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Emil Viklicky & George Mraz: Mraz & Viklicky: Together Again
by Ian Patterson
In European jazz the assimilation of folkloric influences has become commonplace as the American vernacular--or more specifically the Great American Songbook--exerts less of a hold. Czech musicians pianist Emil Viklický and bassist George Mraz's collaborations on Morava (Fantasy/Milestone 2001)--with drummer Billy Hart and singer Zuzana Lapcikova--and Moravian Gems (Cube-Métier 2007) with singer/violinist Iva Bittova and drummer ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Tommy Flanagan
All About Jazz is celebrating Tommy Flanagan's birthday today! Rarely has such unanimously unstinting praise been bestowed on a less self-congratulatory recipient. As genial and matter-of-fact off the stand as he is fiercely individual at the keys, Tommy Flanagan handles his world class ranking with an equanimity, a modesty, an easy friendliness not always associated with ...
Tommy Flanagan: Germany, 1999
In the summer of 1999, pianist Tommy Flanagan appeared at the Jazz Baltica Festival—held on the grounds of the Salzau Palace near Kiel, Germany, and a few miles from the Baltic Sea. With Flanagan were Lewis Nash on drums and Peter Washington on bass, with appearances by Bobby Hutcherson on vibes and Johnny Griffin on tenor ...
Tommy Flanagan / Jaki Byard: The Magic Of 2
Label: Resonance Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: Introduction; Scrapple From The Apple; Just One Of Those Things; Satin Doll; Something To Live For; Send One Your Love; Our Delight; All Day Long; Sunday; Chelsea Bridge; Land Of Make Believe; The Theme.
The Magic of 2
Label: Resonance Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: Introduction; Scrapple From the Apple; Just One of Those Things; Satin Doll;
Something to Live For; Send One Your Love; Our Delight; All Day Long; Sunday;
Chelsea Bridge; Land of Make Believe; the theme.
Tommy Flanagan / Jaki Byard: The Magic of 2
Label: Resonance Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: Introduction; Scrapple from the Apple; Just One of Those Things; Satin
Doll; Something to Live For; Send One Your Love; Our Delight; All Day
Long; Sunday; Chelsea Bridge; The Land of Make Believe; The Theme.
Dan Bilawsky's Best Releases Of 2013
by Dan Bilawsky
The annual rite of writing a “best of" list at All About Jazz is a most pleasurable and difficult task; pleasurable for the reflections on great art that come along with the task and difficult because of the need to make hard choices. I've been inspired by dozens of new jazz recordings this year, but I've ...
Mike Jones Trio: Plays Well with Others
by Jack Bowers
Pianist Mike Jones not only Plays Well with Others, he plays well--period. Using a sharp, two-fisted style that hearkens back to Dave McKenna, Dick Hyman and even Earl Hines, undergirded by a buoyant melodicism worthy of Barry Harris, Tommy Flanagan or his namesake Hank Jones, it's clear there's not much that Jones can't accomplish musically with ...
Dwayne Burno: Tradition
by George Colligan
[ Editor's Note: The following interview is reprinted from George Colligan's blog, Jazztruth] Dwayne Burno is one of the great bass players of his generation. Originally from Philadelphia, Burno has been on the New York and international jazz scene since 1990. He has played with so many of the great legends of jazz: Betty ...
David Berkman: Anecdotes
by George Colligan
[ Editor's Note: The following interview is reprinted from George Colligan's blog, Jazztruth] David Berkman is a jazz pianist who in the past few decades has played with many of the major names in jazz, including Tom Harrell, Cecil McBee, and the Vanguard Orchestra. He has released a number of CDs on the Palmetto ...
