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Miles Davis
Bitches Brew Live (Sony) by Phil Freeman Buy Bitches Brew Live from Amazon During the six years between Miles Davis‘s full-scale embrace of electric music in 1969 and his retirement in 1975, he...
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Joe Henderson
I saw Joe Henderson play in January 1997, at Town Hall in New York. The show was part of a package tour put together by Verve Records—his trio, which at that point featured George Mraz on bass and Al...
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Jeremy Pelt
Soul (HighNote) by Phil Freeman Buy it from Amazon Trumpeter Jeremy Pelt‘s fourth CD with his working band—tenor saxophonist JD Allen, pianist Danny Grissett, bassist Dwayne Burno, and drummer Gerald...
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Gregg August
Four by Six (Iacuessa) by Phil Freeman Bassist Gregg August has a sound on his instrument that’s simultaneously warm and almost intimidatingly strong, the sound of a well-toned muscle repeatedly...
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Miles Davis
Live In Europe 1969: The Bootleg Series Vol. 2 (Legacy) by Phil Freeman This second volume of Sony Legacy’s 3CD/1DVD sets of live Miles Davis material documents a band that never made it into the...
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Matthew Shipp
Matthew Shipp solo in Hungary, 2008: I’ve known Matthew Shipp for a decade, maybe a little longer. I first met him at the Vision Festival, an annual gathering of musicians, poets, dancers and painters...
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Jeremy Pelt
Trumpeter Jeremy Pelt is on a regular schedule at this point: Every January, he puts out an album, like clockwork, and for the last five years, each one has been very different from the one before. In...
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Javon Jackson
Saxophonist Javon Jackson has had one of those careers that’s impressive as hell when you look closely, though he’s remained almost entirely under the radar of everyone but hardcore jazz fans. He got...
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Herbie Hancock
In the mid ’70s, Herbie Hancock was making a significant career transition. He’d left Miles Davis‘s band in 1969, though he popped up again as one of the army of keyboardists on 1972’s On the Corner...
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George Coleman
Photo by Jesse Cahill Last week, I saw tenor saxophonist George Coleman perform at the Jazz Standard. He was accompanied by pianist Jeb Patton, bassist David Wong, and his son, George Coleman, Jr., on...
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Interview: Christian Scott
Christian Scott is one of a handful of musicians who can genuinely be said to be moving jazz forward. A New Orleans-born trumpeter (and nephew of saxophonist Donald Harrison), he’s made eight studio...
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McCoy Tyner In The ’70s: Part 1
by Phil Freeman Pianist McCoy Tyner is one of the most important musicians in modern jazz. He first popped up on some folks’ radar as a member of the Jazztet, a group co-led by flugelhornist Art Farmer...
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McCoy Tyner In The ’70s: Part 3
by Phil Freeman All this week, we’re looking at the 19 albums pianist McCoy Tyner recorded between 1970 and 1979. Here are Part 1 and Part 2. On August 31 and September 1, 1974, Tyner and his road...
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McCoy Tyner In The ’70s: Part 4
by Phil Freeman All this week, we’re reviewing every album pianist McCoy Tyner recorded between 1970 and 1979. (There were 19 of them.) Here’s Part 1 of our overview; here’s Part 2; and here’s Part 3....
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McCoy Tyner In The ’70s: Part 5
by Phil Freeman This is the final installment of our series looking at every album McCoy Tyner recorded between 1970 and 1979. In case you need to catch up, here’s Part 1; here’s Part 2; here’s Part 3;...
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BA Podcast 20: Buster Williams
Episode 20 of the Burning Ambulance podcast features an interview with bassist Buster Williams. Buster Williams is a jazz MVP like very few others. He got his start in the late Fifties; his first...
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BA Podcast 21: Jeremy Pelt
Support the Burning Ambulance podcast on Patreon: http://patreon.com/burningambulance Episode 21 of the Burning Ambulance podcast – we’re adults now! – features an interview with trumpeter Jeremy Pelt,...
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BA Podcast 26: Mark Turner & Ethan Iverson
Episode 26 of the Burning Ambulance podcast features a conversation with saxophonist Mark Turner and pianist Ethan Iverson; it’s also the one-year anniversary of the show. I want to thank every single...
View ArticleBarre Phillips
It seems almost impossible, but the idea of the solo double bass album only goes back fifty years. The album generally credited as being the first was Journal Violone by Barre Phillips, recorded on...
View ArticleJoe Henderson 1963-1981, Part 1
Back in March, we published a five-day journey through pianist McCoy Tyner‘s 1970s output, most of it on the Milestone label. That series proved interesting and popular enough that we’re following it...
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