Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Charlie Haden

Riverwalk Jazz

Jane Ira Bloom

Jammin' the Blues

Brian Wilson

Cécile McLorin Salvant

Claire Martin

Joe Lovano

Ian Patterson, Montreux Jazz Festivals

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Jazz@Rochester

Frank Loesser

Tuesday, June 28, 2016

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Beyond Country And Blues: The Jazz Legacy Of Houston

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June 23, 20165:36 PM ET
Heard on All Things Considered
NPR STAFF

When you think of the sound of Houston, you might think of country and western music. Maybe you've heard of bluesmen like Johnny Copeland and Albert Collins or gospel stars like Yolanda Adams. Or, you know, Beyoncé?

But Houston has also produced some of the biggest jazz musicians of today, according to the host of Jazz Night in America, composer and bassist Christian McBride.


"It seems to me that over the last 15 to 20 years, there has been an onslaught of these great musicians from Houston on the jazz scene," McBride says, pointing to the rise of artists like Jason Moran, Robert Glasper and Eric Harland. "All of a sudden you're thinking, where did all these cats from Houston come from all of a sudden? Especially considering Houston is not always a usual stop on most guys' tour schedules, how are all these bad cats coming from out there?"

read more at: http://www.npr.org/2016/06/23/483271411/beyond-country-and-blues-the-jazz-legacy-of-houston-texas?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=storiesfromnpr

Jazz legend spices up Twin Cities festival

(Pioneer Press: Ginger Pinson)

By DAN EMERSON / SPECIAL TO THE PIONEER PRESS
June 23, 2016 - UPDATED: 3 days ago

Pianist Joey Alexander, who helped kick off the 2016 Twin Cities Jazz Festival on Thursday night in downtown St. Paul’s Mears Park, has the assurance and technique of someone who has spent half his life playing jazz.

The 12-year-old prodigy from Bali, Indonesia, has indeed spent half his life playing the music, since he started pursuing the art of improvisation at the age of 6.

Alexander has been causing a stir in the jazz world with high-profile appearances with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, and at the Newport and Montreal jazz festivals. Also, “60 Minutes” featured him a few weeks ago.

On Thursday night, the diminutive Alexander led a trio that also included bassist Dan Chmielinski and drummer Ulysses Owens Jr, who are also fine, young musicians.

Alexander started the set with a couple of John Coltrane compositions, “Resolution” and “Giant Steps.”

On the opener, after stating the melody, Alexander detoured into an improvised solo interlude that reshaped the rhythm and melody, before bringing the rest of the band back in at a breakneck tempo.

Alexander’s tiny fingers flew over the keys.


Alexander, who will celebrate his 13th birthday on Saturday, followed that with an original, “City Lights,” which featured a bouncy, Latin groove led by Owens, interspersed with some swing passages.

read more at: http://www.twincities.com/2016/06/23/jazz-legend-even-if-he-is-just-12-spices-up-twin-cities-festival/

David Hazeltine, Close Enough For Love

Vine story beyond jazz music

Eric Dolphy

Scott Fugate

Miroslav Vitous

Monday, June 27, 2016

Hartland Jazz Fest

Peter Bernstein

Dig Perry Tannenbaum

Horace Silver

Ray Mantilla

Mariza & Iván "Melón" Lewis - Insensatez

Jimmy Heath

Terry Gibbs

Frédéric Chopin - Prelude in E-Minor (op.28 no. 4)


Played by: Aldona Dvarionaite

Sunday, June 26, 2016

Bobby Caldwell & Dave Koz

.Lea DeLaria

Clifford Brown

Monterey Jazz

Help Musicians UK

Friday, June 24, 2016

Creativity ....

