John Zorn
The Cellar Door opens: Whatever legal problems there were with the Davis estate must have been resolved, because a widely distributed news release from Sony/Legacy records says that the release of the Miles Davis Cellar Door Sessions box set is back on again, and now set for December 27...In other Davis-related news, the DVD Miles in Paris, recorded in 1990 has been reissued, and writer John Kelman reviews it for All About Jazz: "As representative of where Miles was in the last four years of his life, Miles in Paris is an engaging, if not completely satisfying, watch."...
Guitarist Corey Christensen's song "Awakening" was downloaded from AAJ more than 700 times in a week....Saxophonist and St. Louis native Greg Osby has a prominent guest role on the new release by rock guitarist Jimmy Herring's fusion band Project Z: "Recorded live at Zac studios in Atlanta, Lincoln Memorial is audacious and strictly in-the-moment, full of virtuosic turns from all the participants."...The LA Times has a longish article about David Robertson, the new music director and conductor of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, that touches on Robertson's interest in jazz, the SLSO's efforts with regard to "crossover" programming and modern music, and more...Terry Riley's minimalist classic "In C," which is on the menu for the December concert of the SLSO's Pulitzer series, was recently performed at Cornell University by members of the Cornell Symphony Orchestra, and they've blogged their experiences here....
London's Times Online has a review of a concert featuring the World Saxophone Quartet, performing the music of Jimi Hendrix music with an expanded lineup, and McCoy Tyner. (via Armwood Jazz.). The WSQ will be in St. Louis at Jazz at the Bistro for four nights in February...Another recent Tyner performance in Scotland is reviewed here...Saxophonist and composer John Zorn, who long ago attended Webster University here in St. Louis, muses about the malleability of the repertoire he's created for his Jewish music project Masada (via Jazz HQ)...Smooth guitarist Steve Oliver, who's appearing at the Alton Belle Casino on Friday night, has a new album of holiday music called Snowfall...And finally, outsider music maven Irwin Chusid, who compiled a book about jazz illustrator Jim Flora, is interviewed about the project here.
(edited 11/25/05 to fix a sentence that made absolutely no sense)
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