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Irvin Mayfield: Hombre of Hot Music and Vital Education
by R.J. DeLuke
For a young trumpet player, New Orleans native son Irvin Mayfield is a busy man, yet in a particularly interesting way. He performs in a variety of groups, which isn't out of the ordinary for a working musician these days. But he also serves--with great pleasure, mind you--as a cultural ambassador, not only for his city, ...
Caramoor Jazz Festival Provides Great Music
by R.J. DeLuke
One could say that the first day of the 2004 Caramoor Jazz Festival on July 31 in Katonah, NY, belonged to the wonderful Hank Jones, who turned 86 that day and showed his faultless technique on piano in the event's fine closing set. But the day perhaps really belonged to Joe Lovano, the festival's artistic director, ...
Moacir Santos: Music in His Blood
by R.J. DeLuke
Moacir Santos speaks slowly, struggling from the after effects of a stroke suffered eight years ago. The 78 year-old also labors with his English, which doesn't come to him as easily these days as it did in the years after he arrived in Southern California from his native Brazil in 1967. He prefers to speak Portugese. ...
Kurt Elling Group Brilliant in Saratoga Springs, NY
by R.J. DeLuke
Kurt Elling continues to show, on an extraordinarily consistent basis, that he is one of the most remarkable musicians to appear on the scene in the last decade. It's easy, and understandable, to call him a singer, or vocalist. He is that, for sure. But the instrument he carries is comprised of more than vocal chords ...
Art, Pop Coexist at Freihofer Jazz Fest/Party
by R.J. DeLuke
Sunshine and music of all forms highlighted the Freihofer Jazz Festival at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga Springs, NY, on June 26 and 27. It marked the 27 edition of the event that always has its share of great music and surprises, even during times when people — depending on their point of view ...
Joe Lovano: The Beauty of Expression
by R.J. DeLuke
There are few things as soulful, it seems, as the sound of the tenor saxophone when played by Joe Lovano. Call him the next great Italian tenor, if you will. He plays with full, robust sound and the instrument, in his hands, is liable to be sweet and ethereal at one moment, or volcanic and explosive ...
Rickie Lee Jones: Alive in Albany, NY
by R.J. DeLuke
Rickie Lee Jones is a pure artist. She’s not a dyed-in-the-wool jazzer, though improvisation is an important part of what she does (more than many jazz singers I’ve heard). She’s part poet, part beatnik. She’s part coquette and part of her just tells what she observes in life. (Art... n’est pas?) What she really is, is ...
Sean Jones: Trumpeter with a Purpose
by R.J. DeLuke
Trumpeter Sean Jones, only 25, is making a strong name for himself, and a strong move up the ladder as one of the folks to watch. His tone is bright and his technique can be astonishing, thanks to his classical training. The youngster hears the sounds around him that are not jazz, and appreciates ...
The Frank & Joe Show: Looking for a Long, Happy Run
by R.J. DeLuke
Back in the 1960s, after the British Invasion, it seemed every block had a band and anyone who knew three chords on a guitar joined in. Maybe they couldn't really play guitar, and the drummer might have sounded like he should be washing pots and pans, not banging on them. But it was all among friends ...
The Frank & Joe Show Hatches at The Egg in Albany, NY
by R.J. DeLuke
Bands that stay together for a while develop a style and a certain sound. When it goes good, it’s replete with a special rapport, with a sense of empathy and even a sense of humor. So get ready for the Frank & Joe Show, because it has all those things. As well as a veiled sense ...
