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Panama Jazz Festival: January 10-15, 2011
by Emilie Pons
8th Panama Jazz FestivalPanama City, PanamaJanuary 10-15, 2011 Being a jazz musician anywhere is difficult, and perhaps even more so in Panama, Mexico, or even South America. However, the Danilo Pérez Foundation, at Plaza Herrera, in San Felipe, the heart of the historical part of Panama City, makes it easier. Every year the ...
Ray Brown's Great Big Band / NYJO / Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra
by Jack Bowers
Ray Brown's Great Big BandKayakBrown Cats Productions2010 Sixteen years have passed since Ray Brown's Great Big Band (love that name!) recorded Impressions of Point Lobos, one of the stellar albums of 1994. Brown has ended that prolonged hiatus with Kayak, which should brighten many a listener's catalog ...
C. Michael Bailey's Best Releases of 2010
by C. Michael Bailey
My approach to selecting what I consider the best recordings of the year has changed every year. In 2010, I am citing those discs to which I gave 5 out of 5 stars. About midway through the year, I restricted myself to largely vocal jazz releases, explaining the abundance of such recordings on the list.
Genius + Soul = Jazz
By Ray Charles
Label: Impulse! Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: CD 1
Genius + Soul = Jazz: 01. From the Heart - 3:33; 02. I've Got News for You - 4:30; 03. Moanin' - 3:16; 04. Let's Go - 2:40; 05. One Mint Julep - 3:04; 06. I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town - 3:40;
07. Stompin' Room Only - 3:44; 08. Mister C - 4:25; 09. Strike Up the Band - 2:35; 10. Birth of the Blues - 5:09.
My Kind of Jazz: 11. Golden Boy - 3:31; 12. Booty-Butt - 4:09; 13. This Here - 4:39; 14. I Remember Clifford - 3:37; 15. Sidewinder - 3:29; 16. Bluesette - 3:17;
17. Pas-Se-O-Ne Blues - 4:40; 18. Zig Zag - 4:28; 19. Angel City - 4:21; 20. Señor Blues - 5:22.
CD 2
Jazz Number II: 01 Our Suite - 8:05; 02. A Pair of Threes - 5:26; 03. Morning of Carnival - 3:31; 04. Going Home - 4:18, 05. Kids Are Pretty People - 4:57;
06. Togetherness - 4:00; 07. Brazilian Skies.
My Kind of Jazz Part 3: 08. I'm Gonna Go Fishin' - 5:29; 09. For Her - 6:16; 10. Sister Sadie - 4:04; 11. 3/4 of the Time - 2:47; 12. Ray Minor Ray - 3:44;
13 Samba de Elencia - 4:36; 14. Metamorphosis - 4:09; 15. Nothing Wrong - 3:30; 16. Project "S" - 3:15.
Bonus Track: 17. Misty - 5:20.
Genius: The Ultimate Collection
By Ray Charles
Label: Concord Music Group
Released: 2010
Track listing: Hit The Road Jack; What'd I Say (Part 1); Busted; I Can't Stop Loving You; Sticks And Stones; Drown In My Own Tears; Unchain My Heart; Georgia On My Mind; I've Got A Woman; You Are My Sunshine; Take These Chains From My Heart; Hide Nor Hair; Let's Go Get Stoned; You Don't Know Me; Hallelujah I Love Her So (Live); Crying Time; A Fool For You; One Mint Julep; Here We Go Again; Yesterday; America The Beautiful.
Paris Jazz Diary 2010
by Patricia Myers
Travelers who stay in Paris for more than three days without hearing live jazz will miss a vital element of Parisian life. Jazz is as easily available as French wine and crusty baguettes, with performances seven nights a week throughout the City of Light. It's been this way since jazz first entered Paris in the 1920s, ...
George Duke: Facing the Music
by Jeff Winbush
In jazz, there are two seminal figures called “Duke." For Edward Kennedy Ellington, “Duke" was a nickname. For George Duke, it is his surname, but the similarities with Duke Ellington don't end there. As a pianist, arranger, songwriter, bandleader and composer, George Duke has solidified his reputation as one of jazz's most important figures. Also a ...
Soul And The Abstract Proof: Searching For Soul And Its Meaning In Jazz
by Dan Bilawsky
What, exactly, is “soul?" This word is used so often in discussions and writings about music, but I wonder if anybody can actually define its very essence and place in the musical universe? The Merriam-Webster Dictionary lists no less than eight different definitions for soul and, while some of them have a decent grasp on what ...
David Sanborn en el Festival de Jazz de Barcelona
by Enrique Turpin
David Sanborn Trio42 Voll-Damm Festival Internacional de Jazz de BarcelonaPalau de la Música23 de noviembre, 2010Para qué negar que David Sanborn ha sido una de las bandas sonoras más persistentes en nuestras vidas juveniles. Cuando más de uno desechaba los discos de Billie Holiday porque apreciaba en ellos el peso insufrible ...
