummer, and when still very young lived for a couple of years in Brazil and worked in Sao ...
There Are No Coincidences: A Tale of Synchronicity
by Bill Siegel
Or Meditations on Jim Pepper, Chief Bey, Milford Graves, a Heron and a Flock of Geese(excerpts from this appeared in the Winter/Spring 2005 issue of Planet Jazz magazine)If anything is a coincidence, then everything must be; And if everything is coincidence, then surely nothing really happens by chance.Item: One of ...
Driving with Jim Pepper
by Bill Siegel
It was a dark and stormy night. No really, it was dark and it was stormy. I was driving home, maybe halfway from Leicester, Massachusetts to Nashua, New Hampshire. Ordinarily, it was maybe an hour-and-a-quarter's drive, but in this rain it would take at least two hours, I guessed. It hadn't been a particularly snowy winter, ...
Huascar Barradas: The Magical Flautist
by José Orozco
Huascar Barradas believes that one makes one's destiny. Doors open and you walk through them.“Things happen that make you think God put you here to be a musician," said Barradas. “A lot of people go to your concerts, you do well and so on."Barradas has been playing the flute since the age ...
