Results for "AAJ Staff"

Kora Band at Tula's

October 15, 2010

The Friday Morning Listen: Pat Metheny - Orchestrion (2010)

October 15, 2010

By Mark Saleski The sun is setting earlier, the nights are already much longer, and it's sorta dark when we get up in the morning. This is probably the last weekend for decent foliage-viewing, marking what we all know is coming: winter. The snow will fly, the storm windows will be snapped shut, and we'll hunker ...

Jazz Folk - Jazz in the Stone Age (2010)

October 15, 2010

By Mark Saleski Jazz fans tend to have a love/hate relationship with pop music covers. On the one hand, there are examples like Coltrane's “My Favorite Things" that are sort of hard to argue with. Face it, reinterpretations like that not only put a new spin on an old favorite, but kick open the door of ...

CMJ Marathon 2010 Preview: Radio, and You

October 15, 2010

As you might have heard, the 2010 CMJ Music Marathon starts next week, and our coverage begins with new information on an old medium: radio. On Thursday morning, the hosts of WRXP's morning show, Matt Pinfield and Leslie Fram, who is also WRXP's Program Director, will lead a discussion entitled “The Truth and the Crossing Lines ...

Needle Park: Mad Men and JLP

October 15, 2010

There are many ways in which the TV show Mad Men overlaps with our decade-plus of research on the Jazz Loft Project. This past Sunday night Midge, Don Draper's Village girlfriend from the first season, reappeared as a Village heroin junkie with a junkie “husband" (most junkie couples weren't legally married) willing to prostitute Midge for ...

Nels Cline - Dirty Baby (Cryptogramophone, 2010)

October 15, 2010

Guitarist Nels Cline is a fearless sonic explorer spanning genres from jazz to rock 'n' roll and beyond. His latest project has a fascinating concept: he was asked to create music to accompany the artwork of Los Angeles based artist Ed Ruscha. This is not a completely new idea for Cline who released a fascinating DVD ...

Richard Thompson - Dream Attic (Shout Factory, 2010)

October 15, 2010

Recording an album full of new material in front of a live audience is something of a gamble, but it has paid off handsomely for veteran guitarist and songwriter Richard Thompson, his new album captures the energy of his always potent live performance and combines it was an excellent set of new songs to very good ...

Take Five With Jon Wirtz

by AAJ Staff
October 14, 2010

Meet Jon Wirtz: Arriving on the Denver scene just a few years ago, Jon Wirtz has since performed for millions of people, both locally and nationally. Over the past eight years he has performed mainly as a sideman, having worked with Grammy Award-winning producer Malcolm Burn on multiple occasions, and shared the stage with ...

Earshot Jazz Festival Starts This Friday

October 14, 2010

The Earshot Jazz Festival kicks off this Friday, October 15 and runs through November 7. We will have more coverage throughout the festival, but wanted to get the dialogue going about what people are planning on seeing during the show. Click here post a comment about what you are planning on seeing, excited about, interested in ...

Catching Up: The Seasons Fall Festival

October 14, 2010

Following four days of downtime forced by computer and internet problems, Rifftides offers a brief summary of the first five days of The Seasons eight-day Fall Festival. In the first of two appearances, the Tom Harrell Quintet opened the festival Friday evening in The Seasons' acoustically perfect performance hall in Yakima, Washington. With the polish and ...