At JazzWax, aa new album of Dick Hyman's solo piano performances at the Sacramento Jazz Festival in the 1980s... https://t.co/UvBuJEpVnQ pic.twitter.com/y6FMckYEzv— Marc Myers (@JazzWax) 27 de junho de 2017
Tuesday, June 27, 2017
album of Dick Hyman's solo piano ....
The Sound of Avant Garde Jazz
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Jazz, Music
June 27th, 2017
Jazz has become institutionalized, for both good and ill. On the upside, it has found a permanent home in prestigious performing arts centers like Jazz at Lincoln Center, where its memory will be preserved for generations. High priests like Wayne Shorter, Wynton Marsalis, and Herbie Hancock pass on the traditions to young jazz acolytes at universities. The American art form has achieved the level of respectability that some of its most innovative practitioners, such as Duke Ellington and Charles Mingus, had always sought, the recognition of the high art world.
On the other hand, we too easily forget how dangerous jazz used to be—how thoroughly cutting edge and disturbing to middlebrow sensibilities. But of course, jazz has passed through many cultural cycles, with each generation of artists shocking its elders by pushing against musical decorum. Late 40s and 50s bebop gave us the lean, mean combo as a challenge to the big band swing era, and produced superstar improvisers who veered thrillingly off script in every performance. But this incarnation of jazz, too, threatened to become staid as the sixties neared.
read more at: http://www.openculture.com/2017/06/the-sound-of-avant-garde-jazz.html
Dizzy Gillespie - Wheatleigh Hall with Teddy Stewart
Dizzy Gillespie - Wheatleigh Hall with Teddy Stewart: https://t.co/iIfbc07rLi via @YouTube— jazzvideoguy (@jazzvideoguy) 25 de junho de 2017
new jazz photography ....
Great new jazz photography #2: Lauren Deutsch’s Made in Chicago portfolio https://t.co/cQTSRzYPhu #jazz— Jazz Beyond Jazz (@jazzbeyondjazz) 22 de junho de 2017
Paul Horn's Jazz Impressions of CLEOPATRA
Friday, June 23, 2017
by Steven Cerra
Recent research has revealed that Antony and Cleopatra - one of history's most romantic couples - were not the great beauties that Hollywood would have us believe.
A study of a 2,000-year-old silver coin found the Egyptian queen, famously portrayed by a sultry Elizabeth Taylor, had a shallow forehead, pointed chin, thin lips and sharp nose.
On the other side, her Roman lover, played in the 1963 movie by Richard Burton, Taylor's husband at the time, had bulging eyes, a hook nose and a thick neck.
History has depicted Cleopatra as a great beauty, befitting a woman who as Queen of Egypt seduced Julius Caesar, and then his rival Mark Antony.
But the coin, which goes on show on Wednesday at Newcastle University for Valentine's Day, after years lying in a bank, is much less flattering about both famous faces.
read more at: http://jazzprofiles.blogspot.com.br/2017/06/paul-horns-jazz-impressions-of.html
Monday, June 26, 2017
#BillEvans - Piano Player
Sunday, June 25, 2017
by Steven Cerra
Sooner or later, it seemed that many of the major Jazz artists of the 2nd half of the 20th century recorded for Columbia.
Some, like Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck and Erroll Garner had extensive catalogues and were with the label for many years while others like Mulligan, Monk and Mingus had only the occasional fling with the label.
Pianist Bill Evans falls into the later category of short-lived stays having spent the majority of his career with Riverside and Verve before moving onto Milestone and Warner Brothers Records later in his career until his death in 1980.
Bill only did two recordings for Columbia: The Bill Evans Album [CK 64963] and Bill Evans - Piano Player [CK 65361] from which this piece derives it names. The latter, one of the lesser known Evans recordings, was advertised by Sony Music Entertainment when it released the album on CD in 1998 as follows:
Assembled by Evans' veteran producer, multi-Grammy winner. Orrin Keepnews, and with new liner notes by Eddie Gomez, BILL EVANS: PIANO PLAYER will provide ample cause for celebration among his many fans the world over. It's also a first-rate introduction to an artist who continually gains new adherents.
To expand a bit on the last sentence from the Sony media release, it could reasonably be argued, as Orrin Keepnews his first producer at Riverside Records has stated: “that Bill Evans is the most widely influential of all improvising pianists. Certainly he's the most often imitated. Only Bud Powell, the fountainhead of bebop piano (and a major influence on Evans) comparably affected the work of his fellow pianists.
Almost two decades after his death (in 1980 at 51), a small army that numbers the brilliant likes of Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, and Keith Jarrett has derived some measure of their keyboard approach from Evans' lyrical conception.
At the heart of his crepuscular, introspective style was The Sound —or, more accurately, the touch (and the way he used the piano's sustain pedals) that produced the indelible, crystalline sound.
For sheer beauty, it is without equal. And jazz players on all instruments have been to one degree or another shaped, or at the very least, profoundly moved, by the inner voicings of his pellucid chords, his free, but in no way cacophonous rhythmic sense, and his deep-song balladry.”
However. Evans' ability to swing was at one time questioned in some quarters. This is, of course, absurd, but if there's anyone left who doubts his proficiency at propelling the beat, proceed to All About Rosie, the introductory track on the CD.
One of eight previously unreleased numbers in this collection, All About Rosie from 1957 is an orchestral suite by composer George Russell, one of modern music's keenest minds. In the third section. Evans' right hand unfurls lines that make for a rhythmically impelling, tension-building masterpiece.
read more at: http://jazzprofiles.blogspot.com.br/2017/06/bill-evans-piano-player.html
#BrianLynch - Peer Pressure
Monday, June 26, 2017
by Steven Cerra
In his incisive and informative insert notes for Brian Lynch's Peer Pressure, a Criss Cross recording [1029 CD], Mike Hennessy offers up the following rhetorical question – “Where are the Gillespies, Parkers, Rollinses, Getzes, J.J. Johnsons and Miles Davieses of the new Jazz generation? [To which he answers] “There aren’t any.”
