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Telmo Fernandez / Phil Wilkinson / Caspar St Charles: The Soul Jazz Beat Vol. 2
by Bruce Lindsay
The Telmo Fernández Organ Trio has already been on the soul jazz beat--as the title of The Soul Jazz Beat Vol. 2 makes clear. The Soul Jazz Beat Vol. 1 (Free Code Jazz Records, 2015) was delightful, Vol. 2 carries on in the same vein, this time giving each individual musician a name credit.For ...
Richard 'Groove' Holmes: 1980
If you were to wander into a club on the Chitlin' Circuit in the 1960s, you'd likely hear music by Richard “Groove" Holmes or any number of organists leading a trio or quartet. Here are a series of videos posted recently at YouTube of Holmes on organ in Barcelona, Spain, in 1980 with Willis “Gator" Jackson ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Richard "Groove" Holmes
All About Jazz is celebrating Richard “Groove" Holmes' birthday today! Richard Arnold “Groove" Holmes, Born Richard Arnold Jackson (Camden, New Jersey) was a jazz organist who performed in the hard bop and soul jazz genre. He is best known for his 1965 recording of “Misty," and is considered a precursor of acid jazz. Holmes burst onto ...
Bob DeVos: Six String Solos
by David A. Orthmann
It will come as no surprise to anyone familiar with Bob DeVos' work as a leader that, in the absence of a band, the guitarist's virtues remain intact and shine even brighter. One goes to DeVos' gigs--mostly in and around northern New Jersey, usually in trio and quartet formats--with high expectations. Encompassing the simultaneous employment of ...
Complete Quintet Recordings
By Earl Bostic
Label: Phono (4)
Released: 2015
Track listing: Jazz As I Feel It; Don't Do It Please; Ten Out; Telestar Drive; A Taste Of Fresh; Hunt And Peck; Fast Track; Apple Cake; A New Sound; Blues For The Ivy Leagues; Touchstone; Que Jay; Woodchuck; Chicken Little; Nita; Inquiry; Karen; Empathy; Wednesday's Child;
Michael Kocour: Spiffy
by Mark Sullivan
Keyboardist Michael Kocour revisits his Hammond B3 organ roots in this collection of hard-swinging tunes presented in the tradition of jazz organ legends such as Jack McDuff, Jimmy Smith, and Don Patterson. McDuff in particular is a stylistic mentor: Kocour met him during his college years while attending the renowned jazz program at the University of ...
Music Education Monday: B-3 for beginners
The sound of the Hammond B-3 organ is an integral part of many American musical genres, from blues and funk to gospel and soul. It's been part of jazz, too, almost since its invention in 1935, but really came into prominence starting in the 1950s thanks to Jimmy Smith. Smith, a Philadelphia native who started as ...
Bob DeVos Quartet at the 12th Annual OSPAC Jazz and Brew Fest
by David A. Orthmann
Bob DeVos Quartet Oskar Schindler Performing Arts Center 12h Annual Jazz and Brew Fest West Orange, NJ September 19, 2015 A loud, protracted rumble, not unlike the sound of aircraft hovering overhead, briefly marred the second selection of a set by guitarist Bob DeVos' Quartet. It took a minute ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Richard "Groove" Holmes
All About Jazz is celebrating Richard “Groove" Holmes' birthday today! Richard Arnold “Groove" Holmes, Born Richard Arnold Jackson (Camden, New Jersey) was a jazz organist who performed in the hard bop and soul jazz genre. He is best known for his 1965 recording of “Misty," and is considered a precursor of acid jazz. Holmes burst onto ...
Artt Frank: Talking Chet Baker
by Nicholas F. Mondello
In Chet Baker: The Missing Years--A Memoir (BooksEndependent,LLC), drummer/composer Artt Frank delivers an in-the-room intimate, yet no-holds-barred tale of his professional and personal relationship with the mythologized jazz trumpeter. Drawn from deep admiration for and loyal friendship with Baker, as well as his 14 years performing with him, Frank has painted a distinctive, poignant and dramatically ...
