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Loose Tubes: Dancing On Frith Street
by Bruce Lindsay
Twenty years after the legendary Loose Tubes played its final gigs, Dancing On Frith Street, a live album taken from those valedictory performances at London's Ronnie Scott's Club in September 1990, offers a chance for jazz fans of a certain age to reminisce, and an opportunity for those who missed the band's performances the first time ...
Bobby Zankel: Peaceful Jazz Warrior
by Victor L. Schermer
For many decades, Philadelphia has been home to a cadre of multi-generational jazz musicians who go on year-after-year composing, arranging and performing some of the best, highest level music to be heard anywhere. This tradition is exemplified in no better way than by alto saxophonist, composer and bandleader Bobby Zankel. Zankel apprenticed with legendary ...
Top Ten Electric Miles Davis Recordings
I decided to list my top ten favorite Miles Davis recordings of the electric period. Miles is not just one of the biggest musicians of all time, but one of the biggest artists of all time—regardless of discipline. His entire career output is of the highest quality, extremely forward thinking, and extremely varied. I am a ...
A Fascinating Exhibition in Paris, France, That Pays Homage to Miles Davis (1926 - 1991)
By Regine Coqueran-Gelin The exhibition “We want Miles - Miles Davis le jazz face a sa legende" is on until the 17th January 2010 at the Musee de la musique in La Villette, in Paris, France. It is an unusual exhibition that gives jazz a rare opportunity to look inside itself and to be seen and ...
Toshiko Akiyoshi - Lew Tabackin Big Band: Mosaic Select
by Samuel Chell
Jazz was never more schizophrenic than in the 1970s. On the one hand, musicians equally savvy about mixing genres and running mixing boards were selling out arenas and producing lucrative, widely played albums, with bass-heavy danceable beats or soothing instrumental sounds tailor-made for air play on FM radio. At the other extreme, many of the jazz ...
1959--Jazz's Greatest Year - Columbia/Legacy Celebrates 50th Anniversary of "Time Out, "Sketches of Spain," and "Mingus Ah Um"
Genre-defining albums by Columbia artists Miles Davis (Kind of Blue, Sketches of Spain), Dave Brubeck (Time Out) and Charles Mingus (Mingus Ah Um) all celebrate their 50th anniversaries in 2009, alongside John Coltrane's Giant Steps and Ornette Coleman's The Shape of Jazz To Come Following the release of Kind of Blue: Legacy Edition in January, Columbia/Legacy ...
Barney McAll: One to Watch
by AAJ Staff
This interview was first published in 2001. All About Jazz: First, if you don't mind, tell me some other biographical details (where did you study?) Barney McAll: I was born in Melbourne Australia. I started playing piano at seven years old. My older brother John, was very influential on me ...
It's the Economy, Man!
by Jack Bowers
Even though the present (and future) state of the economy here in the States is no laughing matter, there has been at least one tongue-in-cheek article about jazz musicians seeking bailout money from Congress and the Bush administration (still in power when it was written last December). It's presented as a straight “news" story, but musicians' ...
Study in Contrast
By Teo Macero
Label: Teo Productions Inc.
Released: 2008
Track listing: Inner World; Blues For Roseann; Break Out; Waterfalls; Pandora's Box; Slow and Easy; Hell's Comin' and Hell's Comin' With Me; Wishy Washy Tadpole Blues; I Want Your Brain.
Teo Macero Presents The Inner World Band: Study in Contrast
by Ivana Ng
Teo Macero, who while at Columbia Records produced many Miles Davis records from Kind of Blue (1959) to Bitches Brew (1969), as well as other seminal discs like Dave Brubeck's Time Out (1959) and Ellington's Blues in Orbit (1958), passed away in February at age 82. Study in Contrast, recorded in 2007 with the NYU Steinhardt ...
