Monday, October 31, 2016

a new album of Brit jazz from '62

#FrankSinatra at a Capitol Records

#RoyEldridge at the Arcadia Ballroom 1939

Jack Sheldon's "Jack's Groove"

RuthBrown w/ Thad Jones/Mel Lewis

A taste of Harold Vick's "Steppin' Out"

At JazzWax ....

Sunday, October 30, 2016

#LesterYoung & #ColemanHawkins

#DukeEllington - Isfahan

#BillieHoliday, en el escenario durante una presentación

#FrankSinatra - The Lady Is A Tramp

Saturday, October 29, 2016

#EllaFitzgerald

#TommyFlanagan - Willow Weep for Me

#ArtTatum with #LionelHampton & #BuddyRich - Love for Sale

Our @jazzwinnipeg friends

At JazzWax ....

EFG London Jazz Festival

Modern Harmonic ....

Diana Krall

Great news!

The latest The Language of Jazz Daily!

Happy #Jazz B-day

Basic Musicianship for ....

Friday, October 28, 2016

#WayneShorter

#LynnDarroch

Another #AnitaO'Day Video

Check out 'Kings & Queens'

Check out the "Working Musician"

Indianapolis 🎷azz Foundation's

Trumpet Summit

Thursday, October 27, 2016

Peter and Will Anderson Trio 'Cherokee'


Published on Oct 26, 2016
Twin brothers Peter (tenor sax & clarinet) and Will (alto sax, clarinet and flute) Anderson brought their trio (with guitarist Alex Wintz) to the KNKX studios for a thrilling afternoon of swinging standards.

Though they compose their own music, the Andersons have a deep love of jazz standards, noting that "you can't write something good unless you've heard something good," but what our studio audience heard was better described as outstanding.

#DannyGreen 'Time Lapse to Fall'


Published on Oct 21, 2016
San Diego-based pianist Danny Green says he's been an obsessive music fan, spending intense periods focusing on styles as diverse as Cuba's Buena Vista Social Club, his favorite Brazilian and classical composers, and a youth listening to Nirvana and playing in a ska band. It all comes together, however subtly, in every song he writes.

Wednesday, October 26, 2016

With the lovely #JuliePowers

TONITE: Yvonne Allu Quartet

Check out 'Kings & Queens'

Check out 'Kings & Queens'

Harold Vick: Steppin' Out

JazzWax: #StanGetz in L.A.: 1953 and '55

Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Louie Prima - 1910-1978: A Tribute

Steven Cerra
Tuesday, October 25, 2016

“For New Orleans musicians, especially, showmanship was—and remains—a fact of life. Was it not Louis Armstrong, above all, who understood the relationship between music and entertainment, and never wavered in his application of it, even in the face of critical hostility.” - Richard Sudhalter, Lost Chords: White Musicians and Their Contribution to Jazz, 1915-1945.

Trumpeter, bandleader and showman/entertainer Louis Prima was the original “Louie Louie” before the character by the same name was enshrined in the famous rock ‘n roll song. 

He was born Louie Loui in New Orleans, LA into a family of Italian immigrants on December 7, 1911

He taught himself trumpet (1925) and began performing in various bands based in New Orleans. 

“Though Louis Prima recorded widely and well throughout the '30s, achieving great popularity and visibility, his name is often conspicuous by its absence from standard jazz histories. Dealing with him seriously means confronting one aspect of New Orleans jazz which chroniclers, almost as a point of honor, seem to find distasteful.

That, of course, is the matter of showmanship. The flamboyance of Prima's latter career, in which his identity as a trumpeter became almost totally subordinate to his role as a high-energy showman, seems to offend those who would represent jazz as an art music of solemnity and unstinting high purpose. The Las Vegas image, the raucous sound of Sam Butera and the Witnesses, the risque badinage with singer Keely Smith — such make it all too easy to mistake this showbiz aspect of Prima for the creative substance, ignoring his past achievements and core musicianship.

