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Newport Jazz Festival
Aug 4, 2012 — The great drummer turns 70 in the week following this concert, but he's certainly not going quietly into retirement age. With his plugged-in working band, he fuels the adventurous spirit we first saw when he came to Newport with Miles Davis in 1969.
Aug 8, 2012 — A long-running piano trio sui generis meets one of its heroes, a guitarist seemingly down for anything involving good musicians. Here at Newport, the group pays tribute to one of its colleagues, the late drummer and composer Paul Motian.
Aug 7, 2012 — A classic male singer, Elling has an old-school vibe to everything from his mannered stage banter to his declamatory, full-chested delivery. He can do a lot with his voice, and he does it in front of a band featuring long-time collaborator Laurence Hobgood.
Aug 5, 2012 — What if there were lost big-band masterpieces by the great composer/arranger Gil Evans which never made it to record? One man has found a whole stash of charts, and, backed by a gigantic ensemble, has brought their rich hues to light.
Aug 4, 2012 — Ken Peplowski, Evan Christopher and Anat Cohen are three of the today's top practitioners of the licorice stick. Backed by a band proficient in time-honored and broad-shouldered styles of the Swing Era, this reedy convocation generates plenty of fireworks.
Aug 5, 2012 — The two long-time bandmates have both developed reputations for flexibility — for being able to collaborate with anyone. Their violin-and-guitar duo performance finds them alone together on stage, thinking on their feet.
Aug 5, 2012 — The alto saxophonist teamed up with pianist Laurent Coq to write music based on the high-modernist Julio Cortázar novel Hopscotch — or Rayuela, in the original Spanish. With an unusual band, they let their literary and musical imaginations run wild.
Aug 5, 2012 — Some years ago, the alto saxophonist made an album which integrated his love of South Asian music and funk and hip-hop and electronic music and kitchen sinks. He's finally getting to tour that music now, and it's electric — literally and otherwise.
Aug 4, 2012 — He's a soft-spoken guy who does a lot of talking with his guitar. Appropriately, he's recently issued an album called All We Are Saying, an collection of John Lennon songs. With steel guitar and violin, he doesn't hide his love away for these classic songs.
Aug 5, 2012 — A powerhouse behind the drum kit, Hollenbeck is also becoming one of the great composer-bandleaders of the age. His small group welcomes vocalists Kurt Elling and Theo Bleckmann to help perform music based on the poems of Kenneth Patchen.
