Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Chick Corea (Humpty Dumpty)

Concert Review: #DonnyMcCaslin Quartet

#LarryAdler 's Harmonica

#BeachBoys Morgan Sessions

#SteveColeman is the most

History of the ...

#RonnieScott's

#KamasiWashington

#OscarPeterson #SamJones & #BobbyDurham

#SullySullenberger

Tuesday, August 30, 2016

#PhilStevenson Organ Trio

For our second installment ....

For our second installment ....

#CliffordJordanQuintet ....

Over 50,000 ....

Artistic Director #EliDegibri

#AllisonMiller will be guesting on ....

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Monday, August 29, 2016

NPR Music - JAZZ

JAZZ NIGHT IN AMERICA

Three Miles Ahead

Hear three interpretations of the musical icon: on screen, with actor and director Don Cheadle; on the page, with co-biographer Quincy Troupe; and on stage, with trumpeter Keyon Harrold.
JAZZ NIGHT IN AMERICA

Cecile McLorin Salvant And Sullivan Fortner

The communication between piano and voice often becomes deeply personal. Two rising stars of their instruments prove as much in duet at Jazz at Lincoln Center.
MARIAN MCPARTLAND'S PIANO JAZZ

Norah Jones On Piano Jazz

The smoky-voiced singer reinvents standards like "The Nearness Of You" in a 2003 session.

#RudyVanGelder

Famed jazz bassist #RonCarter ....

Side Door Jazz Club

#SteveColeman is the most important

"When you #sing, always ....

Why Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue ....

CD REVIEW: Antoine Fafard - Sphère


Antoine Fafard - Sphère
(Timeless Momentum - TM20161A. CD review by Rob Mallows)
On Saturday, August 27, 2016

Ah, the joy of discovery! It always gives a fillip to come across an artist and an album right in your listening strike zone, but of whom you’ve heard nothing before. For me, this week, that artist was Canadian-born, London-based bassist Antoine Fafard, and that particularly enjoyable album has been Sphère.
All original material, it is bought to life by the addition of two super musicians, the UK’s own jazz swiss army knife Gary Husband on drums and keyboards, and Jerry De Villiers Jr on lead guitar and co-composer with Fafard of three of the tracks. This trio creates a satisfying sound offering up a range of musical emotions: intense note-smithing, mournful minor-key moments and achingly beautiful progressions. 

This album is contemporary jazz-fusion at its tastiest, with a strong mix of great harmonies and hot melodies that spit and crackle like a roasting pig. Across nine tracks, I got the story that Fafard is trying to engender with his music. Bass-led albums can sometimes over-burden themselves with four-string excess, such as unnecessarily intrusive slapping and popping or unnecessarily long soloing that remind you, incessantly, that the composer’s a bassist. I didn’t get that with Fafard, whose playing, while excellent, is understated enough to propel the music without dominating it. 

Polished, but not over-produced, the album has more grooves than a workman’s bench and offers up some powerful, beautiful soundscapes. For fans of the fusion end of jazz’s spectrum, it’s all meat, little filler. Opener Reminiscence comes out punching with a heavy sixteenth-note bass pattern over which De Villiers Jr paints the simplest of three note phrases, developed bar-by-bar until it explodes into a chaotic solo, bringing to mind Yorkshire’s Allan Holdsworth in his synth-guitar prime. 

Facta Non Verba showcases De Villiers’ tendency for the epic and bombastic, his warm guitar tone using just the right amount of effects to spice up a great solo in the middle that is beautifully book-ended by simple melodic ideas. On every track, not least fourth cut Fur & Axes, Pt. II (I can only assume part one missed the cut), the creative energy from Gary Husband’s keyboard and drum work shines through. Never over-egging the pudding on his drums, he nevertheless creates fascinatingly insistent, foot-tappingly-infectious rhythmic patterns that provide the reinforced steel superstructure on which Fafard and De Villiers build.

http://news360.com/digestarticle/bq8dDwt7c0iGAvsskqDjCw

Bill Holman - Mel Lewis Quintet: OUT OF THIS


Published on Aug 25, 2016

Lee Katzman, trumpet,
Bill Holman, tenor saxophone,
Jimmy Rowles, piano,
Wilford Middlebrook, bass,
Mel Lewis, drums,
performing Bill's arrangement of "Out Of This World."

Sunday, August 28, 2016

When It's Sleepy Time Down ....

Otis Taylor's love for Seattle is no secret.

Saturday, August 27, 2016

#MelvinDavis

#RudyVanGelder

Bird & #DizzyGillespie

Read #MichaelBloomfield

#Hot8BrassBand

#RudyVanGelder

Alto saxophonist #LesterYoung ....

#AntonioAdolfo ....

#BillEvans & #ChetBaker - The Legendary Sessions

#AnnHamptonCallaway

Ignacio Berroa Cu-Bop Band!

Thursday, August 25, 2016

#ChickCorea ....

#CharlesMcPherson Live in Tokyo

Israeli jazz fest ....

Treat yourself ...

