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Winter Jazzfest Review
by R. Emmet Sweeney The seventh annual Winter Jazzfest blew through New York’s West Village last weekend, leaving listeners bulldozed in its wake, stunned by the tunes and the crushing crowds....
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Live Review: Darius Jones Trio
University of the Streets, New York, NY January 29, 2011 Buy Man’ish Boy from Amazon Alto saxophonist Darius Jones (subject of a cover story in Burning Ambulance #2; buy here) was at the University of...
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Touchin’ On Trane: 20 Years Later
by Phil Freeman Buy it from Amazon On October 31 and November 1, 1991, saxophonist Charles Gayle, bassist William Parker, and drummer Rashied Ali occupied a Berlin recording studio. Jost Gebers, head...
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Charles Gayle
Charles Gayle has a new album coming out next month—his first studio recording in five years, and the first album to feature his tenor saxophone playing in quite a few more years than that; he’s been...
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Doug Webb, Ehud Asherie
Ehud Asherie Upper West Side (Posi-Tone) Buy from Amazon MP3 store Doug Webb Swing Shift (Posi-Tone) Buy from Amazon MP3 store (includes three bonus tracks) Israeli-born pianist Ehud Asherie‘s latest...
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A List Of 50 Jazz Albums
by Phil Freeman Apparently April 30 is International Jazz Day. So as a way of subverting the canon-building exercises that are sure to go on across the jazz internet today, I’ve come up with a list of...
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The Thing
Neneh Cherry & The Thing The Cherry Thing (Smalltown Supersound CD) Buy it from Amazon The Thing & Barry Guy Metal! (NoBusiness 2LP) Buy it from the label by Phil Freeman The Norwegian/Swedish...
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The 50 Greatest Saxophonists…EVER!!! 30-21
Our week-long countdown reaches its midpoint, as we offer you #s 30-21 of the 50 Greatest Saxophonists Ever. And don’t miss a bonus list at the end – Darius Jones‘ five favorite saxophonists! Shall we...
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Charles Gayle
Look Up (ESP-Disk) by Phil Freeman Buy it from Amazon I interviewed Charles Gayle once. It was nearly a dozen years ago, in the front room of his tiny Lower East Side apartment. We sat across from each...
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The Under_Line
Last Tuesday, December 4, Arts for Art (the organization that puts on the Vision Festival every year) staged a benefit at the Angel Orensanz Center to raise funds for a new Lower East Side performance...
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Jazz For Hippies: The Charles Lloyd Quartet In 1968
Between 1998 and 2003, I interviewed the late saxophonist David S. Ware several times. He had made his debut on Columbia in 1998 with Go See The World, and I visited him and his group in the studio...
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Winter Jazzfest Review
The seventh annual Winter Jazzfest blew through New York’s West Village last weekend, leaving listeners bulldozed in its wake, stunned by the tunes and the crushing crowds. Presented in conjunction...
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William Parker
Bassist/composer William Parker has a new three-CD box, For Those Who Are, Still, out next week on AUM Fidelity. (Buy it straight from the label for $30, or $50 for a copy signed by Parker.) It...
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Mette Henriette
Norwegian saxophonist and composer Mette Henriette Martedatter Rølvåg‘s debut album as a leader is a self-titled two-CD set, Mette Henriette, on ECM. (Get it from Amazon.) She’s also a member of the...
View ArticleA Pollock Of Sound
by Phil Freeman I’ve known the members of Borbetomagus for over 20 years. I first heard their music in 1988 or 1989. I read about them in Byron Coley‘s “Underground” column in Spin magazine, and bought...
View ArticleKeith Jarrett In The 70s
by Phil Freeman Considering the size of his discography and his prominence in the world of jazz, I haven’t really spent very much time at all listening to Keith Jarrett. I reviewed one of his solo...
View ArticleFree Jazz In Japan
L-R: Akira Sakata, Masahiko Satoh, Masahiko Togashi This post was made available to Patreon supporters one week ago. To see upcoming stories in advance of publication, become a supporter today! The...
View ArticleFred Anderson
This post was made available to Patreon supporters one week ago. To see upcoming stories in advance of publication, become a supporter today! I met Fred Anderson once. I was in Chicago to profile the...
View ArticleBA Podcast 52: James Brandon Lewis
Support Burning Ambulance on Patreon Get the Burning Ambulance email newsletter The 52nd episode of the Burning Ambulance podcast features an interview with saxophonist James Brandon Lewis, and is...
View ArticleO’Neal’s Porch @ 20
Bassist William Parker had already been a key figure on the New York jazz scene for close to 30 years in 2001. His first record date was in March 1973, on saxophonist Frank Lowe‘s Black Beings. (An...
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