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A Rare "Bernie's Tune"
Digital video surprises pop up on the web. Here is an ad hoc edition of the Gerry Mulligan Quartet. The valve trombonist is Mulligan's frequent collaborator Bob Brookmeyer. Ray Brown, bass, and Art Blakey, drums, may have done this with Mulligan just once. YouTube tells us when, 1981. But who knows where?
Butch Morris -- Tonight
Sorry for the late notice, but I just found out about this. The adventurous radio station KBOO-FM in Portland, Oregon, is broadcasting a six-part series about the musician Butch Morris. The second part is this evening—soon. For how to tune in, go to the end of this piece. Morris is not merely a composer, arranger, bandleader ...
The Reluctant Lister: A Confession
At this time of year, those who write about music, books, plays, motion pictures, sporting events, chili cookoffs, hog-calling contests and—for all I know—goldfish breeding, are expected to compile lists of the year's best. I have been complicit in this questionable activity, but I've been trying to quit. In the case of jazz recordings, the notion ...
Billy Taylor, 1921-2010
Billy Taylor, a pianist who became a television and radio spokesman for jazz and made the music familiar to millions, died last night in a New York City hospital after sufferingheart failure at home. He was 89. In his work on National Public Radio and CBS-TV's Sunday Morning, Taylor's playing and relaxed explanations dispelled for many ...
Other Matters: Ciccolini Plays Satie
Many Rifftides readers may be familiar with Erik Satie's “Gymnopédie No. 1" because performers including Jessica Williams, Jacques Loussier, Ximo Tébar and Herbie Mann with Bill Evans have recorded jazz or near-jazz versions of that classic of French music. It has not become a jazz standard, but it has assumed a modest place in the repertoire. ...
CD: Rudresh Mahanthappa and Bunky Green
Rudresh Mahanthappa & Bunky Green, Apex (Pi). Mahanthappa, aged 40, is one of the most visible alto saxophonists of the 21st century; Green, aged 75 one of the least. As a result of this album, Green is gaining the prominence he might have achieved in the 1960s had he not left Charles Mingus for academia. Among ...
CD: Harold Danko, Dick Oatts, Rich Perry
Harold Danko, Oatts & Perry II (SteepleChase). Pianist Danko was a colleague of alto saxophonist Dick Oatts and tenor saxophonist Rich Perry in the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis band and never got over them—with good reason. This successor album to Oats & Perry (2006) again teams the three with bassist Michael Formanek and drummer Jeff Hirshfield. It ...
DVD: Dave Brubeck
Dave Brubeck, Brubeck Returns to Moscow (Koch Vision). This 2005 film about Brubeck's 1997 visit to Russia for a performance of his mass To Hope is a beautifully crafted documentary. It incorporates Brubeck's quartet with a symphony orchestra and chorus performing the mass and a rousing “Blue Rondo ala Turk." We see Brubeck's informal encounters with ...
Correspondence, with Music: Moody Concerned
The Norwegian pianist, composer and bandleader Per Husby writes:I'd like to share a little remembrance of mine of James Moody—from Oslo, Norway somewhere around 1990: I had been playing piano with Moody on some gigs atthe Molde jazz festival in 1979, and had met him sporadically here and there after that. On this occasion in 1990 ...
