Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Review: Cabaret darling McKay sings

Nellie McKay with bassist Alexi David, left, and drummer Kenneth Salters during her revue "A Girl Named Bill" Monday night. at the Dakota.

photo: JEFF WHEELER, STAR TRIBUNE

There was an undeniable gleam in her eyes and an unerasable smile on her face. They betrayed how New York cabaret darling Nellie McKay was privately winking at the audience throughout her performance of “A Girl Named Bill” on Monday at the Dakota Jazz Club.

McKay’s cabaret musical tells the true story of Billy Tipton, a jazz pianist/singer from the late 1930s until the 1970s who was discovered to be anatomically female during a 1989 autopsy in Spokane. There has been an opera, a play and an off-Broadway musical about Tipton; there’s even a Seattle feminist band called the Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet.

But there’s nothing quite like McKay. She’s not normal, which is a good thing, especially for tackling Tipton’s life story. The abundantly talented 34-year-old is smart and smart-alecky, clever and creative, fast and fearless, proudly unhip and gleefully old-fashioned. She likes to challenge herself and her audience. And that’s what she’s doing with “A Girl Named Bill.”


In these Caitlyn Jenner times, this musical about gender fluidity could provide profound commentary and wide resonance. However, by sticking to song and dialogue, McKay doesn’t make Tipton’s story clear enough. The entertaining 75-minute musical begs for narration so the audience can connect the dots. And hyperactive McKay could slow down a tad so the jokes and emotions can settle in.

read more at: http://news360.com/digestarticle/RjUjC7WBE0u_8Gw5TcscHQ

Mike LeDonne Quintet - The Feeling of Jazz

Official Jazz Fest 2017 Talent Announcement

Monday, January 30, 2017

#SonnyStitt "Now"

Long Road To Glory

pianist Hod O'Brien's

Sunday, January 29, 2017

January 29TH

January 28TH

Jazz vocalist #CheriAnderson

SPAC jazz fest to celebrate ...

Friday, January 27, 2017

The Adirondack Daily Enterprise

The Incredible Jazz Drummer

Rudresh Mahanthappa to perform ....

Lake Forest Symphony

Youth Jazz Workshop

Basie Bash in Edmonds

CCM Jazz Orchestra and Sex Mob's Steven Bernstein

Thursday, January 26, 2017

Sidney Street Shakers bring ....

Giordano Dance Company ...

Mary Tyler Moore, 80.

Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Don Laka's 'Afro Chopin'

pianist #BobThompson

Warne Marsh in 1975

Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Njjazzlist.com

News: Rare Photos by Jim Marshall
Music photographer, Jim Marshall’s photographs immortalize the unique energy of the Newport and Monterey Fests of the '60s, including unguarded images of Monk, Coltrane, and Miles. Most have not been published before this.

Notable Artist: Andrea Brachfeld

Spend time discovering the NJ jazz scene and you will surely run into NJ-based jazz artist and educator, Andrea Brachfeld. 


Brachfeld's latest CD, “Lotus Blossom,” was released on Jazzheads in October of 2015 and features notables, Bill O’ Connell, Rufus Reid, Winard Harper, Wycliffe Gordon, Chembo Corniel, and Nancy Harms. The song selections are a combination of standards and original music.

read more at: http://njjazzlist.com

Southeast Jazz Series presents ....

Paphos meets some jazz ....

a video clip of #TonyBennett in '58

Monday, January 23, 2017

American Music Sprang ....

a lost album from #DennisCoffey

JANUARY 22ND https://t.co/mh4rbw80Au

JANUARY 23RD https://t.co/0U2TKsnFJU

"May you live to be 100 & .....

Computer-Generated #Jazz Improvisation

Clark Terry (pictured), Don Friedman, Hank Jones, Maynard Ferguson ....

Banda Mantiqueira - Linha de Passe

Sunday, January 22, 2017

Young Little Richard Playing Piano


Uploaded on Jun 16, 2011
Some think this is Young Little Richard Amazing Piano Playing. 

