Results for "Tommy Flanagan"

Gerry Mulligan / J.J. Johnson / Sarah Vaughan / Misha Mengelberg & Piet Noordijk: Live At Concertgebouw

by David Rickert
September 15, 2011

The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam was a stop for quite a few notable jazz musicians during the 1950s and '60s, and for the past few years the Dutch Jazz Archive has released a concert from their archive at the rate of one per year. Judging by what has been released, it seems that many of these musicians ...

Sonny Rollins: On Impulse / There Will Never Be Another You

by Greg Simmons
August 12, 2011

What could be better than an album by Sonny Rollins? Two albums by Sonny Rollins, especially a reissue of two treasured Impulse! releases--On Impulse! (1965) and There Will Never Be Another You (1978)--in their entirety, on a single 75-minute CD. That's a lot of satisfying tenor time with the Saxophone Colossus. On the heels ...

New Release from Ella Fitzgerald "Ella In Japan" On Hip-O Select / Verve

April 7, 2011

Ella Fitzgerald reigns supreme as one of the great, if not the greatest, singers of all time. She was a prolific performer, both on stage and in the studio—and, as we saw in late 2009, with the release of Ella In Hollywood, the 4-CD box set of jaw-dropping unreleased live recordings, a never-ending source of surprises. ...

Jazz Musician of the Day: Tommy Flanagan

March 16, 2011

All About Jazz is celebrating Tommy Flanagan's birthday today! Tommy FlanaganRarely 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... more Website | Photos | Articles Follow Tommy Flanagan ...

Raincheck

Featuring the music of Tommy Flanagan
Duration: 5:18
March 16, 2011

Barry Harris: Live In Rennes

by Dan Bilawsky
January 10, 2011

The city of Detroit was once an incubator for some of the greatest jazz piano talent in the world. Hank Jones, Tommy Flanagan and Sir Roland Hanna all came from the Motor City and contributed volumes to jazz history. Sadly, all three of those giants are gone now, but Barry Harris is keeping the flame alive. ...

Cyrus Chestnut Trio: Journeys

by Larry Taylor
December 30, 2010

During a career spanning 20 years, Cyrus Chestnut has risen to be one of the most esteemed and productive of jazz pianists. Journeys makes 16 recordings under his name. He regularly performs with his trio and is the go-to guy on numerous recording dates and gigs. Having apprenticed with the incomparable vocalist Betty ...

Geri Allen Quartet at the Kimmel Center

by Victor L. Schermer
December 10, 2010

Geri Allen QuartetJazz Up Close Celebrates Thelonious Monk SeriesKimmel Center for the Performing Arts, Perelman TheaterPhiladelphia, PA December 4, 2010 Once, when asked to define “jazz," Count Basie simply replied, “Tap your feet." At this December, 2010 concert, the fourth member of pianist Geri Allen's quartet turned out to do ...

Adrian Iaies Trio: A Child's Smile

by Raul d'Gama Rose
September 1, 2010

On A Child's Smile, Adrian Iaies sheds the Argentinean persona that occasionally shrouds his music. Here the pianist has become a complete, swaggering, swinging entity, and one who melds his mentors--Hank Jones, Tommy Flanagan, Wynton Kelly, Red Garland and principally Bill Evans--into an entirely new entity. The result is a brooding artist who looks deep within ...

Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2010

by Jakob Baekgaard
July 26, 2010

Copenhagen Jazz Festival Various Venues Copenhagen, Denmark July 2-11, 2010With the current crisis of the major record labels and the folding of venues all over the world, it could be argued that jazz, as an art form, has entered the age of survival where it is simply a basic matter of ...