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"Melba!," A Tribute To Melba Liston By Saxophonist/Composer Geof Bradfield, To Be Released By Origin Records April 16
Saxophonist/composer Geof Bradfield’s new CD Melba!, which Origin Records will release on April 16, has been a long time coming. Bradfield’s suite for jazz septet, a tribute to the great yet underheralded arranger/trombonist Melba Liston (1926-1999), received its premiere performances last summer in Chicago and other Midwest cities. It was supported by a commission from Chamber ...
Caswell Sisters featuring Fred Hersch: Alive In The Singing Air
by Dan Bilawsky
Sibling acts in jazz are fairly common, but sister acts are not. The Brothers Dorsey, Jones, Montgomery, Heath, Brecker, and Marsalis are familiar to any jazz fan with a passing knowledge of the music's history, but female counterparts are scarce. Thankfully, that trend is changing, proving that jazz is not a man's--or brother's--world. Today, we have ...
Tommy Flanagan / Jaki Byard: The Magic Of 2
by Dan Bilawsky
San Francisco's famed Keystone Korner shuttered its doors in 1983, but it's getting more press today than plenty of clubs that are still serving up jazz. In the past two years alone, a previously unreleased live recording of trumpeter Freddie Hubbard--Pinnacle (Resonance, 2011)--launched Resonance Records' Keystone Korner Live Discoveries series, photographer Kathy Sloane released Keystone Korner: ...
Tommy Flanagan / Jaki Byard: The Magic of 2
by Dan McClenaghan
One of San Francisco's most famous jazz venues, Keystone Korner, closed in 1983. It was a favorite venue of the top jazz players of the day, and several landmark live albums by pianists Bill Evans and McCoy Tyner, and saxophonists Rahsaan Roland Kirk and Stan Getz, resulted from shows taped inside its hallowed hall.The ...
Pharez Whitted: For The People
by Ian Patterson
Saxophonist Pharez Whitted has had an unusual recording career. Fourteen years separated Mysterious Cargo (Motown Records, 1996) from Transient Journey (Owl Studios, 2010), as Whitted dedicated himself to jazz education and sideman appearances with the likes of drummer Elvin Jones, trumpeter Wynton Marsalis and pianist Ramsey Lewis. In this context, For the People comes after a ...
Tommy Flanagan / Jaki Byard: The Magic of 2
by C. Michael Bailey
The story of this previously unreleased performance by pianists Tommy Flanagan and Jaki Byard at San Francisco's famous Keystone Korner begins with its unusual distributing label, Resonance Records. The original brainchild of studio owner George Kalbin, the label exists as part of the larger endeavor, the non-profit Rising Jazz Stars Foundation, dedicated to the discovery and ...
Anthony Branker & Word Play: Uppity
by Dan McClenaghan
On Uppity, Dr. Anthony Branker, Director of Jazz Studies at Princeton University, has created a life-affirming, sometimes funky, and straight-through beautiful set of sounds--an ode to the resiliency and basic goodness of the human spirit.Branker began his jazz journey as a trumpeter, but complications from a brain aneurysm in 1999 brought his trumpet playing ...
Origin Records To Release "Uppity," By Composer/Bandleader Anthony Branker & His Sextet Word Play, March 19
On the provocatively titled Uppity, Anthony Branker’s second CD with his all-star sextet Word Play, the prolific composer and bandleader harnesses his vibrant jazz originals and his band’s dynamic interplay to deliver a bracing social and spiritual message. Uppity will be released by Origin Records March 19. His “Ballad for Trayvon Martin,” one of the album’s ...
East Coast Tour Dates Announced By Bassist Jeff Denson & His Quartet
Bassist and composer Jeff Denson introduced his commanding new quartet last year on the CD Secret World (Between the Lines), followed by a West Coast fall tour. This spring, Denson has scheduled several East Coast dates to feature the band, which consists of German-born pianist Florian Weber, captivating trumpeter Ralph Alessi, and the singularly versatile drummer ...
All-Star Session By Bassist/Composer Robert Hurst, "BoB: A Palindrome," Due For March 12 Release
Bassist Robert Hurst is an M.V.P.—a long-standing member of Diana Krall’s and Chris Botti’s touring bands, an esteemed colleague of jazz stars like Branford Marsalis and Robert Glasper, and most recently a key player on Sir Paul McCartney’s Grammy-winning Kisses on the Bottom. But Hurst’s own recordings, with his compositions and his bands front and center, ...