It really is "Sugar Chile" Robinson was born Frank Robinson in 1938 in Detroit. A child prodigy at the age of two, he worked with Lionel Hampton and Frankie Carle (both master pianists themselves) and performed for President Truman at age seven. He appeared in the movie "No Leave, No Love" (the source of this clip) and scored two R&B hits in 1949: "Numbers Boogie" (Capitol 70037) which reached #4 and "Caldonia" (Capitol 70056) which reached #14. He stopped recording in 1952 to concentrate on academics.

Saturday, January 21, 2017

#LaTarara in #Vancouver, May 4 and 5

Hugh Masekela 'Bajabula Bonke'

Robert Glasper Experiment

DayDreaming - Kim Waters with Maysa

Lori Williams

#SlamStewart, #SidCatlett and #GeneKrupa

Thursday, January 19, 2017

José James - Always There

Cardiff-By-The-Sea, CA

"Horace Parlan by Horace Parlan"

Wednesday, January 18, 2017

January Guitar Workshop

Horace Parlan and two recordings ....

"Paris-Buenos Aires, une histoire d'amour"

Pianist Cedar Walton ....

Melt Away the Winter Blues ....

Reporter @shirleycamia speaks w/ Don Thompson

Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Roland Hanna w/Ron Carter & Tony Williams

a knockout new Three Sounds

Monday, January 16, 2017

Kenny Dorham's tremendous "Whistle Stop"

about Art Vinyl

at Egg Cafe ....

Chris Standring: Ready Steady Flow

7 jazz tributes from the '60s ...

Tyrant Lizard 'Shenandoah' | Live Studio Session


Published on Jan 13, 2017
KNKX welcomed a second performance of the trio Tyrant Lizard, just as the band released their self-titled debut album, and the new release from the group's guitarist Gregg Belisle-Chi, I Sang To You and the Moon. It was also the last few days for 2/3 of the band here in the Northwest - bass player Carmen Rothwell was returning to New York City and Belisle-Chi was days away from making the move himself. This left trumpet player Raymond Larsen to reassure us, a few thousand miles doesn't mean the end of Tyrant Lizard, just new paths to discover.

The group talked about their "ethereal" style ("I don't think of us as a ballads band" said Belisle-Chi), their undeniable musical chemistry, love of blending jazz and folk music, and how excited they were to explore vast musical territories with each other and whichever new, lucky musicians they encounter at this early stage in their careers. It would appear this Tyrant Lizard isn't in any danger of extinction.

Carmen Rothwell - bass
Raymond Larsen - trumpet
Gregg Belisle-Chi - guitar

Sunday, January 15, 2017

#BobBaldwin - I Wanna Be Where You Are

#PeteBelasco - I Ain't Doin It

BWB Braun Whalum Brown

Maysa - Inside My Dream

Michael Henderson

All fun, all in tune

Saturday, January 14, 2017

Video of Gene Krupa in "Drummer Man"

Thursday, January 12, 2017

Saxophonist Noah Preminger

First listen: Hugh Masekela

Watch @rpoonline perform

Jeff Goldblum, jazz pianist, plays SF Sketchfest

Jeff Goldblum — a jazz pianist as well as actor — appears with his band, The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra, on Saturday in The City. (Courtesy SF Sketchfest)

By Quentin Quick
on January 11, 2017 12:30 pm

Woody Allen has played an instrumental role in Jeff Goldblum’s career: He launched it by giving him a memorable cameo in 1977’s Oscar-winning “Annie Hall,” and two decades later, did the same for “The Fly,” “Jurassic Park” and “Independence Day” actor’s 20-year strong jazz project.

After learning that Goldblum (on piano) and “RoboCop” actor Peter Weller (on horns) regularly jam together in a five-piece band in Weller’s home, Allen — a part-time clarinet player as well as award-winning director — suggested they take their music to the masses.


