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Chris Potter: Underground and Hands
by Riel Lazarus
Chris PotterUndergroundSunnyside2006 Kasper VillaumeHandsStunt2006 Acclaimed saxophonist Chris Potter has already earned two recording credits for 2006, though on remarkably different releases. The first--a Potter-led session entitled Underground--finds him in ...
Wayne Shorter: Footprints: The Life and Music of Wayne Shorter
by Riel Lazarus
Want a challenge? Try cramming nearly fifty years of music into a two-CD set. And if that isn't hard enough, try having it make the slightest lick of sense. Though hardly an enviable task, this is precisely what Columbia/Legacy has endeavored to do with Footprints: The Life and Music of Wayne Shorter. Compiled here ...
John Scofield: Live 3 Ways
by Riel Lazarus
John Scofield Live 3 Ways Blue Note Records 2005 15 years ago last May, guitarist John Scofield dusted off a few of his many musical hats before cameras at Chelsea Studios in New York. The result, recently released on DVD, is a tightly knit bonnet of jazz, blues and soul, ...
Frank Wess: The Message of Swing
by Riel Lazarus
The genetic makeup of sax and flute legend Frank Wess is pure jazz. What else could explain over 60 years on the bandstand, dozens of cities seen and conquered, the message of swing spread to all within earshot? Though perhaps best known for his years with Count Basie, bookending those are decades of vigorous development and ...
Justin Time Records
by Riel Lazarus
Over 20 years ago, Justin Time Records built a comfortable home for itself on what is commonly considered to be shaky ground. Not only was the label one of dozens fighting for a slice of jazz' dwindling market share, but it was also Canadian. To some it was a recipe for disaster, but for this band ...
Wynton Marsalis: Unforgivable Blackness
by Riel Lazarus
Who better to invoke the past in tune than Wynton Marsalis? After all, the stick-in-the-mud trumpet virtuoso reveres the days of yore as few others playing today, proffering them nightly before sellout crowds the world round. So when the gig came up to score Ken Burns' new documentary, Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack ...
Thelonious Monk: Brilliant Corners & Monk 'Round the World
by Riel Lazarus
The path by which legendary pianist and composer Thelonious Monk rose to infamy was a long and trying one. So unique and progressive were Monk's gifts that it took the jazz community what now seems like an eternity to catch on to his brilliance. But all that's history, leaving us now to ruminate upon each of ...
Don Friedman: My Favorite Things
by Riel Lazarus
One of the sweetest sounds in jazz is that of a well groomed piano trio. Many would agree, there's little to contend with an able- bodied threesome, flipping through the pages of this or that tune, together finding its cozy hearth in harmony and rhythm. Veteran pianist Don Friedman has found that center and, alongside bassist ...
Sonny Rollins: Jazz Cleric
by Riel Lazarus
Sonny Rollins is his own man, plain and simple. His heart thumps to a singular beat - a tempo we all tune into occasionally with reverence and wonder. For nearly 60 years now, the tenor saxophonist has brandished a long and heavy horn - contributing to several movements in jazz; setting new standards for improvisation; relentlessly ...
Montreal Jazz Festival 2004: Week 1
by Riel Lazarus
Coverage: Week 1 | Week 2 Amid the soothing July sun and a program befitting of a silver anniversary, this year's edition of the Montréal International Jazz Festival proved to be among the most memorable in recent history. As always, the streets were teaming with a heady blend of veteran jazzniks, thirsting first-timers, ambivalent teenagers, and ...
