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Playdate: Playdate
by Dan Bilawsky
While children spend after school-hours and weekends working on homework and spending time with their families, they also have play dates. They get together with other like-minded friends to let loose and blow off some steam. Musicians often do the same thing and, appropriately enough, three of the five performers on Playdate have been friends since ...
John Zorn: O'o
by Stuart Broomer
When John Zorn released The Dreamers (Tzadik) in 2008, it might have seemed like a temporary aberration: Zorn the master of the arbitrary (Cobra), the cutting edge (Torture Garden) and the anarchic (too many projects to mention) had embraced the genres of lounge and 1950s exotica to produce music that, perhaps ironically, approached easy listening, building ...
The Anatomy of Vince Guaraldi
In 1963, Vince Guaraldi and Ralph J. Gleason (co-founder of Rolling Stone magazine and the Monterey Jazz Festival) collaborated on a film that offered a unique perspective on how Vince's classic song “Cast Your Fate To The Wind" crossed over from the jazz world to the pop charts, and influenced the next generation of American music. ...
The Definitive Vince Guaraldi
Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 2009
Track listing: CD1: Calling Dr. Funk; Fascinating Rhythm; Never Never Land; Fenwyck's Farfel; A Flower Is A Lovesome Thing; Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise; Samba de Orfeu; Cast Your Fate To the Wind; Mahna de Carnaval; Moon River; Jitterbug Waltz; On Green Dolphin Street; Star Song; The Days of Wine and Roses. CD2: Mr Lucky; Corcovado; Work Song; Ginza Samba; The Girl From Ipanema; El Matador; Oh, Good Grief; Linus and Lucy; Charlie Brown Theme; Great Pumpkin Waltz; Thanksgiving Theme; Christmas Is Coming; Christmas Time Is Here; Skating; Theme to Grace; Autumn Leaves; Blues For Peanuts.
A Cool World Christmas: Carla Bley, Trio West and Wynton Marsalis
by C. Michael Bailey
It is easy to be cynical about holiday music. On the mainstream popular music front, these releases are often nakedly commercial, marketed with a fixed (and very large) target population in mind. And a good many of such recordings are truly bad. In the run up to Christmas 2009, the marketplace is clotted with a legion ...
On Guaraldi, on the Radio
Tomorrow morning, November 28, I will be with Scott Simon, host of National Public Radio's Weekend Edition Saturday to discuss Vince Guaraldi. I had the privilege of writing the essay accompanying the new two-CD compilation of Guaraldi recordings. Celebrated for his Charlie Brown Christmas music, Guaraldi is the focus of a Weekend Edition feature. Mr. Simon ...
Vince Guaraldi: The Definitive Vince Guaraldi
by David Rickert
Many of us were turned on to jazz before we even knew what it was, thanks to Vince Guaraldi. His soundtracks for the Peanuts television specials were a novel idea in cartoon scoring, yet seemed to perfectly fit the deceptively sophisticated adventures of Charlie Brown and the rest of the Peanuts gang. His originals were some ...
The State of the Piano 2009: Cyrus Chestnut and Jessica Williams
by C. Michael Bailey
The jazz palette is long and wide. Within any given performance format there exist seminal artists as different as saxophonists John Coltrane and Lester Young, trumpeters Miles Davis and Lester Bowie, and pianists Art Tatum and Gene Harris. When speaking of solo piano performances, two beacons performing today are Cyrus Chestnut and Jessica Williams. ...
Deck the Halls with Big Band Carols
by Jack Bowers
With the holiday season on track and hastening toward us like a runaway locomotive, it's time once again to hunker down and prepare for the annual onslaught of “Rudolph," “Frosty the Snowman," “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus," “Sleigh Ride," “Silver Bells," chestnuts roasting on an open fire and everyone's perennial favorite, “White Christmas." Not to ...
