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2015 JJA Jazz Awards Honor Musical Excellence Randy Weston Praised For Lifetime Achievement
NEW YORK – The Jazz Journalists Association has announced winners of its 2015 JJA Jazz Awards for musical excellence in calendar year 2014 (see winners below), and released details about its annual public Jazz Awards party, at the Blue Note Jazz Club, 131 W. 3rd St., NYC, on June 16, from 3 pm to 5:30 pm. ...
Jazz this week: Regina Carter, Jeff Beck, STL Free Jazz Collective, and more
View more events at stlouis.jazznearyou.com. This week's calendar of jazz and creative music performances in St. Louis is book-ended by two performers - perhaps the most famous living jazz violinist, and a legendary rock guitarist—who both have successfully stretched the boundaries of their respective musical genres. In between, there are a number of noteworthy shows from ...
StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Regina Carter's Southern Comfort
Today, let's check out some videos featuring violinist Regina Carter, who will be back in St. Louis next week to play Wednesday, May 13 through Saturday, May 16 at Jazz at the Bistro. Carter will be performing music from her album Southern Comfort, which was released early in 2014, not long after the last time she ...
Chris Lightcap's Bigmouth: Epicenter
by Mark Corroto
Chris Lightcap is a bassist's bassist. As a sideman to leaders such as Regina Carter, Matt Wilson, Joe Morris, Marc Ribot, and Craig Taborn, his rock-solid timekeeping can be quite inconspicuous. He is a sort of steadfast superglue that leaders and composers hold in high regard. As a leader and composer, there is another ...
Akua Dixon: Akua Dixon
by Hrayr Attarian
Virtuoso cellist Akua Dixon is one of the few exclusive practitioners of the instrument in jazz. Whether in a supportive role or leading her Quartette Indigo she deftly fuses intimate chamber decorum and spontaneous ingenuity for an elegant and vibrant style that is hard to pigeonhole. She spices her eponymous release with Latin passion and an ...
Akua Dixon: Akua Dixon
by Dan Bilawsky
Cellist Akua Dixon has been at it for decades: She's performed with jazz royalty like Duke Ellington, penned arrangements for non-jazz giants like Lauryn Hill and Aretha Franklin, and recorded with everybody from trumpet titan Dizzy Gillespie to trombonist Steve Turre to David Byrne, the beyond-category former frontman of the Talking Heads. Unfortunately, all of that ...
Jazz in the New Millennium: Live and Well by Rick Mitchell
by C. Michael Bailey
Jazz in the New Millennium: Live and Well Rick Mitchell 339 Pages ASIN: #B00N2331GC Dharma Moon 2014 Much of jazz analysis and reportage is history; the exposition and re-exposition of old forms and older artists. Precious few books written about jazz today have contemporary artists or movements as ...
Southern Confort
Label: Sony Music
Released: 2014
Track listing: Miner's Child; Trampin'; Hickory Wind; Shoo-Rye; Blues De Basile; I'm Going Home; Honky Tonkin'; Cornbread Crumbled in Gravy; See See Rider; I Moaned and I Moaned; Death Have Mercy/Breakaway.
Southern Comfort
Label: Sony Music
Released: 2014
Track listing: Miner's Child; Trampin'; Hickory Wind; Shoo-Rye; Blues De Basile; I'm Going Home; Honky Tonkin'; Cornbread Crumbled In Gravy; See See Rider; I Moaned And I Moaned; Death Have Mercy/Breakaway.
Dan Bilawsky's Best Releases of 2014
by Dan Bilawsky
How does an album end up on this list? It really comes down to two things: strength on impact and staying power. Some records hit hard from the start, ultimately losing power with play after play. Other records come on gently, growing on the ear and the mind over time. But it's the truly rare one ...
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