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The Latin Tinge: Big Band Style
by C. Michael Bailey
Jazz is a unique gift the United States has given the world and the world has shown its gratitude. In its Nordic big bands and Italian small combos; in Swiss and German record labels, which have made sound recording an art form; in France and the Netherlands, two countries that have welcomed African-American expatriates and enabled ...
Arturo O'Farrill and the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra: Song For Chico
by Dan McClenaghan
Arturo O'Farrill's Song for Chico is a disc that would have done the old man proud. The “Chico" of the title is Cuban-born Arturo “Chico" O'Farrill, the senior (b.1921; d.2001), the visionary Latin jazz composer who wrote, most famously, the “Afro-Cuban Jazz Suite," recorded in 1950 by Machito and his Afro-Cuban Orchestra, with none other than ...
Avery Sharpe: Legends & Mentors
by Woodrow Wilkins
Typically, when an instrumentalist or solo artist creates new music, the instrument carries most of the leads. That's not necessarily the case with acoustic bass players. In a class that includes Rufus Reid, Harvie S and Charles Fambrough, Avery Sharpe presents music that features the entire ensemble more than himself.Sharpe, a native of Valdosta, ...
Upcoming "Harlem in the Himalayas" Shows in April
Friday, April 11, 2008 HARLEM IN THE HIMALAYAS Performer: Joey Calderazzo, Pianist 7:00 pm | Rubin Museum of Art 150 West 17th Street -NYC Box Office: 212.620.5000 ext. 344 $18 in advance | $20 at door Piano - Joey Calderazzo Joey Calderazzo is one of the ...
Drummer/Composer Bill Stewart Releases New CD "Incandescence" on Pirouet Records
Pirouet Records/ Release Date: April 1, 2008 Bill Stewart-Incandescence Bill Stewart - Drums Larry Goldings -Hammond Organ, Accordion Kevin Hays - Piano Drummer/Composer Bill Stewart releases new CD “Incandescence" (PIT3028) on Pirouet Records One set of drums and two sets of keyboards - that's a combination with a ...
Marc Copland / Gary Peacock / Bill Stewart at Birdland, NYC
by Budd Kopman
Marc Copland/Gary Peacock/Bill Stewart at Birdland, NYCBirdlandNew York City, New YorkMarch 20, 2008 However much we might wish that jazz, or indeed any art, be devoid of any relationship to economics, the the numerous extra-musical things that go into making a record, from promoting it to setting up a gig, ...
Hans Glawischnig: Panorama
by Troy Collins
Since moving to New York in the early nineties, Austrian-born bassist Hans Glawischnig has worked regularly with such esteemed artists as Bobby Watson, Maynard Ferguson and James Moody. Regular gigs with Latin jazz legends Ray Barretto and David Sanchez helped position Glawischnig as a stellar, if unlikely, interpreter of Afro-Latin traditions. His debut album, ...
Avery Sharpe: Legends & Mentors
by Budd Kopman
There are those who take jazz to be part of a larger racial identity, and hence define its characteristics within that framework. Others, however--while not neglecting jazz's origins--point to its essence being individual expression, with the main rule being that there are no rules. The tension between the two viewpoints is palpable; but in the end, ...
Avery Sharpe: Legends and Mentors
by Troy Collins
Over the last three decades bassist Avery Sharpe has been a stalwart sideman to some of the biggest names in jazz. Legends and Mentors is an homage to three of his closest colleagues, pianist McCoy Tyner and saxophonists Archie Shepp and Yusef Lateef. As McCoy Tyner's principle bassist for the past 20 years, Sharpe ...
Grupa Janke Randalu: Live
by Jerry D'Souza
Grupka Janke Randalu is the collaboration between pianist Kristjan Randalu and percussionist Bodek Janke (percussion). They have developed a compact rapport over the twenty years they have been playing together, apparent in the way they respond to each other, get into a conversation and take their music to a higher level by developing thoughts and impulses. ...
