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Gerry Gibbs Thrasher Dream Trio: Live In Studio
by Dan Bilawsky
Drummer Gerry Gibbs has been living a recurring dream with slight variations for the past few years. In December of 2012, he laid down tracks with two of his idols--the legendary Ron Carter and the estimable Kenny Barron--and dubbed their group the Thrasher Dream Trio. The eponymous debut from that band, featuring fifteen tracks recorded at ...
James Clay: Texas Tenor, Second Generation
by David Perrine
The term “Texas tenor" was originally coined to describe the sound and style of such swing era players as Herschel Evans, Illinois Jacquet, Buddy Tate, Budd Johnson, Arnett Cobb and others, and has subsequently been applied to second generation players from Texas that included James Clay, David “Fathead" Newman and Marchel Ivery. What these players had ...
North Sea Jazz Festival Recap: A Moveable, Musical Feast
by Joan Gannij
North Sea Jazz Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands July 10-12, 2015 Three days immersed in sounds and sensations. Followed by two days at home in zombie mode, zen silence. Rather than do an exhausting commute from Amsterdam to Rotterdam each day (by train or auto (50 miles / 75 kilometers each way), I ...
North Sea Jazz Festival 2015: The Roller Coaster Has Taken Off
by Joan Gannij
Jan Willem Luyken, Director of the North Sea Jazz Festival, has a lot to celebrate this year. It is not only the 40th anniversary of the popular festival, it's also the tenth anniversary of their move from the Hague to Rotterdam, and the year that Luyken became director. Described as “the world's largest indoor music festival," ...
Riccardo Del Fra: My Chet My Song
by Neri Pollastri
Non ancora sessantenne e dai primi anni Ottanta residente a Parigi, ove da molto tempo insegna al conservatorio, il contrabbassista romano Riccardo Del Fra ha alle spalle una carriera di grande spessore, iniziata con l'incontro, nel 1979, con Chet Baker, insieme al quale ha suonato per nove anni realizzando dodici album. E al grande e tormentato ...
Jon Batiste: Staying Human
by Bob Kenselaar
Jon Batiste was named the bandleader of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (related news). This interview was originally published in January 2013. Nearly everything about Jonathan Batiste is steeped in New Orleans--from the way he talks, walks, and claps his hands to the way he plays the piano, composes, and leads his Stay ...
Rayford Griffin: Reflections of Brownie
by Dan McClenaghan
Trumpeter Clifford Brown left a big legacy, in spite of living a lamentably short life--he died in a car accident in 1956, when he was just twenty-five years old. His recordings with drummer Max Roach endure as near-perfect works of art. Sets like Study in Brown (1956), Clifford Brown and Max Roach (1954), Clifford Brown and ...
Peter Bernstein Quartet al Teatro Franco Parenti di Milano
by Claudio Bonomi
Peter Bernstein Quartet Rassegna “Jazz al Parenti" Teatro Franco Parenti Milano 22.03.2015 Il secondo appuntamento di Jazz al Parenti, nuova rassegna milanese dedicata al jazz curata da Gianni Morelenbaum Gualberto (direttore artistico anche di Aperitivo in Concerto, manifestazione che si tiene invece al Teatro Manzoni da ...
Jazz Gallery Founder Dale Kelley Fitzgerald Leaves Behind Massive Legacy That Lives On In Music, Life & Through The Love Of Others
THE JAZZ GALLERY PLANS ARE UNDERWAY FOR A CELEBRATION IN THE SPIRIT OF DALE FITZGERALD IN COMING MONTHS THE GABRIEL FITZGERALD EDUCATION FUND IS FORMED Dale Kelley Fitzgerald, who co-founded New York’s prestigious Jazz Gallery in 1995 and was its Executive Director until 2009, died on March 20 at Calvary Hospital in Bronx, N.Y., after a ...
2014: The Year in Jazz
by Ken Franckling
The year 2014 turned out to be a year noteworthy for its numbers. Newport turned 60, Blue Note turned 75, International Jazz Day's third edition featured 900 events in more than 190 countries. The jazz world lost seven of its NEA Jazz Masters, and New Orleans trumpeter Lionel Ferbos died at 103. Sad but not unexpected, ...