Far from being exclusive to such as Prima, the idea of hot music as an arm of highly commercialized show business runs throughout the early years. It's present in the singing, dancing, and impromptu comedy skits of the dance bands, including those that prided themselves on their dedication to jazz. Its absence is a root cause of the failure of the great Jean Goldkette orchestra, an ensemble which either stubbornly resisted advice to "put on a show" or acquiesced in a manner landing somewhere between perfunctory and downright hostile.

For New Orleans musicians, especially, showmanship was—and remains—a fact of life. Was it not Louis Armstrong, above all, who understood the relationship between music and entertainment, and never wavered in his application of it, even in the face of critical hostility.


"You'll always get critics of showmanship," he told British critic Max Jones. "Critics in England say I was a clown, but a clown — that's hard. If you can make people chuckle a little; it's happiness to me to see people happy, and most of the people who criticize don't know one note from another."

read more: http://jazzprofiles.blogspot.com.br

Jay Mc Shann - Kansas City


Published on Apr 6, 2012
concert Jay Mcshann Big band France paris La Villette 1989 
Jay Mcshann, benny Carter, phil Woods, al Grey etc
Kansas city sounds; "Hommage à charlie Parker",extrait ; realisation F.Cassenti/M6;

Brian Lynch - Bolero Nights


Published on Jul 12, 2012
Trumpeter Brian Lynch performing "You've Changed" with:
Phil Woods on Alto Saxophone and,
Zaccai Curtis on piano.

#CountBasie

Basic Musicianship for .....

Davis & Hutcherson?

Four #AnitaO'Day Videos

#HaroldVick - Steppin' Out

#PatMartino

Watch @herbiehancock

Davis & Hutcherson?

Monday, October 24, 2016

Watch: @ChrisThile talks

Rhiannon Giddens

Reasons to visit SF in Feb ....

Tickets are selling fast!

.@ConorOberst's new solo acoustic

#AndrewCyrille !

alto saxophonist #SonnyCriss

On Tuesday, Oct. 25 ....

jazzahead!

Reminder that jazzahead!

Sunday, October 23, 2016

Museums

jazz@jazzinstitut.de

19 October2016

... what else ...

Jodok Hess sends his regards to the Swiss saxophonist Andy Scherrer who turns 70 these days ( SRF). --- Josh Rosenberg ( Spin), Michael Datcher ( LA Weekly) and John Lewis ( The Guardian) talk to the saxophonist Kamasi Washington. --- Chris Graham talks to the trumpeter Mark Filsinger about the Buffalo Jazz Collective ( Orchard Park Bee). --- Chelsea Brasted talks to the pianist David Lastie Jr. ( New Orleans Times-Picayune). --- The German photographer Martin Feldmann shows some of his photos from trip to the blues scenes of Chicago, Memphis and other American cities in Rüsselsheim ( Rüsselsheimer Echo ). --- Tom Lanham ( Paste Magazine), David Ellis ( Evening Standard) and Josef Engels ( Die Welt) talk to the pianist and singer Norah Jones. --- Hans Hielscher reports about the festival "Jazz and the City" in Salzburg, Austria ( Spiegel Online). Doris Wild talks to the festival's artistic director Tina Heine ( SalzburgerLand Magazin). --- The future artistic director of the Moers Festival is expected to involve the local audience more than before, we read, with the city of Moers implying that so far the festival may have been known internationally but not on a local level ( Westfälische Nachrichten). --- Roger Catlin talks to the trumpeter Terence Blanchard ( Washington Post). --- David Ellis talks to the pianist and singer Norah Jones . --- Nate Chinen talks to the drummer Andrew Cyrille ( New York Times). --- John J. Moser talks to the saxophonist Branford Marsalis ( Morning Call).

