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Chip White: More Dedications (Vol. II)
by George Kanzler
A versatile drummer busy on the Chip White has published a book of his poems about jazz musicians, I'm Just the Drummer in the Band. Each is a concise, rhymed bio-celebration of the jazz musician, a poetic jazz encyclopedia entry if you will, often incorporating album titles and/or prominent stylistic characteristics of the musician. More Dedications ...
TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz Festival 2009
by Alain Londes
TD Canada Trust Toronto International Jazz Festival Toronto, Ontario, Canada June 26-July 5, 2009 The TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz Festival enjoyed its 23rd edition this year with a structure similar to that of recent years. The Mainstage concerts in front of City Hall were a nightly focal point as well ...
JJA's 13th Annual Jazz Awards - Join Us!
Mark your calendar! 13th Annual JJA Jazz Awards June 16, 2009 3:00-6:00pm at The Jazz Standard 116 E. 27th Street New York, NY Join us at the JJA's 13th Annual Jazz Awards as we... Announce our 2009 award winners (see nominees below) Honor winners and nominees ...
Sound-Effect
By Steve Nelson
Label: HighNote Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: One Thin Dime; Song For Tina; Desafinado; You and the Night and the Music; Night Mist Blues; Sound Essence; Up Jumped Spring; Arioso.
Steve Nelson: Sound-Effect
by John Barron
Pittsburgh native Steve Nelson has made his way through the jazz ranks playing high profile gigs with artists as diverse as Grant Green and Dave Holland. Since the 1970s, the Rutgers University alum has been quietly carving out his place as one of the premier vibraphonists working in jazz today. On Sound-Effect Nelson, with the help ...
Critical Mass
By Dave Holland
Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: The Eyes Have It; Easy Did It; Vicissitudes; The Leak; Secret Garden; Lucky Seven; Full
Circle; Amator Silenti.
Steve Nelson: Vibing
by Russ Musto
Vibraphonist Steve Nelson began his career during the seventies, in his hometown of Pittsburgh, following the straight ahead path blazed by his first major influence, Milt Jackson. After a year with guitarist Grant Green he was playing and recording with his Rutgers professors James Spaulding and Kenny Barron, before landing a spot in David “Fathead" Newman's ...
Fuller Nelson
By Steve Nelson
Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: The Second Time Around; Kirk's New Delight; I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You; Song for Justine; Easy to Love; Heaven Dance; Minor Blues; For Wes; Original #2; Laila Blues
Steve Nelson: Fuller Nelson
by Andrew Rowan
This dancing, jubilant recording breaks no new ground, but it beautifully realizes the old-fashioned notion of joy in swinging. The trio makes its way through a program of originals (real melodies, not just notes to get to the blowing) and standards, sans drummer, without missing a beat. “The Second Time Around" begins on tiptoe, ...
Steve Nelson: Fuller Nelson
by John Kelman
You have to have roots. Talk to almost any modern player and they'll stress that in order to get where they are today, they had to walk a road paved in tradition. Few understand or articulate that as well as vibraphonist Steve Nelson. Given that he came to wider attention through his forward-thinking work with Dave ...
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