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Project O: Pushing Creativity, Hoping for Longevity
by R.J. DeLuke
Jazz music is ultimately about trying to develop one’s own sound and identity with which to use to express creativity, bare oneself artistically in an atmosphere of improvisation and communication. The masters have always portrayed that and practiced it, even if today’s record companies don’t always espouse it. But there are musicians out there on that ...
Steve Hass: A World of Rhythms
by R.J. DeLuke
Thirty-two-year-old Steve Hass has been a professional drummer for about a dozen years, adding touches of style and class to music by the likes of The Manhattan Transfer, Art Garfunkel, Billy Joel, Christian McBride, John Benitez, Ravi Coltrane and many others, from pop to hard core jazz and from hip-hop to Latin beats. He’s a percussionist ...
Boz Scaggs: Maybe Not Jazz, But Beautiful
by R.J. DeLuke
Boz Scaggs is crooning Duke's “Sophisticated Lady"? Thee Boz Scaggs? The “Lowdown" guy? The creator of the “Lido Shuffle"? Yep. There's only one Boz Scaggs. Having done blues, R&B, slick pop music and combinations of the three, maybe it was just time, but the latest singer to tackle the repertoire of the American Popular ...
Either/Orchestra Handles All Tough Turns of Jazz Road
by R.J. DeLuke
Saxophonist Russ Gershon is on the horns of a dilemma with his sparkling band, the Either/Orchestra, the rock-solid 10-piece organization that churns out all kinds of music. The surprising sounds are steeped in jazz, but like a Luis Tiant pitch, the thunder the band emits can come from just about any angle. Critics have loved them. ...
David Bromberg Live: No Matter What It Is, It's Good
by R.J. DeLuke
The three horns in the David Bromberg Band made “Make Me A Pallet on the Floor" seem like a New Orleans jazz street parade, wailing and swinging with the support of Bromberg's guitar, his rhythm section, and mandolin and fiddle. The section -- John Firmin on sax, Curtis Linberg on trombone and Peter Ecklund on trumpet ...
Berkshire Jazz Fest: Sweet Sounds in the Mountains
by R.J. DeLuke
Some things might be too good to be true. Imagine a jazz festival where musicians are amicable and accessible and where the fans can get as close to the performers and performances as possible, without a hint of displeasure or a sign of (unneeded) security hassles. Fans are treated with civility and it’s given back in ...
Dave Ellis: Talented Tenor on the March
by R.J. DeLuke
Why Not? So many jazz musicians have been heralded as the next “big thing” since the 80s it’s hard to keep track. It can cause one, after a while, to cast a sideways glance at the next pronouncement. But when a saxophonist creeps up on you with a lively, burnished tone and a swagger ...
Eddie Henderson: Healing with Music
by R.J. DeLuke
Jazz trumpeter extraordinaire Eddie Henderson always had talent. After all, his first informal lesson on the instrument at the age of 9 was from Louis Armstrong. But his studies went well beyond that. As a teenager he was learning legitimate trumpet at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and performing with the San Francisco Conservatory Symphony ...
Michel Camilo: Live From New York
by R.J. DeLuke
Pianist Michel Camilo is excited. Those who know this virtuoso pianist might think: what else is new? Camilo is not a brooding artist. He's vivacious and upbeat. He's talkative and joyous as a rule. And well he should be, with a dynamite trio and recordings that are garnering both sales and critical praise. He's ...
Charles Davis: Sweet Storyteller
by R.J. DeLuke
There’s a difference between the elder statesmen in jazz and the newer firebrands, no matter how talented. One is the former’s ability to take their time to tell a story. They’ve been around life and they’re not in a rush. Like Dexter was. And Prez. Out of that mold is 70-year-old Charles Davis, displaying ...
