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Article: From the Inside Out

Sometimes Jazz Takes Guts

by Chris M. Slawecki
February 28, 2017

Brownout Brownout Presents Brown Sabbath II Ubiquity Records 2016 Brownout bandleader and guitarist Adrian Quesada listened to a lot of different music, including blood-curdling heavy metal monsters Black Sabbath, while growing up in South Texas. Even while creating original music more reflective of their Mexican and American funk, ...

Article: Album Review

Trish Clowes: My Iris

Read "My Iris" reviewed by Fiona Ord-Shrimpton

by Fiona Ord-Shrimpton
February 18, 2017

Firstly, each individual in the Trish Clowes Quartet, Trish Clowes on various saxophones, Ross Stanley on piano and Hammond, Chris Montague on guitar and James Maddren on drums, fits their corner perfectly, providing the extra dimension that makes their cohesive playing effortless. There are no shirkers or hang back components in this line up. My Iris ...

News: Event

Ron Boustead's CD Release Concert For "Unlikely Valentine," Wed., February 22nd At The E Spot Lounge, Studio City

February 17, 2017

Vocalist and lyricist Ron Boustead will perform a CD release concert for his new CD Unlikely Valentine on Wednesday, February 22nd at the E Spot Lounge at Vitello’s in Studio City, one show at 8pm. Boustead will be accompanied by the stellar band featured on Unlikely Valentine, including pianists and co-arrangers Bill Cunliffe and Mitchel Forman, ...

Article: Under the Radar

Jazz Education: The Next Generation, Part 2

by Karl Ackermann
February 9, 2017

Part 1 of Jazz Education: The Next Generation explored how the early days of music and--specifically--jazz music was approached through various channels of formal education. The long, arduous process of creating an accepting environment for jazz education necessitated moving the art form from a vaudevillian status through a firewall of academic elitism and prejudice to a ...

News: Recording

Getz, Two Gilbertos And Jobim

February 3, 2017

Stan Getz was born on this date in 1927. The day has an hour or so to go in this time zone, so before it expires, let’s listen to one of the master tenor saxophonist’s great collaborations. He and the bossa nova pioneer Joao Gilberto teamed up for a 1963 album whose title consisted of their ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Stan Getz

February 2, 2017

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. ...

Article: Interview

Erik Friedlander: A Little Cello?

by Ian Patterson
January 9, 2017

Normally lumped into the 'miscellaneous instruments' category of jazz awards, the cello has been something of a bit player in the colorful history of jazz. That said, today there are arguably more cellists in jazz and contemporary improvised music--and some extraordinary ones at that--than ever before. One of the best known cellists is undoubtedly Erik Friedlander, ...

Album

Getz/Gilberto '76

By Joao Gilberto

Label: Resonance Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: Spoken Intro By Stan Getz ; É Preciso Perdoar ; Aguas De Março; Retrato Em Branco E Preto; Samba Da Minha Terra; Chega De Saudade ; Rosa Morena ; Eu Vim Da Bahia; João Marcelo; Doralice; Morena Boca De Ouro; Um Abraço No Bonfá ; É Preciso Perdoar (Encore);

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Article: Under the Radar

Jazz Education: The Next Generation, Part 1

by Karl Ackermann
December 30, 2016

A Protracted Beginning Ken Prouty, an assistant professor of Musicology and Jazz Studies at Michigan State University and author of Knowing Jazz: Community, Pedagogy, and Canon in the Information Age (University Press of Mississippi, 2013) has written at length about the early history of jazz education in the US. In his writings, he ...

Article: Interview

Ashley Kahn: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece

by Lazaro Vega
November 30, 2016

This interview was first published at All About Jazz in November 2000 and is part of our ongoing effort to archive pre-database material. Ashley Kahn, the author of Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece (Da Capo Press, 224 pgs.), is Music Editor at VH1, and was the primary editor ...