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Article: Album Review

Mike Longo and the New York State of the Art Jazz Ensemble: Live from New York!

Read "Live from New York!" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
January 7, 2014

The fourth album by pianist Mike Longo's stalwart New York State of the Art Jazz Ensemble is the first one recorded in front of an audience, in May 2013 at the New York City Baha'i Center's John Birks Gillespie Auditorium. On the one hand, Live from New York! offers the kind of spontaneity and high spirits ...

News: Festival

Winter Jazzfest 2014

January 7, 2014

New York’s Winter Jazzfest opens a five-day run tomorrow, celebrating its tenth year featuring musicians who operate on the leading edge of the music. The atmosphere of adventurism does not necessarily indicate that the artists are all young revolutionaries. Among the dozens of seasoned players appearing in clubs and concert halls throughout Manhattan will be Gary ...

News: Festival

Blue Note Entertainment Group Celebrates New Orleans With First-Annual New York Brass And Heritage Festival

January 7, 2014

New Orleans Comes to New York this January with performances from renowned artists at venues throughout New York City, including Blue Note Jazz Club, B.B. King Blues Club and Grill, The Highline Ballroom New York, NY — Blue Note Entertainment Group is pleased to announce its first-annual NEW YORK BRASS AND HERITAGE FESTIVAL, a celebration of ...

News: Performance / Tour

Michael Janisch With Special Concert Dates In US Midwest Set For January 2014

January 7, 2014

Whirlwind Recordings label boss and internationally-acclaimed bassist and producer Michael Janisch will be performing a series of special concerts in Midwest America in late January this year with a stellar cast of musicians from NYC in Patrick Cornelius, Philip Dizack, Matthew Stevens and Clarence Penn. On the 23rd, a Whirlwind Recordings Showcase Event for Janisch’s performance ...

Article: Album Review

Luiz Ebert / Fidel Cuellar: Audiograph

Read "Audiograph" reviewed by Mark F. Turner

by Mark F. Turner
January 6, 2014

A microcosmic view of life in New York City, Audiograph is more than just a clever play on words. This collection of “sound photographs" by drummer Luiz Ebert and pianist Fidel Cuellar audibly envisions some of their experiences and memories in the “City That Never Sleeps." It's a phrase made iconic by singer Liza Minnelli in ...

Article: Album Review

Ben Allison: The Stars Look Very Different Today

Read "The Stars Look Very Different Today" reviewed by Troy Collins

by Troy Collins
January 6, 2014

Conservatory-educated jazz musicians often follow a similar developmental path as they mature, typically expanding the relatively narrow focus of their academic training to reexamine the non-jazz related music styles that initially inspired them. Take the young lions of the pre-millennial era for example; most have extended their purview beyond straight-ahead hard bop to incorporate aspects of ...

Article: Record Label Profile

Music Matters slows it down

by Greg Simmons
January 6, 2014

Music Matters is pulling a fast one. For the past several years they've been hawking a series of reissues of the classic Blue Note Records catalogue of the 1950s and 60s. The defining features of this series have been that they've all been re-mastered from the original session tapes by mastering guru Kevin Gray and, in ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Maria Baptist: Music for Jazz Orchestra

by Jack Bowers
January 6, 2014

Like it or not, a new wave of young composer / arrangers has surfaced, scrupulously guiding big bands into heretofore uncharted waters, now and then smooth, at other times choppy, but always intriguing and inspired. Maria Schneider, George Gruntz, Jim McNeely and Carla Bley were among the pacesetters, followed in short order by such (relative) newcomers ...

Article: Shrinktunes

The Mingus Excerpt

by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
January 6, 2014

“The Mingus Excerpt" shows a sweet side of Charles Mingus that few people saw or could imagine. After all, his nickname was “The Angry Man of Jazz," and most biographical material supports that designation in one way or other. But for all his bluster and bombast, there was also generosity and kindness. This story ...

News: Book / Magazine

Don Drummond: The Genius And Tragedy Of The World’s Greatest Trombonist By Heather Augustyn With Foreword By Delfeayo Marsalis Released

January 6, 2014

Don Drummond: The Genius and Tragedy of the World’s Greatest Trombonist by Heather Augustyn has been published by McFarland Publishing and is now available. The book is a comprehensive biography of a brilliant musician and his lover who forever shaped the course of ska, reggae, and popular music worldwide despite poverty, class separation, mental illness, racial ...