Radio Music Society is the latest album released by jazz singer, bass player Esperanza Spalding, who was released to many of us during the 53 rd Annual Grammy Awards in 2011 where she won Best New Artist, which was the very first time in history this award was given to a jazz artist. Yet, Esperanza came on the music scene years prior. Esperanza Spalding was introduced as a solo artist in 2006 on a Spanish label where she featured her many sides of her musical personality. In 2008, she made her international debut as a new jazz artist when she recorded with [...]
John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Freddie Hubbard, Johnny Griffin, and the Jazz Messengers in one stellar package.
We were deeply saddened to hear about the passing of the great Sam Rivers. That last name is as right as rain - his talents were so varied, multifarious, they were like streams that fed into the greater ocean of jazz. Best known as great saxophonist equally adept at the tenor and soprano, he was also a remarkable flutist and pianist, who quietly put his stamp on both instruments. As anyone who has seen Rivers live can attest, he was an astonishing improviser who could instantly summon pieces that were both dramatic and affecting, wrought in [...]
In honor of the upcoming holiday this Monday, I thought I'd highlight something a little peculiar (spooky?). Besides its titular connection to the ubiquitous late October character, "Witch Hunt" has some interestingly eerie musical elements. I know compared some of the other music I've written about here, Wayne Shorter's "Witch Hunt" is fairly "regular" post-bop. It has a straight-ahead arrangement, features traditional jazz timbres, and isn't overtly dissonant. In 2011, this is not too experimental. However, in 1964, when Wayne Shorter's quintet recorded Speak No Evil - the album that opens with "Witch Hunt," - they were known [...]
Excellent live performances by the second great Miles Davis Quintet.
Wayne Shorter was at the peak of his creative powers when he recorded Schizophrenia in the spring of 1967. Assembling a sextet that featured two of his Miles Davis bandmates (pianist Herbie Hancock and bassist Ron Carter), trombonist Curtis Fuller, alto saxophonist/flautist James Spaulding and drummer Joe Chambers, Shorter found a band that was capable of conveying his musical "schizophrenia,"
Seminal live album by a great ensemble, remastered and expanded.
Seriously cool jazz recorded live at Birdland, 1963.
Filed under: News Carlos Santana is hitched again after he wed fellow musician Cindy Blackman last month. The couple tied the knot Dec. 19 at a private ceremony in Hawaii, witnessed by nearly 200 guests, including Santana's longtime friends and jazz greats Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock , who also performed at the event.
[Audio] STR Mixtape - Taming The Tiger (Right Click + Save as to Download) Title Artist Starting Time I'm A Thief The Fresh And Onlys What's New Wyatt/Atzmon/Stephen 03:56 Sleeping Carriage Hammock & Honey 07:00 Claws Overhead Warm Ghost 10:20 Everyone Knows It's True The Phantom Band 15:02 Right On Time The Rovin' Kind 19:10 El Gaucho Wayne Shorter 21:50 Comme L'Amour The Phones 28:19 Now It Hurts You Drum Circus 31:51 Oneonta John Fahey 34:26 [...]
Du jazz à la Fiesta La venue de Wayne Shorter le 20 octobre prochain à la Fiesta des Suds n'est pas un hasard. Le jazz a toujours été présent, en filigrane et fil conducteur dès l'ouverture de la programmation du festival marseillais. Je ne me risquerai pas à proposer ici une quelconque hagiographie de cet immense saxophoniste jazz. Je vous dirai simplement qu'à l'image de cette photo, sa musique est généreuse comme des bras grands ouverts. Wayne Shorter a traversé les époques du jazz pour en devenir l'une des figures [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , New Music , Exclusive For Carlos Santana 's latest album, 'Guitar Heaven: Santana Performs the Greatest Guitar Classics of All Time,' the axeman teams with vocalists like Chris Cornell , Rob Thomas and Scott Weiland to cover songs by Led Zeppelin , Cream , the Rolling Stones and more. During a recent press junket in Las Vegas, the guitar legend admitted that the [...]
