Liner notes rarely describe the process used (and why should they?), yet on this album it is almost programmatic : “In addition to being an interesting way to connect improvisation with fixed materials the players are likely to already have [...Read More...]
When I got back to my car at nearly midnight, since Steve Turré Quintet (well his regular quartet, plus special guest Texas tenor Billy Harper) played well past 11:30 pm, the battery was dead as a doornail. I’ve also been [...Read More...]
Dan Block is a peerless reed player, arranger, composer, bandleader. A new CD captures his many imaginations whole. The picture (by Dan’s daughter Emma) adorns the cover of his Ellington tribute, FROM HIS WORLD TO MINE.
Tributes to Ellington, hoever well-intentioned, have often become self-limiting, even [...Read More...]
My title might make some readers think of the little boy or girl clutching a reluctant kitten or puppy: “Can we keep it, Ma? It followed me home!” But this posting isn’t about pet adoption, although that’s something I applaud — it’s about [...Read More...]
As the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival starts building momentum toward it’s finale on Saturday has, of course, sucked most of the air out of the live jazz scene. There are quite a few of our local jazz folks playing [...Read More...]
Yesterday night, trumpeter and music innovator Bill Dixon passed away in his sleep at the age of 84, leaving a wife and two children behind.
You can find more about him on other websites and blogs with substantially better archives [...Read More...]
Norwegian saxophonist Frode Gjerstad is a fierce and prolific musician, who moves more and more into free improv territory with his small bands, getting away from the more jazz oriented approach he had some years ago. This results in blistering [...Read More...]
Here are some random notes from my fifth night of the Rochester International Jazz Festival. Attended a media event for the 2010 Copenhagen Jazz Festival, July 2-11. Rochester has three artists from Denmark appearing at this year’s festival: Palle Mikkelborg, [...Read More...]
The PENNSYLVANIA JAZZ SOCIETY will present their annual JAZZFEST with a TRIBUTE TO BENNY GOODMAN on Sunday, July 11, 2010, from noon to 5:30 p.m. at the Plainfield Township Fire Company Hall, 6480 Sullivan Trail, Wind Gap, PA 18091. The [...Read More...]
Updated:Didn’t have time to sum it up the fourth or fifth nights of the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival. Check out the tweets and short posts for Day 4. In short, I made a few detours and then got some [...Read More...]
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