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Ryan Keberle's Collectiv Do Brasil: Sonhos Da Esquina
by Dan McClenaghan
Trombonist Ryan Keberle fell in love with Brazilian music. It happens. Who has not experienced infatuation on an encounter with Getz/Gilberto (Verve, 1964), from saxophonist Stan Getz and vocalist, guitarist & tunesmith Joao Gilberto. But for Keberle, it was the music of Elis Regina that led him to travels to Sao Paulo in 2017, and a ...
Edward Simon and Beegie Adair
by Joe Dimino
We start the 738th Episode of Neon Jazz with music by San Francisco-based jazz pianist and SFJAZZ Collective member Edward Simon and a song from his Solo Live (Ridgeway Records, 2021) release. We follow “Monk's Dream" with music by one of Simon's influences, Stan Getz. We also hear music from long-time Neon Jazz friend and a ...
Joe Henderson, Bill Evans, Jim Hall: Buried Treasure from Germany's MPS Label
by Chris May
Between its founding in 1968 and sale in 1983, the original incarnation of the recently revived German label MPS—the initials stand for Musik Produktion Schwarzwald (Music Production Black Forest)—notched up around five hundred releases. Some were recorded in the US by American musicians, many more were recorded in Europe and featured bands made up of European ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Stan Getz
All About Jazz is celebrating Stan Getz's birthday today! Beginnings... Stan Getz was born at St. Vincent's Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Feb. 2, 1927. He had one brother, Robert, who was born on October 30, 1932. His parents had come from the Kiev area in the Ukraine in 1903, tired and fearful of the Pogroms. ...
The Digital Content Producer: Joseph Vella
by B.D. Lenz
We've all witnessed how quickly the explosion of technology has changed life in recent years. Arguably, the internet has revolutionized every facet of our life, including how we consume music. We tend to think of technology as some faceless machine that continually churns forward and forget that behind it all are passionate individuals who are pioneering ...
Bill Goodwin: Not Less Than Everything
by Victor L. Schermer
Bill Goodwin is like a breath of fresh air blowing through jazz. From the time around 1954 when he was in Los Angeles and just learning the drums, and inspired by Shelly Manne, to today, around his 80th birthday, he has loved jazz and the musicians unconditionally. He has befriended and worked with so many of ...
Stan Tracey Trio: The 1959 Sessions
by Chris May
Sonny Rollins summed up the outsize talent of British pianist Stan Tracey in a remark he made sometime in the early 1960s. Tracey was then the house pianist at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, where Rollins was playing a season. “Does anyone over here realise how good this guy is?" Rollins asked the audience. ...
Gaga, Bennett, The Count, Presidents: Harold Jones Drums Across History
by Arthur R George
When Tony Bennett stepped past the twilight of Alzheimer's onto the stage of Radio City Music Hall in New York City in August 2021, drummer Harold Jones was there ready for him, as he had been for Bennett over the past seventeen years, in a friendship going back to 1968. Lady Gaga, the popstar recreated as ...
Hanksgiving: A Tribute to Hank Jones, Part 2
by Ludovico Granvassu
This year our seasonal Hanksgiving episode celebrates a musician of sumptuous elegance and sophisticated narrative and harmonic feel like pianist Hank Jones. As usual, we play a mix of albums that feature him as a leader, co-leader or sideman and renditions of his work by other musicians. Happy listening. PlaylistBen Allison “Mondo ...
Nicola Angelucci: Il ritmo dei cambiamenti
by Paolo Marra
Con il suo ultimo lavoro, Changes (Flying Spark), Nicola Angelucci ci trasporta nella nostalgica liricità della tradizione musicale italiana, espressa attraverso una scrittura musicale fresca e allo stesso tempo profonda che non lascia spazio a meri formalismi ma soltanto alle emozioni più riflessive. Con gli undici brani contenuti nel CD il batterista e compositore dà vita ...
