Sunday, July 31, 2016

”TADD DAMERON (Pic w/Mary Lou + Dizzy)

Charlie Freak

#NewportJazzFestival

Thelonious Monk

Billie Holiday

The 3 Cohens

Roberta Donnay & the Prohibition Mob Band

Kiki Sanchez "Jazz Big Band Project"

Bria Skonberg

NYC club Seventh Avenue South

Saturday, July 30, 2016

Diana Krall heads into the last week of European Tour

The August issue of Jazzwise ....

Take The Steam Train

The latest The Language of Jazz Daily!

@chicofreeman

Saw Chris Potter

Liturgical #jazz musician

Deanna Witkowski Trio

Friday, July 29, 2016

Paula Atherton at Martini Blu

Kandace Springs TD Jazz 2016

Latin Music Explosion Canada!

Mimi Jones' "Feet in the Mud".

Documentary: Fats Waller

Reprinted from http://jazzwax.com
Jazz's folk humor on recordings began with Louis Armstrong and other blues singers in the mid-1920s but was raised to a new level of urbane sophistication by Fats Waller in the 1930s. Here's a documentary on the pianist and composer...
Here's Part 1....
Here's Part 2...
Here's Part 3...
And here's Part 4...
Used with permission by Marc Myers

Happy 46th Birthday to Brian Blade!

Drummer / bandleader Charlie Persip

Thursday, July 28, 2016

Inside the Cotton Club

Seeing #Hiromi live is unique & inspiring.

Cannonball Adderley Quintet

Dino Massa international recording project

Guide for August 2016

MJS Electric Band

B.j. Jansen's 10th Recording Project

George Bernard Shaw

Social Media for Jazz Musicians

LeNard Rutledge

Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Young Women's Jazz Orchestra.

I'm calling you - Jevetta Steele


From the film "Bagdag Café"

Art Blakey

Claudia Hayden ....

Karolina Kowalczewska

jazz@jazzinstitut.de

26 July 2016


Marcus Miller / Beijing, China
Saeed Saeed talks to the bassist Marcus Miller about having played with everybody in the 1980s and 1990s, about the importance to actually connect with his audience, about his role as a spokesperson for UNESCO's Slave Route Project, as well as about his recent album "Afrodeezia" which he calls "a celebration that African Americans have made it through that journey of slavery and made it through the other side with dignity and humanity" ( The National).

--- Terence Hsieh reports about the creativity of the music scene in Beijing, China, citing both the concerts of international stars and the lively local scene; while political statements by some of the international artists are being frowned upon by the government and set lists checked, jazz venues may be hard to find but existent, a jazz scene of "a small, but growing group of both Chinese and international instrumentalists"; Hsieh also looks at Chinese melodies finding their ways into jazz and at the community sense rare in other scenes in China which can be felt at jam sessions which are more about "trying new ideas, patterns and concepts [the musicians have been] practicing on their own" than about proving a point ( Forbes).
 
27 July 2016
... what else ...
 
Joe Queenan talks to the actor Ethan Hawke about playing Chet Baker in the movie "Born to Be Blue" ( The Guardian). Will Gore sees the picture ( Catholic Herald). --- Irmela Heß reports about plans for an arts forum which shall include space for the local jazz and improvised music initiative in Wiesbaden, Germany ( Frankfurter Rundschau). --- Jaye Hodges talks to the saxophonist Greg Lewis Jr. ( Belleville News-Democrat). --- Mike Weatherford talks to the Las Vegas-based pianist Mike Jones ( Las Vegas Review-Journal ).
 
Obituaries
We learned of the passing of the pianist Claude Williamson at the age of 89 ( Los Angeles Times, JazzWax), the French critic André Clergeat at the age of 89 (info from Philippe Carles), the German blogger Johannes Korten at the age of 42 ( Focus), the Boston-based club owner (Ryles) Jack Reilly at the age of 98 ( The Boston Globe), as well as the Canadian trumpeter Erich Traugott at the age of 88 ( WallaceBass ).

Lars Edegran and His New Orleans All Stars

Kiki Sanchez

Gustavo Assis-Brasil Releases New Album ....

Free Jazz at the Fort Concert at Roxbury

Vocalist Diane Witherspoon

Tuesday, July 26, 2016

NICOLA BENEDETTI ....

Hear Miles Davis

Summertime blues 🎶

Bettye Lavette

Aztec Two-Step

Kenny Garrett

Top debut: David Gibson

Nominees for the 2016

Steffen Kuehn

Cecil Taylor's "Conquistador"

Pianist Al Haig

Dave Bennett and Ron Hockett ....

