Posted in Jazz Notes on May 14th, 2008
Organissimo poster Bluerein reports that Mosaic Records will issue an Oscar Peterson Verve trio set later this year. The set will contain Peterson’s trio recordings made between 1951 and 1953 with Barney Kessel on guitar–no word yet on how many CDs it will contain. Other forthcoming sets this year…
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Posted in Jazz Notes on Apr 4th, 2008
Lots of Mosaic Records news lately–now it appears, according to a post at freejazz.org, that the long-talked-about Anthony Braxton 1970s set featuring his recordings for Arista and Freedom may be on its way to manifestation in the reality-based retail community…coming this…
Posted in Jazz Notes on Apr 3rd, 2008
*Several radio stations around the country are adding Night Lights to their weekly lineup. KMHD-Portland, Oregon will be carrying the program at 8 p.m. PDT on Monday evenings. Beginning May 10, KOSU-Oklahoma Public Radio will broadcast Night Lights on Saturday evenings at 11 p.m. CDT. And KMBH/KHID-McAllen and Brownsville, Texas will soon
Posted in Jazz Notes on Mar 16th, 2008
Some jazz news of note from the past week or so…
*Mosaic Records has put up information and a discography for their forthcoming Lester Young and Count Basie set. I was told last week that the Benny Goodman Columbia box is on track for an early-summer release.
*Ethan Iverson of The Bad Plus has posted his recent interview with bassist Charlie Haden, which originally appeared in this past January’s Downbeat.
*The widely-syndicated, Siskel-and-Ebert-style radio jazz program Listen Here! will cease distribution at the end of this month. Word is that NPR’s long-running…
Posted in Jazz Notes on Feb 26th, 2008
Mosaic Records, that fine purveyor of jazz box-set goods from the East (as in Stamford, Connecticut), has reportedly long been trying to put together some kind of collection featuring pianist Ahmad Jamal’s influential 1950s trio. (If you’ve never experienced the good fortune and pleasure of hearing Jamal’s trio work from the 1950s and 60s–widely noted for its elegant use of space and its influence upon trumpeter Miles Davis…
Posted in Jazz Notes on Feb 5th, 2008
In the conclusion of our four-part interview with saxophonist John Handy, he discusses why his quintet broke up, playing Bartok with classical pianist Leonid Hambro, a forthcoming Mosaic Records collection of previously-unreleased 1960s recordings, his experiences as a jazz educator, and his memories of Monterey and the mid-1960s rock scene. To hear some of Handy’s music from the 1960s, check out Handy On the Horn…
Posted in Jazz Notes on Jan 29th, 2008
A commonly-heard phrase in late 1950s/early 1960s jazz parlance was, “Will the big bands come back?” Woody Herman had a retort: “Sure, next football season.” But there’s fresh, less sarcastic evidence at hand that a few did, with Herman’s among them: a new Mosaic Select set of the bandleader’s early-1960s recordings for the Philips label…
Posted in Jazz Notes on Dec 31st, 2007
Take with the usual grain/caveat of subjectivity–that said, here are some titles from a year-for-the-ear in review…
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