“Woody Allen said, ‘Well, you guys should do what I do,’” Goldblum remembers. “’Have a weekly gig and make yourselves play out and about. It’ll be fun, and you’ll get better that way.’”

read more at: http://news360.com/digestarticle/PBxKx9DdQ0mwpa3QVets6A

#ClarkTerry, #JohnScofield and #DonaldHarrison

Junos Rename Award Category

Buddy Greco, the last of the Vegas ....

DownBeat Magazine


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Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Senior Arts Editor @MWigmore

Great Nina song from ...

Jóhann's score

Neu! and Harmonia legend #MichaelRother

Christian Mcbride Trio with ...

Happy Birthday to Birth of the Coolest

arranger Buddy Bregman ....

Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Max Roach

Naxos Launches Jazz

Nat Hentoff, Freedom Fighter

Doing Good: Walton Arts Center ...

clarinetist #StanHasselgard

Cuban and American music

Help us reach MORE

Student Ensembles

The ambiance on #toronto #jazz #sax player

The original #SpaceJam

Monday, January 9, 2017

#PeggyLee & #SonnyBurke

RIP Nat Hentoff

B.C. jazz musicians band together ....

Funds will be raised for jazz musician Hugh Fraser after his recent cancer diagnosis. (Hugh Fraser)

By Jon Hernandez, CBC News
Posted: Jan 07, 2017 5:00 PM PT
Last Updated: Jan 07, 2017 5:00 PM PT

Member's of B.C.'s jazz scene are coming together to support a local icon.

More than a dozen musicians will take the stage in North Vancouver to support B.C. jazz legend and Juno award-winner Hugh Fraser after his recent cancer diagnosis.


Among the many musicians that will recite some of his classic compositions at the Blueshore Financial Centre for Performing is Campbell Ryga, a Juno winner in his own right.

read more at: http://news360.com/digestarticle/GYNf8fzG5EKDjr7FQgP2hA

Philly Joe Jones :1923 1985 - A Tribute


Published on Jan 6, 2017
Drummer Philly Joe Jones performing Clifford Brown's "Daahoud" with Phineas Newborn, Jr., piano and Paul Chambers, bass.

Sunday, January 8, 2017

album by #JohnnySmith

When Sony ....

This is one of the 4 or 5 seminal recordings

Herbie Hancock / Miles Davis - Watermelon Man


Published on Apr 11, 2015
Miles Davis-trumpet....
Herbie Hancock-keyboards....
Bill Evans-sax .....
Kenny Garrett-sax....
Foley-guitar....
Al Foster-drums....
Richard Patterson-bass....

Happy B'day

Sensational start to our #CelloUnwrapped

1st 'Curated by Empirical'

Saturday, January 7, 2017

My Cello Story

Max Roach, Count Basie, Shelly Manne with the Jackson 5, Sammy Price and Sugar Pie DeSanto

5 video clips of Tom Jobim

Kings Place's Cello Unwrapped season

Stan Kenton's Paris concert in 1953

Friday, January 6, 2017

The Four Hornsmen

jan, 3 is HK Gruber's Birthday!

A one-hour radio ....

Winton Marsalis

JAZZ ROOTS Presents WYNTON MARSALIS at Miami's Arsht Center January 20, 2017

JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA WITH WYNTON MARSALIS

Friday, January 20, 2017

John S. and James L. Knight Concert Hall at the
Adrienne Arsht Center 

for the Performing Arts, 1300 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami, FL 33132


Ian Skelly from Liverpool

Beste Art Vinil, 2016

congratulate Thom Bell ....

Saxophonist #MiguelZenón

Rebirth of the Cool ....

Thursday, January 5, 2017

#OliverJones - Falling In Love


Uploaded on Nov 1, 2011
Il discepolo di Oscar Peterson in un'esibizione al Montreal Jazz Festival 2004.

Oliver Jones: piano
Dave Young : bass
Norm Marshall Villeneuve : drums

Chris Standring, Mica Paris team ...

Cuban music students ....

