For music to have a lasting impact, it must, to quote Walt Whitman, contain multitudes; it should look beyond time and place and never cease … Read More “Various Artists: Black Lives: From Generation to Generation (Jammin’colorS)”
With a minimal drum kit and a maximal groove, Leon Parker carved a niche for himself on the jazz scene of the mid- and late … Read More “Leon Parker: The LEO (Embodi Jazz Maker/Ropeadope)”
The world’s religions have long provided jazz musicians with melodies to explore, and while Judaism has never been as pervasive an influence as Christian gospel … Read More “Jacques Schwarz-Bart: Hazzan (Enja/Yellowbird)”
Eleven-day festival featured more than 800 concerts
Jacques Schwarz-Bart’s conflation of jazz with the voodoo music of Haiti is executed so seamlessly here that the background info he provides is somewhat superfluous, … Read More “Jacques Schwarz-Bart: Jazz Racine Haiti”
It isn’t essential-but it doesn’t hurt-to know that The Art of Dreaming is French tenor saxophonist Jacques Schwarz-Bart’s counterpart to Carlos Castaneda’s same-titled book. Part … Read More “Jacques Schwarz-Bart: The Art of Dreaming”
