“The Jazz Score” 12/27/10 – 2010 Retrospective in Jazz Composition
For the last show of the year, I featured a bunch of CDs that came out in 2010 in the world of jazz composition on last night’s show. Here’s the playlist: – Keramag Prelude / The Claudia Quintet / Royal Toast – Keramag / The Claudia Quintet / Royal Toast – Modul 52 / Nik [...]
“The Jazz Score” 12/20/10 – Sonny Rollins
Yesterday on “The Jazz Score” I featured the tunes of the great tenor player Sonny Rollins, for a change from all the through-composed and classically oriented stuff, I thought it would be nice to check out someone who just wrote great tunes for improvising! Here’s the playlist: – St. Thomas / Sonny Rollins / Saxophone [...]
“The Jazz Score” 12/13/10 – Contemporary Large Ensembles
Monday night on “The Jazz Score” I featured a bunch of contemporary large ensemble jazz, starting with one of the forefathers of the modern big band sound, Bob Brookmeyer, and moving on from there with many of his proteges and other noted large ensemble albums that have come out in the past 5 or 10 [...]
Trio
I’m looking forward to a few gigs this week with my old friend and long-time musical associate Tyson Stubelek on drums, who will be back for a while from New York for the holidays. We’ve been playing together since high school in various configurations starting with the Portland Youth Jazz Orchestra and most recently with [...]
“The Jazz Score” 12/6/10 – Louis Sclavis
Yesterday on “The Jazz Score” on KMHD I featured one of my favorite European contemporary musicians, the clarinetist and saxophonist Louis Sclavis from France. It was a bit o an edgy show and I hope you enjoyed the wide variety of creative music that Sclavis has produced over the years, from jazz/early French classical hybrids [...]
“The Jazz Score” 11/29/10 – Jerome Kern
Monday on “The Jazz Score” I featured the great compositions of Jerome Kern performed by many jazz musicians past and present. Interestingly, Kern detested when his tunes were performed outside of the context of the specific musical or film for which they were written and was especially opposed to jazz versions of his songs. Despite [...]