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Frank Lacy & the Smalls Legacy Band: Live at Smalls
by Angelo Leonardi
Da un paio d'anni il trombonista Frank Lacy guida un sestetto di giovani emergenti che ora presenta in questo scintillante compact live, tratto da due serate (16 e 17 ottobre 2012) allo Smalls Jazz Club di New York. Ku-umba mette in evidenza la lunga esperienza di hard-bopper svolta nei gruppi di McCoy Tyner, ...
The Ryan Oliver Quartet: Strive!
by Dan Bilawsky
When Toronto-based tenor saxophonist Ryan Oliver was living in New York and studying at Rutgers University's Mason Gross School of The Arts in New Jersey, he struck up a musical relationship with one of the teachers at that institution--drummer Victor Lewis. At that time, Lewis, a somewhat underappreciated giant of the drumming world who's worked with ...
Celebrating Blue Note Records 75th With Delicious Vinyl
by Mark Corroto
Everything old is new again. Except of course for the timeless music of Blue Note Records which celebrated its 75th anniversary this year. The recordings Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff produced starting in 1939 have been collector's items since day one. While much of the label's music has been re-released in digital format, CDs and in ...
Onaje Allan Gumbs: Bloodlife: Solo Piano Improvisations Based on the Melodies of Ronald Shannon Jackson
by John Kelman
Best known for his mainstream work with Woody Shaw on classic albums like The Moontrane (Muse, 1975) and Stepping Stones (Columbia, 1978), it may come as a surprise to learn that pianist Onaje Allan Gumbs was not just a friend and mentor to Ronald Shannon Jackson, but that he also played on the drummer's Decode Yourself ...
Amir ElSaffar: Alchemy
by Maurizio Zerbo
Segnatevi questo nome perché Amir ElSaffar è destinato a fare grandi cose. Sull'esempio di Charles Tolliver e Woody Shaw omaggiati nella postbopppistica “Athar Kurd," il trombettista statunitense di origini irachene vanta un timbro caldo ed avvolgente. Il suo magniloquente solismo è qui sostenuto da una originale progettualità rivolta ad integrare le tecniche modali arabe nel mondo ...
Victor Lewis: The Drummer's Spirit
by Victor L. Schermer
For several decades, Victor Lewis has been one of the most in-demand drummers of the post-bop era and beyond. He has performed with Stan Getz, Dexter Gordon, J.J. Johnson, Chet Baker, George Cables, Woody Shaw, Kenny Barron, Bobby Watson, and others of similar stature. On account of his exceptional ability to push the envelope of musical ...
Woody Shaw: The Complete Muse Sessions
By Woody Shaw
Label: Mosaic Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: CD1: The Moontrane; Are They Only Dreams; Tapscott's Blues; Sanyas; Katrina
Ballerina; Tapscott's Blues (alt. tk.); Katrina Ballerina (alt. tk.). CD2: Love Dance;
Obsequious; Sun Bath; Zoltan; Soulfully I Love You (Black Spiritual of Love). CD3: Hello
to the Wind; Obsequious; Sanyas; Jean Marie; Bilad as Sudan (Land of the Blacks).
CD4: Cassandranite; Obsequious; Baloo, Baloo; Three Muses; Tetragon; Jean Marie;
Sashianova. CD5: In Case You Haven't Heard; Little Red's Fantasyl Tomorrow's
Destiny; Iron Man; Jitterbug Waltz; Symmetry; Diversion One; Song of Songs; Diversion
Two. CD6: There is o Greater Love; All the Way; Spiderman Blues; The Touch of Your
Lips; What's New; When Love is New; There Will Never Be Another You; You Stepped
Out of a Dream; Speak Low; Solid. CD7: It Might as Well Be Spring; The Woody
Woodpecker Song; If I Were a Bell; Imagination; Dat Dere; You and the Night and the
Music; Stormy Weather; Steve's Blues.
Jazz Musician of the Day: Woody Shaw
All About Jazz is celebrating Woody Shaw's birthday today! Woody Shaw, Jr. was born in Laurinburg, N.C. on December 24th, 1944 to Rosalie Pegues Shaw and Woody Shaw, Sr. He grew up in Newark, New Jersey, and began playing trumpet at the age of 11. Shaw attended Arts High School in Newark where he studied trumpet ...
Matt White: The Super Villain Jazz Band
by Jeffrey Uhrich
In the midst of its long tradition as home of country music, Nashville is also home to a burgeoning and very vibrant jazz scene. Matt White and the musicians that comprise White's debut, The Super Villain Jazz Band, are proof that Nashville is generating world-class jazz musicians that can contend with any challengers from the east ...
Craig Tweddell Quintet: Away with Words
by Nicholas F. Mondello
Perhaps it's more than coincidental that Craig Tweddell titled this intriguing recording a snowclone--Away With Words. That might be because this exciting Louisville-based trumpeter/composer hosts a noted weekly jam session at a club named for author and poet--Rudyard Kipling--or, it might suggest most correctly that it's the music that does the word speak here.
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