Hennessy goes on to explain that the implication of this question and answer is “… intended to imply that the general level of [Jazz] artistry and creativity today is in a state of decline.”
To this charge, Hennessy offers two pertinent quotations, taken appropriately from members of today’s Jazz generation.
The first is from trumpeter Terence Blanchard: “The real problem is that people keep looking for new Dizzys, Birds and Tranes instead of judging the new generation of musicians on their own terms and evaluating their music objectively. Why should they be expected to be clones of other musicians?”
Alto saxophonist Donald Harrison, Blanchard’s partner at the time of this writing continues the sentiment by adding: “The general standard of playing among today’s young Jazz musicians is getting higher and higher all the time.”
Any doubt about the merit contained in these assertions by Blanchard and Harrison is further swept away by listening to the playing of the musicians that trumpeter Brian Lynch has assembled on Peer Pressure
After stints with the Horace Silver Quintet, the Mel Lewis big band and the Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra, Peer Pressure was the first album that trumpeter Brian recorded under his own name. On it, he is ably assisted by tenor saxophonist Ralph Moore, his front-line mate with Horace’s quintet, and alto saxophonist Jim Snidero, also a member of Toshiko’s big band.
read more at: http://jazzprofiles.blogspot.com.br
Dick Meldonian-Sonny Igoe Big Band
At JazzWax, a killer album—the Dick Meldonian-Sonny Igoe Big Band from 1981 playing Gene Roland arrangements... https://t.co/IxEiZnctr5 pic.twitter.com/xWntV3aJRX— Marc Myers (@JazzWax) 26 de junho de 2017
Kirk Douglas, the Spinners, Frank Sinatra, Herman Munster, ....
This weekend at JazzWax, Kirk Douglas, the Spinners, Frank Sinatra, Herman Munster, the Doobie Brothers and more... https://t.co/7dXDnjanHX pic.twitter.com/5kQpDuDv9v— Marc Myers (@JazzWax) 24 de junho de 2017
#KirkDouglas, now 100 ...
Kirk Douglas, now 100, on growing up without heat or hot running water and the friendship that led him to Hollywood https://t.co/7vbr87eTCw pic.twitter.com/9XK7cKQBch— WSJ Mansion (@WSJRealEstate) 20 de junho de 2017
Maciek Pysz and Gianluca Corona – London Stories (2017)
JUNE 25, 2017
BY SAMMY STEIN
Maciek Pysz and Gianluca Corona met briefly in the Blue Note Jazz Club in Milan and later at a jam session in an East London Jazz Bar. London Stories is the second collaborative album for these jazz guitarists, the first being Acustica in 2015.
Maciek Pysz is from Poland and has played with many great musicians, including drummer Asif Sirkis and bass player Yuri Goloubev, with whom he formed a trio. Tracks of his have been played on Jazz FM and BBC Radio 3. He has joined forces with sax player Tim Garland at the Pizza Express Jazz Club in London and his debut album Insight proved a favorite with critics. He has recorded with Dot Time Records and 33Jazz Records.
Gianluca Corona has played venues including the Vortex in London. He has his own quartet and has made numerous recordings in collaboration with others. His new project with Pysz is a gentle musical journey, with compositions of varying style yet with an intrinsic connection in how they are played.
“Fresh Look,” the opening track from London Stories, is beautiful, atmospheric and with a smattering of shared chord progressions between the two guitar players. “Amici” has a Mediterranean feel, with a strolling lilt inbuilt to the texture and color painted by the interplay between the instruments. “Those Days” is gentle, with an over-arching theme picked out from acoustic guitar, delivered over a steady backdrop of strumming rhythms whilst the middle section concentrates on strong, deeper notes leading to a change in essence before the piece is out.
read more: http://somethingelsereviews.com/2017/06/25/maciek-pysz-and-gianluca-corona-london-stories-2017/
from #CynthiaSayer
Tonight with Woody Allen at the Cafe Carlyle, NYC, 8:45pm
A last-minute heads up that tonight I'll be on piano, not banjo, with Woody Allen’s jazz band. I was in the band for 10+ years but it's been ages since I last played with them…. looking forward to it!
Sat, July 1: Rochester Jazz Festival
Next Sat eve I’ll be performing at the Rochester Jazz Festival, with ace reed player and Diva member Alexa Tarantino, and top string bassist and Eastman School of Music Jazz Studies chair Jeff Campbell.
Sun, July 2: Workshop – Bernunzio’s in Rochester, NY @ Noon
If you play a fretted instrument and enjoy playing – or aspire to play -- trad jazz/hot swing, come and join us at Bernunzio’s!! This workshop is open to all levels, so if you strum or pick, I’d love to work with you! Sign up online.
Wed, July 5: FREE concert, Dobb’s Ferry, NY @ 6:30pm
With my Joyride Quartet: yours truly + Dennis Lichtman on clarinet/violin, Mike Weatherly on string bass/vocals, Larry Eagle on drums. If it rains, we’ll move indoors to Hudson Social.
Sat, July 22: FREE concert, NYC Riverside Park Tennis Lawn, W 97thSt @ 7:00pm
Bring a picnic blanket/lawn chair and watch the sunset while listening!
With my Joyride Quartet: yours truly + Dennis Lichtman on clarinet/violin, Mike Weatherly on string bass/vocals, Larry Eagle on drums.
