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News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Teddy Wilson

November 24, 2010

All About Jazz is celebrating Teddy Wilson's birthday today! Teddy WilsonHis airy, effortless style, with its emphasis on lightly accompanied right-hand melody, was a key element in the transition from swing to bebop, and many modern jazz pianists took Wilson\'s approach as their starting point... more Website | Photos ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Teddy Wilson: Solo / Big Band

by David Rickert
October 21, 2010

Teddy WilsonSolo / Big BandStoryville Records2010 Teddy Wilson will always be primarily known for his work with the Benny Goodman band and the reliable piano accompaniment he provided for it on many classic records. After the big band era, although he teamed up with Goodman again from ...

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Article: Record Label Profile

Retrieval Records: Treasures Lost and Found

by Nathan Holaway
October 13, 2010

“The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago."-- Louis Armstrong “You hear about the Duke Ellingtons, the Jimmie Luncefords, and the Fletcher Hendersons, but people sometimes forget that jazz was ...

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News: Recording

Storyville Records Releases Teddy Wilson "Solo Big Band" 8-CD / DVD Box Set

September 15, 2010

Teddy Wilson made national news when he went on tour as part of the Benny Goodman Trio, the swing era's first interracial group. Teddy Wilson's style evolved from the influence of Earl Hines, Art Tatum and Fats Waller, achieved a neat, quietly swinging symmetry, mostly in single-note lines, that was revolutionary in jazz and influenced countless ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Anat Cohen: Clarinetwork Live at the Village Vanguard

by Raul d'Gama Rose
August 19, 2010

Anat CohenClarinetwork Live at the Village VanguardAnzic Records2010 Anat Cohen can make the clarinet sing--literally and figuratively. On Clarinetwork Live at the Village Vanguard her wonderful, flowing melodic lines swoop and soar like arias placating the most high. It is as if--in that spiritualised state of grace--Cohen, ...

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Article: Unsung Heroes

Vic Damon, 30th Street Studio, Village Vanguard

by Sean Dietrich
August 2, 2010

The oft forgotten recording studio. It's humble presence remains under-acclaimed. Electric lights suspended high above a giant mess of cables. Omniscient microphones standing tall, appraising the heart of arrogant musicians who approach. Scribbled papers rest on music stands, while heated brawls are incubated among hot headed horn players. This is where music is born. And yet ...

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Article: Interview

Denny Zeitlin: Nothing Halfway

by Dan McClenaghan
July 19, 2010

San Francisco-based jazz pianist Denny Zeitlin--aka Dr. Dennis Zeitlin, Psychiatrist--boasts a music career that spans more than fifty years. He began, at a tender young age, playing professionally in the early fifties in his home town of Chicago. He was, very early in his life, interested in the fields of medicine and music, and he has ...

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Article: Album Review

Barrett Deems: Deemus

by Nic Jones
June 20, 2010

Drummer Barrett Deems was a man with a pedigree, who took in stints with violinist Joe Venuti from 1937 to 1944, and a four-year run with trumpeter Louis Armstrong in the 1950s. The first years of the following decade found him keeping the musical company of trombonist Jack Teagarden. All of these affiliations are clues to ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Jason Moran: Ten

by William Carey
June 16, 2010

Jason MoranTenBlue Note Records2010 Ten celebrates the ten year life of the Bandwagon, pianist Jason Moran's trio with bassist Tarus Mateen and drummer Nasheet Waits. The piano trio is a mainstay in the jazz tradition, and here the Bandwagon does a characteristically great job of being firmly in that tradition ...

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News: Obituary

Remembering Hank Jones

May 17, 2010

Hank Jones Biography Henry “Hank" Jones (born July 31, 1918; died May 16, 2010) was an American jazz pianist, bandleader, and composer. Critics and musicians have described Jones as eloquent, lyrical, and impeccable. In 1989, The National Endowment for the Arts honored Hank Jones with its highest honor in jazz, the NEA Jazz Masters Award. He ...