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The Allman Brothers Band at the Beacon Theatre: Preview 2004
by Doug Collette
The Allman Brothers have always been fearless and throughout their 35 plus year career it has both blessed them and cursed them. The same courage that lent itself to the exploration of a marriage of blues, rock and jazz also caused, at least in part, the deaths of two founding members of the band. The resolute ...
Horace Silver: Hard Bop Pioneer Forges Ahead
by Katie Alvarez
Looking back over the last fifty years of jazz it is clear that few musicians have had a greater impact on the contemporary mainstream than Horace Silver. The hard bop style that Silver pioneered in the '50s is now dominant, played not only by holdovers from an earlier generation, but also by fuzzy-cheeked musicians who had ...
The Latin Jazz Stylings of Irving Fields
by Elliott Simon
To completely capture the career of pianist, composer, and arranger Irving Fields is a difficult task. There are his “lounge" credentials, which place him at the top of pianists who played NYC's finest hotels and society rooms during the decades that immediately preceded and followed WWII. Piano trio albums such as Live at the Emerald Room ...
Saskia Laroo: A New Jazz Goddess
by AAJ Staff
In the recently set tradition of unfurling new, amazingly original jazz talent, dear readers, I throw open the wraps right off a truly prodigious talent... Saskia Laroo, of the Netherlands. In the brief spell of a few years, this astonishingly talented trumpeter has scaled more heights than a professional mountaineer could ever dream of! She has ...
Joe Harriott: A Restless Soul
by Bobby Hancock
Jazz music is not unused to firebrands who push the music on in the face of adversity or mere ignorance. In fact they have been invaluable in ensuring that the music stays fresh and new. Emphasis on innovations in the music has been on Afro-Americans, and it is true that they have played the largest part. ...
Jason Marshall: A Bari to Watch Out For
by Matt Merewitz
There is a new saxophone star in the making. He is in New York as you read this article paying his dues on the scene where countless others before him have toiled in bars and clubs for decades often for little in return. In my estimation this will not be the case for baritone saxophonist Jason ...
Julian Priester
by AAJ Staff
Submitteed on behalf Jonathan Davidson. When you hear the name Julian Priester, you probably think of all of the amazing recordings in which the jazz trombonist participated. You may also wonder what he’s been up to in the past couple of decades. He last visited our fair city some 5 years ago. Fortunately, ...
Charlie Haden: Liberation Music
by Clifford Allen
The unaccompanied bass solo is something which cropped up with ever-increasing frequency on free jazz recordings during the ‘60s and ‘70s; yet unlike some front line players, these unaccompanied forays were often soliloquies rather than monologues. The introspection and depth of feeling (attributable to the sheer physicality of wood, gut string and horsehair or fingers) made ...
Trumpeter Enrico Rava
by Andrey Henkin
For those who maintain that jazz is purely an American music, go check your record collection and see how many times the name Enrico Rava shows up. The trumpeter in many ways defines Italian jazz as well as how the music has become an international phenomenon. Rava's accomplishments are myriad. “I think I ...
The Didjdude Harold E. Smith Carves out a Niche
by AAJ Staff
Mt. Airy resident Harold E. Smith holds a novel position as Philadelphia's premiere didjeridoo player. (Maybe the only one.) Didjeridoo? The didj is an ancient aboriginal instrument'a eucalyptus tree whose center has been hollowed out by insects. 'The initial hole is made by white ants, termites,' explains Smith. 'Nobody goes down there and digs that hole ...
