Archive for April, 2009
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Submitted by Jazz Suite
In celebration of Duke’s birthday, the folks at Life.com put up this amazing photo gallery. Good stuff!
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Kenny Werner’s “What is Free Jazz?” clinic videos
Submitted by Casa Valdez Studios
Over at the Brazilian blog called Oh não! mais um blog sobre jazz!! (Oh No! Not another Blog About Jazz!!) there are six videos of a clinic that Kenny Werner gave on his approach to playing free. If you’re a fan of his Effortless Mastery book then you should like [...]
Ellington
Submitted by Jazz Suite
What do you say about Duke that hasn’t been said?
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Tina Brooks
Submitted by Jazz Note SDP
Another shooting star in the Jazz sky. Harold Floyd (Tina) Brooks (pronounced sure enough Teena), killed himself off pretty quick. But before the narcotics brought the curtain down, he managed to produce some awesome jazz. I have been enjoying Minor Move for some time now. There is something about Tina’s tenor [...]
Peter Brotzman Trio at Poncho Concert Hall
Submitted by EyeShotJazz
Peter Brotzmann Trio with Eric Revis & Nasheet WaitsPlayed Poncho Concert Hall at Cornish College Tuesday evening. They were smashing. One of the last in the series of the Earshot Jazz Spring Series 2009 in April. Coming up on thursday is the final featuring The Thing Mats Gustasson - reeds Ingebrigt Haker Flaten [...]
Ballard Jazz Festival Part 2
Submitted by EyeShotJazz
Some more photos from the Ballard Jazz Festival and the Quartet: Corey Christiansen (guitar), Mark Taylor (sax), Paul Gabrielson (bass), Matt Jorgensen (drums) when they opened up the Saturday night Mainstage Concert of the Ballard Jazz Festival.
From the Saturday night episode of the Ballard Jazz Festival at the beautiful sounding hall at the [...]
Shawn “Thunder” Wallace’s YouTube lessons
Submitted by Casa Valdez Studios
Saxophonist and educator Shawn ‘Thunder’ Wallace has posted some of his lessons on YouTube. Thunder has some worthwhile stuff on there, despite the silly nickname.
Lesson videos
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James Mahone’s Practice Portal
Submitted by Casa Valdez Studios
James Mahone is a very nice saxophonist who is currently residing in Tokyo. When I was living in NYC in the late 90’s James and I played a few sessions together with our mutual friend Matt Otto.
James now writes a great educational Jazz blog called Practice Portal, which has some [...]
Fly
Submitted by Casa Valdez Studios
I went to hear trio Fly last Saturday night here in Portland. The trio consists of Mark Turner on saxophones, Larry Grenadier on bass, and Jeff Ballard on drums. I grew up playing with Jeff and Larry, who are also from the Bay Area, so it was great to see [...]
Corey Christiansen Quartet - Ballard Jazz Festival
Submitted by EyeShotJazz
Corey Christiansen Quartet: Corey Christiansen (guitar), Mark Taylor (sax), Paul Gabrielson (bass), Matt Jorgensen (drums) opened up the Saturday night Mainstage Concert of the Ballard Jazz Festival.
Some really wonderful performances from Corey and the whole group. They opened the Saturday night episode of the Ballard Jazz Festival at the beautiful sounding hall at [...]
Song for my Father
Submitted by Jazz Note SDP
My Father, Kenneth Caldwell Blanchard, is in the hospital. We are hoping he will be out in the next few days, but it doesn’t look good for the long term. Dad is a salt of the earth kind of fellow. Born on a farm, he went to war in the Pacific [...]
Beat heartbeat, he’s made it to the…
Submitted by Secret Society
… Newsweek.
Um, yeah, so that happened. It’s going to be in this week’s dead tree edition, too, the one with Star Trek on the cover (cover date May 4). BTW, if you are planning on skipping our CD launch to see the new movie on opening night, you are forgiven.
Also, if you [...]
Ain’t nothin to the Pain
Submitted by Secret Society
Via Kelly, the only use of autotune I will ever endorse:
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Misterious Motian
Submitted by Jazz Note SDP
If you have a neck injury, and you like jazz, put on the brace and listen to Paul Motian’s album Misterioso. The brace will come in handy when the second number opens up, and if you don’t have a neck injury, you might get one.
Drummer Paul Motian (pronounced, if you [...]
Most critically-acclaimed Pulitzer Prize winner, best storyteller, thug narrator, my style’s greater
Submitted by Secret Society
Good to see the Pulitzer is only 32 years behind the curve this year.
Seriously, though, congrats to Steve Reich, and to the band what commissioned and performed the piece.
FWIW, I heard the NY premiere of Reich’s prizewinning work, Double Sextet, almost exactly one year ago, and here’s what I thought at the [...]
Fred and Jenn
Submitted by EyeShotJazz
Fred Gilbert and Jenn celebrated their wedding with a number of Earshot Jazz staff and fans at the Asian Art Museum in March. Here is a large group panoramic photo of everyone attending out on the steps in front of the museum.I really love those camels on both sides of the entrance.
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Photography From Space
Submitted by EyeShotJazz
I know this is not exactly jazz photography, but if you have an interest in photographs from outer space, check out the Boston Globe’s web blog “The Big Picture”
Here is a brief excerpt……”NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is now a nearly a year into its extended mission, called Cassini Equinox (after its initial 4-year mission [...]
Early returns
Submitted by Secret Society
James Hale has posted what is, as far as I know, the first review of Infernal Machines (out May 12).
His writeup reminds me that at some point I really need to post something in-depth about George Russell’s incredible legacy. For now, I’ll just say that if you haven’t heard the Gerry Mulligan [...]
Murray on the Bass Clarinet
Submitted by Jazz Note SDP
Okay, I have become an apostle of David Murray. I think he deserves much greater recognition than he has received. Pardon me for playing these notes again, but his music combines the strengths of straight ahead jazz and avant garde more successfully than any other jazz man I have listened to. [...]
Gatemouth
Submitted by Jazz Suite
Jazz? Jump Blues? Texas Swing? Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown defied categorization. How ’bout one hell of a guitar player? Others may get credit for the idea of having a guitar lead a big band, but Gatemouth had been doing it like nobody’s business for a long time, and was still doing so when [...]
Sight Reading Tune
Submitted by Casa Valdez Studios
Here’s a little etude for your some sight reading practicingClick on the image to enlarge and print
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Sweets
Submitted by Jazz Suite
This week Riverwalk Jazz remembers Harry “Sweets” Edison. A good read, and lots of neat stuff, to boot. Check out when and where to listen to Riverwalk Jazz in your area, or listen online.
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High School Confidential
Submitted by Secret Society
Okay, so it’s not quite as awesome as Flea founding (and teaching at) a nonprofit conservatory in East LA, but Bon Iver frontman Justin Vernon is definitely a class act:
As a student, Justin Vernon traveled with the Memorial High School jazz band to New York City in 1999. As a rock star, [...]
Quintet Live in Bend
Submitted by Casa Valdez Studios
Last weekend I had a very nice quintet gig in Bend, Oregon. It was one of those rare gigs where everything seems to click. The house was packed with Jazz listeners, the sound was great, we were getting paid well, and of course the most important element- a great reed!
The [...]
Instituto Antonio Carlos Jobim
Submitted by Casa Valdez Studios
If you love the music of Antonio Carlos Jobim then you must check out the Instituto Antonio Carlos Jobim website. On this site you can access the 720 original handwritten scores of the Brazilian master, 77 videos, liner notes, 127 audio recordings, discography, 58 drawings, poems, and much more.
This site [...]
