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Kris Berg & the Metroplexity Big Band / Michael Treni Big Band / Millennium Jazz Orchestra
by Jack Bowers
Kris Berg & the Metroplexity Big BandThis Time / Last YearMAMA Records2012 Until now, bassist / educator Kris Berg, who oversees the Jazz Studies program at Collin College near Dallas, TX, has been widely known and respected as someone who writes and arranges songs for others to play. ...
Fred Hersch Trio: Alive at the Vanguard
by Dan McClenaghan
Pianist Fred Hersch has found a place to come alive: The Village Vanguard, where so many great live albums have been recorded. Saxophonists John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins, pianist Bill Evans and drummer Paul Motian also found the New York City venue a prime spot for live recordings. Hersch revisits the venue with Alive the the ...
NEA Statement on the Death of NEA Jazz Master Von Freeman
NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman's Statement on the Death of NEA Jazz Master Von Freeman “On behalf of the National Endowment for the Arts, it is with great sadness that I acknowledge the passing of 2012 NEA Jazz Master Von Freeman. An extraordinary saxophonist with a sound all his own, Von Freeman's contributions to jazz – and ...
Simetrio: Simetrio
by Hrayr Attarian
Chile, the country of sensuous poetry and visceral prose, is not well known for its jazz. Over the past two decades, however, the nation has been home to a growing improvised music scene. Three musicians who honed their skills in this relatively new environment have come together as Simetrio, releasing an eponymous CD of intellectually intense ...
Roberto Magris’ Journey to the Heart of Hard Bop
by C. Michael Bailey
Italian pianist and composer Roberto Magris has carved his name in jazz stone over the past decade with recordings like Check-In (Black Saint, 2005), Il Bello Del Jazz (Black Saint, 2006) and Current Views (Black Saint, 2010) with his ensemble Europlane, and Kansas City Bound (Pami, 2009) and Mating Call (JMood, 2010) (which foreshadows the hard ...
Roberto Magris: One Night In With Hope And More...Vol.1
by Edward Blanco
Italian composer and pianist Roberto Magris is an internationally renowned artist reminiscent of piano masters like Kenny Drew, McCoy Tyner and the legendary Bill Evans. A veteran jazz musician, Magris has recorded eighteen albums in a career that has spanned over three decades and, with One Night In With Hope And More...Vol. 1, continues his collaboration ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Andrew Hill
All About Jazz is celebrating Andrew Hill's birthday today! Over nearly half a century, composer-pianist-ensemble leader Andrew Hill gained international jazz renown for his uniquely original music and recorded ouevre, which is by turns dark, fragile, funny, stark, unforgettably tuneful, percussive, insightful, oblique, transparent and mysterious. With the release of Dusk (Palmetto Records), his first album ...
Jerry Dammers' Spatial A.K.A Orchestra at the Norfolk And Norwich Festival 2012
by Bruce Lindsay
Jerry Dammers' Spatial A.K.A OrchestraTheatre Royal Norfolk And Norwich FestivalNorwich, UKMay 26, 2012It only took a quick glance at the stage to confirm that this was to be no ordinary jazz gig: Jerry Dammers' Spatial A.K.A Orchestra doesn't do ordinary. Dammers, leader and keyboard player of '70s ska band The Specials, ...
Undead Music Festival, Greenwich Village Edition: New York, NY, May 9, 2012
by Daniel Lehner
Undead Music FestivalGreenwich Village EditionKenny's Castways, Sullivan Hall and Le Poisson RougeNew York, NYMay 9th, 2012Despite its constant and ambitious expansion into other geographic and spatial situations, the Undead Music Festival (formally the Undead Jazz Festival, a change that says more than a bit about the nature of the ...
Jacob William Quartet: Secondary Deviations
by Chris Rich
Jacob William made his way to the Boston area from Chennai, India. He made the music school rounds well after formative years in the homeland among his peers there. He cites reed multi- instrumentalist Anthony Braxton as an important mentor and makes a fabric of community in Boston over the course of his sojourns through Wesleyan, ...


