Red Holloway interview
At 81, tenor saxophonist Red Holloway, has played with a who’s who of jazz and blues legends – Roosevelt Sykes, Muddy Waters, Billie Holiday, Lionel Hampton, and too many others to mention in this brief space. From 1963 to 1966 he was in organist “Brother” Jack McDuff’s band. From 1977 to 1982, he worked with [...]
Jimmy Greene with Brad Turner this weekend
Brad Turner’s quintet appears at the Cellar for three nights this weekend (Friday to Sunday) featuring guest tenor saxophonist Jimmy Greene. Greene has, at thirty-two, emerged as a major voice in the New York jazz scene. In addition to his five critically acclaimed albums as leader on Criss Cross and RCA Victor, he appears on over [...]
Vancouver Vintage: Gillespiana
This second installment of Vancouver Vintage comes from the early 1960′s and it’s fantastic. I can’t give any more information than the CBC announcer, Doug Campbell, did, so I’ll just transcribe his introduction to the suite. The track I chose is the third movement, called Pan Americana. I should also note that the technical operations [...]
Harold Mabern interview
With the abundance of jazz going on in Vancouver this week as part of the jazz festival, it might be easy to overlook Harold Mabern, who appears at The Jazz Cellar this coming Friday and Saturday with the Mike DiRubbo Quartet. Born in Memphis in 1936, Mabern played in Chicago before moving to New York [...]
Ruby Freedman, Milarepa
In May of last year, during a break at the Cellar Jazz Club where his trio was playing that night, saxophonist Bruce Freedman played some music for me that he happened to have with him on his iPod – a recording of his seven-year-old daughter, Ruby, singing a Buddhist song which I later learned was [...]
