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Miles Davis: Previously Unreleased 1980s Recordings
by Chris May
Miles DavisPerfect Way: The Miles Davis Anthology: The Warner Bros. YearsWarner Jazz2010 The composer John Cage related a funny story about an encounter with trumpeter Miles Davis. It happened at a US airport sometime in the mid 1980s. Cage was travelling with the choreographer Merce Cunningham, and the ...
DownBeat: The Great Jazz Interviews - A 75th Anniversary Anthology
by Florence Wetzel
DownBeat: The Great Jazz Interviews: A 75th Anniversary AnthologyFrank Alkyer and Ed Enright, EditorsSoftcover; 352 pagesISBN: 9781423463849Hal Leonard2009 In a 1988 interview, trombonist J.J. Johnson declared: “Jazz is restless. It won't stay put and it never will." There's no better proof than this remarkable ...
Take Five With Andy Farber
by AAJ Staff
Meet Andy Farber:Andy Farber is an award-winning jazz composer, arranger and saxophonist and has spent years performing with the likes of Jon Hendricks and Wynton Marsalis. Since 1994, Farber has been part of the Jazz @ Lincoln Center stable of writers and performers. Through J@LC, Farber has toured with the J@LC ...
Jazz Oracle: Portal to Antiquity
by Nathan Holaway
“Life would be no better than candlelight tinsel and daylight rubbish if our spirits were not touched by what has been."--George Eliot The world will never be able to hear exactly how Beethoven or Bach played their instruments, but it can hear how artists such as clarinetist Wilbur Sweatman and clarinetist and ...
Buselli-Wallarab Jazz Orchesta / Vaughn Wiester / Chie Imaizumi
by Jack Bowers
Buselli--Wallarab Jazz OrchestraMezzanineOwl Studios2010 After veering slightly off-course recently with several albums devoted in part to backing singers, the outstanding Indianapolis-based Buselli-Wallarab Jazz Orchestra is back in a more pleasing instrumental groove on Mezzanine, profiling the compositions and arrangements of co-leader / trombonist Brent Wallarab. The first ...
John Gilbreath: Within Earshot
by Lloyd N. Peterson Jr.
Over the past 90 years, a music scene has been developing in the northwest corner of the US that has provided a fertile imprint on jazz. It may not be as critically important within a historical context as that of New York and New Orleans, but Seattle has a landscape that has been developed and nurtured ...
These Are a Few of My Favorite....Charts
by Jack Bowers
Whenever the topic of desert islands arises among jazz fans, the focus is invariably on which albums (discs) one would choose to cram into a suitcase if one were ever stranded on an otherwise barren island. While the consideration of particular arrangements seldom governs the debate, I really think it should. After all, few albums, however ...
Roy Gaines & His Orchestra: "Tuxedo Blues" Streets November 1
Jazz, blues, R&B and soul—legendary guitarist/vocalist/composer Roy Gaines, who has made a name for himself as a versatile master craftsmen playing music beyond category in a career spanning over seven decades, brings his vast wealth of experience all together on Tuxedo Blues. Fronting a full size jazz orchestra, the likes of which is seldom heard these ...
Remembering William Marcel "Buddy" Collette
By Ed Hamilton Saxophonist and flautist Buddy Collette brought color to white TV game show orchestras, before Martin Luther King fought for civil rights in the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott. He paved the way for the hiring of musicians of color into all-white TV and film orchestras: Clark Terry, J.J. Johnson, Count Basie, Quincy Jones, Benny ...
Take Five With LaGrand
by AAJ Staff
Meet LaGrand:LaGrand has been involved in either playing music or music production since he was six years old. He has a degree in Recording Engineering, and has been engineering and producing professionally since 1992. Having built a solid reputation of professionalism, knowledge, integrity, calmness and more, LaGrand has had many opportunities to ...