Sun, July 30 – Museum Of Making Music concert, Carlsbad, CA @ 2:00pm
Hope to see you at my Hot Jazz Trio’s matinee concert in beautiful Carlsbad! I’m looking forward to playing again with former New Yorker Dan Barrett on trombone, and renowned string bassist Dave Stone (along with his amazing jazz creds, you’ve heard him on countless feature films and tv shows).
NOTE: Date change!
My lecture/performance at Lincoln Center's Jazz Academy, "America's Unlikely Jazz Instrument: The 4-String Banjo" has been changed from Aug 7 to Sept 19 -- it's at 7:00pm and FREE -- mark your calendars!
Warm wishes,
-Cynthia
Sunday, June 25, 2017
Yelena Eckemoff Quintet - Blooming Tall Phlox
Yelena Eckemoff Quintet - Blooming Tall Phlox
(L&H Production L&Hcd806151-24. Review by Peter Bacon)
On Thursday, June 22, 2017
The Russian classical pianist, Yelena Eckemoff, now living in the U.S. and dedicating herself to jazz continues to forge a singular musical path - and a generous one, too, this being her 10th jazz release since 2010.
I have always found her approach intriguing because although she surrounds herself with jazz musicians and improvises herself, her way of structuring her music and indeed her own playing sounds much more aligned - at least to my under-educated ears - with classical composition than the Afro-American jazz conventions.
There has been increasing assuredness in this approach over those ten releases but its development is not quite so easy to articulate or illustrate because none has shared exactly the same personnel. The earlier albums were trio affairs, latterly the groups have expanded and diversified in instrumentation. Eckemoff’s choice in musicians is impeccable: Mats Vinding and Peter Erskine on her first jazz disc, Cold Sun, for example, with subsequent line-ups including, from this side of the pond, Morten Lund, Mats Eilertsen, Arild Andersen, Tore Brunborg and Jon Christensen; from the U.S. Billy Hart, Mark Turner and Joe Locke.
Last year’s Leaving Everything Behind was a deeply moving collection of pieces many of which were linked by loss - of childhood, of family, of homeland - all eloquently explored by Eckemoff with an all-American band of Mark Feldman on violin, Ben Street on double bass and Billy Hart on drums.
read more at: http://www.londonjazznews.com/2017/06/cd-review-yelena-eckemoff-quintet.html
LaVon Hardison 'That's All'
Published on Jun 24, 2017
Boston native LaVon Hardison has enchanted the South Sound with her warm, lively voice and personality. Utilizing her background in lyric opera and musical theatre, she goes deep into a song to tell its story.
Band:
LaVon Hardison: vocals,
David Deacon-Joyner: piano,
Osama Afifi: bass,
Jeff “Bongo” Busch: drums and percussion
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Saturday, June 24, 2017
#SueRaney on Australian TV
At JazzWax, three sensational videos of singer Sue Raney on Australian TV in August 1963... https://t.co/bnAB13ri14 pic.twitter.com/hmof3DciZa— Marc Myers (@JazzWax) 23 de junho de 2017
The M-Squad and TV Jazz - 60 Years Ago!
by Steven Cerra
I never knew that I had anything in common with the late movie, television and stage actor, Lee Marvin [1924–1987],that is until I undertook some research involving TV shows in the late 1950s and early 1960s that featured Jazz soundtracks.
It seems that both Mr. Marvin and I served in the 4th United States Marine Division.
Mr. Marvin did it with distinction as he was awarded the Purple Heart for action at the Battle of Saipan [June/July, 1944]. He is buried with honors at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, VA.
When I first “met” Lee Marvin, I was part of a national TV audience who viewed him every Friday night as Lt. Frank Ballinger of the Chicago Police Department’s M-Squad. From 1957-1960, he appeared in 117 episodes of the program.
I know that this may be hard to believe from today’s perspective, but The M-Squad was only one of a number of TV shows that featured Jazz scores during the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Of course, the most famous of these TV Jazz scores was Henry Mancini’s Peter Gunn, which starred Craig Stevens as the private investigator, Lola Albright as his chick “singa” girlfriend and was directed by Blake Edwards.
read more at: http://jazzprofiles.blogspot.com.br/2017/05/the-m-squad-and-tv-jazz-60-years-ago.html
Chico Hamilton's ....
At JazzWax, Chico Hamilton's "Plays Selections from Bye Bye Birdie and Irma La Duce." Charles Lloyd's 1st session! https://t.co/L0grkUZDZl pic.twitter.com/tFsRP6NI6G— Marc Myers (@JazzWax) 22 de junho de 2017
Friday, June 23, 2017
@chrisbotti 13th Annual Holiday Residency
JUST ANNOUNCED! @chrisbotti 13th Annual Holiday Residency @ Blue Note! 12/11 thru 1/7! Amex presale now! Tix -> https://t.co/ysSrFxyK9a pic.twitter.com/zUESjDLCCF— Blue Note Jazz Club (@BlueNoteNYC) 22 de junho de 2017
#LynnStein performs ....
Lynn Stein performs The Great American Songbook with sparkling, rich clarity. See her at 6pm! https://t.co/dH2KKQQ7VC pic.twitter.com/Napj1FyScx— Birdland Jazz Club (@birdlandjazz) 22 de junho de 2017
Happy Birthday to pianist @ArturoOfarrill
Happy Birthday to pianist @ArturoOfarrill ! He was born #onthisday in 1960 in #Mexico. #happybday #jazz https://t.co/tPwDFq2Pa2— Jazz Standard (@JazzStandardNYC) 22 de junho de 2017
in 1956 tenor saxophonist #sonnyrollins
#onthisday in 1956 tenor saxophonist @sonnyrollins recorded Blue 7. https://t.co/Nt7j2ZXEaK #jazzhistory #jazz— Jazz Standard (@JazzStandardNYC) 22 de junho de 2017
Great new jazz photography #2
Great new jazz photography #2: Lauren Deutsch’s Made in Chicago portfolio https://t.co/cQTSRzYPhu #jazz— Jazz Beyond Jazz (@jazzbeyondjazz) 22 de junho de 2017
Matt Dennis - "'Scuse Me While I Disappear" - by Gene Lees
by Steven Cerra
Wednesday, May 24, 2017
"Matt Dennis had an ability to write the most beautiful and sophisticated melodies, and yet they were never hard to sing. He was also a gentle, lovely man." - Julius LaRosa
There are those few musicians who also happen to be singers who also happen to write the songs they [and others] sing, and do all three magnificently well. They are a select group and they are very special, indeed.
