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August 24, 2012 Newport Jazz Festival Fort Adams State Park Newport, RI August 4-5, 2012 Having a celebration for the 70th birthday of an amazing musiciandrummer Jack DeJohnette was an outstanding feature of this year's Newport Jazz Festival.
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August 17, 2012 Newport Jazz Festival Fort Adams State Park Newport, RI August 4, 2012 "Yeah that's what I'm talking about, Newport!" the bright-smiled Cuban conga player said with enthusiasm, as the crowd he encouraged to dance clapped a beat to his
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Jack DeJohnette Published: 2012-08-09 All About Jazz is celebrating Jack DeJohnette's birthday today! Born in Chicago in 1942, Jack De Johnette is widely regarded as one of jazz music\'s greatest drummers...He studied classical piano from age four
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The Newport Jazz Festival has been on a roll these last few years, blending the commercial clout of big names with the creative cred of adventurous newcomers. Now 86 years old, esteemed impresario George Wein has had a much more active hand in the
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Even if the days of corporate-sponsored big-ticket New York jazz events are done, June remains jazz-festival season here...At the Blue Note last month, pianist Jason Moran and drummer Herlin Riley dug into what seemed more conversation than
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2012-06-12 For seven yearsbetween 1968 and 1975Marty Morell played drums in the Bill Evans Trio alongside bassist Eddie Gomez...The pianist matured rapidly musically and emotionally, and you can see the physical change on his album
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May 20, 2012 CTI Records reissued trumpeter Freddie Hubbard's November 1970 date, Straight Life , in 2011. As with some of the other reissues in this series (see John Kelman 's in-depth discussion of some of the more important of these), its
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May 14, 2012 Pianist Luis Perdomo's fingers dart across the keys, eloquently telling the stories that traverse his mind in that instant; doing so in a manner that enraptures an audience. He moves people, and does so in a manner that appears, on the
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His exotic and fluttery sound, full of foggy swoops and unexpected dodges, is a thing to behold. And he knows how to put a band together; his most famous, from the mid- to late-'60s, included pianist Keith Jarrett, bassist Cecil McBee and drummer
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This ambitious new album from the Grammy-winning singer and bassist Esperanza Spalding is star-packed (Q-Tip, Joe Lovano, Jack DeJohnette and Billy Hart, Lionel Loueke, Gretchen Parlato). Spalding's charisma, whimsical poetry and enthusiasm for
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