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Drummer Kendrick 'Kads' Scott Releases Debut CD April 10 (All About Jazz)
>Kendrick 'KADS' Scott is not your average drummer. Yes, he went to Berklee. Yes, he endorses many of the same drums and accessories as the next guy. And of course his influences include Tony Williams, Elvin Jones, Jack DeJohnette, Roy Haynes, and Philly Joe Jones.
Well Water (All About Jazz)
Thirty years ago, saxophonist Frank Foster and drummer Elvin Jones escorted eighteen other musicians (whom Foster dubbed the Loud Minority Big Band) into a recording studio in New York City to tape an album, Well Water.
Live in Detroit: Global Jazz Trio at Baker?s Keyboard Lounge (All About Jazz)
Perhaps the post beautiful thing about Live in Detroit: Global Jazz Trio at Baker?s Keyboard Lounge is that the Global Jazz Trio does not sport keyboards, it is a Sonny Rollins-style saxophone trio, circa 1958, except for the pronounced reverb and echo on Mark Hershberger?s saxophones and the Richard Smith?s electric bass rather than the acoustic double bass.
Judgment Day, Vol. One (All About Jazz)
Rashied Ali has always been unfairly typecast as the guy who usurped Elvin Jones from Coltrane?s Classic Quartet, enforcing the dividing line between A Love Supreme and Trane?s final phase, when the leader became all dissonant and difficult.
Joe Vella: Podcasting Trane (All About Jazz)
Joe Vella has been merging jazz and technology for decades, starting with early Internet bulletin boards, founding JazzOnline.com, and then moving into the world of podcasting.
Basie, Ellington and Miles Cut Perfect Jazz Groove: Mike Zwerin (Bloomberg.com)
March 12 (Bloomberg) -- When you can't sleep because of the pressures of modern city life -- congestion, pollution, corruption, the plain unfairness of it all -- don't count sheep. Count Basie.
Biography (All About Jazz)
Kenny Werner was born on November 19, 1951 in Brooklyn, N.Y., U.S.A. At the age of eleven, he recorded a single with a fifteen-piece orchestra and appeared on television playing stride piano. He attended the Manhattan School of Music as a concert piano major.
SPIN FACTOR (Nashville City Paper)
Frank Foster Well Water (Piadrum) During the ?70s, saxophonist and composer Frank Foster formed and led a marvelous big band called The Loud Minority. They routinely performed challenging, varied pieces different from those featuring Foster in his regular role with Count Basie.
Smalls Records: Sound Stewardship For US Treasures (All About Jazz)
From trumpeter Bunk Johnson waxing reverential about Buddy Bolden to saxophonist Michael Brecker bowing at the altar of John Coltrane, a strong sense of nostalgia is woven through the history of jazz.
Area jazz artists at UA fest (Akron Beacon Journal)
Next week will be a good one for area jazz fans as the University of Akron's JazzFest 2007 gets under way on Tuesday. This year's special guests are a couple of homegrown folks -- Cleveland-bred saxophonist Joe Lovano and Youngstown-born singer/actress Maureen McGovern.