Jazz Articles about Alan Blackman

About Alan Blackman

Album Review

Uptown Vocal Jazz Quartet: Fools For Yule

Read "Fools For Yule" reviewed by Richard J Salvucci

by Richard J Salvucci
November 28, 2021

Before you simply scroll past to say, “Oh boy, another Christmas recording," stop. This one is different, hip and fun. If you remember the classic done by Manhattan Transfer years ago, which you may have well memorized by now, you are ready for another one. “I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm," the set's opener, will not (thankfully) conjure up Les Brown. “Fool For Yule" is entertaining, wry, and, in its way, a bit, arch. With yet ...

Take Five With...

Take Five With Alan Blackman

by AAJ Staff
March 9, 2012

Meet Alan Blackman: Baltimore-based pianist and award-winning composer Alan Blackman and his ensembles have performed at Blues Alley, the Kennedy Center, and many festivals and venues from San Francisco to New York. Recent performances have been with Donny McCaslin, Vardan Ovsepian, Ferenc Nemeth, Mike Pope, Warren Wolf, Tim Green, Alex Norris, and Sunna Gunnlaugs, among others. He was selected to be part of the Betty Carter Jazz Ahead program at the Kennedy Center and has received grants from ...