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Fusion: What's in a Name?
by Mike Brannon
This article was first published on All About Jazz in November 2000. When I was just starting out, playing guitar in bands as a kid, it was the Blues of Muddy Waters, Fred McDowell, Howlin' Wolf and then the Stones, Hendrix, Cream, Johnny Winter, Kinks, Clapton, The Who, Zepplin etc. A natural progression. When I was about 18 I heard a record with Joe Pass and Herb Ellis on it doing guitar duets and everything changed. ...
Continue ReadingPete Malinverni: An American in London
by Pierre Giroux
The exceptional pianist Pete Malinverni's An American in London was recorded live at Pizza Express Jazz Club, London, in November 2023. Joined by British musicians Dave Green on bass and Steve Brown on drums, Malinverni offers an appreciation of the cultural intersection of American jazz and those songs that pay tribute to London, a city that continues to fascinate him. The trio craft a narrative that swings from the bustling energy of Carnaby Street to the reflective serenity of London's ...
Continue ReadingZachary Bartholomew: Balancing Act
by Edward Blanco
Miami-based jazz pianist Dr. Zachary Bartholomew is an award-winning musician, composer and educator at Florida Memorial University with a breadth of musical performances with such luminaries as the late Kevin Mahogany, John Beasley, David Liebman, Brian Lynch, Dafnis Prieto and Dave Holland among others. What Bartholomew had not done until this album is produce a recording of his own as leader. Balancing Act is the pianist's debut album after six years in the planning, and what a recording it is. ...
Continue ReadingEnrico Granafei: It's Hard to Say Goodbye
by Nicholas F. Mondello
With It's Hard to Say Goodbye, multi-talented Italian guitarist and harmonica player, Enrico Granafei and a group of standouts offer eleven Latin-flavored jazz selections. The effort, recorded over an extended period, also features two artists who have unfortunately passed--trumpeter Claudio Roditi and pianist, Mike Longo. Granafei has dedicated the album to them and to the memory of Granafei's mentor, Toots Thielemans. “Claudinho," a Granafei original samba, opens the session. Upbeat in tempo, Granafei and Roditi make the ...
Continue ReadingMisha Tsiganov, Neil Swainson, Paul Yonemura, Catherine Russell and more
by Benjamin Boddie
Today's Music--Right Now!... Fantastic music by Misha Tsiganov, Neil Swainson, Paul Yonemura, Catherine Russell, Eric Person, Greg Johnson, Tracy Yang, Phillip Weberndoefer, Alvin Queen, Orrin Evans, Lakesia Benjamin, Addison Frei, Wayne Shorter, Tom Harrell, Warren Wolf, Caity Gyorgy, Aery Sharpe, Thom Rotella, Luther Allison, Michael Dease and more. PlaylistMisha Tsiganov “Chain Of Events" from Painter Of Dreams (Record Label) 00:00 Neil Swainson “Jerry's Blues" from Here For A While (Cellar Music Group) 08:19 Paul Yonemura “Bengal" from Survivors/Thrivers ...
Continue ReadingWarren Smith, Mamiko Watanabe, and Art Pepper
by Jerome Wilson
This program features orchestral work from Warren Smith, Hyeseon Hong, and Miho Hazama and small group music from Art Pepper, Mamiko Watanabe, and Dave Douglas. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 Stephen Philip Harvey Octet “Witch Hunt" from Live at Radio Artifact (Hidden Circle) 00:54 Art Pepper “Mambo Koyama" from The Best of Art Pepper (Contemporary) 9:20 Host Speaks ...
Continue ReadingMichael Mayo, Nicole Mitchell, Leslie Pintchik and More
by Hobart Taylor
New music from Michael Mayo, Nicole Mitchell with Ballake Sissoko, Leslie Pintchik and more.Playlist Alice Zawadzki “Za Górami" from Za Górami (ECM) 0:00 Ben Solomon “Echolocation “ from Echolocation (Giant Step Arts) 6:41 Kris Davis “Subtones" from Run the Gauntlet (Pyroclastic) 16:39 Host Speaks 21:43 Michael Dease “The Stray Moonduck" from Found In Space (Origin) 22:43 Hyeseon Hong “Dance With Dracula" from Things Will Pass (Pacific Coast Jazz) 29:10 Michael Mayo “Frenzy" from Fly (Mack Avenue) 36:30 Michael ...
Continue ReadingKosher Jammers: Jewish Connections In Jazz
by Chris May
Kosher Jammers: Jewish Connections In Jazz Volume 1: The USA Mike Gerber 406 pages ISBN: 979-8-224-74480-0 Vinyl Vanguard 2024 Jews have been so intimately, influentially and copiously involved in the story of jazz that every person's list of ten favourite musicians is almost certain to include one Jewish player, and probably more than one. Yet until 2010, when London-based writer Mike Gerber's Jazz Jews (Five Leaves Publications) was published, there was no book ...
Continue ReadingMicah Thomas: Mountains
by Mike Jurkovic
It can never not be exciting and enthralling to listen to a young artist come into his or her own as pianist/composer Micah Thomas does on the very live, very rollicking, very palpable Mountains. Thomas' fourth disc as captain of the ship chronicles four hot sets in June of 2023 commissioned by The Jazz Gallery Residency Fellowship at New York's Jazz Gallery. The pianist and company get right down to it as Thomas delves headlong into ...
Continue ReadingShabaka Hutchings: Musical Force of Nature
by Kristine England
Much of the creativity being showcased in the jazz world is happening in the UK, and at the center of that musical community is multi-instrumentalist Shabaka Hutchings. Born in London, he spent most of his childhood in his parents' native Barbados. The diversity of the people and cultures of those two locales helped shaped his musical identity. Picking up a clarinet at the age of nine, Hutchings would play along to his favorite hip-hop artists, including the Notorious ...
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