“The Jazz Score” 2/21/11 – Jackie McLean and Booker Ervin
Last night on “The Jazz Score” I featured two great “inside/outside” players and composers: Jackie McLean and Booker Ervin. It was great to check out side by side these two musicians who, despite substantial stylistic differences, both straddled the line between inside and outside playing in the 50s and 60s. Here’s the playlist: – A [...]
2010 ASCAP Young Jazz Composers Award!
I am very honored to have received a 2010 ASCAP Young Jazz Composers’ Award for my composition “Lake Superior,” which I wrote last year for the Canadian-American collective Tunnel Six. I wrote the song some time in advance of the tour based on a motif I came up with when practicing one day, but was really stuck [...]
“The Jazz Score” 2/14/11 – African Piano: Randy Weston and Abdullah Ibrahim
In anticipation of the upcoming Portland Jazz Fest, at which Randy Weston will be performing, I featured him alongside Abdullah Ibrahim, both pianists whose music focuses on the African continent and traditions for the Jazz Score on Monday night. Here’s the playlist: – Berkshire Blues / Randy Weston (African Cookbook) – Hi-Fly / Jaki Byard [...]
“The Jazz Score” 1/7/11 – Portland Composers Again
Sorry for the delay, lots of fun recording activity this week (details coming soon) prevented me from posting my playlist from Monday’s episode of “The Jazz Score”. Since it is our winter membership drive at KMHD, I focused on many of the great composers we have right here in Portland. It was a fun one, [...]
“The Jazz Score” 1/31/11 – The Jazz Composers’ Collective
Last night on “The Jazz Score” I featured the music of the five organizing members of the Jazz Composers’ Collective, a nonprofit based in New York that existedc from 1992 until 2005. The composer/performers are Ben Allison, Ted Nash, Michael Blake, Ron Horton, and Frank Kimbrough. This is a fascinating organization, certainly not the first [...]