Obituaries

We learned of the passing of the trumpeter Don Lewis at the age of 65 ( Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, TMJ4), the saxophonist Bruce DeMoll at the age of 86 ( Parkersburg News and Sentinel), the educator and jazz historian Richard Wang at the age of 88, the Canadian drummer Guy Nadon at the age of 82 ( Montréal Gazette) , the producer Phil Chess at the age of 95 ( Chicago Sun-Times, New York Times), as well as the German composer Claus Ogerman who died in March at the age of 85, a sad fact which only now made the news ( Spiegel Online).

Saturday, October 22, 2016

#MuhammadAli

Happy Birthday #OscarPeterson

#ConnieCrothers

Duke and Satchmo at ....

#JazzPianist #JohnWeber

CLEVELAND WATKISS TRIO ....

Dont miss #PAULZAUNER ....

from #KeelySmith, #MaryWells and Santo & Johnny ....

Friday, October 21, 2016

Terence Blanchard & his E-Collective tune up

by Shaun Brady, FOR THE INQUIRER
Updated: OCTOBER 19, 2016 — 11:51 AM EDT

Terence Blanchard has never been what you’d call predictable. Like Wynton Marsalis before him, the trumpeter left New Orleans in the early '80s, served an apprenticeship with Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, and seemed destined for leadership in the tradition-focused “Young Lions” movement committed to steering jazz back onto a straight-ahead track. 

But Blanchard veered off that narrow path. He became Spike Lee’s composer of choice, scoring nearly all of the director’s films since 1991’s Jungle Fever. His own music grew more ambitious in scope, from the 2007  album-length suite A Tale of God’s Will (A Requiem for Katrina), inspired by the devastation wrought on his hometown by Hurricane Katrina, to the 2013 jazz opera Champion, based on the life of welterweight boxing champion Emile Griffith. 

Last year, he took another unexpected turn with his latest release, Breathless. The album introduced his new band, the E-Collective, an electro-acoustic ensemble inspired as much by hip-hop and modern rock such as Radiohead as by the fusion bands of Blanchard’s youth, including Weather Report and Herbie Hancock’s Headhunters. “Influences for this band came from all over the place,” Blanchard said last week, over the phone from Ohio’s Oberlin College, where he was rehearsing for a performance of A Tale of God’s Will.


“The Mahavishnu Orchestra, Return to Forever, Rage Against the Machine - when I was growing up, I was listening to Parliament Funkadelic along with Clifford Brown, Miles Davis, and [classical trumpeter] Maurice André. I never wanted to be that guy that says there’s a finite set of criteria that defines who I am. The universe is too big for that.”

read more: http://news360.com/digestarticle/GOAk11t-oUCrsk4z4dPBTA

After last night, ....

Classic Holiday Album Christmas Songs

Marco Marconi Trio

Can't get this song out of my head

Thursday, October 20, 2016

RIP Al Stewart

@Buenclimamx y #AlexEllis

Forty Glorious Years

Wednesday, October 19, 2016

arranger #ClausOgerman

“Glass Eyes” by Radiohead

La serie #Jazzeando

My WSJ chat with #KristinChenoweth

Remember Mooie's mantra?

The Intimate #KeelySmith

Rhapsody in Blue - #MakotoOzone , NY Philharmonic


Published on May 21, 2014
George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, performed by
New York Philharmonic.
Makoto Ozone (pf)
Alan Gilbert (Conductor) 

Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Earl Bostic and the roots ....

The Night When #CharlieParker ....

look who's coming 2 town

#BobStewart

#YayoiIkawa - Harlem Jazz Series

An Evening of Musical Masters

The Arts Project

The Django! 🎶🍸🎶🎷🎶

#DougRaney 's last leadership album

#ShirleyHorn at the 4 Queens

Monday, October 17, 2016

El miércoles en el ....

“Blue in Green (Mono Version)”

The latest Smooth Jazz Daily!

#jazzwax https://t.co/D4yFelk9U6

INTERVIEW: #VinceWilburnJr.

