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Jazz at the Kennedy Center: A Year in Review and a Glance at 2005
by Franz A. Matzner
2004 was another outstanding year for jazz at the Kennedy Center, with a diverse and superlative roster of musicians along with a series of outstanding mini-festivals that confirmed the Kennedy Center's status as one of the top jazz centers in the world. Under the guidance of jazz phenomenon and educator Dr. Billy Taylor, ...
Jack DeJohnette and John Surman at the Seattle Art Museum
by Jack Gold-Molina
Jack DeJohnette and John Surman Earshot Jazz Festival Seattle Art Museum October 26, 2002 The evening began with a kind of mood piece. With a background of ambient sound programmed into a sequencer and English reeds player John Surman complementing with bass clarinet, Jack DeJohnette read poetry by Walt Whitman, ...
Moutin Reunion Quartet at Blues Alley
by Franz A. Matzner
Twins, bassist Francois and drummer Louis Moutin have been playing together since they first picked up their respective instruments at age five. As one can imagine, over the years these two extraordinary musicians have formed a musical bond of the deepest level. The fruition of their musical relationship, however, seems to have come after several years ...
Hidden Heights: Brian Horton at HR-57
by Franz A. Matzner
One of the most enjoyable and distinguishing aspects of jazz is its capacity to shift one night to the next, one venue to another, from moment to moment. Different groupings of musicians performing the same compositions, the same players performing as trios or quartets, or with one member the leader a given night, another the following ...
Ecstatic Swing: Winard Harper Sextet Plays the KC Jazz Club
by Franz A. Matzner
It's been said so often that we've all come to believe it, at least a little bit. Jazz is dead. A moribund art form housed in an ivory cage, academia sponsored, and fellowship sustained. A “museum" art that despite occasional dusting serves only as a bridge to the hailer periods of yesteryear. Depending on who you're ...
Sounding Sinatra: Tierney Sutton Performs at the Kennedy Center
by Franz A. Matzner
As good as a recording may be, there is just no substitute for a live performance. More often than not, an album can obscure hidden talents, and even the best releases, no matter how powerful, lack the vitality and immediacy of music in the flesh. Tierney Sutton's recent performance at the Kennedy Center's Jazz Club proved ...
Matt, Martin, and William: The Other MMW
by Matt Merewitz
The title of a recent AAJ interview, “ When Mays Plays, Musicians Listen ,” doesn’t fully fully tell the whole story about torch pianist Bill Mays. Not only musicians dig Mays. Non-musician audiences around the world enjoy his shows too. Perhaps this can be attributed to his versatility as an artist. The flexible pianist who spent ...
Joe McCarthy & The Afro-Bop Alliance
by Matt Merewitz
Not many Latin bands are making it these days without a singer. If you live in an urban area, you may notice the plethora of channels on your car radio playing salsa, meringue and cha-cha... they all feature a heaping dose of vocalists. Vocals may be an important part of the tradition, though it's the instrumentalists ...
Pianist James Williams Re-Opens Defunct Jazz Dive
by Matt Merewitz
Audience rapport is the true key for pianist James Williams. The Memphis-born Jazz Messenger alum has an urbane aura in his voice and his mannerisms that translate to his playing. He is a torch pianist much in the Ellingtonian tradition and fittingly has a special penchant for Strayhorn’s main d’oeuvre. What strikes me about Williams is ...
Monty Alexander Brings Reggae Jazz to Blue's Alley
by Franz A. Matzner
Monty Alexander is a profoundly entertaining storyteller. It might be better to state that still more precisely. Monty Alexander is a profound and entertaining story teller, and the truly distinctive quality of his performances is that it becomes impossible to discern the one from the other. This highly potent, heterogeneous concoction is just ...
