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Matthias Winckelmann: Happy Birthday ENJA!
by Bob Hatteau
ECM, ACT, Winter & Winter, FMP, MPS, ENJA... Germany sounds like a generous land for creative jazz record labels. ENJA Records, the Münich-based jazz label, was founded in 1971 by Matthias Winckelmann and Horst Weber. For the last forty years ENJA has built an impressive catalog, with more than seven hundred releases that ...
Tom Everett: Jazz at Harvard
by Andrew J. Sammut
It's no accident that forty years of jazz at Harvard coincides with forty years of Tom Everett at the esteemed university. Everett founded Harvard University's first student jazz band, taught its first jazz history course and welcomed the campus' first visiting jazz artist. He now leads two jazz bands at the prestigious university, continues to teach ...
Jay Phelps Big Band: Snape, UK, August 17, 2011
by Bruce Lindsay
Jay Phelps Big BandSnape MaltingsSnape, UKAugust 17, 2011 Trumpeter Jay Phelps, a native of Vancouver who moved to the UK in his teens, first came to the attention of the British jazz scene as a member of Tomorrow's Warriors. In his early 20s he co-founded Empirical, playing on that band's debut ...
Patrick Brennan: Rhythms of Passion
by Ludwig vanTrikt
Since moving to New York City in 1975, one-time bassist/painter Patrick Brennan has crafted a musical path that is open in its candor and indebtedness to all facets of black music. Much like trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith, the alto saxophonist brews a thicket of his own distinct musical language that “unlike much contemporaneous vanguard music is ...
"Jazz At The Hollywood Bowl - Expanded Edition" On Hip-O Select / Verve
Jazz At The Hollywood Bowl was the first recorded jazz concert at the prestigious Los Angeles outdoor venue. It was a prime example of jazz elevated to the concert stage, a concept developed by Norman Granz, record producer, label owner, artist manager and the foremost jazz promoter in the world. It was recorded August 15, 1956, ...
New Release from Ella Fitzgerald "Ella In Japan" On Hip-O Select / Verve
Ella Fitzgerald reigns supreme as one of the great, if not the greatest, singers of all time. She was a prolific performer, both on stage and in the studio—and, as we saw in late 2009, with the release of Ella In Hollywood, the 4-CD box set of jaw-dropping unreleased live recordings, a never-ending source of surprises. ...
Clarinet Great Kenny Davern This Week on Riverwalk Jazz
This week, Riverwalk Jazz celebrates Jazz Appreciation Month with never-before- broadcast tracks featuring the great reedman Kenny Davern. The hour-long program is carried in the US on the Public Radio International network, on Sirius/XM sattelite radio and can be streamed on-demand from the Riverwalk Jazz website. Kenny Davern was a kid when he first heard Pee ...
Charles Mingus Complete 1960 Nat Hentoff Sessions (Solar Records, 2011)
When the great bassist and composer Charles Mingus recorded the albums included in this collection for the Candid label in 1960 he was arguably at the peak of his powers. Beginning with the epochal album Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus that takes up most of disc one, he instructs the band to play a mock live ...
Lions in Winter
by Greg Simmons
Recently passed jazz greats, saxophonist James Moody and pianist Hank Jones, were both fortunate enough to be making solid, vital recordings right up to the ends of their lives. Moody's 4A (IPO, 2009) and 4B (IPO, 2010) were as well-played as any he ever recorded, and Jones, who was still active in his last year at ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Roy Eldridge
All About Jazz is celebrating Roy Eldridge's birthday today! Roy EldridgeRoy David Eldridge was a jazz trumpet player in the Swing era. His sophisticated use of harmony, including the use of tritone substitutions... more Website | Photos | Articles Follow Roy Eldridge Put AAJ's Musician of the ...
