The proliferation of free music education programs is one of the healthiest post-Katrina developments. One, the New Jazz School, starts its fourth year June 7 at Isidore Newman School. Donald Harrison, Jr. is the director, and Christian Scott, Jesse McBride, Detroit Brooks and David Pulphus are on the educational staff. The program teaches vocals, brass, [...]
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Aaron Parks, Invisible Cinema (Blue Note)
February 1, 2009 – 12:01 am
The crux of pianist Aaron Parks’ fifth album as a leader: time and tide. Time, in that even from the first notes of the “Travelers” leadoff cut, Parks puts meaningful lapses into a pattern suggesting sifting snowflakes. At medium tempos, brisk tempos, double-or-quadruple time keyboard runs, he effortlessly switches between staccato stand-alone tones and slurred [...]
Christian Scott, Live at Newport (Concord)
January 1, 2009 – 12:01 am
Neither raw talent nor highly polished technique is enough by itself to distinguish a jazz trumpeter roughly a century after the early masters defined the genre. Christian Scott has demonstrated both the aptitude and the work ethic to set himself apart since he was a teenager in uncle Donald Harrison’s band, but separating yourself from [...]
Jason Miles and DJ Logic, Global Noize (Shanachie)
May 1, 2008 – 12:01 am
World electronica jazz sounds like a natural to me, and world electronica jazz made by Jason Miles, DJ Logic, Karl Denson, MeShell NDegeocello, Herb Alpert, Billy Martin, Vernon Reid, John Popper, Bernie Worrell, Cyro Baptista and Christian Scott sounds like something that ought to kill. But, history has shown that there comes a tipping point [...]
