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Bimhuis at 40: Older, Better, Business as Usual
by Joan Gannij
The Bimhuis is turning 40 and is still very much in its prime. Beginning October 1, Amsterdam's venerable jazz club will celebrate this milestone with a variety of concerts, activities and special events. The Bimhuis opened in 1974 after a lengthy search for a suitable venue for improvising musicians. Over the next decades it would become ...
Jazz Liège Festival 2014
by Jean-Pierre Goffin
Jazz Liège Festival Brussels, Belgium May 8-10, 2014 The International Jazz Festival in Liège was created twenty-four years ago. The city was known for decades as the Belgian capital of jazz, with musicians such as Bobby Jaspar ( who played with Miles Davis,J.J. Johnson, Donald Byrd and many others), René ...
Archie Shepp Attica Blues Orchestra: I Hear the Sound
by Jack Bowers
Saxophonist Archie Shepp wrote “Attica Blues" in 1972, not long after a five-day uprising at that New York state prison left thirty-nine people dead, twenty-nine of whom were inmates. Now, more than forty years later, Shepp's Attica Blues Orchestra (comprised for the most part of French musicians) has resurrected the “Blues" and made it the linchpin ...
Archie Shepp Attica Blues Orchestra: I Hear the Sound
by Chris May
Recorded in France in 2012 and 2013, I Hear the Sound is a live recording of saxophonist Archie Shepp's oratorio, “Attica Blues," co-written and arranged with Cal Massey in 1971, which was first heard on an Impulse! album a year later. Most of that album, Attica Blues, is revisited, with some adjustments to the running order ...
Jazzfest Berlin 2012: Berlin, Germany, November 1-4, 2012
by Henning Bolte
Jazzfest Berlin 2012Berlin, GermanyNovember 1-4, 2012In 1964, famous pioneering jazz aficionado and impresario Joachim E. Behrendt founded the legendary Berlin Jazztage. The event, nowadays named Jazzfest Berlin, with its tumultuous history and multitude of faces, has since worked with a variety of different artistic directors. This year was the beginning of a new ...
Ladder Is High, Women Keep Climbing
by Jack Bowers
Unlike college sports, there is no Title IX program for women in jazz. Those who wish to pursue that line of endeavor have to elbow their way into what remains essentially a male-dominated profession (or art) and keep climbing the ladder one rung at a time. True, women have made notable inroads in recent years and ...
Amina Claudine Myers: Mozart, Miles and Beyond
by AAJ Italy Staff
Intervista di Kurt Gottschalk Compositrice, pianista e cantante, Amina Claudine Myers è un membro della prima ora della famosa Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). di Chicago. Trasferitasi a Nord dalla sua cittadina nativa Blackwell, in Arkansas, era una mosca bianca nell'AACM—non solo perché era una delle poche donne iscritte, ma anche per la ...
Amina Claudine Myers: From Mozart to Miles and Beyond
by Kurt Gottschalk
Composer, pianist and singer Amina Claudine Myers is a part of the first generation of the famed Chicago collective the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). Coming north from her native Blackwell, Arkansas, she was an unusual presence in the organization--not just as one of the few female members, but as a singer and ...
AllAboutJazz-New York November 2009 Issue Now Available!
When we at AllAboutJazz-New York start work on our November issue, we realize just how close to the end of the year we are. By the time you are reading this issue, the World Series will be nearly decided (Go Yankees?). Then at the end of the month is Thanksgiving and then the holiday season begins ...
Little Boy Don't Get Scared
Label: Douglas Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: 01. Little Boy Don't Get Scared (Getz/Fields/Hendricks) - 07:55; 02. Swan Blues (Carpenter/King Pleasure) - 06:13; 03. I'm Gone (Jones/King Pleasure) - 05:41; 04. Moody's Mood For Love (McHugh/Fields/Moody) - 06:15; 05. Cottontail (Ellington) - 08:36; 06. Angel Eyes (Brent/Dennis) -05:57; 07. Twisted (Ross/Gray) - 05:25; 08. Fade (Laswell) - 01:47.
