Archive for November, 2009
Interesting reading
Submitted by Jazz Suite
A couple of items of interest:
Eastman School of Music pays tribute to one of the giants of jazz, Bob Brookmeyer: Composer, conductor, pianist and valve trombonist. Never boring.
The concert is slated for Dec. 2 at Kilbourn Hall at the Eastman School of Music at 8 pm. Admission is free.
Learn more.
Elsewhere, The New [...]
Yet More Thomas Chapin
Submitted by Jazz Note SDP
It is just shy of one o’clock in the morning, central time, November the 28th, 2009, as I am listening to Thomas Chapin’s Insomnia. I have never suffered much from sleeplessness, but I like to sit up late scouring the web and doing my blogging.
Insomnia has the Thomas Chapin Trio backed [...]
Best Jazz Albums 26-50
Submitted by Jazz Note SDP
Compiling a list of 50 best jazz albums is, as reader Derick put it, like “walking blindfolded through a mine field.” Proceeding on the principle that rules are made to be broken, I made rules and broke them. But it has been fun and it has led me [...]
Words, oh so sweet
Submitted by Secret Society
The latest Secret Society News-Letter has gone out to our loyal subscribers. It includes info about some just-announced 2010 gigs (see left sidebar), including our upcoming Boston debut on Feb. 25. If you’d like this monthly missive delivered to your inbox, you need but click here.
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Red Mitchell & Memory
Submitted by Jazz Note SDP
Way back in the 1980’s, when I bought my first decent stereo equipment and began seriously collecting jazz, I recorded a PBS show featuring bass player Red Mitchell and piano master Monty Alexander. I am going from memory here, but I think the show was called “Alone Together”. Listening to was [...]
Blanchard’s Top One, Ten, and Twenty-Five Best Jazz Albums
Submitted by Jazz Note SDP
I had originally intended this blog as a guide to novice jazz collectors. I have no idea whether it is serving that purpose. Most of my comments are from folks who have pretty decent collections already. But I am a classical thinker by training, so making lists is something I do [...]
More J.D. Allen & Some Miles
Submitted by Jazz Note SDP
I have been listening to I AM I AM, by the J.D. Allen Trio. It is one of those recordings that impressed me a lot more the second time I heard it. I would like to think that is the result of spiritual growth, but it may be more like the [...]
A letter to a student at a Jazz Conservatory
Submitted by Casa Valdez Studios
Here is part of a letter that I sent one of my students who recently moved out east to study at a major Jazz school in the New York area. I thought that it was worth reprinting because it contains a lot of advice that I wish that someone had [...]
WTF: Pops sings Pharaoh’s ‘The Creator Has A Master Plan’
Submitted by Casa Valdez Studios
Yes, it’s no joke.
This is from the great Avant-Garde Jazz site Destination: Out
“We tend to think of Armstrong and Sanders as inhabiting entirely different universes, but one of the interesting things about the late 60s and early 70s was the generational overlap of so many key jazz figures. But rarely [...]
SECRET SOCIETY LIVE
Submitted by Secret Society
25 November 2009
Iridium Jazz Club
1650 Broadway, New York NY
8:30 PM & 10:30 PM
$25
featuring special guest Kendrick Scott, drums
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A Thousand Evenings Deep
Submitted by Secret Society
Coming soon from Greenleaf Music — I Tre Trombe present The World’s Most Romantic Ballad Album of Trumpet Love Songs Ever — a timeless collection of eternal melodies that linger in the heart forever, as performed by the latest sensational cylindrical brass supergroup, I Tre Trombe: Franco Ambrosetti, Dave Douglas, and Chris Botti:
Okay, I [...]
100 years of Hoagy
Submitted by Jazz Suite
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Tonight! Christian McBride Live @ The Village Vanguard
Submitted by Jazz Note SDP
Christian McBride and his band Inside Straight are appearing tonight at the Village Vanguard. The concert will be shown live online, (Wednesday) at 9pm ET. I recommend it to all my readers. Hopefully, the recording will be available for download later.
McBride didn’t just learn to play the bass, he inherited it. [...]
The Jazz Personality- by Aaron Johnson
Submitted by Casa Valdez Studios
Aaron’s last post caused quite a stir all over the blogosphere. Readers and bloggers either loved it or they wanted to wring his young neck.
The role of the musician in our society has become so domesticated over the past 30 or so years. I believe this has to do with [...]
Yeah we gotta little ol’ convoy, ain’t she a beautiful sight?
Submitted by Secret Society
I am not sure whether UnitedCDL sells t-shirts with this design, but if so, you’d think they’d at least have had the courtesy to send me one:
Source (scroll down)
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Archie Shepp and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen
Submitted by Jazz Note SDP
I have a fondness for Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen that goes back three decades. In my early years as a jazz fan I collected Oscar Peterson records. Peterson and Pedersen were inseparable for a while. I have a fondness for Archie Shepp that goes back, well, at least a couple of years.
Shepp [...]
Another Jazz Ken: Ken Vandermark & the Vandermark 5
Submitted by Jazz Note SDP
In addition to myself and Ken Laster, we have Ken Vandermark. All he has over us is that he can actually play jazz. Vandermark is a horn player (tenor sax, clarinet, bass clarinet) and prolific recorder and composer. To judge by the two albums I have purchased, his work shows the [...]
Jazz & Democracy
Submitted by Jazz Note SDP
Today was election day in these United States. That means victory for one party, and grief for another. But seen rightly, it is one of the beautiful things in the human record. Ballots cost less in grief and blood than bullets, or jumping up and down on someone’s ribcage. We are, [...]
Jazz Photography
Submitted by EyeShotJazz
The Jazz Photography in the blog below is ending here but continues to be updated with new photography over on the new address for EyeShotJazz blog at EyeShotJazz.com. Please go and set your bookmark to get continuing coverage of the 2009 Earshot Jazz Festival and other photographs of great jazz performances in the [...]
CMJ Postscript (or, the Importance of Opening Bands)
Submitted by Secret Society
So, uh, yeah, that was my week at CMJ — a couple of very different Secret Society shows for very different audiences, with the off-days spent checking out as much live music as my schedule and my rapidly deteriorating meatbag would allow. All told, I had a grand old time and it [...]
Now isn’t this an excellent adventure - part six (CMJ Day Five)
Submitted by Secret Society
I spend closing night at CMJ in the cozy confines of Union Hall’s basement. I can’t really see shows there without thinking of time (over three years ago, now) when we somehow managed to squash Secret Society into that space. Good times. Anyway, Saturday was kind of an unofficial roots/folk-rock night there, which [...]
Remembering Clifford
Submitted by Jazz Suite
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Edward Simon Live @ The Village Vanguard
Submitted by Jazz Note SDP
Yet another wonderful concert from the Vanguard: Venezuelan pianist Ed Simon with his trio, Ben Street on bass, and Adam Cruz on drums, and Mark Turner on Sax. You don’t have to wait for this one to warm up. The first number, a Turner composition, is as warm as a lover’s [...]
Back to Blakey
Submitted by Jazz Note SDP
I got interested in Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers as result of my infatuation with Wayne Shorter. I got interested in Wayne because I saw one of his albums in a Zen Mountain Center catalog. I practice Zen meditation, and Wayne is a Nichiren Buddhist if I am correct. Such [...]
Master Class videos on Banddirector.com
Submitted by Casa Valdez Studios
There are quite a few interesting videos on Banddirector.com, including a bunch of Bergonzi improvisation workshops.
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