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Miles Davis Quintet: Live in Europe 1967: The Bootleg Series Volume 1
by Chris M. Slawecki
Miles Davis Quintet: Live in Europe 1967: The Bootleg Series Volume 1 compiles an enormous amount of simply incredible music: three CDs and one DVD spanning five European performances that the trumpeter recorded in late 1967 with Wayne Shorter (saxophone), Herbie Hancock (piano), Ron Carter (bass) and Tony Williams (drums)--what was known, even then, as Davis' ...
Jazz Mergers & Acquisitions
by Chris M. Slawecki
T. K. BlueLatin BirdMotéma Music2011 Saxophonist Charlie “Bird" Parker is primarily remembered as an incendiary, revolutionary, improvisatory soloist, but he often expressed his style through composition, and many of Parker's original tunes became part of the modern jazz canon. Latin Bird, saxophonist T.K. Blue's label ...
Miles Davis: The Definitive Miles Davis at Montreux DVD Collection 1973-1991
by John Kelman
Miles Davis Miles! The Definitive Miles Davis at Montreux DVD Collection 1973-1991 Eagle Eye Media 2011 With the release of Live at Montreux: Highlights 1973-1991 (Eagle Eye Media, 2011) a couple of months back, notice was served of a much more ambitious collection, bringing together all of Miles Davis' concerts ...
Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Keith Jarrett, McCoy Tyner: Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Keith Jarrett, McCoy Tyner
by Lawrence Peryer
Atlantic Records issued this collection 1976, featuring two tracks each from four of the most important pianists in the post-bop era. Excepting one piece, each pianist is represented here in trio format. The Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea offerings are from their own 1966 sessions as leaders. Jarrett contributes two original compositions and ...
CTI Celebrates Kudu Legacy: Lonnie Smith, Johnny Hammond, Hank Crawford, Esther Phillips
by Chris May
CTI Masterworks' 40th anniversary reissue program has, until now, focused on producer Creed Taylor's primary label. Two multi-disc sets and 24 single discs have made available on CD cherished CTI LPs by artists such as trumpeters Chet Baker and Freddie Hubbard, saxophonists Paul Desmond and Stanley Turrentine, guitarists George Benson and Kenny Burrell, vibraphonist Milt Jackson ...
Various Artists: Miles Espanol: New Sketches of Spain
by Eugene Holley, Jr.
In the days of the so-called Young Lions jazz wave--which lasted roughly, from 1981 to 1992--instrumentalists and singers were all the rage. At the tail end of that period, South Carolina-born saxophonist Bob Belden was making waves for his comprehensive and compelling arranging chops. Over the last two decades, Belden has brilliantly re-imagined the music of ...
Alice Coltrane: The Flowering of Astral Jazz
by Chris May
The launch of Impulse! Records' 2-on-1 reissue series--which packages two original LPs on one CD--includes six key albums from the glorious first flowering of the astral jazz forged by pianist and harpist Alice Coltrane and saxophonist Pharoah Sanders on Impulse! towards the end of the 1960s. The style emerged following saxophonist John Coltrane's ...
Perry Robinson, Ron Carter, Dave Liebman and Valery Ponomarev
by Martin Longley
Perry Robinson/Diane Moser/Max Johnson The University Of The Streets August 30, 2011 Native New Yorker Perry Robinson is not one of the better known free improvisers, but his stature is no less significant as a result. Within a certain scene the clarinetist has accrued importance, his activities ...
"Keystone Korner: Portrait of a Jazz Club" Photographs and Interviews by Kathy Sloane; Edited by Sascha Feinstein and Kathy Sloane
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. In the December 2005 issue of Jazz Times, esteemed jazz critic Nat Hentoff presented a challenge to writers: “There should be a book about those jazz clubs that have been a vital part of the evolution of the music... with reminiscences by the musicians who played and hung out there." Keystone Korner: Portrait of ...
Take Five With Craig Akin
by AAJ Staff
Meet Craig Akin: Craig Akin is an in-demand upright and electric bassist living in New York City. Between 1997 and 2007, he averaged 270 gigs a year in his musical hometown of Kansas City. There he developed his rhythm and tone while playing or recording with nearly everyone on the jazz and blues scene. ...
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