IODAcast 095, Featuring Gerald Wilson, Ruthie Foster, Rene Marie and more. Monty Alexander "Strawberry Hill" (mp3) from "Harlem - Kingston Express Live!" (Motema Music) Buy at iTunes Music Store More On This Album Rene Marie [...]
Filed under: All About Jazz It's that time of year again where I take a moment to look back and try and piece it all together with a succinct list of the year's 10 best jazz albums. This is an annual rite for jazz scribes and just about anyone else out there that covers a beat for a publication. One could argue that it is a sort of weird to rank different artistic endeavors (After all, isn't beauty in the eye of the beholder?), but these lists do serve a purpose -- the [...]
Filed under: All About Jazz It's not often that you get to talk to someone 91 years old, not to mention one who has played, written or arranged for Duke Ellington and hundreds of other jazz luminaries. So when Gerald Wilson is on the telephone from his home in Los Angeles, you generally let the man talk without interruption. Not that it was necessary to interrupt Gerald Wilson: For a guy his age, his ability to recall names and dates was pretty spot-on and he gets his stories out before losing the thread [...]
When considering Gerald Wilson's Detroit , the orchestral suite he composed to commemorate the 30th anniversary of that city's International Jazz Festival, it would be easy to get sidetracked by his unbelievably long career. After all, he's been a vital part of the jazz scene for seven decades. But the simple fact is that his composition, and its performance as presented on a new album coming out later this month on the Mack Avenue label, is as good as anything you'll hear from any jazz composer around - young, old, or in between. [...]
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