Year in Review
2019: The Year in Jazz
The year 2019 was robust in many ways. International Jazz Day brought its biggest stage to Australia. An important but long-shuttered jazz mecca was revived in a coast-to-coast move. ECM Records celebrated a golden year. The music and its makers figured prominently on the big screen. The National Endowment for the Arts welcomed four new NEA Jazz Masters. The jazz world said farewell to one other who was among the many industry-associated musicians and figures who passed away during the ...
read moreMost Read Articles: 2019
All About Jazz tracks how often an article is read, and the articles listed below represent our most popular in 2019. The number to the right of the date published represents the article's read count as of December 30th. Live Reviews Documenting Jazz 2019 by Ian Patterson Published: February 28, 2019 | 161,604 Interviews Dave Liebman: Archives and Improvisations -The Past and the Now of a Life ...
read moreMost Read Album Reviews: 2019
All About Jazz tracks how often an album review is read, and the reviews listed below represent our most popular in 2019. The number to the right of the date published represents the article's read count as of December 30th. In The Key Of The Universe Joey DeFrancesco by Chris Mosey Published: February 10, 2019 Epistrophy Bill Frisell | Thomas Morgan by John Kelman ...
read morePopular Tracks: 2019
All About Jazz tracks how often a featured song is heard, and the following represent the most popular in 2019. If you missed them the first time around, give them a listen now, and enjoy! After the Rain Teodross Avery After the Rain: A Night for Coltrane Tompkins Square Featured: September 23, 2019 Shifted Sal La Rocca Shifted Igloo ...
read moreIn Memoriam: Jazz Musicians Who Passed in 2019
In Memoriam: Jazz Musicians Who Passed in 2019 As 2019 comes to a close, we wanted to take a moment to remember the extraordinarily gifted musicians who made an indelible mark on jazz. With sadness, we bid farewell to Joao Gilberto, Doris Day, Andre Previn, Michel Legrand, Ginger Baker, Steve Dalachinsky, Jacques Loussier, Joseph Jarman, Vic Juris, and Jack Sheldon. Joseph Jarman Instrument: Saxophone Born: September 14, 1937 Died: January 9, 2019
read moreMike Jurkovic's Best Releases of 2019
It was this dozen plus of recordings, among many that deserve mention, that gratefully, again and again and again, pulled my attention away from binge watching the destruction of our cherished, yet all too vulnerable democracy. These are the recordings of 2019 that made it evident that we all need to remain vigilant and engaged, or else great art is one of the first things to fall. And once that falls, all the rest follows. Chick Corea ...
read moreJohn Kelman's Best Releases of 2019
Well, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome continues to be a challenge, as it has been since mid-2014. 2019 represents, in fact, the worst year when it comes to the actual number of articles written. Still, I've been finding an increasingly satisfying niche in the arena of in-depth, detailed and extensive/exhaustive (exhausting, for you as much as I!!) articles. So, while it appears that I've published fewer articles in 2019, when it comes to word count....well, I've not actually done the math but ...
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Portraits featuring Adalia... by Portraits Jazz Project
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