One such musician–singer-songwriter was Matt Dennis and he was so exceptional that the editors of JazzProfiles had to turn to the Gene Lees for this treatment on Matt simply because there is none better.
Gene’s profile on Matt appeared in the May 2002 of his Jazzletter. [Vol. 21 No. 5]
by Gene Lees
'Scuse Me While I Disappear
“David Raksin, whose song with Johnny Mercer's lyrics, Laura, is one of the great classics, said, I write all kinds of music, including concert music. I think that our country's greatest musical gift to the world is not concert music, and not jazz ‑ and I love jazz. Our greatest contribution is the American popular song." David was talking about what is now seen as a golden era, roughly from 1920 to the end of the 1950s. He said, "It is the most incredible flowering ever of that kind of music."
One of the greatest practitioners of the songwriter's art in that time was Matt Dennis, whom we had the misfortune to lose recently. The body of his work was not large, compared with that of, say, Cole Porter or Jerome Kern, in part because he was not a creature of the Broadway musical theater or part of that group, like Harry Warren and Johnny Mercer, who wrote mostly for films. But what he did write is unfailingly exquisite: Let's Get Away It All, Will You Still Be Mine, Everything Happens to Me, Violets for Your Furs, The Night We Called It a Day, Junior and Julie, We Belong Together, all written with lyricist Tom Adair, and Angel Eyes, with lyrics by Earl K. Brent. It was written for the movie Jennifer, with Ida Lupino and Howard Duff. Some of Matt's songs have lyrics by his wife, singer Ginny Maxey.
read more at: http://jazzprofiles.blogspot.com.br/2017/05/matt-dennis-scuse-me-while-i-disappear.html
Thursday, June 22, 2017
In 1959, the peak of his playing years ....
In 1959, the peak of his playing years, Thelonious Monk did something he'd never done: record music for a film. https://t.co/MD54quBuLJ pic.twitter.com/Xv7VVzBaTD— Jazz Night (@jazznight) 21 de junho de 2017
Still Dreaming, a tribute ft. ....
New on @JazzNight: Still Dreaming, a tribute ft. @Joshua_Redman, #ronmiles, @scottcolleybass and @BrianBlade. Link: https://t.co/LDYiNTF5Hm pic.twitter.com/fpLvP6hCJq— Jazz Night (@jazznight) 22 de junho de 2017
Irene Kral: A Voice So Irresistible
Drummers and “chick singa’s” do not go together like love and marriage and a horse and carriage.
Contrary to what Sammy Cahn and Jimmy van Huesen say in their lyrics, drummers and female Jazz vocalists “… is an institute you [can] disparage” just by asking most drummers about their experiences in working with female Jazz singers.
By the way, before this introduction gets labeled as some sort of sexist rant, the same can be said about the antipathy that many drummers have about working with most “boy singers,” too.
My statement is only a generalization, but most of the time, drummers work with singers because they have to in order to make a few schimolies and not because they want to as singers usually drive them nuts.
There are exceptions, of course.
It was a total blast to work with Anita O’Day during a two week stint as a member of her trio at “Ye Little Club” in Beverly Hills [John Poole, her regular drummer, had taken ill].
The late Irene Krall is also among my special favorites, a list which includes the likes of Carmen McRae, Blossom Dearie, Ruth Price and Ruth Olay. I heard Irene sing with Shelly Manne’s group on a few occasions and I remember him remarking: “Irene is just the best. She’s like another member of the band. She’s a musician.”
And Russ Freeman, the late pianist who worked with Irene in Shelly’s quintet and on Irene’s 1965 recording Wonderful Life, said of her: “She is a gas to work with. Her choice of tunes is so different and she handles difficult material like a snap.”
Hal Blaine, the drummer on the Wonderful Life album said of Irene: “When she did that cut on Sometime Ago, we were all spellbound. Most singers do the tune too slow like they want to wrap themselves in every word. She sang it perfectly and then went on to do a swinging version of Bob Dorough’s Nothing Like You Has Ever Been Seen Before. Just like that: bam, bam. What a pro.”
Music captivated her at an early age. As Gene Lees recounts in the following excerpt from his essay on Irene’s older brother, Roy Kral [a pianist and a singer], and his singer-wife, Jackie Cain:
"When I was about seventeen, we were rehearsing our dance band in my basement. Four brass, four saxes, three rhythm."
read more at: http://jazzprofiles.blogspot.com.br/2017/06/irene-kral-voice-so-irresistible.html
one of the great unknown ...
At JazzWax, one of the great unknown sax-section albums, with terrific reed arrangements and blowing... https://t.co/yiI7yULqGa pic.twitter.com/9HO28CFDyG— Marc Myers (@JazzWax) 21 de junho de 2017
Charles Mingus's "Changes One"
At JazzWax, Charles Mingus's "Changes One" from 1974, which remains powerfully provocative... https://t.co/BAs1Dn8Qm1 pic.twitter.com/4mUgVVH5jG— Marc Myers (@JazzWax) 20 de junho de 2017
Pharoah Sanders ....
