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Article: Album Review

Steve Gadd Band: 70 Strong

Read "70 Strong" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
April 3, 2015

Since the 70s, Steve Gadd has pretty much seen it and done it all, and recognized as one of the most influential drummers of the modern era, spanning numerous musical genres. His slippery cross-sticking between the hi-hat and snare drum amid new ways and means to generate a funk groove, along with his famous drum solo ...

News: Book / Magazine

Bebop, Swing, and Bella Musica: Jazz and the Italian American Experience

March 26, 2015

A book by Bill Dal Cerro and David Anthony Witter. Frank Sinatra, Louis Prima, Louie Bellson, Lennie Tristano, Tony Bennett, Buddy DeFranco, Flip Phillips, and Joe Lovano: These are just some of the hundreds of musicians of Italian descent whose talents have enriched jazz. Bebop, Swing, and Bella Musica is more than just a book about ...

Article: Album Review

Phil Markowitz/Zach Brock: Perpetuity

Read "Perpetuity" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
January 6, 2015

The debut collaboration between veteran pianist Phil Markowitz and rising star violinist Zach Brock focuses on a shared love of questioning and questing through sound(s). Each man brings five originals to the table for this project, and most of them serve to highlight their common interest(s) in angular exploration, dovetailing designs, and scenarios that encourage searching. ...

Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Mike Pope

by AAJ Staff
November 14, 2014

Meet Mike Pope: Mike Pope is a virtuoso acoustic and electric bassist who has toured extensively with Chick Corea, David Sanborn, Al Di Meola and Bill Bruford, and more recently, Joe Locke and Eldar Djangirov. Raised in Ohio by two parents who were both classical musicians and educated at the University of North Texas, Pope came ...

Article: Album Review

Tohpati: Tribal Dance

Read "Tribal Dance" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki

by Chris M. Slawecki
October 14, 2014

Indonesian composer, producer and guitarist Tohpati continues his march toward dominating the jazz-rock fusion guitar world with Tribal Dance. Written and produced by the guitarist, this electrifying Dance was recorded live in a Los Angeles studio then finished in Indonesia, and is credited to “Tohpati featuring Jimmy Haslip and Chad Wackerman." Haslip and Wackerman previously worked ...

Article: From the Inside Out

Different Shapes & Sounds: Solo, Trio, Small & Large Ensembles

by Chris M. Slawecki
October 9, 2014

Afro Latin Vintage Orchestra Pulsion Ubiquity 2014 A musician friend whose opinion I greatly respect shared with me that he enjoys listening to Pulsion, the fourth release by the Afro Latin Vintage Orchestra (ALVO), in two layers: The frothy jazz-influenced horn, brass and string arrangements on top and, like a ...

Article: Live Review

Monterey Jazz Festival 2014

by Josef Woodard
September 27, 2014

Monterey Jazz Festival Monterey County Fairgrounds Monterey, CA September 19-21, 2014 Working the Numbers, and Young People Going Deep Numbers worked in mysterious, seemingly synchronistic ways at this year's Monterey Jazz Festival, which celebrated its 57th anniversary year partly by also respectfully toasting the 75th anniversary of the ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Al Di Meola

July 22, 2014

All About Jazz is celebrating Al Di Meola's birthday today! Al Di Meola holds the most prestigious guitar awards (of any guitarist in the world) from the highest rated guitar poll in the world, Guitar Player Magazine. He has been known throughout the world for the past two and a half decades as one of the ...

Article: Live Review

Torino Jazz Festival 2014

by Alberto Bazzurro
May 8, 2014

Varie sedi--25.04-1.05.2014 Benché bersagliata da intemperanze meteorologiche d'altro canto non nuove, in questa sede, la terza edizione del Torino Jazz Festival (seconda sotto la direzione artistica di Stefano Zenni) ha visto una partecipazione di pubblico che definiremmo oceanica, al punto che--per esempio--si è rivelato praticamente impossibile accedere ai concerti in giro per i ...

Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Billy Carrion Jr.

by AAJ Staff
March 6, 2014

Meet Billy Carrion Jr: I've been around music since I was in my mother's womb. My dad-- singer, Billy Carrion Sr. --would play sounds of Batacumbele through headphones over my mom's belly. My first saxophone experience came at nine. After being taught to read and write, I started my musical journey. At 16, I was ...