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Entries from November 2011

Our dear jazz friend and extraordinary musician, Art Hillery has passed away.

Our dear jazz friend and extraordinary musician, Art Hillery has passed away. According to his dear friend, Richard Simon, he was admitted to the hospital a few weeks ago with symptoms of feeling weak and disoriented, which he thought was a reaction to some medication. It was determined that it was cancer which had spread [continue reading…]

Date: Nov 30th, 2011 · No Comments · Categories: Jazz News

Ingrid Pastorius, who was married to virtuoso electric bassist Jaco Pastorius between 1979 and 1985, died on Monday

Ingrid Pastorius, who was married to virtuoso electric bassist Jaco Pastorius between 1979 and 1985, died on Monday after reportedly suffering a stroke. She was 61. A native of Indonesia, Ingrid also spend time in Holland and Puerto Rico before moving to South Florida at age 20. She then worked as a flight attendant for [continue reading…]

Date: Nov 30th, 2011 · No Comments · Categories: Jazz News

Hilary Kole, 36, is charging that John Valenti, 63 — furious since she left him in May

BY Barbara Ross NEW YORK DAILY NEWS A SULTRY songbird who has trilled at the Rainbow Room is now squawking in Manhattan Supreme Court over sour notes from her former manager/boyfriend, the owner of the iconic jazz club Birdland. Hilary Kole, 36, is charging that John Valenti, 63 — furious since she left him in [continue reading…]

Date: Nov 30th, 2011 · No Comments · Categories: Jazz News

Hank Crawford: Don’t You Worry ‘Bout A Thing

Saxophonist Hank Crawford will forever be linked to his one-time employer, the great m: Ray Charles , in the minds of R&B lovers, but soul-fusion fans are likely to remember him for a string of albums he recorded on the Kudu label in the 1970s. Crawford and tenor saxophonist m: Stanley Turrentine proved to be the two pillars of potent saxophone soul in label head/producer m: Creed Taylor ‘s stable during this era, but Crawford’s work is often overlooked now, while Turrentine’s albums still get plenty of recognition. Few would argue that Turrentine classics like Sugar (CTI, 1970) or Salt Song (CTI, 1971) are deserving of the reissue treatment, but Crawford’s oeuvre also merits a return visit, and CTI Masterworks finally rectified this issue with the inclusion of this disc in its final wave of reissues celebrating the fortieth anniversary of the label…

Date: Nov 30th, 2011 · No Comments · Categories: Jazz CD Reviews

New World Jazz Composers Octet: Breaking News

The New World Jazz Composers Octet thrives on the old school idea of jazz composition as conduit to great jazz performance, and its third album, Breaking News, puts theory to practice from the outset with Matthew Nicholl’s “Poco Picasso.” The jutting melodic angles and tightly orchestrated front line arrest on their own merits, while also spurring pianist m: Tim Ray into a well-constructed, swinging improvisation…

Date: Nov 30th, 2011 · No Comments · Categories: Jazz CD Reviews

Fourth Page: Blind Horizons

Blind Horizons is the second album of 2011 from Fourth Page, the rapid follow-up to its debut, Along the Weak Rope, released on Forwind in May. Fourth Page consists of vocalist and guitarist Charlie Beresford, pianist m: Carolyn Hume , bassist m: Peter Marsh and drummer Paul May. There are long-standing links between Hume, May and Marsh.

Date: Nov 30th, 2011 · No Comments · Categories: Jazz CD Reviews

Albert Ayler: Stockholm, Berlin 1966

Indeed, a desert island quality album reissued with a digital uplift of celebrated tenor saxophonist Albert Ayler’s 1966 Stockholm and Berlin concerts, where the artist resides in a very special musical space unlike any other. With his infamous slants on America’s historical affinity for march music, Ayler’s colossal presence and coiling use of vibrato looms as a mighty force, to complement a dynamo band featuring brother Donald on trumpet. Sadly, the Ayler brothers passed on too soon and, in retrospect, the jury is out whether Albert Ayler’s revolutionary concepts garnered the utmost critical deference spanning their relatively short run back in the 1960s. But history seeds the future, and Ayler’s musical mindset has gained even more prominence and detailed investigation after his death…

Date: Nov 29th, 2011 · No Comments · Categories: Jazz CD Reviews