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CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Miles Davis: Bye Bye Blackbird

5436 days ago
All About JazzBye Bye Blackbird, Miles Davis Quintet CD 'Round About Midnight (Columbia 94750) Miles Davis (trumpet), John Coltrane (tenor sax), Red Garland (piano), Paul Chambers (bass), Philly Joe Jones (drums). Composed by Mort Dixon and Ray Henderson Rec... more info

INTERVIEW/PROFILE: Austin Chronicle Cover Story: Aural History Hannibal Lokumbe and Jeff Lofton's Jazz Parallels by Raoul Hernandez February 12, 2010

5437 days ago
All About JazzAustin Chronicle Aural History Hannibal Lokumbe and Jeff Lofton's Jazz Traditionalism BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ Photo by John Anderson "I don't know him," admitted Jeff Lofton of Hannibal Lokumbe a few weeks before this issue's cover shoot. "That's somebo... more info

PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Legendary McCoy Tyner to Play Intimate Show at Mahaiwe

5439 days ago
All About JazzPianist McCoy Tyner was just a teenager when Philadelphia neighbors like Bud Powell and the young Lee Morgan began hipping him to the sounds of modern jazz. Soon, Tyner was playing on his own, cutting his teeth with Benny Golson and Art Farmer, befor... more info

INTERVIEW/PROFILE: Guitarist/Bandleader Chris Jentsch Interviewed at AAJ

5450 days ago
All About JazzJohn Coltrane once said, "Let the music speak for itself." The guitarist/composer and band leader Christopher Jentsch adds an interesting twist on that subject by opting to describe himself when asked about the broader subject of how to capture his m... more info

New York Repertory Orchestra: Le Jazz Hot | CD review

5460 days ago
Guardian Music(Planet Arts)This is an unusual venture featuring the great saxophonist David Liebman with a full-blown orchestra under trumpeter Bill Warfield's direction. The band mostly operates in a Gil Evans Sketches of Spain-era mode, on four different examina... more info

Biréli Lagrène | Jazz review

5464 days ago
Guardian MusicRonnie Scott's, LondonThe blurb for French guitarist Biréli ­Lagrène claims he has returned to his roots and "the irresistible swing of Gypsy jazz". But Lagrène can play any style of jazz guitar from the last 80 years: lead and rhythm, el... more info

OBITUARY: Ed Thigpen Jazz Drummer Legend Dies Aged 79

5473 days ago
All About JazzEd Thigpen, Chicago-born drummer with the Oscar Peterson Trio during the famed jazz pianist's popular early-'60s period, died on Wednesday, January 13, 2010 at the age of seventy-nine in Kingdom Hospital in Copenhagen after being ill for a long perio... more info

TV/FILM: Jazz Video Guy 2009 Year in Review

5481 days ago
All About JazzBret Primack, aka the Jazz Video Guy, looks back at the video he produced in 2009. Features: Billy Taylor, Sonny Rollins, Ben Webster, Lester Young, Miles Davis, John Coltrane. Writer/Video Journalist Bret Primack has been at the forefront of new m... more info

Review: McCoy Tyner teams with another Coltrane to kick off Yoshi's run.

5489 days ago
Mercury News, CaliforniaThe pianist, who performed for years with John Coltrane, now gigging with the legendary sax man's son, Ravi Coltrane. more info

How noughties jazz went clubbing

5502 days ago
Guardian MusicThe only thing you could really expect from jazz in the noughties was the unexpectedJazz sounds different now; different from the way it sounded in the century that spawned it. It's not that over the last 10 years musicians have stopped improvising p... more info

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