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Article: Radio & Podcasts

On the Road, Fellini & All That Jazz

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 20, 2018

The Road. A place that inspires both composing music and listening to it. In this episode of Mondo Jazz we'll focus on music about a road to Timbuktu, French, Italian and Brooklyn streets, being on the road and the road as a metaphor for a jazzist's necessary openness to the unexpected. Not to mention, ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Aldo Romano

January 16, 2018

All About Jazz is celebrating Aldo Romano's birthday today! Aldo Romano was born in France in 1941, the son of Italian immigrants. His first instrument was the guitar, but he decided to switch to drums in 1961. Essentially self-taught, he nonetheless benefited from the advice of Michel Babault and Jacques Thollot. He admired Philly Joe Jones, ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Mondo Jazz: Traveling (Part 1)

by Ludovico Granvassu
December 24, 2017

Jazz and Travel... what a natural fit! In this installment of Mondo Jazz we explore music that was inspired by the relentless travels that jazz musicians have to endure in order to share their music with their audiences, their departures and arrivals, their discoveries, adventures and misadventures using trains and planes and the places ...

Article: Album Review

Steve Lacy: Free For a Minute (1965/72)

Read "Free For a Minute (1965/72)" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff
December 4, 2017

Non erano mai stati ufficialmente ristampati su CD né Disposabilty né Sortie, due momenti a loro modo significativi nell'evoluzione del linguaggio del sassofonista Steve Lacy durante gli anni Sessanta. Li ripropone oggi la Emanem, in un doppio CD completato da alcuni interessanti inediti. Pubblicati originariamente in Italia (Lacy si era stabilito ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Aldo Romano

January 16, 2017

Article: Album Review

Michel Petrucciani: The OWL Years

Read "The OWL Years" reviewed by Maurizio Zerbo

by Maurizio Zerbo
April 7, 2016

Magistero tecnico, swing, cuore palpitante sono i tratti caratteristici di questo cofanetto, che di Michel Petrucciani)) mette a nudo le pieghe espressive più recondite. C'è il mondo evansiano sostenuto dalla cantabilità mediterranea, per proiettare la tradizione jazzistica lungo i sentieri di una magniloquente fantasia esecutiva. Svetta l'incedere lirico e trasognato di un artista inimitabile, che appartiene ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Aldo Romano

January 16, 2016

Article: Live Review

Jazztopad 2015: World Premieres

by Ian Patterson
December 17, 2015

Jazztopad 2015: World Premieres National Forum Of Music Wroclaw, Poland November 27-29, 2015 November in Wroclaw means jazz. Ten days no less. Jazztopad, however, is more than just another jazz festival. A core component of the programme since Piotr Turkiewicz took up the reins as Artistic Director in 2008 ...

Article: Interview

Intervista a Stefano Battaglia

by Neri Pollastri
September 14, 2015

All About Jazz Italia: Il tuo Trio con Salvatore Maiore e Roberto Dani arriva al terzo capitolo, In the Morning, nel quale, pur conservando la propria identità, presenta due importanti novità: la principale è che la musica non è originale, bensì del compositore americano Alec Wilder. Perché questo passaggio dalla musica tua a quella di un ...

Article: Album Review

Francesco Bearzatti & The Bears: Live in France

Read "Live in France" reviewed by Neri Pollastri

by Neri Pollastri
April 17, 2015

Com'è noto, ancor prima della definitiva affermazione in Italia con il suo quartetto Tinissima Francesco Bearzatti aveva riscosso un forte successo in Francia, paese dove peraltro si era trasferito e risiede. Là aveva avuto occasione di collaborare con vari musicisti, in primis con Aldo Romano ed Emmanuel Bex--con i quali aveva formato il fortunato Bizart trio--ma ...