Herbie Hancock, ft. Wayne Shorter : Both Sides Now [ purchase ] Paul Desmond : Song to a Seagull [ purchase ] Joshua Redman : I Had a King [ purchase ] Let's check out some jazzy Joni covers, yeah? Here are three that focus on the saxophone. I used to play this amazing instrument, but sadly, none of the songs I ever [...]
L'édition 2010 du Festival de Jazz à La Défense est comme à l'accoutumée pleine de surprises. Le coup d'envoie sera donné le 18 juin avec une série de 4 concerts exceptionnellement à Colombes, Suresnes et Vanves. Le reste de la programmation se déroulera bien évidemment sur le Parvis de La Défense avec un panel d'artistes plutôt croustillant: Eric Legnini , Fanga , The Soul Jazz Orchestra , Miss Platnum , Bojan Z et Sophie Hunger pour ne vous en citer que quelques-uns. Comme chaque année le [...]
Alice Cooper and Iggy Pop are usually credited for helping to kill off the peace and love Woodstock hippy rainbow vibe in 1970. Listening to this double live muther of Miles Davis unleashing his electric band on a bunch of hippies at the Fillmore East waiting to see Steve Miller and Neil Young , you could say that Miles did his part, too. Bill Graham did everyone a favor when he was running the Fillmores in NYC and San Francisco by putting together some inspired bills. King Crimson [...]
Wayne Shorter Quartet - Philadelphia Museum of Art - April 23, 2010 Going to see the Wayne Shorter Quartet premiere a new commissioned piece penned by the legendary saxophonist is an odd occurrence. Certainly he is recognized as the greatest living jazz composer, but in fact his band, now celebrating its tenth year (a tenure largely unheard of in the jazz world) has long since moved beyond the concept of songs per se, addressing most performances instead with an organic, suite based approached that has more to do with spontaneous composition than written music, with the [...]
Bill Charlap and Renee Rosnes , two of the premiere pianists in Jazz, and also husband and wife, have joined forces to record their first collaborative album, Double Portrait , which will be released June 8, 2010 on EMI's Blue Note Records. The album is a sparkling set of four-hand piano duets that traverses many of the couple's musical touchstones including the great jazz composers ( Wayne Shorter, Joe Henderson ), Great American Songbook composers ( George & Ira Gershwin, Howard Dietz & Arthur Schwartz ), and [...]
Jazz legend Herbie Hancock's forthcoming film and album, The Imagine Project , features collaborations with over a dozen artists performing from their respective home countries, which span many regions of the planet. As AllAboutJazz.com reports , the likes of Jeff Beck, Oumou Sangare, Lionel Louke, Lisa Hannigan, Dave Matthews, Derek Trucks, Pink, Seal, Susan Tedeschi, Juanes, Wayne Shorter, Chaka Khan, Anoushka Shankar (daughter of Ravi Shankar), and the Chieftains took part in recording sessions in Paris, London, Miami, [...]
Filed under: Around the World Like many artists who have explored and embraced music from across cultures, guitarist Lionel Loueke is wary about bringing exotic, unfamiliar sounds to mainstream audiences. Of course, in his case the audience in question is in Benin, where Loueke was born and raised. And the sounds are those of the modern jazz he embraced as a music student in Paris in the mid-'90s and has personalized in the decade since moving to the U.S. to study at the Berklee College of Music [...]
I've been a tad bit under the weather this week, which makes blogging and just thinking a tough gig. Since listening to music is a key component to this thing, I guess I ain't been on my deen this week. Mainly, I've been relegated to editing & doing a lot of emails. My music listening? Well, when I'm in this space, I always revert to jazz. Always. It's my life preserver, keeping me balanced and motivated. Coincidentally, there's usually a 87% chance that the album I'll lean on the hardest (bar no genre) will always be Kind [...]
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