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Paul Rutherford (1940-2007) was one of the founders of free music. A pure soul, he played many of his last gigs with bassist Torsten Müller touring in Canada and the USA. Misterioso invited Torsten, a compatriot and close friend of Paul’s, to compose this Homage. Text © Torsten Müller, August 2007 It was . . . → Read More: Paul Rutherford: An Homage Gitanes Jazz Verve 529237-2 ©Laurence Svirchev Randy Weston is a master pianist-composer whose left hand surges with the rhythmic power of the Nile River. His right hand glistens the key-board with both Ellingtonian love calls and Monkish dissonances. Weston has based his work for many years on an intense study of African music, particularly the . . . → Read More: Randy Weston African Rhythms: Saga 
©Laurence Svirchev During the June 2007 TD Canada Trust Vancouver International Jazz Festival, I had a fascinating conversation with the Dutch composer-pianist, Misha Mengelberg. The call and response discussion, with Mengelberg of course calling the dominant chords, ranged through his personal history, how and why he formed the ICP (Instant Composers . . . → Read More: Not About Nothing: A Conversation with Misha Mengelberg ©Laurence Svirchev Romance, beauty, and love are qualities not commonly extolled in contemporary art. Randy Weston takes a different course, however, and visits these very virtues in Earth Birth. The compositions date from Weston’s 1950’s repertoire when his writing (and playing with trombonist Melba Liston) concentrated on waltzes, some of them for children. . . . → Read More: Randy Weston – Earth Birth ©Laurence Svirchev John Carter (1929-1991) was the musician who restored the clarinet to the lexicon of contemporary American creative music. He was also the composer who went deeper than any other in tracing the origins of American jazz from its ancestral roots. Carter’s advanced musicality was known to the forward-thinking musicians . . . → Read More: John Carter: The Unbelievable Possibilities of Music text & photos © Laurence Svirchev For 25 years the Vancouver international Jazz Festival has endowed the community and the international music scene with an unsurpassed level of creative music. A most complete expression of this legacy was the meeting between Alexander von Schlippenbach and Barry Guy. The talents of these two unique . . . → Read More: TD Canada Vancouver International Jazz Festival: Schlippenbach-Guy Concert Review 2010-06 A Review of Richard Cook’s Book © Laurence Svirchev In the century-old form of music known as jazz, no one musician has been more enigmatic than Miles Dewey Davis (1926-1991). The key to his misterioso aura is certainly not his creativity and invention alone. Many musicians of any musical genre have those qualities. . . . → Read More: It’s About That Time: Miles Davis On and Off Record Review: Charlie Mingus – Tijuana Moods Bluebird Re-Issue Series ©Laurence Svirchev The back cover of Tijuana Moods, recorded in 1957 but released in 1962, boldly proclaims Mingus saying, “This is the best record I ever made.” Each re-issue has retained the quote, but alternate arguments could be made that the words were . . . → Read More: Review: Charlie Mingus – Tijuana Moods Mosaic Select MS-014, 3 CDs ©Laurence Svirchev Dexter Gordon loved to make inventively sweet introductions to concert audiences. They were short ditties, sometimes in rhyme, designed to set the audience at ease about the song to come. Deep-voiced and articulating slowly, here is how he introduces It’s You or No One: “For me, It’s . . . → Read More: Dexter Gordon: Nights at the Keystone Profile of Ray Anderson ©Laurence Svirchev Some people seem to float above everyday life, as if riding a big puffy cloud. Trombonist Ray Anderson gives that impression when he hits the stage decked out with suspendered pleated pants, a multi-patterned shirt, and a hip lid. He is a tall, lean, man, obviously in charge . . . → Read More: Profile of Ray Anderson |
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