Thursday, June 23, 2016

Steven Parry

Simona Parrinello

Bobby Caldwell & Dave Koz

Institut National de l'audiovisuel

Charlie Parker

Robert Glasper Experiment

Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Malta Jazz Festival

Charles Mingu

Hughes Chong

Joshua Redman

Albert "Tootie" Heath at the Louis ‘Satchmo’ Armstrong

Alicia Keys

Tuesday, June 21, 2016

jazz@jazzinstitut.de

21 June 2016

Kamal Musallam / Miles Davis
Rob Garratt talks to the Lebanese oud player Kamal Musallam about performing with Sting, about the World Peace Trio in which he plays along Israeli saxophonist Gilad Atzmon and Indonesian pianist Dwiki Dharmawan, as well as about meeting guitarist John McLaughlin ( The National). --- Seeing Don Cheadle's film "Miles Ahead" makes James Parker reflect about Miles Davis' trumpet sound, about his "electric period", finding that this music "grabs us in three ways: musically, symbolically, and politically", channeling some of the popular music of its time, while never giving up on ultimate creativity and insisting on Miles' musical statement as being the statement of a "militantly autonomous black artist", connecting Jimi Hendrix' Woodstock concert and Miles Davis' "Bitches Brew" recording session - "There's the summer of 1969 for you" -, sketching the road taken to be able to arrive at this album, and the power of Miles being able to reorient the music completely with a single phrase ( The Atlantic).

22 June 2016

... what else ...
Michael Brake and Felix Denk report about the St. John Coltrane Church in San Francisco ( Fluter). --- The Swedish trombonist Nils Landgren will receive the Art Award of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein which comes with 20,000 Euro prize money ( Kieler Nachrichten). --- Reiner Michalke will remain artistic director of the Moers Festival ( Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger ). --- Fatima Bulla talks to the former Zimbabwean Afro-jazz singer Dudu Manhenga who since became a pastor ( Nehanda Radio). --- Aarik Danielsen talks to the guitarist Horace Bray ( Columbia Daily Tribune ). --- Juan Martin Koch reports about the concept of the Bavarian Jazz Festival as well as about discussions about improved funding of jazz in the German state of Bavaria ( Mittelbayerische Zeitung ). --- For the 50th anniversary of the Montreux Jazz Festival , the Swiss daily newspaper Blick asks its readers to choose their favorite among the festival posters ( Blick). --- The saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa was appointed director of jazz studies at Princeton University ( Princeton Music Department ). --- Erin Lebar talks to the saxophonist Kamasi Washington ( Winnipeg Free Press).

Obituaries
We learned of the passing of the pianist Sir Charles Thompson at the age of 98 ( Washington Post), the pianist Paul Tillotson at the age of 51 ( Idaho Statesman), the German pianist Ralf Butscher ( Rheinische Post), the bassist Stephen Jones ( Examiner), as well as the guitarist Earl Wilson (info from Vernard R. Gray).

Opera de Bordeaux

Soez Raja Bass

Ola Onabule

Brian Hurst

Pat Metheny

Jazz_in_Marciac

Trio Manouche

Blue Mitchell + Sonny Red

BigBand Jazz de Mexico!

Bill Evans Trio

Rudresh Mahanthappa

THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF Dave Brubeck

Monday, June 20, 2016

Dot Time Records

Dexter Gordon

Mint Julep Jazz Band

NPR Music - JAZZ

Chick Corea & Gary Burton: Tiny Desk Concert

The two highly decorated jazz legends could barely fit their instruments behind the Tiny Desk. But once they did, their unique musical chemistry took over.
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JAZZ NIGHT IN AMERICA: THE RADIO PROGRAM

Return Of The Jazz Harp

Brandee Younger and Edmar Castañeda are bringing the ancient instrument back to the music. Hear concerts recorded at Jazz at Lincoln Center.
MARIAN MCPARTLAND'S PIANO JAZZ

Monty Alexander On Piano Jazz

The Jamaican-born pianist, known for his rhythmic approach, joined Marian McPartland in 1991.
SONGS WE LOVE

Songs We Love: Charlie Hunter, 'No Money, No Honey' 

The guitarist's custom seven-string axe lets him create a deeply funky bass line and a Hendrix-like melody — at the same time.
MARIAN MCPARTLAND'S PIANO JAZZ

Sarah Vaughan On Piano Jazz

Sarah Vaughan possessed one of the legendary voices in jazz. In this program from 1986, Vaughan's lively and sassy personality is on display, as are her amazing vocals.

Jazz Clubs in San Francisco

BIRTHDAY: Jazz Musician John Hollenbeck

John Hollenbeck\'s versatility as a percussionist and composer is revealed in a body of work that challenges countless boundaries. Performances with Fred Hersh, Kenny Wheeler and Bob Brookmeyer have showcased Hollenbeck\'s melodic and sensitive small-group jazz drumming.