See the Photographs That Captured the Icons of Jazz

Ted Williams—Iconic Images

Liz Ronk @LizabethRonk / Olivia B. Waxman @OBWax  8:30 AM ET Updated: 10:14 AM ET

Ted Williams started his career far from the limelight, serving in the U.S. Coast Guard during World War II. But he took up saxophone and clarinet when he returned stateside, and then studied photography at the Institute of Design at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago and immersed himself in the city’s jazz scene. The combination of music and visual art would make his career, which is explored in the new Antique Collectors Club book Jazz: The Iconic Images of Ted Williams. From the 1940s through the 1970s, his images appeared in TIME, Newsweek, Playboy and Ebony, and he got up-close with music greats Mahalia Jackson, Duke Ellington and Quincy Jones —as the above photos show.

Critically, Williams’ photo archive comprises one of the largest collections of pictures of Duke Ellington taken by a single photographer,” notes culture critic James Clarke in the book’s introduction. “The Ellington photos are especially important to jazz history as they include rare images depicting the artist in non-musical situations,” from eating an ice pop in Chicago with friends to yukking it up with guests at his Christmas party.

read more: http://time.com/4423929/jazz-legends-photos/

Wednesday, August 24, 2016

#BobbyKapp / #MattewShipp

#TommySmith & #BrianKellock

#StanleyTurrentine,#CliffordBrown #MaxRoach

Tuesday, August 23, 2016

#JosephineBaker

Trumpeter / composer #RussellGunn

#JulianLee will host Late Nights

#ConnieCrothers , a jazz pianist

#JimmyForrest - These Foolish Things

Today is ....

#CliffRatliff Big Band

The Legend Of 1900 Duel Scene

#VladMiller

Read #RonCarter

Monday, August 22, 2016

#JoeBushkin at the Embers in 1952 ....

Jazz concerts

Trumpeter #WadadaLeoSmith

#YusefLateef & #BettyCarter

#PatriciaMyers ' Paris coverage

#BickleyRivera - Take Me Away

Remix T-Groove's hot ....

NPR Music - Jazz

Eddie Palmieri: Tiny Desk Concert 

An icon for both modern and Latin jazz, the veteran performer continues to break tradition and innovate within many musical styles, including salsa, fusion, Latin funk and more.
Read this story
MUSIC NEWS

Bobby Hutcherson, Jazz Vibraphone Modernist, Has Died

The mallet percussionist released more than 40 albums and played on many classics of the 1960s and '70s, expanding the scope of what was possible on his instrument. He was 75.
FIRST LISTEN

First Listen: The Bad Plus, 'It's Hard'

The leaderless piano trio became famous for its cover songs more than a dozen years ago. Now, an all-covers record finds an established and quirky band once again testing its powers of interpretation.
SONGS WE LOVE

Songs We Love: Peter Eldridge, 'Mind To Fly'

An American vocalist shades his tune about the end of a love affair with the colors and rhythms of Brazil.
MARIAN MCPARTLAND'S PIANO JAZZ

Marty Napoleon On Piano Jazz

Hear the pianist, who once played with Louis Armstrong's All Stars, as he duets with Marian McPartland in a 1992 session.

#'Toots'Thielemans dies aged 94

#LouisStewart, an exquisite musician ....

Sunday, August 21, 2016

Coming Up...!

#TheBadPlus

Happy #SundayMorning

#ArtFarmer with #JimHall , ....

The countdown begins!

A jazz lover's dream ....

FREE JAZZ at Canary Wharf, London

#TonyBennett Honored ....

Jazz musician is still on ....

#LarryCoryell - Dragon Gate

#DukeEllington

Build #Jazz chords & scales ...

Saturday, August 20, 2016

See @ShezRajaBass

#KittyLaRoar

#RahsaanRolandKirk

#EnricoRava

#BrunoHeinen & #RachelCohen

Jazz greats captured on film ...

#ElvinJones ' influence

Friday, August 19, 2016

#BennyGoodman - Sing Sing Sing

NY Hot Jazz Festival

JAS, JASS, JAZ, JASCZ or ....

Jeff 'Tain' Watts

 VINCENT-LEBRUN.COM

by A.D. Amorosi, FOR DoTHIS
Updated: AUGUST 19, 2016 — 3:01 AM EDT

Philadelphia pianist Orrin Evans isn't just a brilliant player and composer, but a savvy curator as well. That's why, for the finale of Evans' live jazz series at South, he's welcoming one of post-bop's most poignant, pliable, even poetic drummers and composers, Jeff "Tain" Watts.

Watts was given that nickname by late master pianist Kenny Kirkland ("Kenny taught me to trust my ears and instincts, and I miss him dearly") when the pair played with trumpeter Wynton Marsalis and his saxophonist brother, Branford, for the better part of the 1980s. Kirkland caught a road sign for Chieftain Gas and came up with "Jefftain"

"Wynton's first band was assembled like buddies forming a garage band," Watts says. "The brothers, in conjunction with Mr. Kirkland and I, quickly became devoted to each other, even when separated. I had been studying jazz for perhaps two years when I began working with Wynton, and it took a long time for me to feel worthy of performing great jazz music. I love them all forever for believing in me before I believed in myself."

