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Ten gift ideas for jazz bookworms
Here’s the best rundown I can offer of 10 jazz-focused books that I’ve received over the last few months. Apologies for not having written full reviews of these tomes over the last while. With luck...
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Hooray for Herbie (but the jazz industry's a drag)
I don’t remember the last time that I watched more than 10 seconds of The Tonight Show, but tonight I’ll make an exception — Herbie Hancock will be the musical guest. He’ll be performing with singer...
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Brushes with greatness (Herbie, Brad, Wynton)
The news from my colleague Doug Fischer in today’s Citizen — that Herbie Hancock (left), Brad Mehldau (below) and Wynton Marsalis (below Mehldau) and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra will play in...
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Herbie on the horizon
With exactly one month until Herbie Hancock plays in Confederation Park, I’ve begun fantasizing about what the music might sound like. Hmmmm… maybe a bit like this? The footage you’ll see if you click...
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Herbie Hancock and "larger gestures"
Last year, a CBC interviewer put a pretty good question to Herbie Hancock. Q: You’ve played in small clubs, in outdoor festivals… as well as in concert halls. How does your playing differ from venue...
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Renee Rosnes on Herbie Hancock
It’s funny the things one finds on one’s hard drive. Searching for the transcription I’d done of my recent chat with Renee Rosnes, I also found the Q&A below, which came about back in 2002, when I...
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Who hasn't Herbie played with?
Yesterday’s riff on Herbie Hancock collaborating with Leonard Cohen got me thinking, “Who hasn’t Herbie played with?” His associations, of course, with Miles Davis in the 1960s are legendary. His...
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All Herbie Hancock, all the time (A mammoth compilation and the great...
Attention Canadian iTunes users: In case you didn’t know, there’s a mammoth sell-off of Herbie Hancock’s middle-period music here. (Thanks to Vancouver saxophonist Steve Kaldestad for letting me and...
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RIP, Clark Terry
Clark Terry, the legendary trumpeter who played with everyone from Count Basie and Duke Ellington to Thelonious Monk to Oscar Peterson to McCoy Tyner to Cecil Taylor to Elvin Jones to Quincy Jones to...
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