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New York's Hottest New Club Has Arrived
by Mark Robbins
Martin Porter's life has revolved around jazz from an early age. Growing up playing jazz piano and listening to the greats, he eventually found himself living out a dream--working at the Jazz Standard, one of the city's premier jazz clubs. The closing of the Standard left a void in New York's jazz community--one that Martin Porter was determined to help fill. Along with his partner, he did just that with the opening of their new club, The Pocket. During the Newport ...
Continue ReadingPascal Niggenkemper: D'une rive à l'autre
by Don Ball
Tuvalu is a tiny Western Pacific island nation with a rich cultural life, but it may not be around much longer. From the consequences of climate change, scientists expect that Turvalu will be uninhabitable in a few decades, taken back by the rising ocean. And that's why bassist/composer Pascal Niggenkemper wants you to know about it before it disappears altogether. Niggenkemper put together Ensemble Tuvalu to express artistically how we deal with the loss of habitats and cultures ...
Continue ReadingChampian Fulton with the Jimmy Masters' Trio at the Sandler Center for the Arts
by Mark Robbins
Our interview with Champian Fulton introduced readers to the pianist and vocalist in her own words. These photographs offer a visual counterpart to that conversation, capturing Fulton at work and in moments between performances. ...
Continue ReadingPeter Parcek: Most Of The Time
by Doug Collette
The contemporary blues community is densely populated with posers long on affectation and short on authenticity. Not so Peter Parcek for whom the blues carries truths that resonate in such a deep and abiding way that his own musical articulations, plus those of kindred spirits within and without the genre, become expressions straight from the heart and the soul. In fact, as demonstrated on Most Of The Time, this native of Connecticut--who moved to England in the Sixties ...
Continue ReadingGabriele Di Franco: The Value Of Choices
by Ieva Pakalniškytė
Large-ensemble jazz is often called cinematic simply because it has plenty of colour and volume. On The Value Of Choices (Challenge Records, 2026), the word fits for a better reason. Here, the music keeps changing depending on where the listener stands. Across eight compositions, Italian-born, Brussels-based composer, guitarist and conductor Gabriele di Franco keeps every section in play for long. Brass and reeds may fill the foreground. In the next phrase, the ear settles on a voice, a piano figure ...
Continue ReadingTheron Brown Quartet Featuring Cliff Barnes
by Daniel Peck
A glimpse of gospel, jazz, and soul from the great legends is what inspires the sound of pianist Theron Brown's music. You will get more than just a glimpse of this, however, on this episode of the program. Because not only do we get Theron showing off his talents on the piano and Fender Rhodes, but Northeast Ohio Legend Cliff Barnes joins Theron on the Hammond B3. Add in Akron based trumpeter Tommy Lehman and James Johnson III on Drums, ...
Continue ReadingSonia Spinello Quartet at Jazz in Ruins 2026
by Marek J. Śmietański
A collection of photos from the Sonia Spinello Quartet concert at the GZUT Model Hall in Gliwice on July 31, 2026 featuring Sonia Spinello, Sonia Candellone, Piotr Schmidt and Tomasz Drozdek. Look for more photo reports from the Jazz In The Ruins 2026 soon... ...
Continue ReadingChapter 1: Whatever Happened to Arthur Arshawsky?
by Larry Slater
Artie Shaw was an enigma. A self-taught, brilliant clarinetist blessed with movie-star good looks, he became one of the defining musicians of the Big Band era. Yet at the height of his fame, he walked away from the music business, leaving behind a legacy as fascinating as it was influential. In the early 1990s, Ted Hallock--a passionate jazz scholar and former Oregon State Senator--spent a week with Shaw recording an extraordinary series of in-depth conversations about music, life ...
Continue ReadingThirty Years Later, the Vision Remains
by Michael Ricci
When people ask me how All About Jazz began, they often assume it started with a website. It didn't. The idea predates AAJ by two years. Before All About Jazz launched in August 1995, I was fascinated by the possibilities of organizing album information in ways that made it more useful, more connected and more enjoyable to explore. At the time, I was working on a CD-ROM project devoted to jazz discographies, inspired in ...
Continue ReadingEast of West: Velella
by Keith Flint
Blurring boundaries, dissolving distance, and creating coherence, Velella, the 4th studio album by the Brisbane, Australia trio East of West exhibits the group's distinctive style. The trio is led by Bosnian-born composer Goran Gajić (double bass), with Philip Griffin on oud and laouto, and Malindi Morris on percussion. Collectively, these musicians produce a compelling blend of Balkan-influenced rhythms and melodic motifs. Both the album and its title track derive their name from the species Velella velella (by-the-wind sailor), a ...
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