INTERVIEW/PROFILE: Jazz Musician of the Day: Hank Jones

By All About Jazz News on July 31, 2010

All About Jazz is celebrating Hank Jones’ birthday today!

Hank JonesThe oldest of the three Jones brothers (Hank, Thad and Elvin), Henry “Hank” Jones (born July 31, 1918) was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi and grew up in Pontiac, Michigan… more

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Dream team at Newport

By Jazz News on July 31, 2010

Dave Brubeck played at one of the first Newport Jazz Festivals, in the mid-’50s, so it seemed incomprehensible that this week’s CareFusion Newport Jazz Festival would go on without him in the year that he turns 90 .

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Vijay Iyer: Solo

By Chris May on July 31, 2010

Pianist Vijay Iyer’s Historicity (ACT Music, 2009) was among the spellbinders of its year, a 10 track trio album, one half originals, one half covers. Solo makes a return visit to the same playground, its 11 tracks comprising five originals and six covers of tunes written by Duke Ellington (“Black and Tan Fantasy,” “La Fleurette Africaine”), Thelonious Monk (“Epistrophy”), Jimmy Van Heusen (“Darn That Dream”), Steve Coleman (“Games”) and Steve Porcaro/John Bettis (“Human Nature,” for the singer Michael Jackson)…

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The Rolling Stones: Stones in Exile

By Doug Collette on July 31, 2010

The Rolling Stones Stones in Exile Eagle 2010

The enduring magic surrounding The Rolling Stones‘ greatest album, Exile on Main Street (Rolling Stones, 1972) is so seductive even the band itself can’t resist trying to explain it. Why else generate multiple packages of audio, video and print two years before the 40th anniversary of the double album’s original release…

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Dave Wilson Quartet: Spiral

By Karl Ackermann on July 31, 2010

Saxophonist Dave Wilson was previously a member of two Dave Stahl groups, also playing with the likes of Wynton Marsalis, Tom Harrell and Lew Soloff and studying with artists including Joe Lovano and Conrad Herwig. The New York native has released two previous collections as a leader, and is actively immersed in music as both an educator and a business person. Wilson’s compositions and covers reflect an eclectic approach, featuring ballads, Latin influences, free improvisation and mainstream jazz. Wilson’s and his quartet may well have produced their breakout effort with Spiral; a potpourri of jazz styles from sometimes unlikely sources, it nevertheless flows and holds together, thanks to the multiple skills of Wilson and his band…

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Neil Young: Long May You Run – The Illustrated History

By Doug Collette on July 31, 2010

Neil Young: Long May You Run–The Illustrated History Daniel Durcholz and Gary Graff Hardcover; 224 pages ISBN: 0760336474 Voyageur Press 2010

As up-to-date as it’s possible for the print medium to be, Neil Young: Long May You Run is both more and less than The Illustrated History of the Canadian rocker. To be sure, there’s a panoply of great photographs, of Young by himself and with his various collaborators over the years, including Crosby, Stills and Nash, Buffalo Springfield, Crazy Horse and others. And the attractively designed layout features concert posters, tickets reproductions and facsimiles of backstage passes, not to mention original artwork. The pages are vividly decorated and the story at hand…

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Peter Bernstein: Live at Smalls

By William Carey on July 31, 2010

A live recording from an intimate venue–in this case, the well-respected Greenwich Village club, Smalls–is like comfort food.. Live at Smalls, from guitarist Peter Bernstein, doesn’t disappoint, starting off with a blues to welcome everyone in, with solid solo turns from all members of the quartet, also including pianist Richard Wyands, bassist John Webber and drummer Jimmy Cobb…

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Take Five With Katsuko Tanaka

By AAJ Staff on July 31, 2010

Meet Katsuko Tanaka:Katsuko Tanaka, born and raised in Osaka Japan, resided in California as a Rotary International Foundation Ambassador in the nineties. Being inspired by the live jazz music during her stay in the U.S., she decided to immerse herself into the jazz world. After being back in Japan (Tokyo and Osaka) for ten years, she came to New York in 2008 to further pursue her music…

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Spencer Bohren with the Iguanas, Rotary Downs and more music for July 30 to Aug. 5

By Jazz News on July 31, 2010

FRIDAY, JULY 30: Folk and blues guitarist Spencer Bohren primarily works alone. But during a rare summer at home, he has shared stages with assorted members of local Tex-Mex/R&B/roots rock band the Iguanas .

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Artists’ co-ops are a cool alternative while outdoor markets take a break

By Jazz News on July 30, 2010

Out, dread heat. How I long for the thrill of victory, even the agony of the feet! Michael DeMocker / The Times-Picayune A visitor checks out the ‘Art in a Box’ exhibit at R.H.I.N.O. last fall.

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Around The Jazz Internet: July 30, 2010

By Music Genre: Jazz & Blues on July 30, 2010

News and notes from around the web, including “Jazzcats Crossing The Hudson” the painting, Angry Keith Jarrett, RIP Chris Dagley, a Gary Burton interview, a roundup of minor shouting matches and lots from Steve Coleman.

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Better busy than doing nothing, scientist proves

By Jazz News on July 30, 2010

So sang Bing Crosby in the 1949 film, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court.

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Library Of Congress To Post All Of William Gottlieb’s Photos To Flickr

By Music Genre: Jazz & Blues on July 30, 2010

Perhaps you know his name; perhaps not. But if you’re a jazz fan, you’ve probably come upon his photographs before; they are among those which have defined the very images of what we know jazz to be. And now, they’re all being uploaded online.

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