by LARRY RENI THOMAS Jazz is a term that was given to American classical music around 1900, by the New Orleans aristocrats who after visiting the whorehouses and hearing the black musicians play the sounds of freedom, sought to deny it its dignity when they realized that they couldn’t play …
Kansas City musicians riff on proposed label for a favorite genre. Special to The Star By BILL BROWNLEE Not a single note was played in the creation of the most consequential jazz-related story of last year. A furious torrent of incendiary blog posts and tweets by musician Nicholas Payton is …
“No music is my music. It’s everybody’s who can feel it. You’re here… well, if there’s music, you feel it–then it’s yours too. You got to be in the sun to feel the sun. It’s that way with music too.” “Jazz isn’t just me. It isn’t just any one person …
Henceforth, please refer to the genre as “Black American Music.” By Victor Fiorillo Last Thursday, while I rocked out in Greenwich Village to the white-people music known as Van Halen, Philadelphia-based pianist Orrin Evans–recipient of the $60,000 Pew Fellowship for the Arts–was a quick ride up the A-C-E in Hell’s …
2nd – 7th May May 2012 sees the return of the ever-popular and ground-breaking Cheltenham Jazz Festival, one of the country’s most celebrated musical events and an absolute highlight of the arts calendar for spring this year. Always a hit with both audiences and artists, the Cheltenham Jazz Festival prides …
by Bill Donaldson Unusual, yes. Unknown, no. Lorraine Feather’s most recent album, Tales of the Unusual, with full-blown oddness takes listeners even deeper into spookiness than her previous ones suggested. Feather’s interests, which are explored endlessly in movies and novels but not so much in music, involve those known but …
Glenn Astarita These celebrated musicians offset the conventional or perhaps anticipated stylizations of jazz piano trio fare by personalizing, reconfiguring, and injecting a host of enchanting events into the grand schema. As the story goes, the premise for these compositions are based on the exchanges the musicians had with master …
IAN MARTIN BARGH (pianist) was born on January 8, 1935 in Prestwick, Scotland and passed away January 1, 2012. By the age of 17, he was playing classical piano and working with jazz groups and dance bands all over the Midlands, England and Scotland until 1957. It was then he …
By John Stevenson In a year of countless remarkable recordings, Radio Jumbo will be remembered as one of 2011’s most distinctive jazz recordings. London is known for its staggering array of cultures and genres of music. However, accomplished London-based, Dominican-born guitarist, Cameron Pierre, has certainly helped to place the French …
Glenn Astarita American trumpeter Russ Johnson and Swiss saxophonist Co Streiff certainly abide by the press release statements, indicating the musicians’ cross-cultural inferences and recurring use of melody within the progressive-jazz and improvisational realm. Recorded live, sans the final piece “Confession,” the quartet toggles between feathery light grooves and pulsating …
by: Geannine Reid Jazz with a twist, yes I would certainly qualify Brulee as exactly that. A jazz duo in nature, Julie Weiner shares the vocal duties with Doug Onstadt, the two of them team up and sing together on a few cuts, but overall alternate the vocal duties. They …
GRAMMY-WINNING COMPOSER TERENCE BLANCHARD COMPLETES SCORE FOR LUCASFILM’S RED TAILS, SET FOR RELEASE JANUARY 20TH BY TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX Film is Golden-Globe nominated Composer’s 52nd film score and stars Cuba Gooding Jr., Terrence Howard, Ne-Yo and more Los Angeles, CA— World-renowned film composer and musician Terence Blanchard has completed …
