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Shelley Carrol: A Distant Star In View
by Michael L. Nelson
On this night, she requested that Shelley play her favorite tune that he plays. Amongst the reverberated shouts of 'yeah', she leans over to a companion to remark, 'that's so sexy'! Carrol plays in sub tones and drains every bit of emotion out of the horn as he whispers 'My Funny Valentine'. As the music plays ...
Drummer Han Bennink
by A. Henkin
Do not take Han Bennink lightly. While his exuberance is refreshing and entertaining, above all he is a passionate and committed musician with an international resume spanning five decades. The son of a concert percussionist, Dutchman Bennink has been around the drums since birth. Bennink recounts, “I was a lonely child and went with ...
Marian McPartland: Queen of Piano Jazz
by Celeste Sunderland
Marian McPartland's bracelet keeps rattling. I can't hear it from my perch behind the soundboard but Shari Hutchinson the producer of Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz is picking it up on the recording. “It's supposed to stay up above my watch. It keeps working its way down," McPartland explains from the other side of ...
The Fabulous Miss B.B. White
by Jason West
B.B. White had a way about her, an air of elegance and style, an unselfish spirit full of love and kindness and caring that attracted people from all walks of life. Like seeing an old friend from a happier time, in B.B’s company, one felt respect, pride, and that allusive, dreamlike affirmation of human goodness. Put ...
Mongo On My Mind, Part I
by Javier AQ Ortiz
Ramón “Mongo” Santamaría first captivated my ears in the early 70s. Mongo –as Cubans call those named Ramón– was featured during an abortive concert at the Yankee Stadium in 1973 both with his group and as a special guest in a conga give and take with Ray Barretto and the Fania All Stars. Wound up by ...
Wayne Krantz Gives You the Basics
by Robert Krevolin
It's a blistering cold Thursday night in New York City. They say it's one of the coldest we've had in the last decade. Only a few brave the cold peril for anything other than work, and if they dare it might only be a short run for late night eats or a quick Scotch to settle ...
Fred Hersch: Live At the Village Vanguard
by Celeste Sunderland
After a seven year period devoted mostly to solo releases and songwriter specific albums, pianist Fred Hersch returns to the trio. Last May, with Drew Gress on bass and Nasheet Waits on drums, he recorded The Fred Hersch Trio: Live At the Village Vanguard (Palmetto), his first trio album since 1995. Shimmering, energetic and personal, the ...
Evan Parker: Solo
by A. Henkin
As jazz has developed since its inception, it has always centered on individuals working with each other. Over time, the music unit has gotten smaller, from the big band era to the time of small combos and the modern era where solo performance has flourished. What was first only the province of the piano ...
Billy Taylor: The Keys to Jazz Education
by Matt Rand
If you drop by the mythology section of your local bookstore, you will probably find at least one version of the epic of Sundiata next to Homer's Odyssey and Virgil's Aeneid. But the story of Sundiata, who founded the ancient kingdom of Mali, was not written down thousands of years ago for safe keeping. ...
Anita O'Day
by Ed Felper
On the cover of her 1960 album Incomparable!, a young and glamorous Anita O’Day wears an iridescent shade of green eyeliner. “And I still wear it,” she recently said over the phone from her Hollywood apartment. She’s not much of a talker, she admits, but she surely is a singer. While she isn’t the busiest woman ...