Pharoah Sanders will play an admission-free gig in Prospect Park this Friday. Nice! https://t.co/meOhXp0fg0— JazzTimes Magazine (@JazzTimes) 21 de junho de 2017
One night only!
One night only! #Tonight we welcome Steve Slagle's 14th #CDrelease "Alto Manhattan". Learn more & listen: https://t.co/G3QP0BtPte #nycjazz— Jazz Standard (@JazzStandardNYC) 21 de junho de 2017
TJG annual SummerPass
TJG annual SummerPass is available now - Just $40 gets you entry to all shows for July & August! Get your SP here: https://t.co/A1woCwDjuc pic.twitter.com/rhFK2tA5R3— The Jazz Gallery (@TheJazzGallery) 20 de junho de 2017
Ole Mathisen, FLOATING POINTS
Ole Mathisen FLOATING POINTS Album Release Concert at @TheJazzGallery | Tomorrow at 9:30 PM | https://t.co/Zs8ssWJE3h #NYCJazzShows— NYC Jazz Shows (@nycjazzshows) 21 de junho de 2017
Wednesday, June 21, 2017
Happy 94th Birthday CLARK TERRY!
Published on Dec 14, 2014
Last week, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and Cécile McLorin Salvant visited jazz legend Clark Terry, who turned 94 on December 14, 2014.
Join us in celebrating Mr. Terry's special day with this soulful performance of "Happy Birthday" at Jefferson Regional Medical Center.
#JazztopadFestival
#JazztopadFestival at @TheJazzGallery June 24 at 8pm #tix https://t.co/oheVDtge6e https://t.co/rjgYil4AFr #ZEALshop pic.twitter.com/0mI7hVA8f4— Rowena Chan, RM (@ZEALdealsNYC) 16 de junho de 2017
Sun Ra Arkestra
💫 TONIGHT💫— Jazz Cafe (@TheJazzCafe) 21 de junho de 2017
Sun Ra Arkestra 3-night residency k/o this evening!
UK Jazz's finest @shabakah guests
Final tix: https://t.co/XEbLHpebo8 pic.twitter.com/W65FiRcY3b
Aretha Franklin & Clark Terry
Published on Feb 8, 2013
Aretha Franklin & Guests, performing Clark Terry's "MUMBLES" - 2001
Musicians include: Clark Terry, Herbie Hancock, Russell Malone, Ron Carter, Roy Haynes, Ron Carter, James Carter
Four Women: Nina, Lena, Abbey, and Billie
Four Women: Nina, Lena, Abbey, and Billie –On Stage at Kingsborough https://t.co/6BceY8CiyK— Jazz Police (@theJazzPolice) 19 de junho de 2017
Emmet Cohen: Sparks Will Fly
Emmet Cohen: Sparks Will Fly (Again) at the Twin Cities Jazz Festival, June 22 https://t.co/DdimHRqWiH— Jazz Police (@theJazzPolice) 20 de junho de 2017
Happy Birthday, #EricReed !
Happy Birthday, Eric Reed! https://t.co/Yz3bmze6UH— All About Jazz (@AllAboutJazz) 21 de junho de 2017
#AaronParks : Rising To The Challenge
Aaron Parks: Rising To The Challenge https://t.co/ilSoJfKvac— All About Jazz (@AllAboutJazz) 21 de junho de 2017
Joe Diorio's "Peaceful Journey"
RECORDING: Joe Diorio's "Peaceful Journey" Available Reissued on CD, Wav, Flac and MP3 from Art of Life Records https://t.co/fFQx9Lgnp5— All About Jazz (@AllAboutJazz) 21 de junho de 2017
Lester Koenig: Good Time Jazz and Contemporary Records
I will always be infinitely grateful to Lester Koenig for the many wonderful Jazz recordings that he brought into my life over the years.
On the one occasion that I met him, he was attired in much the same way as in the this photo [Brooks Brothers suits and ties – I asked him]:
Les looked and acted more like the graduate of an Ivy League University and a corporate executive, both of which he had been, than the owner of a small, independent recording label, which he was when I first met him.
Lester attended a concert at our high school that featured a performance by Shelly Manne and His Men, a Jazz combo with a long history of recording for Les’ Contemporary Records.
Our high school group played a few tunes prior to the appearance of the “Big Guys,” and our Band Director introduced each of us to Lester and Shelly backstage after the concert.
Lester said some courteous things about our music and complimented all of us on our playing. Each of us were young, enthusiastic musicians and we started rattling off our favorite titles from the modern Jazz recordings that he had produced at Contemporary Records.
When it came around to me, however, I was stymied and tongue-tied for what seemed like ages [remember how easily we became embarrassed when The World was Young?].
I had always had a tough time with “favorites,” I had too many of them and could never chose from them whilst protesting such ratings with something like: “Why can’t we have more than one?”
I eventually settled on Shelly Manne and His Men at The Blackhawk which Lester had recorded over a two week period while Shelly’s quintet was in-performance at this once-famous San Francisco Jazz club and released on a series of four LPs [later the set was reissued as five CDs on Original Jazz Classics, OJCCD 656-660].
read more at: http://jazzprofiles.blogspot.com.br/2017/05/lester-koenig-good-time-jazz-and.html
#PepperAdams & #ClarkTerry med Sture Nordin Septett
Published on Sep 11, 2011
Pepper Adams och Clark Terry gästar Sture Nordin Septett i en upptagning från Mariahissen på Söder i Stockholm år 1978.
Pepper Adams Barytonsax, Clark Terry flügelhorn, Lars Sjösten piano, Sture Nordin Bas, Egil Johansen trummor.
I bakgrunden skymtar Nisse Sandström och Kalle Lundborg
#RolfBillberg and #HarryBäcklund playing "Billbäck"
Uploaded on Jan 14, 2010
Rolf Billberg - as,
Harry Bäcklund - ts,
Rune Gustafsson - guit,
Nils Lindberg - p,
Sture Nordin - b,
Sture Kallin - dr.
