Archives for the 'Jazz' Category
Wanted: Jazz Audience
Wanted:
Jazz Audience for evenings and weekends. Must be willing to listen and offer applause. No experience necessary, will train the right people.
About us:
The Vancouver Jazz Audience is a small group of people who have been exposed to America’s only art form and have found that they enjoy it. Performance of this art is exacting, difficult […]
A Vancouver Jazz Festival Odyssey
I have been in Vancouver, Canada, taking in as much of the Jazz festival as I can. I tried to hit groups based upon repertoire and instruments (gotta have a trumpet!).You gotta make cuts, this festival is BIG and its literally impossible to take in the whole thing.
I concentrated on the smaller acts and, of […]
Side by Side
This album features a small group setting with players who are mostly from the Ellington band. It follows another album, which is on my list, called Back to Back.
The tracks feature a mixture of musicians with Johnney Hodges (alto sax) and Jo Jones (drums) being the only two that are on all of the tracks.
The […]
The Theme of My Civilization
Is music a reflection of the culture from which it is born? If so then the form of popular music should indicate something about the society. I don’t pretend to know enough about either music or anthropology to do this topic justice, however, I can toss it out there for my own gratification. Besides how […]
Search For The New Land
Search for the New Land was recorded at the same time at The Sidewinder, Morgan’s wildly successful album that solidified his hard bop / latin influenced style. The Search for the New Land was held back and not released for a year after The Sidewinder. It represents a possible alternate future for Morgan’s work and […]