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Ilya Osachuk: The Answer
by Neil Duggan
Canadian bassist Ilya Osachuk is positive proof that the jazz education system in Canada and the US is in fine shape. Born in Winnipeg, Osachuk graduated from the University of Manitoba's Desautels Faculty of Music in 2021 with a Bachelor's Degree in Jazz Performance. He then moved to New York and gained a Master of Music degree in Jazz Studies from the Juilliard School in 2023. studying bass under Ben Wolfe and Gerald Cannon and composition and arranging under Andy ...
Continue ReadingEgberto Gismonti at FolkClub
by Antonio Baiano
A collection of photos from the Egberto Gismonti concert at FolkClub in Torino, Italy on November 9, 2024 featuring Brazilian guitarist Daniel Murray. ...
Continue ReadingJon De Lucia: The Brubeck Octet Project
by Jack Bowers
Having formed his jazz octet in 2016 for a project at City College of New York, where he was then teaching, Brooklyn-based alto saxophonist Jon De Lucia had to find new music to keep it going--a search that led him to the archives at Mills College, which housed many of Dave Brubeck's original handwritten charts among the papers of the octet's tenor saxophonist and arranger, Dave Van Kriedt. Eight years later, after extensive research, much hard work ...
Continue ReadingSpinifex, Angelica Sanchez / Camila Nebbia Duo, & Rob Mazurek
by Maurice Hogue
The unpredictable but always powerful Dutch sextet, Spinifex, is releasing its latest album in North America, Undrilling The Hole, so it will be interesting to see if the band gains some traction in North America. Hopefully it will; they're a no-prisoners-taken ensemble. Brooklyn's I-Beam was the venue for a most interesting and perhaps inevitable hook-up for pianist Angelica Sanchez and Argentinean saxophonist Camila Nebbia. A brilliant duet album was the result. Rob Mazurek's multi-dimensional world was on full display at ...
Continue ReadingA Few More of My Favorite 2024 Jazz Things - Part 2
by Ludovico Granvassu
We took a look back to the last few months of music, during which we have been setting aside some of our favorite songs, with the idea of then compiling them for one of our periodic “best of the year" set-lists. Here's part two of our fall favorites playlist. Playlist Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Fabrizio Bosso, Julian Oliver Mazzariello “Je so' pazzo" Il cielo è pieno di ...
Continue ReadingBelgrade Jazz Festival 2024
by Thomas Conrad
Belgrade Jazz Festival 2024 Dom Omladine Beograda, MTS Dvorana Belgrade, Serbia October 24-28, 2024 It is possible that, of all the major cities of Europe, the least understood in the Western world is Belgrade, Serbia. In the 1990's, when the wars in the former Yugoslavia were raging, Serbia was a major topic in the world news media. A NATO aerial bombing campaign in 1999 ended the conflict. Serbia was left with a severely damaged economy ...
Continue ReadingBen Kono Turned Family History into Chamber Jazz
by Lawrence Peryer
Ben Kono discovered his family's American origin story in the pages of his grandfather's memoirs. Thirteen-year-old Juhei Caleb Kono sailed alone from Japan in 1911, worked Pacific Northwest farms, and attended fourth grade as a young adult to build a new life. These translated accounts sparked Kono's new album Voyages (Self Produced), an ambitious blend of jazz quintet and string quartet that tells his family's story across four generations. “Reading his memoirs opened up this whole world," says ...
Continue ReadingJon Dalton: Carousel
by Glenn Astarita
Jon Dalton, a Los Angeles-based guitarist with roots in the UK and Native American descent, brings an intriguing musical background to Carousel. Having toured with hard rock and heavy metal bands among other genres, Dalton sharpened his jazz chops along the way, blending that grit with the fluidity of jazz. The result is a collection of strong, memorable compositions that weave contemporary jazz fusion with traces of pop-rock, making for an eclectic yet accessible sound. Dalton first made ...
Continue ReadingColin Vallon: Samares
by Mike Jurkovic
One does not so much come upon the astute athletics at play within the soundscapes of pianist Colin Vallon as much as get lured, baited, then intrigued by them. Vallon who, for whatever reason, has not been on the new release radar since the ancient precepts he brought to light on 2017's tranquilly vibrant Danse (ECM) and, before that and also on ECM, 2014's deftly defiant Le Vent and 2011's densely poetic Rruga. Taken together and disregarding time, ...
Continue ReadingMeet Vanisha Gould and Chris McCarthy
by Cheryl K.
In this hour, an interview from February with vocalist Vanisha Gould and pianist Chris McCarthy. Since this interview, Ms. Gould has released She's Not Shiny, She's Not Smooth on Cellar Music Group. Playlist Vanisha Gould and Chris McCarthy “No More" from Life's a Gig (Fresh Sound) 2:56 Vanisha Gould and Chris McCarthy “Cool" from Life's a Gig (Fresh Sound) 3:07 Vanisha Gould and Chris McCarthy “Fall in Love with Me in Fall" from Life's a Gig (Fresh Sound) ...
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