Flea’s Jazz Jones
By Josef Woodard
Flea, the famed bassist of the Red Hot Chili Peppers joins small pantheon of certifiable rock stars who have ventured into jazz this spring with his first full solo album, Honora, a mostly instrumental and variously jazz-colored project showcasing work on his original instrument, the trumpet.
By Ted Panken
By Ammar Kalia, Peter Margasak, Dan Ouellette, Martin Longley
By Frank Alkyer
Midway through February, Janis Siegel hosted DownBeat for her first-ever Blindfold Test in the living room of her Greenwich Village apartment, filled with CDs, vinyl, scores and numerous photographs, memorabilia and bric-a-brac from various points along the timeline of her singular career, including her 15th leader album, an inspired 10-tune Cy Coleman tribute titled The Colors of My Life, sung in duo with pianist Yaron Gershovsky.
