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Bassist Steve Tintweiss
by Andrey Henkin
At the end of the summer, Steve Tintweiss, best known as bassist for Albert Ayler and Patty Waters, performed at the renovated bandshell in Forest Park in Queens. The performances, which featured a group including clarinetist Perry Robinson and drummer Lou Grassi, marked five decades in which Tintweiss had been producing grant-funded concerts in New York ...
Albert Mangelsdorff: A Legend at 75
by Andrey Henkin
In the center of Frankfurt, Germany is the stately Old Opera House, Die Alte Oper. Its dignified classical fa'ade houses a remarkably modern interior. The same can be said for trombonist Albert Mangelsdorff, German jazz star who celebrated his 75th Birthday at the Opera House on Sept. 12th, 2003. A resident of Frankfurt ...
Benny Carter (1907-2003)
by AAJ Staff
Submitted on behalf of Michael Anthony During 2003 we lost the last survivors of a hardy and influential generation. They were men and women who were born at the turn of the last century. They influenced the culture of the 20th Century. These tireless artists via the new mediums that were available to ...
Butch Morris
by AAJ Staff
A solitary Butch Morris took the stage Saturday, July 5th at Tonic to perform a tribute to music aficionado Irving Stone at a memorial concert featuring some of the greatest players of New York's downtown music community. Taking a seat center stage, the bearded, bespectacled Morris reached into a shopping bag, appearing more like a philosophy ...
A Casual Stroll Down The Free Jazz / Avant Garde Avenue
by AAJ Staff
Since most of the readers of this column who write to me seem to be rather at home with the Swing and Be Bop or Hard Bop and Cool Jazz eras, I have been meaning to write a piece on Free Jazz and its slightly sterner-miened cousin Avant-Garde. There can be hardly a doubt that reactions ...
Ren
by Bruce Crowther
A lot can happen in four years. Lives can evolve from secretive and sad to open and free. People can move from chains to change. Dreams can be followed, lessons learned, friends lost, dignity gained. Strongly entrenched beliefs can be blown to smithereens, personal barriers can be broken through again and again and again. In four ...
Heart of Darkness: Sonny Clark Remembers April
by Alexander M. Stern
Pianist Sonny Clark was a consummate hard-bopper who made only a handful of recordings as a leader, but appears on literally dozens of albums as a sideman. His impressive list of credits includes sessions with Charles Mingus, Sonny Rollins, Billie Holiday, Grant Green, Stanley Turrentine, Lee Morgan, and Jackie McLean. His style was largely informed by ...
Donny McCaslin: Feeling the Spirit
by Bruce Crowther
When I play, I try to remember what this music means to me as a listener. When I hear something that really speaks to me on an emotional level -- like, say, a solo by Lester Young -- that is when I know what this is all about. The speaker is Donny McCaslin, who ...
David Hazeltine: Making it Mean Something
by Bruce Crowther
'When I was about ten or eleven years old, my mother bought me my first jazz record. It was Jimmy Smith Plays The Standards, and I fell in love with jazz at that point' Beginnings ... 'At first playing with these people it was just plain ...
Henry Grimes
by Andrey Henkin
By now the news that Henry Grimes, veteran bass player and stylistic maven, has resurfaced is well-documented. The efforts of Atlanta social worker Marshall Marotte to find the 64-year-old Grimes, out of jazz or any music for over 30 years, has been written about in periodicals such as Signal to Noise (the original newsbreaker) and the ...
