. I’m feeling my power today. Sonny Rollins feels it everyday. Related articles Sonny Rollins, born 81 years ago today (barryraphael.wordpress.com) Live Jazz: The 54th Monterey Jazz Festival – Sunday (irom.wordpress.com) This year’s Kennedy Center honorees announced (salon.com) Jazz Is: 31 – Freedom Day (sadredearth.com)
Jazz Is: 31 – Freedom Day
I’m in need of musical awe today. I’ve been meaning to post this for a long time, meant to for the not long departed Abbley Lincoln’s 88th birthday almost two weeks ago. Here she is singing “Freedom Day,” with the great Max Roach on drums, Eddie Kahn on bass, Coleridge Perkins on Piano, and Clifford […]
Jazz Is: 30 – My Funny Valentine
I periodically have to offer the disclaimer that while this series was conceived to offer interesting video of fine jazz performances, I do at times reserve the right and make the exception, under the Make the Exception clause, section 15, part B of the Reserve the Right rules of 2010, to be so bowled over […]
Jazz Is: 29 – Dexter Gordon, “Body and Soul”
While I was laboring over the Wisconsin labor crisis and neglecting my regular features, Dexter Gordon, much beloved sax man, had a birthday. Gordon, who died in 1990, was born on February 27, 1923. Here is how his Wikipedia entry introduces him: Gordon is one of the most influential and iconic figures in Jazz and […]
Jazz Is: 28 – The Grammys’ “Best New Artist”
If you came of age watching the Academy Awards play all hail Hollywood while the most innovative filmmaking was ignored, or the Grammy’s spend the 60s and 70s honoring mainstream bland while rock was busting out all over, Sunday night’s Grammy Awards delivered the pleasure of the voting membership delivering up its Best New Artist […]