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Article: Rhythm In Every Guise

Shelly Manne: The Three & The Two

by David A. Orthmann
May 23, 2013

"When I'm playing, I think along melodic lines. For instance, I can go up as the notes go up. I may not hit them on the head, but the drums are a very sympathetic instrument and I can sometimes sound like I'm playing the melody without being right in tune. Naturally, I don't have the whole ...

Article: Album Review

Eliane Elias: I Thought About You: A Tribute to Chet Baker

Read "I Thought About You: A Tribute to Chet Baker" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
May 23, 2013

It is tempting to consider Chet Baker hommages like Jeff Baker's excellent Baker Sings Chet (OA2, 2004) or John Proulx's sublime Baker's dozen: Remembering Chet Baker (MAXJAZZ, 2009) superior to the real item. So fractured is our picture of Baker that our full appreciation of him is clouded by his extra-musical proclivities. But it is not ...

Article: Album Review

Terence Blanchard: Magnetic

Read "Magnetic" reviewed by Mark F. Turner

by Mark F. Turner
May 23, 2013

One of today's foremost jazz musicians and composers Terence Blanchard's achievements have soared since his formative days in Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers to a trajectory of successful bands, recordings and award winning film scores such as 2007's A Tale of God's Will (A Requiem for Katrina) (Blue Note). He's still pursuing new challenges with the upcoming ...

Article: Bailey's Bundles

At the Corner: Ran Blake / Sara Serpa / Christine Correa

by C. Michael Bailey
May 23, 2013

The common element between Sara Serpa's Aurora and Christine Correa's Down Here Below is obviously pianist Ran Blake. Enigmatic to a fault, Blake has made a potent name for himself among improvised music enthusiasts. Blake is an intellectual amalgam of pianists Thelonious Monk and Martial Solal distilled to a dissonant essence. A long ...

News: Recording

Music Therapy: Duboc Delivers A Revealing “Smile”

May 23, 2013

Jazz singer-songwriter teams with Jeff Lorber for a deeply personal album about the demise of her marriage Los Angeles, CA: Thinking that everything had fallen apart, the tears streamed down Carol Duboc’s face as she wrote the lyrics to “Smile,” the title track to the soulful jazz vocalist’s stunning sixth album that was released Tuesday (May ...

News: Performance / Tour

Jazz This Week: Freddy Cole and Harry Allen, Soul Rebels, Bluesweek, Dave Dickey Big Band, and More

May 23, 2013

There's a wide variety of jazz and creative music performances coming up this Memorial Day weekend in St. Louis, from straight-ahead jazz to New Orleans brass to big band to fusion and more. Let's go to the highlights... Tonight, singer-pianist Freddy Cole and tenor saxophonist Harry Allen team up for the first of four evenings continuing ...

News: Festival

Atlanta Jazz Festival Gearing Up For Major Concerts On Memorial Day Weekend

May 23, 2013

Atlanta, GA: “Music lovers are in for some incredible performances at the Atlanta Jazz Festival over Memorial Day Weekend, says Camille Russell Love, Director of the City of Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs. “We will kick off the weekend with an evening under the stars at Chastain Park Amphitheatre featuring BWB and special guest Chrisette Michele ...

News: Recording

Jonathan Scales Fourchestra Announces Self-Titled Summer Album Release To Feature Guest Collaborators Victor Wooten And Howard Levy

May 23, 2013

Jonathan Scales Fourchestra are no strangers to pushing musical genre boundaries and on July 9th, Jonathan Scales Fourchestra will release a self-titled album of cerebral tunes that further blur the lines of jazz. Each member of Jonathan Scales Fourchestra contributes a distinctive voice to the ensemble. Wielding steel pans, Jonathan Scales incorporates a contemporary jazz attitude ...

Article: Catching Up With

Alisha Pattillo: Houston by Way of Singapore

by C. Michael Bailey
May 22, 2013

Reed multi-instrumentalist Alisha Pattillo has a ubiquitous presence in Houston Texas, appearing with her own groups, which take on a variety of formats: Alisha's Quartet, Alisha's Quartet + 1 and Alisha's Quartet - 1. She is also the reed player for the Ezra Charles Band and Steve Krase & The in Crowd. Pattillo ...

Article: We Travel the Spaceways

Art Strike!

by Mark Corroto
May 22, 2013

"Would you support an art strike?" That's the question I've been asking musicians for the past few months. “Will you agree to stop writing and performing music for one year?" In 1990 the London artists Stewart Home and Mark Pawson proposed that all artists cease to “make, exhibit, distribute, sell, or discuss their work" for three ...