Read more: All About Jazz

“The American Dream”

Steve Cole

Dee Dee Bridgewater

Lindsey Webster

Nikki Hill

George Benson

Sunday, June 19, 2016

Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club


Pat Metheny

Dawn DeBlaze

Riccardo Chiaberta

Tim Garland Quartet

Marty Grosz

Clifford Brown - "I'll Remember Clifford"


Published on Jun 17, 2016
Drummer Buddy Rich's sextet performing Benny Golson's "I'll Remember Clifford" with Rolf Ericsson on trumpet, Sam Most on flute, Mike Mainieri on vibes, Johnny Morris on piano and Wyatt Ruther on bass.

Brad Mehldau

Joe Bushkin & Chuck Wayne (g), Milt Hinton (b), and Ed Shaughnessy

The Selected Writings and Conversations in Jazz

Shubhendra Rao & Saskia Rao-de Haas

Maya Angelou Docu

Saturday, June 18, 2016

Traditional Jazz Band

Art And Soul

JAZZ RE: FEST 2016

Bayern Jazz

iDrumMag

Preservation Hall Jazz Band

Scott Reeves

Greg Tardy

Lineup for SFJAZZ

McCoyTyner

Friday, June 17, 2016

Jimmy Smith & Wes Montgomery

John Zorn

Jazz Daily!

National Jazz Museum

Kamasi W

Thursday, June 16, 2016

NPR Music

Sonata Latina Tribute Orchestra

Kenny

Paul McCartney

NY Hot Jazz Festival

Jazz_in_Marciac

Matthieu Boré

Riccardo Del Fra

jazz@jazzinstitut.de

15 June 2016

... what else ...
Will Friedwald sees John Murray Anderson's film "The King of Jazz" as being on the cutting edge of 1930s film technology ( Wall Street Journal).
--- Jürgen Boebers-Süßmann talks to Milli Häuser who since ten years organizes the concert series "Tatort Jazz" in Bochum, Germany ( WAZ).
--- Richard Williams remembers the late trumpeter Harry Beckett (who was a regular musical visitor to Darmstadt) ( The Blue Moment).
--- Edward Faine remembers the Modern Jazz Club in Cleveland, Ohio, and his first and only encounter with Miles Davis ( Fainebooks). At the same time we were notified of an amateur recording documenting Miles Davis sitting in with the Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra at the Village Vanguard in 1981 ( YouTube; thanks to Bill Kirchner).
--- Ben Ratliff attends the Vision Festival in New York ( New York Times).
 --- Jim Farber feels sad for the closure of vinyl record shops in Greenwich Village ( New York Times).
--- Nadine Jones recalls meeting Duke Ellington at a 1970 Salvation Army funding drive ( Richmond News).
--- Ben Ratliff hears the drummer Makaya McCraven and his band at Le Poisson Rouge in New York ( New York Times).
--- Jürgen Schmich talks to the German book and record dealer Wolfgang Stephan about being a jazz collector and a dealer at the same time ( Plattensüchtig).


Obituaries
We read another obituary about the author Claire Gordon ( Los Angeles Times). --- We learned of the passing of baritone saxophonist Tom Olin (courtesy of David Gibson), the Austrian jazz historian Klaus Schulz at the age of 76 ( Badische Zeitung), the Brazilian pianist Aloisio Milanez Aguiar ( Jazz Station), as well as the German double bassist Chris Lachotta at the age of 57 ( BR-Klassik, Süddeutsche Zeitung ).

Buster Cooper

Tribute to Buster Cooper at Palladium in St. Pete on Monday, June 20, 2016

April 4, 1929 - May 13, 2016

American jazz trombonist:
Lionel Hampton
Apollo Theater House Band
Benny Goodman
Duke Ellington
Buster Cooper Trio

Letter from Helsinki-Cotonou Ensemble

Hi Claudio,

I'm reaching out about Finnish and Beninese group Helsinki-Cotonou Ensemble who come July 7, will release their new album Fire, Sweat and Pastis to North America. Later in the month they will tour Canada.

On Fire, Sweat and Pastis, the Ensemble’s second album available in North America, the octet of musicians experienced in jazz, funk, R&B, and traditional Beninese music intertwine the percussive rhythms of West African Vodun with funky basslines, soulful call-and-response vocals, and virtuosic brass and woodwind melodies.  They invite listeners to join them on a musical journey that is equal parts celebration and reflection. 

Can you help us get the word out about this release? Stream the album, check out the press release, and high-res images here: http://helsinki.rockpaperscissors.biz/ 

Let me know what you think!