Jazz Goes Mod, 1962

#book “Anatomy of a Song”

Q&A with trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf

Soho Scene '62:Jazz Goes Mod - 'killer'

Live #ArtPepper & #WarneMarsh

@DownBeatMag reviews #BradMehldau

Sunday, October 16, 2016

Lionel Hampton’s historic ....

#JackSheldon : Jack's Groove .....

The latest Smooth Jazz Daily!

Weekend Wax Bits

from Rhapsody in Blue to Snarky Puppy

BRIC THIS Thursday ...

Nearly time for jazz to take over ....

You are so beautiful ....

The latest The Language of Jazz Daily!

Saturday, October 15, 2016

@Jazzineu

Już w najbliższą niedzielę

#PaulJost is performing

by industry experts ...

Friday, October 14, 2016

#MontyAlexander celebrated #FrankSinatra

#OlaOnabule

#HermetoPascoal

Star line-up for Cambridge International Jazz Festival

Laura Mvula
By Cambridge News  |  Posted: October 10, 2016

Top female vocalists and instrumentalists are heading for Cambridge next month – for the city's annual International Jazz Festival.
Among the big names are Mercury Prize nominated Laura Mvula, award-winning jazz vocalists Anita Wardell and Lauren Kinsella, saxophonists Dee Byrne and Karen Sharp, trumpet player Laura Jurd, and award-winning pianists Nikki Iles and Kate Williams.
Since catapulting into the limelight with her acclaimed debut album Sing To The Moon and touring the world, Laura Mvula is back with a new album The Dreaming Room, released in June.

Anita Wardell received the BBC Jazz Award for Best of Jazz category in 2006 and a British Jazz award for Best Vocalist in 2013. She will be performing at the festival with the Robin Philips Trio at the Gonville Hotel, and also leading a vocal jazz masterclass.

Lauren Kinsella, winner of the UK Vocalist of the Year at the 2016 Jazz FM Awards, is known as one of the jazz scene's most adventurous artists, experimenting with spoken word, poetry and improvisational singing, including shrieks, yelps and clicks.

Read more at http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/star-line-up-for-cambridge-international-jazz-festival/story-29794942-detail/story.html#brXOyypfGhhvZrOl.99

Thursday, October 13, 2016

#CarolSudhalter ....

#MattBaker Trio Appearing ...

“50 Years At The Village Vanguard: ....

@derrickhodge

#NorahJones returns to her ...

#NorahJones performs

#DawnHampton , a legend

Indianapolis 🎷azz Foundation's

a tribute to #RayCharles

#AaronBennett / #DarrenJohnston / #LisaMezzacappa / #FrankRosaly

#ArtiomKrikunov / #RuslanTustanovskiy

Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Jazz Life App #DianeMarino

bassist #MichaelValerio

#KarlJenkins

#AnoushkaShankar & #Karshkale & #Sting

#LudovicoEinaudi - "Elegy for the Arctic"

Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Don't miss #ProjectGrandSlam

Pittsburgh's Jazz Jam

Live #ArtPepper & #WarneMarsh

SEA Women in Jazz

That time you back phrased .....

#jazzfest2017

Monday, October 10, 2016

Jazz Guitarist #PeterWhite

#TheUrbanMusicScene

Fringe Jazz, Bristol

Jim Rattigan’s Pavillon

#BenCox Band - new album

#RobMazurek ...

Sunday, October 9, 2016

Q&A with trumpeter #IbrahimMaalouf

#JohnMcLaughlin has announced

Saturday, October 8, 2016

#CarolynWonderland

Dimitriou's Jazz Alley

#MahaliaJackson, #LesleyGore, #RudyVanGelder and #WillieBobo

#ShirleyHorn recording from ....

"Anatomy of a Song,"

GYPSY NIGHT: Dunajska Kapelye

Andrea Vicari – The Mirror