Jazz in Elsewhere

Submitted by Graham Reid on 2 July 2011 - 2:15pm

Selected jazz articles from Graham Reid's extensive site.

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Articles from Jazz in Elsewhere

Billy Hart: All Our Reasons (ECM/Ode)
7 May 2012 - Graham Reid - Jazz in Elsewhere
Previously Elsewhere has sympathised with those for whom jazz can be a bewildering array of names, and specifically when it comes to groups on the ECM label who seem little more than temporary coagulations of talent. So this ... Source: Billy Hart: All Our Reasons (ECM/Ode)
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Nathan Haines: The Poet's Embrace (Haven/Warners)
4 April 2012 - Graham Reid - Jazz in Elsewhere
At the launch of this classy album recently, the graphic designer Andrew B White -- who had done the cover for both this and Kevin Field's Field of Vision -- made an interesting aside. He noted that Haines' new album -- all acoustic -- sounded more like Field's previous one...
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PATTI AUSTIN INTERVIEWED (2012): Along came Jones . . . and Jacko
23 March 2012 - Graham Reid - Jazz in Elsewhere
Patti Austin laughs frequently, sounds a world removed from her diva-like peers, makes references to Snoop Dogg and Rod Stewart, and admits her career – now more than five decades long and which has taken her from the dance charts with producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis to Carnegie Hall – has ......
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KURT ELLING INTERVIEWED (2004): Moved by the spirit
1 March 2012 - Graham Reid - Jazz in Elsewhere
There's a strange notion of what passes for singing these days. Blame Whitney Houston if you will, but watch any Idol show and singing seems to have been replaced by a kind of vocal calisthenics where notes are bent and twisted, tossed around with little care where they land, and stretched so that...
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KEVIN FIELD PROFILED (2012): The vision thing . . .
20 February 2012 - Graham Reid - Jazz in Elsewhere
Auckland jazz keyboard player Kevin Field has had a couple of major turning points in his career. One came when, at age 18, he realised he didn't want to pursue his classical piano studies to their logical conclusion, the other was more dramatic. “Headlights coming towards me, that whole thing.”...
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Various artists: Bossa Jazz (Soul Jazz/Southbound)
16 February 2012 - Graham Reid - Jazz in Elsewhere
The highly regarded reissue label Soul Jazz -- see here for former treats -- again delves into Brazilian sounds of the late Sixties/early Seventies for a double disc which includes famous names like Airto Moreira, Flora Purim, Dom Um Romao, Source: Various artists: Bossa Jazz (Soul Jazz/Southbound)
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Jack DeJohnette: Sound Travels (Shock)
14 February 2012 - Graham Reid - Jazz in Elsewhere
The great jazz drummer -- who turns 70 this year -- shows no signs of either slowing down or repeating himself, and on the evidence of his performance of Miles Davis' tribute to Jack Johnson last year, his energy levels and creativity are also undiminished. This gentle album ... Source: Jack...
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COLIN HEMMINGSEN PROFILED (2012): With his heart in both camps
25 January 2012 - Graham Reid - Jazz in Elsewhere
In many countries what Colin Hemmingsen has done all his life would not be considerd so unusual, but in New Zealand he has been a rarity, a musician who has successful careers in both classical music and jazz. Hemmingsen was for many years the principal bassoonist in the New Zealand Symphony...
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Campbell, Rae, Dyne: Storm in a Teacup (Rattle Jazz)
18 January 2012 - Graham Reid - Jazz in Elsewhere
For an album which swing as much as it edges towards fluid bop, this outing by guitarist Al Campbell, drummer John Rae and bassist Paul Dyne, teases you into it with the opener, Rae's rhythmical stop-start Just Me Just Me, during which you are never quite sure where it is headed. Campbell's guitar...
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Olivier Holland: Duets (Ode)
15 December 2011 - Graham Reid - Jazz in Elsewhere
Perhaps because it is a challengingly naked form, there has not been a great tradition in New Zealand jazz for duet recordings. In fact the only one that immediately springs to mind is Open Door by Frank Gibson and Mike Nock, and ... Source: Olivier Holland: Duets (Ode)
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