Thanks,
Sam

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Melbourne International Jazz Festival

Eddie Palmieri had the audience dancing at Hamer Hall. Photo: Suraj Jayawickrama

June 13, 2016
Jessica Nicholas

In a recent interview, Wayne Shorter summed up his approach to performance with a rhetorical question: How do you negotiate the unexpected, armed only with trust? It's a question that goes to the very heart of jazz – with improvisation as its pulsating core – and it was fascinating to see how different artists addressed it during this year's jazz festival.

Japanese pianist Hiromi left little to chance in her elaborate arrangements; for her, trust meant relying on her trio companions (bassist Anthony Jackson and drummer Simon Phillips) to match her precision and power as she darted between visceral, plunging chords and dazzlingly virtuosic cascades. Perhaps she placed too much trust in her sound engineer: how else to explain the booming, drum-heavy mix that smothered all but her most emphatic solos? 

Poor acoustics also compromised Eddie Palmieri's show the following night – though not to the extent that it deterred the dancers, who rushed to the front and undulated ecstatically through most of the concert. For those of us who were only dancing on the inside, it was a shame we had to struggle to extricate the detail of Palmieri's arrangements for his Latin Jazz Septet. Paradoxically, the over-amplification dampened rather than magnified the music's vitality, though there was no doubting the 79-year-old piano maestro's agility, energy and boundless enthusiasm.   

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/melbourne-international-jazz-festival-review-wayne-shorter-quartet-soars-into-the-cosmos-20160613-gphqed.html#ixzz4BkQOsexA 

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Clore Ballroom

Le Cosmo Jazz Festival

Millau Jazz Festival 2016

Bart & Baker

Le festival de Malguenac

Ella Fitzgerald

2017 NEA Jazz Masters


Dee Dee Bridgewater performing at the 2014 International Jazz Day Global Concert in Osaka, Japan. Credit Keith Tsui / Getty Images

By ANDREW R. CHOW
JUNE 13, 2016

The National Endowment for the Arts has named its 2017 NEA Jazz Masters: the musicians — Dee Dee Bridgewater, Dave Holland, Dr. Lonnie Smith and Dick Hyman — and the jazz historian Ira Gitler. Each will each receive $25,000 and be honored at a tribute concert at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington on April 3, 2017.


All of the honored musicians still perform. Ms. Bridgewater is a Grammy- and Tony-winning singer who recently appeared as Billie Holiday in “Lady Day” Off Broadway. (Charles Isherwood, a New York Times theater critic, wrote of her performance: “I sank back happily into my seat and let her artistry, which melds her own sophisticated style with an effective vocal impersonation of Holiday, seduce me into a state of bliss.”) Mr. Holland, a bassist, played extensively with Miles Davis and Anthony Braxton, and this year toured internationally with his trio.

read more at: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/14/arts/music/nea-jazz-masters-bridgewater-holland-smith-hyman.html?_r=0

Nate Wooley

After learning that Nate Wooley is a trumpeter-composer given to disassembling his horn and then blowing through its various parts, you might peg him as an avant-garde jazz instrumentalist with a fondness for John Cage. But charting his influences doesn’t pin down Wooley’s sound—or, rather, his collection of sounds. Wooley’s toolkit includes a raging, pitch-free thrum that has an ambient quality, even as his instrument is vibrating madly.

Sometimes the music is driven by the clanking of his trumpet’s valves, which creates a percussive quality. And he also strings together “regular” notes with authority; recent albums of original tunes and mainstream jazz covers have found the musician merging conceptual experiments with more traditional forms. In the space of the same song, he can provide memorable lines of melody over a swinging beat, then charge off into innovations that expand your understanding of his instrument.

Argonautica capitalizes on both these strengths. Its format–a single track that plays out over 43 minutes—allows Wooley to indulge his many influences within a compositional structure that feels expertly designed. Here, after a brief intro, we find a freewheeling opening section, followed by a meditative middle portion that toys with drone, balladry, and stray interjections of electronic noise. An energetic group finale adds psych-rock tumult. Each major subsection lasts about 15 minutes, and the overall fast/slow/fast construction flows like a more traditional three-movement piece.

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/22002-argonautica/

Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Pete Gitlin

Sax Appeal Ottawa

Kamasi Washington

Tom Nolte

Golden Triangle BID

Keel & Curley

NV Jazz Society

ML Jazz Festival

Marcus Belgrave

Kenny Dorham

Tuesday, June 14, 2016

JJA Jazz Award

Yellowjackets, Ray Obiedo, the Crusaders and Steve Laury