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John McLaughlin, Jan Hammer, Mike Stern and others on the New Gary Husband Album
Multi-dimensional drummer, keyboardist, composer and arranger Gary Husband hits his stride with Dirty & Beautiful Volume 2, his latest release on Abstract Logix Records. Dirty & Beautiful Volume 2 features an explosive all-star line-up of guest musicians such as John McLaughlin, Allan Holdsworth, Jan Hammer, Robin Trower, Jimmy Herring, Wayne Krantz, Mark King, Alex Machacek and ...
Rez Abbasi: Thoroughly Modern Marvel
by Lawrence Peryer
Guitarist Rez Abbasi is part of a generation of jazz musicians who came of age after the conservative backlash of the 1980s. He and his peers are making their mark on America's art form by contributing their rich and varied cultural backgrounds and with an embrace of popular culture that was heresy in some quarters for ...
Talkin' Blues with Jimmy Herring
by Alan Bryson
Jimmy Herring is a musician who blurs lines, both in terms of genres and roles. Over the past two decades his work with the Aquarium Rescue Unit, Gov't Mule, The Allman Brothers Band, Frogwings, Phil Lesh & Friends, Project Z, Jazz is Dead, and Widespread Panic has cemented his position as one of the world's premier ...
Allan Holdsworth, 2012 Tours & Shows Updates
ALLAN HOLDSWORTH to play with JIMMY HASLIP and VIRGIL DONATIThe muscular jazz-rock fusion power trio to perform some oldies but goodies from the Holdsworth's classic repertoire and some new tunes of his own and few tunes of Virgil Donati. MoonJune recording artist MARBIN to open East of Mississippi USA tour dates. Their critically acclaimed CD Breaking ...
Roine Stolt and Neal Morse: Degrees of Separation
by John Kelman
2011 has been a banner year for progressive rock, the genre that emerged in the late 1960s, peaked in the mid 1970s, and was threatened with extinction (certainly from a commercial perspective) with the advent of punk and new wave. Of course, prog never went away, and the music of seminal bands such as King Crimson, ...
Enjoy Jazz, 13th Edition: Heidelberg/Mannheim/Ludwigshafen, Germany, October 27-November 1, 2011
by John Kelman
Enjoy Jazz FestivalMannheim/Heidelberg/Ludwigshafen, GermanyOctober 27--November 1, 2011 It's always great to return somewhere that has become an annual port of call, but it's particularly nice to return to Germany's Enjoy Jazz, that atypical jazz festival which--rather than running for a week and concentrating a whack of shows in that short time frame--runs ...
Mary Halvorson, Weasel Walter, Trans Am, Shinji Masuko, Jessica Pavone, Alex Ward & Tim Dahl
by Martin Longley
Mary Halvorson/Weasel Walter The Stone October 9, 2011 This gig was originally intended to reflect the lineup of the 2011 Electric Fruit trio disc on Thirsty Ear, the latest label curator for two weeks at New York City's The Stone. Unfortunately, trumpeter Peter Evans was forced to cancel his ...
Gordon Beck: British Piano Legend Dies at 76
British piano legend Gordon Beck passed away on November 5th, 2011. Gordon performed and recorded with many of the worlds finest musicians including Tubby Hayes, Allan Holdsworth, Jeff Clyne, John McLaughlin, Tony Oxley, Lena Horne, {{Helen Merrill, John Stevens, Jimmy Deuchar, Alan Ganley, Kenny Wheeler and many more. His musical legacy lives on in the dozens ...
MoonJune Records: A Decade of Progressive Rock Documentation
by Mark Redlefsen
On a moon of this past June, appropriately enough, Leonardo Pavkovic, owner of the progressive jazz label MoonJune Records, gave All About Jazz an interview at the label's office in Union Square, New York City. The name MoonJune Records, which Pavkovic started back in 2001, is taken from the title of a song, Moon In June," ...
Soft Machine: Tales of Taliesin: The EMI Years Anthology 1975-1981
by John Kelman
With the release of Bundles (Harvest, 1975), Soft Machine moved more definitively into the riff-based fusion territory that keyboardist/reed man Karl Jenkins had begun pushing the band since his arrival on Six (Sony, 1973). With reeds becoming increasingly less dominant, and the group's only remaining founding member, keyboardist Mike Ratledge, relegated to a backline position, this ...