Marvin Meet Miles

a look back at #TinyBradshaw

A NIGHT IN THE LIFE: #BobbyHutcherson

#LizAllenHope

Tubby Hayes and Paul Gonsalves

Wednesday, January 4, 2017

Dizzy Gillespie / Sonny Rollins / Sonny Stitt -"The Eternal Triangle"


Published on Mar 8, 2013
Sonny Side Up is an album by trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, and the tenor saxophonists Sonny Stitt and Sonny Rollins, recorded in December 1957 in New York City. It was released the following year on producer Norman Granz' just launched Verve label.

Pianist Ray Bryant, bassist Tommy Bryant, and drummer Charlie Persip provide the rhythm section.


Birthdays Of John Scofield, Joe Lovano & Danilo Perez

Steven Heller on the Revival

Perfect!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ifEg-p4eww

Review of The Real Royal Albert Hall 1966 Concert Album by Bob Dylan

After half a century Columbia is setting the record straight. Fans mistakenly circulated Bob Dylan's 1966 Manchester Free Trade Hall show for many years as the final date on his European tour from that year. Though the bootleggers may have been wrong and a subsequent official release of that show perpetuated the myth with a tongue-in-cheek title, it's never been disputed that these shows were a pivotal moment in Rock history. This release presents a true recording from the last venue Dylan performed at in the UK in 1966. For those looking for something revelatory, it's unlikely you'll find it here though.


That's not to say that this isn't an important historical document. It's also a great performance boasting excellent sound quality, but I can't pretend it's more incendiary than the Manchester show, which was previously presented as part of Dylan's official Bootleg series. This is the latest milestone in Columbia's copyright extension project, ensuring that all of their unreleased Dylan gems will continue to turn a profit now that they have finally seen the light of day. It's a cynical view, but is certainly a consideration when in tandem with this release you note the 36 CD box of every unreleased show from 1966 that's also emerged from the vaults. This standalone double disc set is a good summation of that mammoth set, but it also certainly has its problems.

read more at: http://news360.com/digestarticle/yDNbDRLDOECO1k_5F1APwQ

jazz@jazzinstitut.de

3 January 2017

Jazzkeller Frankfurt / Kamasi Washington
Wolfgang Sandner writes about the legendary Jazzkeller club in Frankfurt, Germany, which was founded in 1952, and he talks to Eugen Hahn who has taken over the venue 30 years ago, has invested a lot of his time and efforts in order to make ends meet, and has managed to maintain the memory of Frankfurt's reputation as "Germany's jazz capital" ( Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ).

Nate Chinen talks to the saxophonist Kamasi Washington about the heavy touring schedule of nearly 200 shows last year having helped the working band cohesion of his ensemble, about the spirit of jazz which he says will always resonate with people, about plans for a new album after his debut "The Epic" in 2015, as well as about jazz being about searching and keeping an open mind ( New York Times).

21 December 2016

... what else ...
André Domes reports that the Rüsselsheim Culture Award will go to the saxophonist Stephan Völker ( Main-Spitze).
Mojo Mendiola hears the German drummer Eric Schaefer with The Shreds in Krefeld, Germany ( Rheinische Post).
Doug Newhouse reports about a new Montblanc Miles Davis pen inspired by the trumpeter's music ( TRBusiness).
Claudia Melénez Salinas talks to the pianist and educator Rob Klevan who was just named the recipient of the 2017 John LaPorta Jazz Educator of the Year Award by the Berklee College of Music and the Jazz Education Network ( Santa Cruz Sentinel).
Liza Batkin connects Damien Chazelle's new jazz-tinged movie "La La Land" to the present political situation in the USA ( Broadly) while Ruby Lott-Lavigna calls the film a "whitewashed musical" ( Wired), and Jack Mirkinson has his criticism as well (Fusion).
Michael J. Agovino reads Michael Heller's new book about New York's Loft Jazz scene of the 1970s ( The Village Voice).
Dawn Kendrick talks to the Cleveland trumpeter Kenny Davis whose instruments had been stolen in a car-jack four days before Christmas ( WKYC).
Andreas Collet talks to the German pianist Johannes Mössinger ( Badische Zeitung).
Claudia Wagner talks to the 86-year-old Swiss-German drummer Elsy Ballmann ( Südkurier).
James Karst tells the story of the clarinet player Sidney Vigne who was making a name for himself in his hometown of New Orleans when he was fatally hit by a truck on his way home on New Year's Day 1923 ( New Orleans Times-Picayune).
Hans Hielscher hears the new album of German saxophonist Nicole Johänntgen and is intrigued by the fact that there still is a scene for traditional jazz in Germany ( Spiegel Online).

