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McCoy Tyner: Solo (Live from San Francisco) & Live 2009 (6th Annual Concert Tour: The Works of McCoy Tyner)
by George Kanzler
McCoy Tyner Solo: Live From San Francisco Half Note 2009 SFJAZZ Collective Live 2009: 6th Annual Concert Tour SFJAZZ 2009 In the more than four decades since he was a ...
Jacky Terrasson: Push
by George Kanzler
Since winning the Thelonious Monk Piano Competition 17 years ago, Jacky Terrasson has ranged far and wide from his original, striking early trio (with minimalist drummer/percussionist Leon Parker), exploring formats from solo and various duos to larger ensembles. For this, his first album for a new label, he returns with a new trio, featuring recent Monk ...
2010 Stanford Jazz Festival
Stanford Jazz Workshop is excited to announce the 2010 Stanford Jazz Festival! Kicking off on June 25th with a Night of Brazilian Jazz featuring Luciana Souza with Romero Lubambo, the Stanford Jazz Festival runs all summer long and features artists such as Randy Weston, Taylor Eigsti, Freddy Cole, Mose Allison, Joshua Redman, George Cables, Dave Douglas ...
Michele Giuliani: Widespread Roots
by Achille Brunazzi
Pianist Michele Giuliani--born in Baritone--is one of the emerging talents of the Italian jazz scene. After years of constant experimentation--from progressive rock music to funk and jazz--the 34 year-old completed Roots (Zeitgeist, 2009), the sum total of all his musical experiences, named for the diversity of influences and cultures featured in Giuliani's music. Giuliani ...
Pittsfield CityJazz Festival Headliners, Other Events Announced by Berkshires Jazz
Randy Weston, Claire Daly, The American Jazz Repertory Orchestra Featured in Berkshires Jazz 2010 Season, Festival and Special Events PITTSFIELD, Mass., April 15, 2010 -- Berkshires Jazz, Inc., today announced the headline performers for the sixth annual Pittsfield CityJazz Festival, as well as a special Memorial Day weekend concert with jazz master Randy Weston. The group ...
Randy Weston Returns to the Berkshires for Career Retrospective in May
“Berkshire Blues" composer will perform in concert, and meet the press, at Pittsfield's Berkshire Museum PITTSFIELD, Massachusetts, April 15, 2010 Berkshires Jazz, Inc., today announced that pianist/composer Randy Weston will appear in a special concert in Pittsfield on Saturday, May 29 at The Berkshire Museum. After nearly a 10-year absence, the NEA Jazz Master returns to ...
Ahmad Jamal: A Quiet Time
by Greg Camphire
Ahmad Jamal A Quiet Time Dreyfus Records 2010 Pianist Ahmad Jamal continues his career-long winning streak with A Quiet Time. The album expands on a stream of superb, post-mid 1990s releases made with largely the same working band: the Verve label's three-part The Essence series (1996-98), followed by ...
Monkadelphia: All Monk, All the Time
by Victor L. Schermer
Over the past several years, there has been a revival and reconsideration of the music of Thelonious Monk. No one embodies this trend better than Monkadelphia, a group of Philadelphia-based jazz musicians who play his music exclusively--a difficult challenge which they embrace with vitality, panache, and sophistication. With Chris Farr on saxophone, Tony Miceli on vibes, ...
Masters of American Music Series: Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Billie Holiday
by Eugene Holley, Jr.
The Story of Jazz Celebrating Bird: The Triumph of Charlie Parker Thelonious Monk: American Composer The Many Faces of Billie Holiday Naxos 2010 These four DVDs--separate broadcasts of the Masters of American Music TV series, originally released in eighties--seem by today's standards, like some ...
Todd Barkan: Continuation and Augmentation
by Wayne Zade
Todd Barkan has been one of the most important and versatile producers of jazz concerts and records around the globe for almost 30 years. The list of artists whose projects he has produced reads like a veritable Who's Who of jazz. Barkan has managed many artists, including the Boys Choir of Harlem, Chico O'Farrill and Freddy ...
