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PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Barry Mosley and Dennis Lapron West Cost Jazz Tribute Show

5024 days ago
All About JazzValve Trombonist Barry Mosley and tenor saxaphonist Dennis Lapron play a West Coast Jazz Tribute Show at Cafe 322 The focus of the quartet is on tasteful melodic playing, influenced by the Cool West Coast sound that has been Mosley's inspiration s... more info

DVD/VIDEO: Weekend Extra: Fun with Chet and Paul

5032 days ago
All About JazzSomeone who identifies himself on YouTube as "liveacid" went to painstaking trouble to manufacture a video of Chet Baker and Paul Desmond playing "Autumn Leaves." The music track is from Baker's 1974 album She Was Too Good To Me. It was later reissue... more info

thursday afternoon updates

5041 days ago
Totally FuzzyTime Bandit said... From C-60 in the mid-week: Doll by Doll "Remember" (1979) Doll by Doll "Gypsy Blood" (1979) Grant Peeples "Down Here in the County" (2007) Tift Merritt "Bramble Rose" (2002) http://c-60lownoise.blogspot.com Joao Kartoshka said...... more info

BOOK/MAGAZINE: Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne

5050 days ago
All About JazzThough still in progress with James Gavin's thick new volume on the life & times of the recently departed ancestor Lena Horne, several in-progress observations give high marks to the writer's thorough, detailed efforts. Gavin, who penned the equally-... more info

tuesday evening updates

5064 days ago
Totally Fuzzyjeffen said... Great Celtic-folk-punk from this POGUES-related band: THE MEN THAT THEY COULDN'T HANG - BBC Sessions (1984-1985) http://musicruinedmylife.blogspot.com Willard said... * THE EVERLY BROTHERS EB '84 (1984) * THE EVERLY BROTHERS Born Yes... more info

sunday evening updates

5115 days ago
Totally FuzzySmilin Tyler said... Good things, like aspects of the ONE TRUE LORD, come in threes, and both of the above come extremely rarely. Much like my updates, which this round includes classic squack from Harry Pussy, perfect country music from Freakwater, ... more info

Pianist at top of his game

5132 days ago
Detroit Free PressThe versatile veteran pianist Hal Galper has done it all in jazz, from early apprenticeships with Sam Rivers and Chet Baker in the '60s to important stints with Cannonball Adderley in the 1970s and Phil Woods in the 1980s to more recent work at ... more info

50 great moments in jazz: Cecil Taylor's jazz piano revolution

5133 days ago
Guardian MusicThis 1956 interpretation of Thelonious Monk's typically flinty Bemsha Swing might not sound revolutionary at first. But listen closer ...The drummer swings, and the theme sounds like Monk's rhythmically quirky conception of bebop. The opening of the ... more info

50 great moments in jazz: Duke Ellington plays Newport jazz festival

5141 days ago
Guardian MusicDuke Ellington's postwar reputation was faltering until one spectacular night in Newport in 1956 that would alter his fortunes for everJazz was finding itself in a changed world by the mid-1950s – though not all the changes disadvantaged it. T... more info

CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Brazilian Pianist/Composer Antonio Adolfo and Vocalist Carol Saboya to Release New CD, "La E CA," on April 20

5144 days ago
All About JazzJazz and samba have shared a rich interactive history for the last half-century. In Rio de Janeiro, musicians took note of Chet Baker, Bill Evans, and composers like Cole Porter while jazz musicians in Los Angeles and New York absorbed the music of B... more info

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