Dave Bennett playing on Riverwalk Jazz!

Monday, July 25, 2016

Brian O'Hern & The Model Citizens

Trombonist @kmooremusic

LIVE REVIEW: Tim Garland Electric Quartet at the 2016 Manchester Jazz Festival

Tim Garland Electric Quartet
(Hobgoblin Pavilion. Manchester Jazz Festival. 24th July 2016. Report and photographs by Adrian Pallant)

Adrian Pallant is a proofreader, jazz writer and musician who also reviews at his own site ap-reviews.com

LINKS: CD REVIEW: Tim Garland – ONE / Review of One at Kings Place


As the audience took to their seats for Tim Garland’s headline performance at the 2016 Manchester Jazz Festival, a growing sense of anticipation was tangible. After all, the British reedsman’s credentials speak for themselves in a career which has seen him working on countless solo and collaborative jazz projects, including notable stints with legendary artists Chick Corea and Bill Bruford. Playing broadly from recent album release ONE, Garland was joined by his colleagues in this new ‘Electric Quartet’ – Jason Rebello (piano/keyboards), Ant Law (guitars) and Asaf Sirkis (drums/percussion). 

As both composer and saxophonist, Garland possesses a distinctive musical persona – yet this project, in which he judiciously also contributes electronic percussion, takes the instrumental possibilities a good deal further. His working relationships with the brilliant Rebello and Sirkis go back many years, but it was previous album Songs to the North Sky which introduced the multifarious skills of young guitarist Ant Law to establish this quartet – and how he shone across this two-hour live set.

read more: http://www.londonjazznews.com/2016/07/live-review-tim-garland-electric.html

CD REVIEW: Donna Lewis - Brand new Day


SME (London, March 23 1967)

Eubie Blake

NPR Music - JAZZ

Gregory Porter: Tiny Desk Concert

Watch an entrancing set by the decorated soul singer, who'd visited NPR on a difficult day. Porter's music can be serious and heartwarming, but it never loses its sense of wonder and delight.
Read this story
TINY DESK

Jane Bunnett: Tiny Desk Concert

The Canadian jazz multi-instrumentalist performs in the NPR Music offices with some of the top young women musicians in Cuba.
MARIAN MCPARTLAND'S PIANO JAZZ

Jacky Terrasson On Piano Jazz

Back in 1995, the young pianist demonstrated extraordinary talent on standards.
MARIAN MCPARTLAND'S PIANO JAZZ

Carla Bley And Steve Swallow On Piano Jazz

Bley and Swallow join host Marian McPartland for trio renditions of Carla Bley originals.

from Barbara Dennerlein, new project ...


Music is like a jewel, presenting us numerous precious moments - moments of happiness and infinite joy, love and freedom.

Let me take you into the exciting world of pipes and tonewheels to enjoy the spirit of the mighty pipe organ and her sister, the soulful Hammond organ.

Take a moment, sit down, relax and listen, and be happy.

Arturo Sandoval

Jon Neudorf reviews new release ....

CD REVIEW: Carla Bley/ Steve Swallow/ Andy Sheppard - Andando el Tiempo


Carla Bley/ Steve Swallow/ Andy Sheppard - Andando el Tiempo (ECM 4779711. CD review by Mike Collins) 


Mike Collins is a pianist and writer based in Bath, who runs the jazzyblogman site. Twitter @jazzyblogman
Carla Bley turned 80 in May. It’s clear from this set of new compositions, recorded with the long-standing trio of Bley, Steve Swallow and Andy Sheppard, her formidable powers are undiminished. 

This is just the second release by the trio with ECM’s Manfred Eicher in the producer’s chair and it’s of course beautifully recorded, allowing the spacious music to breath and the delicate interplay within the trio to infuse Bley’s distinctive pieces with a lustrous beauty. 

The first two thirds of the set is filled by a suite whose name gives the album its title. Andando el Tiempo: Sin Fin and Andando el Tiempo: Potacion De Guya have the same haunting melody at their core, built around the simplest of gradually mutating two note phrases and played over a stately tango-like pulse.

The trio, in turn patiently explore the material allowing embellishments and melodic fragments to resonate and develop, the first section with darker overtones and moods. Andando el Tiempo: Camino Al Volver develops more energy, its jigsaw like construction providing a snappy launchpad for solos. Saints Alive!’s gently loping feel gives both Swallow and Sheppard an opportunity to play sweetly and melodically and Naked Bridges/ Diving Bridges an extended, tone poem like piece dissolves into an extended looping invention of a coda.

read more: http://news360.com/digestarticle/OAl04U1mYk61EeUcmaqY1w

Naomi Moon Siegel hosts ‘Shoebox View’

New Steve Gadd Band ....

bassist Ron Carter talking ....

