“If someone told me as a kid I’d be playing with these guys, I wouldn’t have believed it” So beamed drummer Carl Allen, no lightweight of his own, as he summed up the feeling of the energy emitted from the…
Month: April 2016
CHARLES MCPHERSON: THE JOURNEY
ONE OF THE WORDS THAT RARELY GETS APPRECIATED IN JAZZ LEXICON IS “ARTIST.” THERE ARE MANY MUSICIANS OUT THERE, BUT FEW HAVE MADE IT AN ART. ALTO SAXOPHONIST CHARLES MCPHERSON IS ONE OF THE LAST LIVING ARTISTS TO HAVE GROWN…
BEYOND THE STANDARDS…Barb Jungr: Shelter From The Storm, Mala Waldron: Deep Resonance
Here are a couple of female vocalists that sound fresh in selecting and delivering material. Barb Jungr goes beyond the usual Tin Pan Alley with Kurt Elling’s pianist Laurence Hobgood and Michael Olatuja/b and Wilson Torres/perc. Her voice is cider…
STEVE COLEMAN: THE ELEMENTS OF STEVE COLEMAN
MONEY DOES FUNNY THINGS TO PEOPLE. SOME PEOPLE THINKS IT MAKES YOU NICER AND HAPPIER, BUT AS THE BIBLE SAYS, ‘THE LOVE OF MONEY IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL.’ OTHERS THINK IT IS AN EVIL THING IN AND OF…