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Elio Villafranca: Cinque
by Maurizio Zerbo
Questo doppio CD è dedicato alla memoria di Joseph Cinque, che nel 1839 capeggiò la rivolta degli schiavi africani imbarcati sulla nave Amistad con destinazione Cuba e le sue piantagioni di zucchero. È un progetto ambizioso sulla diaspora africana in cui la narrazione vocale delle vicende storiche ben si combina ad un sontuoso apparato musicale, articolato in una suite di cinque movimenti. A fare da trait d'union, l'ancestrale retroterra ritmico della regione congolese, su cui vengono di volta in volta ...
Continue ReadingWynton Marsalis and Confederate Monuments: How a Jazz Musician Started a Political Movement
by Dustin Mallory
In the wake of the events that took place in Charlottesville, VA on August 11-12, the nation has been gripped by horrific violence and tragedy. Our screens have been filled with images of white nationalists, neo-Nazis, and the counter-protestors who clashed with them. The Unite the Right rally may have ended in chaos, but it began as a protest to oppose the removal of the Robert E. Lee statue. This removal was not the first, but part of a series ...
Continue ReadingCloudland Re-Revisited: Think of One
by Jeff Fitzgerald, Genius
In the nearly sixteen years I've been at my post as resident Genius here at AAJ, the question has often come up as to how I came to be the Dean of American Jazz Humorists®. As most of you know, I was born in Kentucky to West Virginia hillbillies and raised in the Blue Ridge mountains of Virginia. Clifton Forge, my hometown, was not known as a hotbed for Our Music; nor was the nearest “city" of Roanoke, where the ...
Continue ReadingStefano Zenni: Che razza di musica
by Alberto Bazzurro
Che razza di musica. Jazz, blues, soul e le trappole del colore di Stefano Zenni EDT. Pagine 183 Euro 11,50. Il jazz è musica di incontro e contaminazione continua, fisiologica e addirittura irrinunciabile: questo è l'assunto da cui partire nell'approssimarsi a quest'ultima fatica di Stefano Zenni, il cui titolo e relativo sottotitolo ammettiamo che ci avevano per un attimo fuorviati: quel che razza di musica ci era parso un modo per affermare l'eccentricità della ...
Continue ReadingJazz Quanta June: The Sacred Orchestral: Duke Ellington and Wynton Marsalis
by C. Michael Bailey
Music and the Christian Tradition are as intimately involved as making love. Since the beginning of an organized Christendom, music has been a part of the liturgy and celebration of what was to become the “Good News." Regardless of one's spiritual inclinations, this religious music looms large on the cultural horizon and cannot be ignored. While so-called “classical" music has provided many religious musical expressions, there have also been several notable jazz contributions to the form not the least of ...
Continue ReadingWynton Marsalis Quintet at The Palace Theater
by Karl Ackermann
Wynton Marsalis Quintet The Palace Theater Stamford, CT April 30, 2016 There are expectations baked into a live performance from the caliber of a Wynton Marsalis. An artist who has won a Pulitzer Prize for Music, nine GRAMMY awards, serves as the Director of Jazz studies at Juilliard and is actively involved in a number of humanitarian activities, Marsalis is as much a brand name as any musician in modern history. And so, maintaining spontaneity ...
Continue ReadingJazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra: Big Band Holidays
by Jack Bowers
The holiday season has its ups and downs on Big Band Holidays, recorded live over two Decembers (2013-14) by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, which is without a doubt one of the finest big bands money can buy. Even though the most recent number on the album ("Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas") was recorded almost a year ago, several clues indicate that the album was more or less rushed to market in time for this year's festivities. For ...
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