Stockholm 1962
#HarryBäcklund: 1936 - 1978 - "I Remember You"
by Steven Cerra
West Coast Jazz or Jazz on the West Coast, the style of Jazz that existed primarily in California from about 1945 - 1965, and the majority of whose recordings were purported to be little more than “... bloodless museum pieces” by one Jazz critic, had an influence well beyond the confines of the Golden State during this same time period.
Most of the Jazz musicians in Scandinavian countries such as Sweden, Denmark and Norway were influenced by it as were the Italians led by Oscar Valdambrini on trumpet and Gianni Basso on tenor saxophone and the French led by the tenor saxophonist Barney Wilen.
The cool wave of the bossa nova broke under the West Coast Jazz spell, too, with Jobim and Gilberto riding the crest of this music’s worldwide popularity in the 1950s and 1960s.
In Sweden, the cool school banner was initially carried by baritone saxophonist Lars Gullin, which was somewhat appropriate in that one of the characteristic sounds of West Coast Jazz owed so much to the piano-less quartet led by baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan with Chet Baker featured on trumpet.
Another distinguishing feature of Jazz West Coast was the dominant influence of Lester Young on the tenor saxophone sound of many of players such as Zoot Sims, Jimmy Giuffre, Bill Perkins, Bob Cooper, Richie Kamuca and, of course, Stan Getz.
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#ShirleyHorn - "Never Let Me Go"
Published on Oct 13, 2009
CD:"May The Music Never End"
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Fabio Zeppetella - Chansons!
Steven Cerra
Tuesday, June 20, 2017
The editorial offices of JazzProfiles has recently received a number of new and forthcoming recordings and we’d like to share some information with you about certain of these that we have found particularly appealing.
The Italian word for songs is “Canzoni” and it seems fitting that it so closely resembles that of the French word for songs - “Chansons!” because of the geographical proximity of Italy and France and because the two countries share a quest for beauty in all aspects of Arts and Letters in the broadest sense of those terms.
This French-Italian cultural and artistic affinity is on display in Chansons! Guitarist Fabio Zeppetella’s latest CD for Via Veneto Jazz and Jando music [VVJ 113] on which he is joined by his countryman Roberto Gatto on drums and two, excellent French Jazz musicians: Emmanuel Bex on organ and voice and Géraldine Laurent alto sax.
There is a further meshing of en Francais and Italiano in the eleven song selections that make up this album as six are by Italian composers while the remaining five feature tunes penned by French songwriters.
The press release that accompanied Chansons! It as “a musical conception similar to a diplomatic treaty or melodious embrace between cousins. Essentially, it’s an innovative exchange between two neighboring worlds that have always eyed and inspired one other with reciprocal curiosity. Italy and France unite as allies on the musical front, gathering on the field four extraordinary talents: Fabio Zeppetella, Roberto Gatto, Géraldine Laurent and Emmanuel Bex.
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#BillEvans - Piano Player - "All About Rosie"
Published on Jun 20, 2017
Pianist Bill Evans performing the 3rd Section of composer George Russell's "All About Rosie."
Tuesday, June 20, 2017
#ChristianScott aTunde Adjuah On World Cafev
Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah performs live at WXPN's Non-COMMvention in Philadelphia, Pa., in May 2017. Emma Silverstone/WXPN
June 19, 20176:00 AM ET
TALIA SCHLANGER
Trumpet virtuoso Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah is stretching modern jazz music to include the flavors of hip-hop, trap and West African percussion. His latest release, Ruler Rebel, is his first in series of three albums marking the 100th anniversary of the first commercially recorded jazz music. As Adjuah tells it, that recording, made by the Original Dixieland Jass Band in New Orleans in 1917, was originally conceived as satire with a racially-charged subtext. It's a history that hits home for Adjuah, who was born and raised in New Orleans' Upper 9th Ward, steeped in Mardi Gras Indian culture.
read more at: http://www.npr.org/sections/world-cafe/2017/06/19/533237047/christian-scott-atunde-adjuah-on-world-cafe
Sammy Davis Jr on vibraphone
Published on Mar 1, 2013
From a 1960s US tv show called Frankly Jazz, here's Sammy Davis Jr showing some of his versatility by playing vibraphone.
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"So I said [to John], 'Tell me everything. We didn’t see you really for four or five days. ... He said, 'This is... https://t.co/xy3p8I2BSN— JazzTimes Magazine (@JazzTimes) 19 de junho de 2017
Alice Coltrane ...
"So I said [to John], 'Tell me everything. We didn’t see you really for four or five days. ... He said, 'This is... https://t.co/xy3p8I2BSN— JazzTimes Magazine (@JazzTimes) 19 de junho de 2017
Blue Note Entertainment Group will open Blue Note Rio
Blue Note Entertainment Group will open Blue Note Rio in Rio de Janeiro this August. It'll be in the Lagoa area,... https://t.co/hAjOB4MhgN— JazzTimes Magazine (@JazzTimes) 19 de junho de 2017
Christian Scott on the July cover
Here’s a sneaky peak at Christian Scott on the July cover ahead of his @lovesupremefest gig in two weeks: subscribe https://t.co/xzqNxv5Syv pic.twitter.com/BuBOSHB5cD— Jazzwise (@Jazzwise) 19 de junho de 2017
Wynton Marsalis & Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra - Jazz San Javier 2011
Published on Aug 21, 2014
http://wyntonmarsalis.org/, http://www.jazz.sanjavier.es/
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● Tracklist:
1. Inner urge
2. Light blue
3. Stuart Davis for the masses
4. The Mooch
5. Big 12
6. In a mellow tone
7. Wigwam
● Personnel:
Wynton Marsalis - Musical Director & trumpet
Kenny Rampton - trumpet
Marcus Printup - trumpet
Ryan Kisor - trumpet
Walter Blanding Jr. - tenor & soprano sax, clarinet
Sherman Irby - alto sax
Ted Nash - alto & soprano sax, clarinet
Victor Goines - tenor & soprano sax, clarinet
Joe Temperley - baritone & soprano sax, bass clarinet
Vincent Gardner - trombone
Chris Crenshaw - trombone
Elliot Mason - trombone
Dan Nimmer - piano
Carlos Henriquez - bass
Ali Jackson - drums
Carla Cook - vocals
● Wynton Marsalis & Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra:
Live at XIV Festival Internacional de Jazz San Javier
Auditorio Parque Almansa, Murcia, Spain, 8th July, 2011
▶ Wynton Marsalis - Full Length Concerts - http://bit.ly/1Uo9eTq
▶ Jazz San Javier - Full Length Concerts - http://bit.ly/1G8ql2s .
