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Better Angels
Label: Smoke Sessions Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Perpetual Pendulum;
Ditty for Dewey;
You Go to My Head;
Born to Be Blue;
Better Angels;
Hazel Eyes;
No Problem;
Lament.
Heart
Label: Analog Tone Factory
Released: 2024
Track listing: Prelude to a Kiss, ESP, Heart, Gone with the Wind, Right the First Time, When Lights Are Low, Lead the Way, Body and Soul.
Aaron Goldberg: It's Impossible To Separate Jazz From The Civil Rights Movement
by Leo Sidran
After the election of George W. Bush in 2000, Aaron Goldberg began wondering what he could do in the next election to help make a difference. At the time, he was a 26 year old pianist only a few years out of college, but who was quickly establishing himself as a credible musical voice in the ...
Lead the Way
Album: Heart
By Jerome Sabbagh
Label: Analog Tone Factory
Released: 2024
Duration: 03:56
Jerome Sabbagh: Heart
by Chris May
AAJ occasionally publishes reviews which call out the barbarism of digital-only albums (Heart is not one of these, please hang on in there). Item: the review of Brazilian saxophonist and flautist Vinicius Mendes' Macunaismo Tardio Vol. 1&2 (Notes On A Journey, 2024). The two albums collected on that vinyl double-LP, blinders both, were originally released separately ...
Pernille Bévort: Curious Explorations
by Ian Patterson
A veteran of the Danish jazz scene since the '90s, saxophonist/reeds player and composer Pernille Bévort has built an impressive discography as a leader. With the moveable feast that is Radio Bévort, she has demonstrated the depth and range of her musical palette, marrying jazz and tango on Perfect Organisation (Gateway Music, 2011) with bandoneon player ...
Bob Weir and Others at the Jazz Foundation of America Gala Concert at the Apollo Theater
by Paul Reynolds
Bob Weir, Marshall Allen, Jazzmeia Horn, Dee Dee Bridgewater, et al.The Apollo Theater Jazz Federation of America Gala New York, NY March 28, 2024 At gala concerts for worthy groups, it's understandably easy for the music to play second fiddle to the organization itself--and the desire to support it. ...
Late-Period Art Pepper Box Sets
by C. Michael Bailey
In his essay, “Endgame," which opens the liner notes to Art Pepper: The Complete Galaxy Recordings (Galaxy, 1989), music critic Gary Giddens said of Art Pepper's professional comeback: “Pepper's sudden reappearance in 1975 was something of a second coming in musical circles. For the next seven years, his frequent recordings and tours, and ...
Dean Brown: Global Fusion on Acid
by Jim Worsley
In memory of Dean Brown. This interview was first published at All About Jazz on April 23, 2021. From the outset, the equation was simple enough. Jazz + rock = fusion. However, whether it was Miles Davis, Larry Coryell, John McLaughlin, or any of the pioneers of fusion, the music has always been far ...
Al Foster Quintet at Smoke Jazz & Supper Club
by Chris DeRosa
Al Foster Quintet 81st Birthday Celebration Smoke Jazz & Supper Club January 27, 2024 Hello, my name is Chris DeRosa and this is what I heard... Smoke is a great venue to hear timeless jazz. Established in 1999 and located on Manhattan's Upper West Side, the sound ...
