Results for "AAJ Staff"

Gamelan Madu Sari - Hive (2010)

August 3, 2010

By Mark SaleskiWhat do you think of when encountering the words “world music"? Squeaky vocals in unknown languages? Lots of drums? Brightly colored CD covers on display near the checkout at Starbucks? It's a sad fact that the way music is marketed has forced many kinds of music into more “manageable" categories, “world music" ...

An App for Me? Amy Klein on Using MobBase, Part One

August 3, 2010

[Editor's Note: Because of how much attention is being paid to things like marketing yourself, mobile music, and apps, we decided that it would be offer an example of what it's like to use one. So we got Amy Klein, who plays guitar in Titus Andronicus, Hillii, and her solo project, Solanin, to try MobBase for ...

Thinking Inside the Box, Part Two - Analogue vs. Digital Summing

August 3, 2010

efore we take a deeper look at what “summing" actually is, let's briefly recap what we looked at last time. You may remember that we looked at how you could set up your DAW to more closely replicate the workflow (and, to a lesser extent, the look and “feel") of a traditional mixing desk. The natural ...

Watch a Live Webcast of the Newport Jazz Festival

August 3, 2010

Eddie Lang Day in Philadelphia: October 25, 2010

August 2, 2010

The Jazz Session #187: David Weiss

August 2, 2010

Trumpeter David Weiss and his band Point Of Departure explore music from the late 1960s on their new record, Snuck In (Sunnyside, 2010), recorded live at Jazz Standard in New York. In this interview, Weiss talks about the little-known Detroit composers who wrote some of the songs on the new record; why he chose to cover ...

Jazz Poetry - "Trane"

August 2, 2010

"Trane" by Kamau Brathwaite Propped against the crowded barhe pours into the curved and silver hornhis old unhappy longing for a home the dancers twist and turnhe leans and wishes he could burnhis memories to ashes like some old notorious emperorof rome. but no stars blazed across the sky when he was bornno wise ...

One Track Mind: Lou Donaldson "Peepin'" (1967)

August 2, 2010

By PicoOne of my favorite funk-jazz albums of all time isn't by a crossover act like the Crusaders or Herbie Hancock's Headhunters, but by a living giant of a jazz alto sax blower. I'm talking about Lou Donaldson. Starting out as a very good Charlie Parker disciple leading bebop sessions on par ...

Incognito - Transatlantic RPM (2010)

August 2, 2010

By PicoLast week, that venerable soul-jazz outfit out of London Incognito released a new disc Transatlantic RPM, an occasion we marked with a couple of streams to songs to tracks on that record (click here to listen to the streams of “Lowdown" and “Gotta"). Now, it's time to delve into this platter, but first, ...

The Unison. Matt Lavelle.

August 2, 2010

I'm not an expert on Alice Coltrane and her music,.but I do know that her music has reached out to me in the last few years,and acted as a guide in some way about how to process the relationship of spirit to music.Her music after Trane made the transition fascinates me,and I intend to ...