The drummer credits other leaders he played with - Geri Allen, John Hicks, Robert Hurst, and McCoy Tyner - to show him how to translate strength, passion, and will into a signature with composition largesse and rhythmic aesthetic. Call it Tain-ish, if you will.


"In the past, I was trying to portray emotional things in my music, but there always has to be a song at the end of it," he says, looking back at the complexity of his earlier solo albums in comparison to 2015's Blue, Vol. 1 and its sense of raw, subtle simplicity to go with its swing and balladry. "I'll make the analogy to, say, John Coltrane, who played many abstract and complicated [pieces], but would not have had the same effect to listeners had he not been a great blues player, a testifier, a preacher."

read more: http://news360.com/digestarticle/qFw3JZJAwE6irt3MjYx73w

Firefall Poco Pure Prairie League


Saturday, September 10, 2016 - 8 pm

3 Band Show!


King Center, 3865 N. Wickham Road, 
Melbourne, FL 32935

#DuBoseHeyward

Jazz Listings ...

#DukeEllington and #LouisArmstrong

listen to more jazz . . .

Take The A Train

#DaveZoller

#MilesDavis

Thursday, August 18, 2016

Exit Zero Jazz Festival in Cape May

#TedWilliams

Asher Wolf covers ....

Singer #SamFazio Returns ....

Wednesday, August 17, 2016

#DianaKrall

@monsieurperine

"Omar Sosa's 88 Well-Tuned Drums"

Tuesday, August 16, 2016

#BillEvans #CarlPerkins #MalWaldron #MaryStallings #AlHibbler

"The whole thing of being in music ....

#BobbyHutcherson

Dré Pallemaerts

The Robert Glasper Experiment's

Marc Davis's Blue Note Obsession

#MalloryChipman Fourtet

#FrankDiLella at Birdland!

#StevieWonder & ....

We're giving away 8 pairs ....

#AndyBey - Celestial Blues

#MollyRyan will be ....

The story of the scam #jazz ....

#CharlieHunter returns ....

Monday, August 15, 2016

Remembering #OscarPeterson

#WyntonKellyTrio with #GeorgeColeman

CD REVIEW: London, Meader, Pramuk, Ross with Very Special Guests...

CD REVIEW: London, Meader, Pramuk, Ross with Very Special Guests - The Royal Bopsters Project

London, Meader, Pramuk, Ross with Very Special Guests - The Royal Bopsters Project 
(Motéma Music MTA CD 182. CD Review by Peter Jones)

Anyone who has ever agonized over which track should open a new album will know that in most cases you want to start with a bold statement, something to grab your listeners from the get-go. The New York vocal quartet who call themselves The Royal Bopsters were spoiled for choice: not only were they all fine singers in their own right, but they had invited no fewer than five members of America’s vocal jazztocracy to guest on the album. Five years in preparation, it was eventually recorded in 2012 and 2013 and launched at Birdland, the Buckingham Palace of jazz. 

Five – count ‘em! So how to start? With 80-year-old Mark Murphy - the man who, even as he entered his ninth decade, could still out-hip anyone on the planet, even Annie Ross (82), Sheila Jordan (84), or Bob Dorough (89). Even Jon Hendricks (91)? 


Tricky. Anyhow, in the end they opt for diplomacy and go with seniority, so it’s Hendricks who gets the nod with his own lyric to Music In The Air, based on Art Farmer’s Wildwood. The Bopsters provide harmonized backing on all tracks in the manner of Lambert, Hendricks and Ross, Rare Silk or New York Voices, and it’s all as acrobatic and hi-gloss as that comparison would suggest. Amy London (soprano), Holli Ross (alto), Darmon Meader (tenor) and Dylan Pramuk (bass) are up there with the best, individually and as a group.


#StevieWonder Meets #StanGetz

San Jose Jazz Festival

#TheMingusBand

#IndyJazzFest2016

NPR Music - JAZZ

René Marie: Tiny Desk Concert

Joined by her Experiment In Truth band, the expressive, charismatic jazz singer performs songs from her new album, Sound Of Red.
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MARIAN MCPARTLAND'S PIANO JAZZ

David Sánchez On Piano Jazz

The cosmopolitan tenor saxophonist, with bassist John Benitez and drummer Adam Cruz, joins Marian McPartland for a set of standards.
A BLOG SUPREME

5 Musicians Pick Their Favorite Herbie Hancock Recordings

He's never been afraid to tap the current musical zeitgeist — and has reached new listeners each time. Ron Carter, Lionel Loueke, Flying Lotus and others share tracks by their friend.
SONGS WE LOVE

Songs We Love: Slavic Soul Party!, 'Bluebird Of Delhi'

An American black-music take on the Balkan brass band does a bit of Ellington/Strayhorn exotica. It totally works in spite of, or maybe because of, the multiple dialects at play.