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Chris Walden Big Band: No Bounds
by Victor L. Schermer
No Bounds is as tasteful a big band album as you're likely to hear today, at a time when large jazz ensembles compete in virtuousity, intensity, range and--unfortunately--volume. Every note on the disc is well-placed, in tune and, even when dissonant, pleasing to the ears. That's because Walden knows music from top to bottom, having been ...
The Bernard Peiffer Legacy
by Victor L. Schermer
Bernard Peiffer was a genius of a jazz pianist who became so relegated to oblivion that his son had to dig out audio tapes from various performances to make a recording 29 years after his father's death in 1976. What a travesty of justice that a man of such talent, such brilliance, such profound influence on ...
The Story Of Jazz
by Victor L. Schermer
The Story Of Jazz Marshall W. Stearns Paperback; 380 pages ISBN: 0195012690 Oxford University Press 1970 2006 is the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of this classic of jazz scholarship.Recently, as I departed from Philadelphia to Europe, a friend gave me a book to ...
The Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band in Concert
by Victor L. Schermer
Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band Mellon Jazz Fridays The Kimmel Center, Philadelphia April 21. 2006 Quite frankly, jazz fans, I really don't know how to review this concert, other than to relate my impressions as they come to me. So much was going on. In aesthetics, there is a concept ...
Pat Martino: A Tribute to Wes
by Victor L. Schermer
When I first heard Pat Martino perform, a series of exclamation points went off in my brain. (Like wow!!! How did he do that!!!?) Like most listeners, I was blown away by his technique. Even on his earliest recordings with Willis Jackson, when Pat was just a kid starting out in the business, his rapid-fire improvisational ...
Marcus Roberts Trio and the SFJAZZ Collective
by Victor L. Schermer
Marcus Roberts Trio and The SFJAZZ Collective Kimmel Center, Verizon Hall Philadelphia, PA March 24, 2006 The Mellon Jazz Festival at the Kimmel Center has had consistently fine programming, with top names, innovative ideas, variety to suit every taste (from Tony Bennett to Ornette Coleman), and its fair ...
Bernard Peiffer: Formidable...!
by Victor L. Schermer
Bernard Peiffer was a genius of a jazz pianist who became so relegated to oblivion that his son had to dig out audio tapes from various performances to make this recording 29 years after his father's death. What a travesty of justice that a man of such talent, brilliance, and profound influence on his students and ...
Tony Miceli: Mallet Magic
by Victor L. Schermer
Tony Miceli is a jazz artist well known in Philadelphia music circles and receiving increasing exposure nationally and internationally. He is a vibraphonist of astonishing virtuosity and musical resilience and inventiveness. Above and beyond his mastery of the instrument itself, Tony is a creative force in the musical community. For instance, in the late 1990's, he ...
"Simone": Honoring the Legacy of Nina Simone
by Victor L. Schermer
Nina Simone was one of the finest female vocalists of the twentieth century. Indeed in the opinion of Elton John and others, she was the greatest of them all. In addition, she left her mark not only on music but also on the Civil Rights Movement and the social and political history of our country and ...
Fred Hersch: In Amsterdam: Live at the Bimhuis
by Victor L. Schermer
A whole evening or an entire album of solo improvisation is the ultimate challenge to any keyboardist's ability to sustain the listener's interest. It takes quite a bit of daring, or else a feeling that one has “arrived as a master, to risk such an enterprise. Oscar Peterson, Bill Evans, Keith Jarrett and Brad Mehldau have ...