Monday, June 19, 2017
JazzCorner roster guitarist ....
JazzCorner roster guitarist and superb educator is once again conducting his Adventures in Jazz from July 30 to... https://t.co/C5td6wx08p— JazzCorner.com (@jazzcorner) 16 de junho de 2017
Remembering the great #ErrollGarner
Remembering the great #ErrollGarner on his birthday https://t.co/B6aWRFiMCG— JazzCorner.com (@jazzcorner) 15 de junho de 2017
Sonny Rollins and Thelonious Monk ....
At JazzWax, Sonny Rollins and Thelonious Monk's 12 studio tracks, together, with two standing out... https://t.co/RzidqYMmHj pic.twitter.com/bmC2F4ea80— Marc Myers (@JazzWax) 19 de junho de 2017
Rodger Coleman & Sam Byrd ...
Fans of Supersilent and The Necks should check Who Doesn't Fade?, the new album by Rodger Coleman & Sam Byrd https://t.co/0zclbUiuU6 pic.twitter.com/WiH5edfkV4— Jazzwise (@Jazzwise) 15 de junho de 2017
Ollie Howell ‘Knew’ video
Ollie Howell ‘Knew’ video exclusive ahead of UK tour dates https://t.co/bTZO7r4vrE pic.twitter.com/s6BchGh38h— Jazzwise (@Jazzwise) 15 de junho de 2017
Surgical aprons on ...
Surgical aprons on for Die Trommel Fatale's new vid https://t.co/rACWxQ4V68 #BrandonSeabrook @northernspyrecs @MusicClerk @butchersguild pic.twitter.com/cseKKxV60a— Jazzwise (@Jazzwise) 16 de junho de 2017
TD P.E.I. Jazz and Blues Festival
Reeny Smith is the last artist to perform at the free concert on Victoria Row Saturday, June 24, and will perform from 10:05 to 11 p.m. (iamreeny.com)
CBC News Posted
Jun 17, 2017 5:28 PM AT Last Updated: Jun 17, 2017 5:28 PM AT
He also said that next year he hopes to move the event even closer to Canada Day.
There will be free shows from 1 to 11 p.m. on Victoria Row on Saturday, June 24.
Beginning at 1 p.m., school and community bands will have the opportunity to entertain the crowds. They will be followed by five acts beginning with the Charlottetown Jazz Ensemble (4:45 to 6 p.m.) and finishing the night off with Reeny Smith (10:05 to11 p.m.).
The festival has been a labour of love for Power, and something he believes in.
read more at: ˛http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-jazz-blues-festival-2017-1.4165865
A Tribute to #ArethaFranklin
Cece Teneal is one of the southeast regions best vocalist and too had her start in the church which lead to her long residency as house entertainer for BB King's in Orlando. Aretha Franklin was her idol and she is ready to bless Port Charlotte and Porky's Roadhouse with the hits of Aretha Franklin, some down home Blues, and originals off of her debut album, Train from Osteen!!!!!!
Sunday, June 18, 2017
Sneaky peek Jazzwise's June issue
Sneaky peek Jazzwise's June issue with Brit-jazz don Django Bates saluting @thebeatles Sgt Pepper's 50th birthday https://t.co/v5Wx9dgjce pic.twitter.com/V1HOxyCMQn— Jazzwise (@Jazzwise) 24 de maio de 2017
We are grateful to @NEAarts ...
We are grateful to @NEAarts for supporting the 20th season of our JazzCity series! pic.twitter.com/p1KR11sxfs— Jazz In Chicago (@jazzinstitute) 17 de junho de 2017
WSJ "Anatomy of a Song"
My WSJ "Anatomy of a Song" column on the Spinners' "I'll Be Around," which kicked off the Philly dance sound... https://t.co/RKa9GqlCYa pic.twitter.com/twbjH7jXif— Marc Myers (@JazzWax) 18 de junho de 2017
video clips of Peter Paul and Mary with ...
At JazzWax, fascinating video clips of Peter Paul and Mary with Andy Williams and with Jack Benny, plus more... https://t.co/LvpjdlR8ae pic.twitter.com/JPbXmQMGs9— Marc Myers (@JazzWax) 17 de junho de 2017
Friday, June 16, 2017
Roscoe Mitchell is in danger of ....
