Results for "AAJ Staff"

Oscar Peterson Trio - "A Gal in Calico" (1958)

January 19, 2011

Sonny Rollins on His Favorite Soundtracks

January 19, 2011

New York magazine's Vulture site has an ongoing feature called Vulture Recommends in which artists of different stripes (actors, comedians, directors, writers, musicians) discuss their top five works in given categories. In the past, I've done Vulture Recommends with Vijay Iyer, The Bad Plus, Neil LaBute, and Joe Lovano. Last week, I interviewed the great Sonny ...

Noah Preminger - Before the Rain (2011)

January 19, 2011

By Pico In 2008, then-21 year old tenor saxophonist Noah Preminger issued his debut CD Dry Bridge Road, one that made much of an impression. Fresh out of the New England Conservatory, Dry Bridge Road racked up recognition from publications like Jazztimes, Jazz Review and the Village Voice, where it won the Jazz Critics' Poll Best ...

Dexter Gordon - Our Man in Paris (Blue Note, 1963)

January 19, 2011

When I bought this disc many years ago, the music manager of the now defunct Borders in Colonie, NY told me a story that for this record date Gordon had brought a number of complicated originals to the studio. Pianist Bud Powell was having none of it however, and in the end the album focused on ...

Fuzzy Music Release New Recording Titled "Standards 2 - Movie Music" with Peter Erskine, Bob Mintzer, Darek Oles, and Alan Pasqua

January 18, 2011

Music is often spoken of as forming the soundtrack of our lives. Movie score music compounds the effect, marrying melody with image, the exponential power of 24 frames per second combined with soaring tunes and magical counterpoint to provide all of us who love the movies a powerful emotional and cultural reference point, time and again. ...

The Jazz Session #232: Gerald Cleaver

January 18, 2011

Gerald Cleavers new album, Be It As I See It (Fresh Sound New Talent, 2011) is a musical exploration of the Great Migration and its relation to his own familys history. In this interview, Cleaver discusses the music and historical mission behind the formation of his band Uncle June; his use of spoken word and sound ...

Jazz, Rage and the Rampage

January 18, 2011

Here's a shocker: Alleged Arizona gunman Jared Loughner  played saxophone in two jazz bands while in high school and dug Charlie Parker and John Coltrane. According to yesterday's New York Times, Loughner, 22, was so passionate about jazz and dedicated to practicing that a career in music was once considered. These details come as something of ...

Bob Dylan: Australian Tour

January 18, 2011

TICKETS GO ON SALE MONDAY, JANUARY 31 AT 9 AM Bob Dylan is returning after close to four years for a tour taking in Australian capital cities and festival appearances in Byron Bay for Bluesfest and Fremantle for West Coast Blues & Roots. Included in these headline shows will be a very special return to the ...

Pandora Planning $100 Million IPO

January 18, 2011

Pandora is planing a $100 million IPO for early in 2011. The music streaming service reportedly met with bankers last week and is expected to name which one will lead the IPO within days. Pandora has blown past 75 million listeners in recent months and beat most of its competitors onto new platforms from Roku boxes ...

Social Music Games - Lackluster or Blockbuster?

January 18, 2011

Are social gaming and music the perfect match? MXP4 thinks so. In recent months, they've designed many apps that combine these two elements, which have been very successful. Each one appears to have increased engagement among fans and gotten shared widely on social networks. But are their efforts ones that we can count on interesting fans ...