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Article: Album Review

Borah Bergman/Kidd Jordan/William Parker/Michael Wimberly: Vita Brevis

Read "Vita Brevis" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
July 15, 2014

Vita Brevis represents maverick pianist Borah Bergman's last session before his death at age 85 in 2013. In the liners label boss Joe Chonto speculates that Bergman suffered from undiagnosed Aspberger's syndrome. As such it's perhaps not a surprise that he found his niche in outsider music--the jazz avant-garde. However his musical ability was never in ...

Article: On and Off the Grid

Practice, Do You? Part 1-3

by Dom Minasi
July 15, 2014

I began studying the guitar when I was seven years old. I hated my teacher and I didn't practice much, but when I changed teachers' and I went to Joe Geneli, I regained a love for the guitar that I first had when I was four years old when I first saw Roy Rogers sing and ...

Article: On and Off the Grid

Practice, Do You? Part 2-3

by Dom Minasi
July 15, 2014

Continued from Part 1 I began studying the guitar when I was seven years old. I hated my teacher and I didn't practice much, but when I changed teachers' and I went to Joe Geneli, I regained a love for the guitar that I first had when I was four years old when I ...

Article: On and Off the Grid

Practice, Do You? Part 3-3

by Dom Minasi
July 15, 2014

Continued from Part 2 I began studying the guitar when I was seven years old. I hated my teacher and I didn't practice much, but when I changed teachers' and I went to Joe Geneli, I regained a love for the guitar that I first had when I was four years old when I ...

News: Recording

Clarinetist/Composer/Bandleader Darryl Harper Releases "The Need's Got To Be So Deep" On Hipnotic Records

July 15, 2014

2-CD Set Presents Original & Commissioned Compositions For Duo, Trio, Quartet, Quintet, Octet & Works By Jimmy Giuffre, Carla Bley & Yusef Lateef / Guests Include Violinist Regina Carter, Vocalist Marianne Solivan, Pianist Helen Sung & Guitarist Freddie Bryant In an interview from 1989, during which he discussed “the cultural aesthetics of black jazz,” the Pulitzer ...

News: Performance / Tour

Vocalist Dara Tucker Debuts "The Sun Season" At Smoke Jazz & Supper Club On August 20th Featuring Peter Bernstein, Helen Sung And Donald Edwards

July 15, 2014

Jazz vocalist and songwriter Dara Tucker will celebrate the release of her new CD, The Sun Season, at New York's Smoke Jazz Club (2751 Broadway) on Wednesday, August 20th. The sets will feature pianist Helen Sung, guitarist Peter Bernstein and drummer Donald Edwards, who also appear on the CD. The third of Dara’s studio releases, The ...

News: Education

Brubeck Summer Jazz Colony Goes International: 28 High School Musicians From Around World Part Of Expanded Program

July 15, 2014

The 2014 summer jazz scene has a decidedly international feel. High school jazz musicians from the United Kingdom and Australia will join American counterparts in the Sierra Nevada to hone their skills through rigorous musical instruction and perform two public concerts during the 2014 Brubeck Summer Jazz Colony to be held Aug. 3-8 in Incline Village, ...

Article: Album Review

The New York Standards Quartet: The New Straight Ahead

Read "The New Straight Ahead" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
July 14, 2014

The New York Standards Quartet (aka the NYSQ) formed around 2006, its members sharing a love of standards played with a contemporary edge. This, the band's fourth album, is called The New Straight Ahead. As band name and album title suggest, this is a collection of straight-ahead standards, given new arrangements and “redesigns" by the quartet. ...

Article: My Blue Note Obsession

The Jazz Messengers at the Café Bohemia, Volumes 1 and 2 – Blue Note 1507 and 1508

by Marc Davis
July 14, 2014

Is it possible for a band to be both legendary and underrated? The Jazz Messengers at the Café Bohemia makes that case. Jazz fans know the Jazz Messengers is the definitive, go-to band for straight-ahead hard bop. Art Blakey was both master drummer and master talent scout--the man who co-founded and sustained the celebrated ...

Article: Album Review

Ingrid Laubrock Octet: Zurich Concert

Read "Zurich Concert" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
July 14, 2014

Even though numbering just eight strong, Ingrid Laubrock makes such skillful use of the talented cast at her disposal on Zurich Concert that the band delivers an almost orchestral experience. She achieves that through the deployment of three chordal instruments in Mary Halvorson's guitar, Liam Noble's piano and Ted Reichman's accordion. Not that you would characterize ...