Yes indeed, in addition to it’s abundant charms, the capital of Catalonia, Barcelona, situated on the northeastern coast of Spain’s Iberian Peninsula, also boasts an auspicious jazz festival. At a luncheon as part of last January’s Association of Performing Arts Presenters’ jazz component, I had the pleasure of meeting the director of the Barcelona Jazz Festival, [...]
Photo: Oumar Fall Last Tuesday, April 6, NEA Jazz Master Randy Weston celebrated his 84th birthday in royal fashion. The setting was The Jazz Standard, New York’s finest jazz club/eatery (check George Wein’s latest blog entry and you’ll understand that tag). Tuesday was opening night of Randy Weston’s African Rhythms weeklong Jazz Standard engagement, and [...]
ARTIST TUNE ALBUM TITLE LABEL Randy Weston Berkshire Blues Earth Birth Verve Jon Hendricks Love (Berkshire Blues) Love Muse Randy Weston Afro Black Monterey ’66 Verve Langston Hughes The Negro Speaks of Rivers Our Souls Rhino Langston Hughes I, Too (ditto) Robert Hayden Those Winter Sundays (ditto) Jann Parker African Lady Voicings JP Randy Weston [...]
Like most who’ve heard the young Aussie bassist Linda Oh, my starting point was hearing her fresh debut recording "Entry". Besides the fact that she just kind of materialized on the scene untethered to advance hype, the record was first of all curious because Ms. Oh took the hang-fly route and played her music with a lean [...]
The Ancient Future radio program, produced/hosted by Willard Jenkins, airs on WPFW 89.3 FM, Pacifica Radio for the Washington, DC metro area. (Listed in ARTIST TUNE ALBUM TITLE LABEL order) Thelonious Monk w/Jon Hendricks In Walked Bud Underground Columbia Art Blakey w/Jon Hendricks Along Came Betty Mission Eternal Prestige Wynton Marsalis w/Jon Hendricks Soul For [...]