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Brad Mehldau and Marcus Miller at the Barcelona Jazz Festival (IV)
by Roan Clay
Brad Mehldau Trio 41st Voll-Damm Barcelona International Jazz Festival Palau de la Música November 10, 2009 There is great debate among jazz fans these days, particularly among those who favor jazz trios, whether Brad Mehldau and his trio of Larry Grenadier and Jeff Ballard, have fallen into a rut ...
Miles Davis: Miles & Kind of Blue
by Stuart Broomer
Miles Davis Miles: The New Miles Davis Quintet Prestige Year Miles Davis Kind of Blue:Legacy Edition Columbia/Legacy Year In 1955, after a few years working with pick-up ...
Bruce Hornsby: The Master of Levitation
by Mark F. Turner
For more than 20 years, singer/songwriter, pianist/composer, and band-leader Bruce Hornsby, has proven to be a survivor in an ever changing music environment. From winning multiple awards including a Grammy for Best New Artist in 1987 for the multi-platinum album The Way It Is (RCA, 1986) with his band The Range, to dual releases in 2007 ...
Take Five With Willerm Delisfort
by AAJ Staff
Meet Willerm Delisfort:Pianist and composer Willerm Delisfort is a messenger of life using music as his tool. His career extends the continuum of musical styles that ranges from jazz, gospel, R&B and many more. Because of this, Willerm's versatility has created a high demand for him with prominent jazz, rap, soul, and fusion artists ...
Monk's Music and the Guitar
by Bobby Broom
As a guitarist whose love for jazz music began in the '70s, I was understandably excited to hear a few months ago, from a most reliable source, that Thelonious Monk really dug guitarist George Benson! Benson was probably the most popular jazz guitarist of the '70s and those who know about the place of the guitar ...
Miles Davis: Unlimited Miles
by Bill King
I can't think of an artist who has had greater influence over jazz the past forty years than Miles Davis. For music, style, language and business, Davis was at the top of the game. One to never step aside and let critics dissuade or impede his aspirations, he constantly retooled his band with the ...
Take Five With Jerry Engelbach
by AAJ Staff
Meet Jerry Engelbach: Jerry is a jazz pianist and graphic designer living in Brooklyn, NY, with his illustrator/comics artist wife, Ann Decker. Jerry works solo and as leader of his quintet, Weaver of Dreams. He has worked at virtually every major club date venue in the New York Tristate Area, including the Rainbow Room, Cafe Carlyle, ...
Sean Nowell: The Seeker
by Chris May
It would be foolish to describe saxophonist Sean Nowell as a 21st century schizoid tenor man, but two distinct strands characterize the New York-based player's work. On the one hand, Nowell is active in funk and post-fusion styles, with the Kung-Fu Masters and his own MonAtomic groups, among other line-ups. On the other hand, he's a ...
Amiri Baraka: Perspectives on Music and Race
by Lloyd N. Peterson Jr.
Amiri Baraka is the author of the insightful and comprehensive book, Blues People. It is a book that has opened many minds and readers to the African American Diaspora along with the history and roots of African American music. Baraka has now published a new book of essays titled, Digging (The Afro-American Soul of American Classical ...
Take Five With Adam Shulman
by AAJ Staff
Meet Adam Shulman:Adam Shulman has been a staple of the San Francisco jazz scene since he moved to the city in 2002. Before the move, Adam was a student at UC Santa Cruz, where he studied with the great Smith Dobson and trumpeter/arranger Ray Brown. He received his degree in classical performance under the ...
