Results for "AAJ Staff"

Uncanny Reveries - Manchester Jazz Festival Day Eight

August 9, 2010

The Golden Age of Steam and TrioVD, Pavilion. Les Chisnall, St Anns Church. Orca Trio, Pavilion. Friday, 30th July 2010.I made it in the nick of time to take my pew for Les Chisnall's solo piano recital at St Anns Church. I'm no stranger to Chisnall' playing, but this was the first time I've ...

Super Bad Sunday: Frank Zappa

August 9, 2010

WAY TO GO BALTIMORE! Today is the 3rd anniversary of Frank Zappa Day in Baltimore, Maryland. This is the kind of civic mindedness we can get behind! Frank was born in Baltimore and it's great to see such an original, influential native son honored. We serve up our weekly triple shot as a little salute to ...

1,000 Jazz Albums You Should Hear Before You Die (691-700)

August 9, 2010

For those of you who have been following along with the list, you know that we add twenty albums each week. We are going to tweak things a bit for the remainder of the list, adding anywhere from 5 to ten albums at a time, but posting the lists a bit more frequently. Additionally, we will ...

Benny Carter - "Wave" (1977)

August 9, 2010

Saxologies, from Newport to Barcelona (Impromptu Portraits)

August 9, 2010

Steve Wilson, Kenny Garrett, Donny McCaslin and JD Allen in Newport 2010.Schedule at the 42nd Barcelona Voll-DammJazz Festival:November 10th, Luz de Gas. Steve Wilson-Bruce Barth Duo (double bill with Lee Konitz-Dan Tepfer).November 11th, Auditori (Sala Oriol Martorell). Kenny Garrett Quartet.November 12th, Luz de Gas. ...

Newport, Saturday 7th

August 9, 2010

Miles Davis - The Complete 'On the Corner' Sessions (2007)

August 9, 2010

By PicoMiles Davis is takin' it to the streets.In late spring of 1972, Davis broke a two year hiatus from the studio to act upon his most daring idea of his 45 year recording history: to create music that finally is completely absent of any jazz aesthetic and replace it with “street" ...

Simply Red, George Benson, Natalie Cole Headline First Curacao North Sea Jazz Festival

August 5, 2010

The North Sea Jazz Festival, the world's largest indoor jazz festival, has for 35 years brought the biggest, broadest range of artists to the Netherlands. But, on the 3th & 4th of September 2010 the festival's ripples fan out to the Caribbean to inaugurate the Curacao North Sea Jazz Festival on the hospitable and vibrant Dutch ...

David S. Ware Trio Coming to the Blue Note October 4th

August 8, 2010

On Monday, October 4th, eminent saxophonist David S. Ware will celebrate his September release, Onecept (AUM Fidelity), with a two-set performance at the Blue Note in New York. The recording, which marks Ware's 50th anniversary as a saxophonist, is his first studio project since his May 2009 kidney transplant and features him on three different horns: ...

AUM Fidelity to Release Mike Pride's from Bacteria to Boys' Betweenwhile October 12th

August 8, 2010

AUM Fidelity is proud to announce the October 12th release of Betweenwhile (AUM065), the label debut of prolific New York drummer/composer/artist Mike Pride and his working quartet, From Bacteria To Boys. The group, which performs a distinctive amalgam of groove-based modern jazz, R&B, contemporary classical and chant works, features Darius Jones (alto saxophone), Alexis Marcelo (piano) ...