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Article: Book Review

Idris Muhammad with Britt Alexander: Inside The Music – The Life of Idris Muhammad

by Dave Wayne
April 27, 2013

Inside the Music: The Life of Idris Muhammad Idris Muhammad with Britt Alexander 235 pages ISBN: 978-1-4691-9216-1 XLibris Corporation 2012 In popular music, particularly before musicians' credit listings became the norm on records, drummers --and really all rhythm section stalwarts--worked in obscurity no matter how brilliant their playing was. ...

Article: Album Review

The VJE: It's About Time

Read "It's About Time" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
April 27, 2013

In 2006 drummer Josh Feldstein established the Verve Jazz Ensemble, a contemporary jazz group playing standards and straight ahead material in the finest venues throughout the Connecticut area without having an album to their credit until this appropriately-titled recording debut It's About Time. On tap are an array of jazz standards featuring new arrangements and dynamic ...

Article: Book Review

Alan Light: The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, and the Unlikely Ascent of "Hallelujah"

by Nenad Georgievski
April 27, 2013

The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, and the Unlikely Ascent of “Hallelujah" Alan Light pp. 288 ISBN: 1451657846 2012 For ages musicologists, psychologists, producers and people alike have tried to decipher or unravel the secret of what makes certain songs so likeable and popular, even to give ...

News: Performance / Tour

The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, April 26 - May 2

April 27, 2013

Rumors of spring weather and certainties of hot jazz give us plenty to anticipate in the coming week. Certainly the weekend boasts one of the most eagerly awaited “homecomings" for fans of modern improvised music with Craig Taborn's night at the Walker; JazzMN closes out its season; Insurgent returns in trio format at Studio Z; Diana ...

Article: Jazz Emerges

Part 4: Trumpeter Percy and Clarinetist Willie Humphrey On Tour and At Home

by William Carter
April 26, 2013

Listen to “St. Louis Blues" class="meta-date"> In a long caption in my book, Preservation Hall (W.W. Norton, 1991), I told the story, quoted below, of the Humphreys' long lives and distinguished lineage. I never met their trombonist brother, Earl, who died ...

Article: Album Review

Stirrup: Sewn

by Troy Collins
April 26, 2013

The collective trio Stirrup is a salient example of the genre-defying cooperative spirit that defines Chicago's creative improvised music scene. Accustomed to collaborating with a wide variety of artists, these three musicians seamlessly incorporate an array of influences and approaches on Sewn, their debut recording as a trio.Drawing upon the folksy lyricism that underpins ...

Article: Bailey's Bundles

Transcription Prescription: Michele Campanella and Jon Kimura Parker

by C. Michael Bailey
April 26, 2013

Piano reductions of orchestral and vocal scores are a tradition meeting two ends. First, for the transcriber to show off his arrangement and performance abilities. Franz Liszt made a cottage industry of this. Second, to produce sheet music that could be played by the amateur in their perfectly appointed parlor before tea time (queue Beethoven's Symphony ...

Article: Album Review

Secret Keeper (Stephan Crump & Mary Halvorson): Super 8

Read "Super 8" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
April 26, 2013

Bassist Stephan Crump and guitarist Mary Halvorson kindled the fire in 2011 during their initial encounter, leading to these sessions recorded in Brooklyn, N.Y. Of course, the respective artists are highly revered within modern jazz schemas and the outside realm, spanning a global presence as first-call session artists, paralleling their solo ventures. Hence, the duo crafts ...

Article: Album Review

Renee Yoxon and Mark Ferguson: Here We Go Again

Read "Here We Go Again" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
April 26, 2013

Here We Go Again is Canadian singer/songwriter Renee Yoxon's follow-up to 2010's Let's Call It A Day (Self Produced). She teams with pianist/trombonist Mark Ferguson for a dozen original compositions that are refreshingly familiar, meaning they all have a traditional form and mainstream sensibility that softens the blow to even the most stalwart traditionalist deaf to ...

News: Festival

Harlem Jazz Shrines Fest: Legends On The Bandstand with Heath/Hart/Mance/Sands

April 26, 2013

Jazzmobile, Inc. Presents Minton’s Playhouse: Legends on the Bandstand at Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival May 6 and 8 Third Annual Festival, Presented by The Apollo Theater, Harlem Stage and Jazzmobile, Inc., Celebrates Historic Harlem Venues May 6 – 11, 2013 Harlem, USA – Jazz was born in New Orleans, but it grew up in Harlem in ...