Obituaries
We learned of the passing of the Hawaiian pianist Betty Loo Taylor at the age of 87 ( Star Adviser), the drummer Alphonse Mouzon at the age of 68 ( Inquisitr, Something Else, New York Times), the French singer Léo Marjane at the age of 104 ( New York Times), the pianist Kathryn Bailey at the age of 86 ( The Almanac), the German trombonist and singer Knut Kiesewetter at the age of 75 ( Lübecker Nachrichten, NDR, Frankfurter Rundschau), the German club promoter Eugen Hutter at the age of 93 ( Stuttgarter Nachrichten ), the singer-songwriter-poet and author of some several jazz books David Meltzer at the age of 79 ( San Francisco Chronicle), the Portland club owner Jimmy Makarounis at the age of 53 only one day after his club Jimmy Mak's closed ( KOIN), as well as of the German saxophonist Manfred Baierl at the age of 64 ( JazzZeitung).

14 Iconic Solos That Showcase Jazz Music's Incredible History

'post' suggested by Jorge Carvalheira
By Andrew Chow
June 13, 2014

In a recent study at Johns Hopkins, jazz musicians improvised with each other while sitting in MRI machines. No doubt many of them were used to playing in tight spaces, but this was, all the same, odd.

What the study found, though, was even odder: Jazz improvisation is rooted in the same places of the brain as spoken language. When musicians play with each other, for us, they're actually communicating just as intentionally as if they were speaking English.

Jazz is arguably the truest American music. It has shaped the greatest moments of our history, our legends and our dinner parties. This study, then, revealed something we knew to be true: Jazz is a universal language, the great American glue. Indeed, some of the greatest jazz improvisations have been just as eloquent and expressive as the most renowned poems or speeches in history, and they're just as important to know.


But if jazz musicians are one thing, it's prolific. Here, then, are the 14 iconic jazz solos that tell the history of jazz — and the last American century.

1. "West End Blues" by Louis Armstrong (1928)



read more at https://mic.com/articles/90959/14-iconic-solos-that-showcase-jazz-music-s-incredible-history#.Oe6K0F342

Tuesday, January 3, 2017

Shelly Berg Trio


A Legend of the Great American Songbook with the Shelly Berg Trio

Houston Person
Wednesday, January 11, 2017, 07:45pm

Legendary tenor sax artist, Houston Person, is “one of the best! He’s got bull chops,” said Dizzy Gillespie. He has recorded everything from disco and gospel to pop and R&B, in addition to his trademark – velvet-toned straight-ahead jazz and soulful hard bop. The pianist, composer, arranger, Dean of the UM Frost School of Music and Grammy nominee, Shelly Berg has performed and/or recorded with almost everyone in the biz.  Person and Berg join forces for one incredible evening of jazz. You won’t want to miss these two jazz greats together again!

read more at: http://www.goldcoastjazz.org/concerts-events/gold-coast-jazz-concert-series/eventdetail/132/-/houston-person.html

#NinaSimone

Jennika Anthony-Shaw

video of singer David Allyn ...

Monday, January 2, 2017

Get ready for these diva musicals

by ShiveringSongs

Duke Pearson - Jeannine

Gene Krupa records ....

Who was Eddie Fisher?

@Richthealgoritm

Vibraphonist Milt Jackson ...

Who was #EddieFisher