JazzProfiles

Focused Profiles on Jazz and its Creators while also Featuring the Work of Guest Writers and Critics on the Subject of Jazz.

Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Fancy Free (Live At The Lighthouse Café, CA/1972)

Dave Liebman, soprano sax, Steve Grossman, tenor sax, Gene Perla bass, and Elvin Jones drums. "As I wrote in the original liner notes f...

This Love Of Mine From "Dear John C" by Elvin Jones

By Dave Liebman I would venture to say that most jazz musicians of a certain generation would place Elvin Jones among their favorite all-tim...

Concerto for Drums featuring Louie Bellson

"Bellson's inaccurately titled Concerto for Drums, from a Verve album of the same name, is possibly one of the best all-round exten...

Tuesday, March 25, 2025

La Nevada - Gil Evans - "Ou of the Cool"

Producer Creed Taylor recalls the album's fifteen-minute-plus centerpiece: " La Nevada was not only original but was totally spont...

Sunday, March 23, 2025

Charlie Barnet Orchestra: Over the rainbow. (1949) - Tiny Kahn arrangement

This takes about 20 seconds for the music to kick in. Tiny was very advanced harmonically. His arrangement of Harold Arlen's "Over ...

Solo Jazz Piano at Maybeck Recital Hall: A Treasure Hunt Remembered

"In 1989, JoAnne Brackeen was about to do a solo performance at Maybeck Hall, a small and exquisite location in Berkeley, Cal...

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