Brad Mehldau Trio “Live” Earns Edison Jazz Music Award
The News Review:
- Brad Mehldau Trio “Live” Earns Edison Jazz Music Award
- John Beasley Buster Williams Bennie Maupin Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts
- Interview: The Cast Of Cadillac Records
- Neal-Marshall brings Kwanzaa to IU campus
- Charlie Hunter Trio serves up rich stew of jazz
Brad Mehldau Trio “Live” Earns Edison Jazz Music Award
Nonesuch Records NY
ArtistsStoreJournalRadioMediaNew ReleasesTour Journal Friday December 05 2008 Friday December 5 2008 Brad Mehldau Trio "Live" Earns Edison Jazz Music Award. Brad picked up the prize in the Jazz International category for his latest Nonesuch release his Trio’s Live recording from New York’s Village Vanguard.
John Beasley Buster Williams Bennie Maupin Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts
Top40-Charts.com NY
three of the most in-demand players in the last four decades of jazz music. Renowned bassist Buster Williams has played with a plethora of jazz illuminaries including. Bennie Maupin is a fixture in the Los Angeles jazz scene where he now makes his home. His highly personal bass clarinet sound helped define such classic jazz recordings as Miles Davis’ *****es Brew Jack Johnson Big Fun and On the Corner as well as recordings by Herbie Hancock’s Mwandishi band and the Headhunters.
Interview: The Cast Of Cadillac Records
Cinema Blend
It’s a scary place. Columbus Short (Little Walter): I guess I always have this image of carrying Charlie Bird’s horn to the clubs with him. I grew up playing the piano playing drums in jazz trios things like that. Jazz music has a certain type of language without speaking. I think humanity we want to evolve to that place where we don’t always want to affect people with words. But the music is speaking. When Miles was playing he was saying a monologue.
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Neal-Marshall brings Kwanzaa to IU campus
Indiana Daily Student
?The quotes represented what the principles truly mean? said Evelyn Hamilton graduate assistant at the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center. ?It brought aspects of our ancestors? thoughts and ideas as a part of the program. ?The spirit of the holiday was encompassed in the variety of musical performances selected: spiritual jazz and Brazilian jazz. The jazz music included Afro Blue by John Coltrane and songs by Stevie Wonder. The purpose of the music performances was to get audience members enthusiastic about the message of Kwanzaa. The songs were intended to connect to the seven principles. ?I hope the musical performances gave people the joy of being alive.
Charlie Hunter Trio serves up rich stew of jazz
Seattle Times United States
Also the band members do not solo in the traditional sense with one instrument playing in front of the rest. The improvisation is collaborative; the melody and the licks are secondary to the groove of the song. If most jazz is microwave Hunter’s music is Crock-pot: a few good ingredients set to simmer slowly. The songs on “Baboon Strength” are an ode to pop music and to Hunter’s tastes. He loves surf music and Southern soul Karen Carpenter and the Squeeze all of which are apparent on his album. Some of the songs are simply named for a composer or performer.