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Joan A. Cararach: el 'maestro' de Barcelona
by Joao Moreira dos Santos
Fundado por Joan Roselló en 1966, el Festival de Jazz de Barcelona ha ido renovándose y evolucionando con múltiples avatares desde entonces, pero la edición de este año es verdaderamente especial. No sólo desafía la crisis económica, presentando más conciertos que nunca (60 en casi dos meses), sino que además, por primera vez, se clausura en ...
The State of the Trombone 2009: Steve Davis and Luis Bonilla
by C. Michael Bailey
Jazz offers ample opportunity to hear diametrically opposed ideas and approaches coming from similar ensembles (and sometimes the same ensemble, as with saxophonist John Coltrane). Consider, on one side, the middle-of-the-road, mainstream, standards jazz made early on by trumpeter Miles Davis and the free jazz of saxophonist Ornette Coleman. The trombone has had players in both ...
Jesse Elder: The Winding Shell
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Pianist Jesse Elder has no time for linear melodies, or logical, arithmetical rhythms. Still, on The Winding Shell, he shows himself to be a rather clever master of song form. In prismatic style, he lights up his tunes with refracted luminous and melodic excursions. He plays these around the musicians who augment his obtuse schematics, and ...
Interview: Sonny Rollins (Part 1)
To truly understand Sonny Rollins, you need to know something about Westerns. The simple ones from the 1930s that weren't big productions and didn't have elaborate musical scores. Just terse dialogue, tough looks and lots of justice. Sonny loves them. He grew up in Harlem during the Depression and regularly tuned into Westerns on the family ...
Sonny Rollins Returns to the Kimmel Center
by Victor L. Schermer
Sonny Rollins Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts Philadelphia, PA September 25, 2009Sonny Rollins has a large and enthusiastic fan base in Philadelphia so that, even in a time of economic recession, a packed house cheered on Rollins and his group as they provided a solid evening of straight ahead jazz ...
Fred Hersch: No Limits
by Maxwell Chandler
From the start of his career as a sideman in the 1970s for such jazz luminaries as Joe Henderson, Art Farmer and Stan Getz to his own ensembles and solo projects, there has always been a great diversity and intensity to Fred Hersch's art. Having won a Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship for composition (2003) and having been ...
Jan Garbarek Group: Dresden
by Dan McClenaghan
For those new to the explorations of jazz, Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek could be a new name. Never a prolific artist, Dresden is his first release in five years, following In Praise of Dreams (ECM Records, 2004). It was another five years between that disc and its predecessor, Mnemosyne (ECM Records, 1999).But for fans ...
The Jazz Session #85: Bobby Broom
Guitarist Bobby Broom, a longtime member of Sonny Rollins band, has a new album of Monk tunes called Plays For Monk (Origin Records, 2009). In this interview, Broom talks about why he felt the need to tackle Monk's material; the impact of choosing Chicago rather than New York as his base of operations; and how he ...
Wycliffe Gordon: Keeping the Spirit and the Letter Alive
by Marcia Hillman
Wycliffe Gordon is one of the busiest jazz trombone players in the business today. He has traveled the world performing with the Wynton Marsalis Septet and Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, under his own name and as a duo with Jay Leonhart. As an educator he has performed and taught master classes at various schools. ...
Sonny Rollins: Saxophone Colossus
by Eric J. Iannelli
Bass drum. High hat. A primal, hollow beat in triple succession. The sequence repeats, increasingly accentuated with quick rim shot bursts and precision hits to the tom. Then, stage set, the sax leaps in. A bright Caribbean calypso melody, its refrain only twelve notes long. Its vibrancy and simplicity give it an instantaneous appeal--fitting, given the ...
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