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At Monterey, Cullum links Gene Kelly's "Singin' in the Rain" to Rihanna's "Umbrella," segues from Cole Porter to Jimi Hendrix, delivers a personal manifesto on a Charles Mingus riff, leaps off the piano into the air and never lets his audience down.
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A Love Supreme, by John Coltrane and his powerful quartet, remains a towering and seemingly untouchable jazz classic. But the virtuosic genre-benders in the Turtle Island Quartet have done it justice, re-working the seminal album for strings and winning a Grammy for their trouble. They perform a live version on this week's JazzSet.
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At the first University of Central Florida Jazz Festival, the sextet One for All gives UCF students a great demo of the three-horn-and-rhythm-section style made so popular by Art Blakey and His Jazz Messengers, who named their last CD One for All.
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The superb acoustic music of young Colombian harpist Edmar Castaneda weaves Cuban son, Brazilian samba, and Spanish flamenco into his lovely pan-American jazz. Castaneda and four-mallet vibesman Joe Locke perform at the Tanglewood Jazz Festival in the Berkshires on Aug. 29, 2008.
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We're al fresco for New Orleans' Marlon Jordan Quartet, at the annual Summer of Jazz series in scenic Glenwood Springs, Colo. The group improvises with a Miles-and-Trane vibe while dogs, kids, baseball-tossers and Frisbee-throwers groove to the music.
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