Live-Lee," an album of live duo performances by alto saxophonist LEE
KONITZ and pianist ALAN BROADBENT, will be released by Milestone 6/3.
Produced by Orrin Keepnews, the CD was recorded in October 2000 at L.A.'s
Jazz Bakery.
http://www.fantasyjazz.com/catalog/k..._cat.html#9329
"It was quickly apparent to both [musicians]," writes Keepnews in his
booklet notes, "that their natural affinity extends beyond even their
mutual affection for the unique creativity of their shared mentor, [Lennie]
Tristano. I know that I thoroughly enjoyed their ability to merge at one
moment, to move off on individual paths the next, and perhaps immediately
thereafter for one to carry the other into a two-way conversation. It would
certainly be hard to guess that the week that culminated in these
recordings was their first playing time together."
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Also due out 6/3: "The J.J. JOHNSON Memorial Album," a generous sampling of
the trombone giant's work as a leader for Prestige, Milestone, and Pablo
and as a sideman with Coleman Hawkins, Benny Golson, Count Basie, Joe Pass,
and others. . .
http://www.fantasyjazz.com/catalog/j...at.html#110025
. . . and "Burning Spirits," a reissue of the 1970 Contemporary session by
alto and tenor saxophonist SONNY SIMMONS, featuring Barbara Donald
(trumpet), Michael White (violin), and bassists Richard Davis and Cecil
McBee.
http://www.fantasyjazz.com/catalog/simmons_s_cat.html
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Alto saxist JIM SNIDERO is in the midst of a ten-day Japanese tour with the
Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra. Upon the conclusion of the big band dates,
he'll embark on a week of work with his own quintet.
Snidero's Milestone CD "Strings," released in March, is "a masterful blend
of composition, arranging, orchestration, and improvising," writes Zan
Stewart in Jazziz (4/03). ". . . Maybe, after years of outstanding work,
he'll receive the widespread recognition he's long deserved."
http://www.fantasyjazz.com/html/snidero9326_sp.html
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The 50th anniversary of "Jazz at Massey Hall"--also known as the "Greatest
Jazz Concert Ever"--was marked last Thursday (5/15) with a concert at
Toronto's Massey Hall headlined by Herbie Hancock, Roy Hargrove, Kenny
Garrett, Dave Holland, and Roy Haynes.
The 1953 concert--with Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Charles
Mingus, and Max Roach--was originally released by Debut Records (then owned
by Mingus and Roach) and is currently available as an Original Jazz Classic
CD.
http://www.fantasyjazz.com/catalog/parker_c_cat.html
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Former Stax Records advertising executive LARRY SHAW, who helped design the
label's finger-snapping logo as well as many of its best-known album
covers, died of a heart attack in Memphis last week (5/11) at age 65. Ten
days earlier, at the Orpheum Theater in Memphis, Shaw had introduced the
screening of "Wattstax," the 1973 documentary he co-produced. The Orpheum
screening was the culmination of a week of concerts and other activities
celebrating the grand opening of the Stax Museum of American Soul Music.
"Wattstax" director Mel Stuart, interviewed in "International Documentary"
magazine (5/03), called Shaw "the philosophical soul of this film."
Special screenings are scheduled for 5/21, presented by the San Francisco
Black Film Festival (West Coast premiere)
http://www.sfbff.org; 5/23, at
the Seattle Film Festival
http://www.seattlefilm.org/siff/film...sp?filmid=233; 6/4, an
American Film Institute screening at the Arclight Theater in L.A. (with Mel
Stuart and Ted Lange in attendance); and 6/7, at the Atlanta Film Festival.
http://www.imagefv.org/aff2003/scree...oncinema.htm#4
On June 6, Columbia Repertory will open the film nationally in eight major
markets (including New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco), with rolling
distribution to occur throughout the summer in smaller regional U.S.
markets.
http://www.wattstax.com
http://www.fantasyjazz.com/html/anniversary_stax.html
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