Dhafer Youssef

Sunday, July 24, 2016

Dizzy Gillespie les pieds dans l'eau

DB reviews Matt Turner and Hal Rammel’s

Pianist Ann E. Ward

The African drumming ....

Jacky Terrasson On Piano Jazz

New Orleans brass band's ....

pianist WILLIE "THE LION" SMITH

@APassion4Jazz

Saturday, July 23, 2016

Trevor and that horn are inseparable....

A look behind the scenes at Anthony's

"Anthropology" is today's ....

Awesome vocalist ....

Claudia Quintet w/ Theo Bleckmann & Kurt Elling

Jason Palmer

Derrick Hodge

Friday, July 22, 2016

@QuincyDJones

Quincy Jones

Earth Wind & Fire's - Mighty Mighty

Dolphy & Little

The latest The Language of Jazz Daily! ....

Celebrating the Songs of Benny Carter

@KarouselMusic

For jazz-lovers

Our review of "Cohearence,"

Rīgas Ritmi Festival

Ben Wendel's "Song Song"

Sonny Clark's "Cool Struttin'"

Sonny Rollins' triumphant "Road Shows"

Ray Brown

Jazz Standard

Morgan Guerin, Jacob Collier + Robert Glaspe

Midsummer Jazz Concerts

Swing by the SmallsLIVE

Thursday, July 21, 2016

Smalls Jazz Club

Joe Rendon

Straight Ahead #Jazz Camp

M Creese, Art Themen, J Horler T Giles

Born to Be Blue ....

Excited & honored to be apart of this ....

Vanity Fair

'Kanal Jazz Stream'

WBGO Jazz 88.3FM

Heckscher...

Charles Gayle Trio

Fred Hersch

Carlos Santana

Rīgas Ritmi Festival

Paul Gonsalves

Wednesday, July 20, 2016

Community Arts Program (CAP) 2016


Community Arts Program (CAP) 2016 Summer Concert Series Presents Terri Lyne Carrington July 21, 2016 - www.CommunityArtsProgram.org

GRAMMY® Award-winning drummer, composer and bandleader Terri Lyne Carrington has been at the top of the music industry for almost twenty-five years, collaborating with jazz luminaries like Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Al Jarreau, and Cassandra Wilson.

Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue—a highly praised homage to Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus and Max Roach—won Terri Lyne the 2013 GRAMMY® for Best Jazz Instrumental Album. The CAP 2016 Summer Concert Series presents the Terri Lyne Carrington Quartet—with Aaron Parks, piano; Mark Shim, sax; and Zach Brown, bass—in Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue.

from: http://jazz-bluesflorida.blogspot.com.br/2016/07/community-arts-program-cap-2016-summer.html

Charles Mingus

Bobby Bradford

Matt Mitchell

Tuesday, July 19, 2016

DownBeat Magazine

Miles on Monday

Jim Snidero Quintet

Brecon Jazz Weekend

Minnesota Fringe Festival

Jazz Education Network

Monday, July 18, 2016

JJA Member Updates

Francisco Téllez

CD REVIEW: Casey Golden – Miniature

Casey Golden - Miniature
(Scrampion Records. SCRAMP004. CD Review by Mary James)

Well-known in his native Australia, Casey Golden studied classical piano from the age of 5. At 17 he won an award to play in London, gained undergraduate degrees with distinctions in Sydney, and created his current trio of Bill Williams on double bass and Ed Rodrigues on drums/percussion in 2010. Golden was a finalist in the Young Australian Jazz Artist of the Year in 2011. The band played together for five years before their studio album Outliers, which was then followed by a live album.

Miniature, an EP, is Golden’s third album in just two years with this line-up and has Daniel Walsh guesting on guitar. Four own-compositions named I, II, Interlude and III. A single piece in four parts, this is the trio’s first foray into extended composition, exploring a wider range of influences and augmenting the band with additional instruments including synth used with great subtlety and guitar. And it demonstrates how far they have come as a band.

Think Dawn of Midi meets Bach. Was the album cover of Golden’s Miniature unconsciously recalling the cover of Dawn of Midi’s Dysnomia? Both are classic jazz piano trio line-ups, both do not sound like classic piano trios. But unlike Dawn of Midi, whose fractal rhythms are its substance, in Miniature repetitive hooks blossom into billowing baroque melodies of great elegance and loveliness.

read more: http://news360.com/digestarticle/vT_kNs3OsEaOnewpZJ7wjA

Rainer Brüninghaus

Marcin Wasilewski Trio

Vince Guaraldi