Roscoe Mitchell is in danger of losing his job at Mills College due to the school's financial problems. https://t.co/PYuaimLsVw via @KQED— Jazz Night (@jazznight) 12 de junho de 2017
Vibraphonist Gary Burton
Vibraphonist Gary Burton has wrapped his music career. "I wanna stop while I'm at my peak rather than compromise." https://t.co/UaJW1jsNkp pic.twitter.com/vOtxGzjYgC— Jazz Night (@jazznight) 9 de junho de 2017
Hank Mobley's "Roll Call,"
At JazzWax, Hank Mobley's "Roll Call," one of the tenor saxophonist's finest 1960s recordings... https://t.co/3uxKOYfeZL pic.twitter.com/MEUmSEi56q— Marc Myers (@JazzWax) 15 de junho de 2017
How Charles Lloyd stays
How Charles Lloyd stays marvelous https://t.co/FOTYyMzkTV #jazz— Jazz Beyond Jazz (@jazzbeyondjazz) 26 de abril de 2017
NEA supports ....
NEA supports jazz and US arts nationwide https://t.co/Gt2RNY7958 #jazz— Jazz Beyond Jazz (@jazzbeyondjazz) 15 de junho de 2017
Baden Powell's "Tristeza on Guitar"
At JazzWax, Baden Powell's "Tristeza on Guitar" (1966), recently reissued by MPS. A beautiful Brazilian album.... https://t.co/otmgp7icgO pic.twitter.com/BjxMAN3T1k— Marc Myers (@JazzWax) 14 de junho de 2017
Thursday, June 15, 2017
Bud Shank's first leadership session ...
At JazzWax, Bud Shank's first leadership session, "Bud Shank and Three Trombones," a 10-inch album from 1954... https://t.co/aR1RS5pSE1 pic.twitter.com/YVDGSxvHtm— Marc Myers (@JazzWax) 12 de junho de 2017
a video look at Diahann Carroll
At JazzWax, a video look at Diahann Carroll, star of TV's "Julia" and "Dynasty" who began as a leading pop singer... https://t.co/MgsS873F14 pic.twitter.com/ekQJNG0TOv— Marc Myers (@JazzWax) 9 de junho de 2017
Wednesday, June 14, 2017
Hampton Hawes's "All Night Session" with Jim Hall
At JazzWax, an absolutely perfect jazz album—three, in fact. Hampton Hawes's "All Night Session" with Jim Hall... https://t.co/cqjUQMmhas pic.twitter.com/rTHRoTQgzt— Marc Myers (@JazzWax) 8 de junho de 2017
Remembering Marcus Belgrave
Remembering Marcus Belgrave, Detroit's Jazz Godfather, on the anniversary of his birth: https://t.co/uMbhPq5kkJ— jazzvideoguy (@jazzvideoguy) 12 de junho de 2017
Sonny Rollins - New Mexico Jazz Festival
Sonny Rollins - New Mexico Jazz Festival: https://t.co/y00yYX4SWj via @YouTube— jazzvideoguy (@jazzvideoguy) 13 de junho de 2017
Jazz great Arturo Sandoval
A 10-time Grammy winner, Sandoval was a protégé of the legendary jazz master Dizzy Gillespie. He received an Emmy Award in 2006. In 2013, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama.
Sandoval was born in Artemisa, a small town on the outskirts of Havana, Cuba, on November 6, 1949, just two years after Gillespie became the first musician to bring Latin influences into American Jazz. Sandoval began studying classical trumpet at the age of 12, but it didn’t take him long to catch the excitement of the jazz world. He has since evolved into one of the world’s most acknowledged guardians of jazz trumpet and flugelhorn, as well as a renowned classical artist, pianist and composer.
Sandoval was a founding member of the Grammy-winning group Irakere, whose explosive mixture of jazz, classical, rock and traditional Cuban music caused a sensation throughout the entertainment world. In 1981, he left Irakere to form his own band, which garnered enthusiastic praise from critics and audiences all over the world, and continues to do so.
Tickets, $39, 49, $59 and $69, are now on sale. Bill Edwards Foundation for the Arts members can purchase tickets today at noon. Tickets may be purchased online at TheMahaffey.com
Also sprach Zarathustra - Eumir Deodato
Uploaded on Oct 17, 2011
Produced by EURO GROOVE DEPARTMENT,this video is taken from the concert "EURO GROOVE DEPARTMENT & EUMIR DEODATO Live @ ARONA MUSIC FESTIVAL 2011.
EUMIR DEODATO: keyboards,
GIORGIO PALOMBINO: percussions,
DANIELE GREGOLIN: guitar
MARCO MAGGIORE: drums
MARCO MAGGIORE: drums
MATTEO BASSI: bass
Audio originally recorded by Max Cappellini for C.D.P.M. musical service, mixed and mastered by Emiliano Bassi @ Pop Garage Studio.
Video Shoot and editing by Moovie.it.
Directed by Alessandro Del Bianco with the supervising of EURO GROOVE DEPARTMENT
Audio originally recorded by Max Cappellini for C.D.P.M. musical service, mixed and mastered by Emiliano Bassi @ Pop Garage Studio.
Video Shoot and editing by Moovie.it.
Directed by Alessandro Del Bianco with the supervising of EURO GROOVE DEPARTMENT
Tuesday, June 13, 2017
NJ Jazz List
Diana Krall
This powerful jazz performer is at NJPAC June 16th supporting her latest recording.
Jazz in South Orange
Downtown After Sundown, a great New Jersey music scene for the summer, features free music performances on every corner.
Jazz Icons in Jersey City
Winard Harper is a jazz drummer who has worked with the greats. Weekly, he introduces jazz fans and local players to jazz icons at Moore's Lounge, aka Bill and Ruth's in Jersey City.
A Bridge Named Rollins
Jazz giant, Sonny Rollins, is connected with a bridge that could soon share his name.
Rutgers Summer Jazz Institute
This program is ideal for young instrumentalists, ages 11–18, interested in improving their jazz improvisation, small group, and large ensemble skills.
Support Local Jazz Jams
Find out where local jazz musicians get together to jam. Go to play, hang out or just listen. You'll be supporting the artists, the venue and an important musical style.
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