Results for "AAJ Staff"

The Jazz Session #297: Kyoko Kitamura and Jen Baker

August 2, 2011

John Daversa: Junk Wagon

August 2, 2011

You know how I'm always carping that jazz doesn't push hard enough to get to the next level? And you know how you email me to ask what exactly I have in mind to illustrate my point? Two words: John Daversa. His first studio CD, Junk Wagon: The Big Band Album is positively fascinating. Unlike many ...

John Martyn Tribute Album: David Gray, Beck, Phil Collins

August 2, 2011

THE CURE'S ROBERT SMITH, VETIVER, SNOW PATROL, BETH ORTON, MORCHEEBA, AND MORE ALSO FEATURED In the late '60s, the late British guitarist and songwriter John Martyn broke ground by leaping from acoustic folk into highly successful experiments with tape delay, wild recording scenarios, and jazz-inspired arrangements. He became a cult figure among British musicians. A list ...

The End of the Jazz Masters

August 2, 2011

For thirty years, the National Endowment for the Arts has honored jazz musicians with the highest award for the genre, the NEA Jazz Masters Award. The recipients of the 2012 NEA Jazz Masters Award (including Jack DeJohnette, Von" Freeman, Sr., Charlie Haden, Sheila Jordan, and Jimmy Owens), will apparently be the last group to earn the ...

Creating Your Own Offline Music Distribution Network

August 2, 2011

Recent news of the development of a CD distribution network via 7-Eleven by Mall Jamz and Thump Records reminded me of one of my favorite topics, creating distribution platforms that use networks of retail and other commercial outlets that do not typically sell music. This concept has mostly been explored on a local level with diverse ...

Ian Rogers Interviews Andy Gould, Manager of Rob Zombie, Guns 'N Roses and Morrissey [video]

August 2, 2011

Nick Hempton - The Business (Posi-Tone, 2011)

August 2, 2011

Nick Hempton is a straight-up mainstream saxophonist and leader who plays in a very confident manner and has a very appealing musical tone. On this album, he is joined by Art Hirahara on piano, Marco Panascia on bass, and Dan Aran on drums. Yotam Silberstein sits in on guitar for a few tracks. The group plays ...

Fred Ho and the Green Monster Big Band: "Year of the Tiger" a Reason to Celebrate

August 2, 2011

Fred Ho's Green Monster Big Band is something else, no doubt about it. Take some of the hottest players around (Bobby Zankel, Salim Washington, Stanton Davis, Taylor Ho Bynum, Mary Halvorson, and on from there), put together wacky but convincing big band charts covering everything from “The Johnny Quest Theme," Michael Jackson, Hendrix, interesting original charts, ...

STLJN Audio Archive: Miles Davis' Lost Quintet

August 1, 2011

This week's StLJN Audio Archive material comes once again courtesy of the music sharing blog Nothing Is v2.0, and features Miles Davis' so-called “Lost Quintet" recorded live in 1969 in Paris. Although this lineup of Davis' band never recorded as a five-piece—hence, the notion of their music being “lost"—it's basically the nucleus of the group that ...

Fred Seibert on the MTV Logo

August 1, 2011

MTV turned music inside out on this date 30 years ago. On August 1, 1981, the 24-hour music channel not only added a powerful visual component to rock but also helped usher in a third pop British Invasion that influenced virtually all forms of music and music videos in the 1980s. By extension, MTV created a ...