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Nicholas Payton: Playing Strong and Playing Blue
by R.J. DeLuke
Trumpeter Nicholas Payton started out years ago as a musician known for being steeped in the traditions of his New Orleans origins. The “young lion" of about fifteen years ago had a brash, bold sound. He even produced a Louis Armstrong tribute--Dear Louis (Verve, 2001)--and did an album working with the classy Armstrong contemporary Doc Cheatham--Doc ...
Marcus Miller: The Man of Many Hats
by R.J. DeLuke
Pictures of Marcus Miller often show him wearing what is almost a trademark porkpie hat. Truth is, the extraordinary musician wears many hats, some of them simultaneously.He's proven himself a master of the electric bass in any setting from jazz to pop to funk to R&B, always with a rich, soulful sound. He's also ...
Cyrus Chesnut: Expounding on Elvis
by R.J. DeLuke
When the bespectacled man with the boyish round face sits down at the grand piano to play these days, listeners can still expect to hear the rich tone, jazz inflected with not only the influences of Fats Waller or McCoy Tyner, but also with a soulful element that comes from church roots. But some of the ...
Daniel Smith: Bassoon Reaching New Places
by R.J. DeLuke
The bassoon is an instrument that isn't a total stranger to jazz. Some have doubled on bassoon at times, but even that isn't often. Others have incorporated it into their compositions and arrangements. (See Michael Rabinowitz tear it up as part of the Mingus Orchestra some time). But it's reaching new places and new audiences with ...
Eliane Elias: Something for Bill (Evans)
by R.J. DeLuke
The brilliant pianist Eliane Elias, who hails from the land of so much beautiful indigenous music, but calls American jazz her first love, has always been touched by the music of Bill Evans. It started at childhood. “The first that I remember, I was about ten or eleven years old," she says, recalling listening ...
John Scofield: This Meets That And More
by R.J. DeLuke
Guitarist John Scofield is an unassuming chap, seemingly at ease with himself and most things around him. He's ever congenial. Clever and well-grounded. Catch him wearing spectacles, and his look is professorial.But don't, for a minute, think Scofield isn't serious about music. The status he's achieved in the music world was accomplished with hard ...
Mark Soskin: Creating An Ever-Hopeful Day
by R.J. DeLuke
Mark Soskin listened to a litany of great jazz pianists growing up in Brooklyn and attending Colorado State University, where he was pursing classical studies before the jazz influences ushered in a switch to Berklee College of Music in the 1970s. The various styles and approaches to music went into forming his musical ...
Herbie Hancock: Inspired By the Written Word of a Friend
by R.J. DeLuke
If Herbie Hancock never played another note, or gave the world nothing more for the rest of his life other than electronic pop or dyed-in-the-wool, straight-ahead, VSOP-style jazz--it wouldn't matter. His stature, accomplishments and legacy are secure. But he doesn't do that. Not his nature. Which is one of the reasons why, even among great pianists--and ...
Sue Graham Mingus: All the Things You Could Be By Now If Charles' Wife Was Your Flamekeeper
by R.J. DeLuke
Charles Mingus was a larger than life figure on the music scene. Crashing. Volatile. Complex. Swinging. Intense. Delicate. Raucous and joyous. Depending on who you talk to, and maybe even what day, different images might be conjured up. Different words used to describe him by those who knew and performed with him.
Tanglewood Jazz Festival 2007
by R.J. DeLuke
Tanglewood Jazz Festival 2007 Tanglewood Music Center Lennox, Massachusetts June 28 to September 3, 2007 The 2007 Tanglewood Jazz Festival in the beautiful Berkshire Mountains' city of Lenox, Massachusetts, was multi-flavored, with musicians from various corners of the world and rhythms that ranged from Africa to Brazil to the down-home ...
