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Carsten Dahl / Mads Vinding / Alex Riel: In Our Own Sweet Way
by Chris Mosey
After Paris, Copenhagen was the European refuge for American jazz musicians fleeing racial and sometimes political oppression in their homeland in the postwar years. Ben Webster is buried there (in the same cemetery as Søren Kierkegaard), Dexter Gordon and Johnny Griffin locked horns there. Such greats created a solid local scene, which continues to produce some ...
Hot Club of Detroit: Night Town
by Jay Deshpande
The Hot Club of Detroit will without a doubt soon be among the most popular bands playing in the gypsy tradition of jazz manouche. Django Reinhardt's band, the Hot Club de France, first brought the fiery, flamenco-infused sound to the realm of jazz. In homage to and elaboration of the tradition, the HCOD presents its sophomore ...
Take Five With Morris Nelms
by AAJ Staff
Meet Morris Nelms: Morris Nelms, pianist and vocalist, grew up in Frederick, OK, discovered jazz at Cameron University in Lawton, OK, and was instantly hooked. He completed a Bachelor's degree at the University of Oklahoma in 1978 and a Master's degree in Composition at Texas State University in San Marcos, TX in 2000. ...
Tubby Hayes: Intensity: The 1965 Tapes
by George Kanzler
The late '50s and early '60s were a great time for jazz at clubs in downtown Manhattan. It was a heyday for tenor saxophonists; such giants as Sonny Rollins, Al Cohn, Zoot Sims, Sonny Stitt, John Coltrane, Johnny Griffin, Gene Ammons, Wayne Shorter, Booker Ervin and Tubby Hayes could be heard at cozy spots like New ...
Don't Call Me Bird!
By Sonny Stitt
Label: Fresh Sound Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: I Cover the Waterfront; Lazy Bones; Sunday; Just Friends; All of Me; Two Bad Days Blues; It's You or No One; Blue
Smile; Lonesome Road; The Gipsy; That's the Way to Be; There Is No Greater Love; Jaunty; Blue Sunday; The Way
You Look Tonight
Cape May Jazz Festival, November 6-8, 2008
by Ken Franckling
Cape May Jazz FestivalCape May, NJNovember 6-8, 2008 For 15 years, the semi-annual Cape May Jazz Festival has been offering jazz-and-blues-filled weekends each April and November, to primarily East Coast jazz fans who flock to New Jersey's southernmost tip more for the music than the shopping, the colorful array of gingerbread Victorian houses, or ...
Sonny Stitt: Don't Call Me Bird!
by Samuel Chell
Absolute Distribution, a Spanish consortium of labels, has done it again, following up last year's welcome single-disc reissue (at least outside the U.S.) of Stitt's 1970s Cobblestone sessions, Tune-Up! + Constellation, with two 1959 West Coast dates for Verve featuring Stitt on alto with a crack California rhythm section. Even though a first-time reissue, the disc ...
Sonny Stitt: Quadromania/One O'Clock Jump
By Sonny Stitt
Label: Membran Records
Released: 2007
The Prodigious and Prolific Sonny Stitt: 16 New Releases for 2007 (and still counting!)
by Samuel Chell
“You can't do no more than has already been done. Remember a man named Art Tatum; now, who can play any more than that? ...You ain't supposed to play over people's heads. You're trying to give a message to people, and make it as simple as possible for the average man." The quote is ...
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