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Richard Galliano: Sentimentale
by Neri Pollastri
Disco “quasi" di jazz per un Richard Galliano passato dalla musette al tango, da Ron Carter a Michel Portal, da Bach alla canzone d'autore, da Wynton Marsalis al trio con Larry Grenadier e Clarence Penn. Ma che qui, assieme ad altri due strumenti armonici--il pianoforte di Tamir Hendelman e la chitarra di Anthony Wilson, peraltro entrambi ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Anthony Wilson
All About Jazz is celebrating Anthony Wilson's birthday today! Anthony Wilson’s career in jazz began auspiciously, and as a creative artist he continues to expand and impress. Among other honors, Wilson\'s first, self-titled CD received a Grammy nomination for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Recording in 1998; his second CD “Goat Hill Junket" was featured prominently on ...
Corey Coverstone: A Human Experience
by Paul Naser
Los Angeles based drummer Corey Coverstone's debut release as a leader, A Human Experience (Self Produced 2014), is a solid exploration of some familiar and not so familiar jazz standards by a band with a lot of chemistry. Coverstone, originally from Portland, is now a familiar face in the LA jazz scene and is playing around ...
Richard Galliano: Sentimentale
by Hrayr Attarian
Accordionist Richard Galliano is a true innovator of both the extemporized role of his instrument and of the fusion of French folk music with jazz. His breathtaking instrumental facility combined with a creative ingenuity makes his oeuvre, particularly the series of superb albums on Dreyfus Jazz, uniquely satisfying. In view of this, his release on the ...
Gerald Wilson dies at 96; multifaceted jazz musician
Gerald Wilson, a bandleader, trumpeter, composer, arranger and educator whose multifaceted career reached from the swing era of the 1930s to the diverse jazz sounds of the 21st century, has died. He was 96. Wilson, who had been in declining health, died Monday at his home in Los Angeles, two weeks after contracting pneumonia, said his ...
Julie Kelly: Happy to Be
by Jack Bowers
Julie Kelly is a talented singer whose talents are a fairly well-kept secret except on the West Coast, where she makes her home. Happy to Be is Kelly's eighth album, the first on Graham Carter's Colorado-based Jazzed Media label, and as has been her custom in the past, she chooses for the most part interesting songs ...
Julie Kelly: Happy To Be
by Dan Bilawsky
Over the past thirty years, vocalist Julie Kelly has established and cemented her sterling reputation via seven highly praised albums. Her eighth, a beauty in every way, is likely to garner her some more rave reviews. After tackling a diverse program with able support from pianist Mike Wofford on Everything I Love (Chase ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Anthony Wilson
All About Jazz is celebrating Anthony Wilson's birthday today! Anthony Wilson’s career in jazz began auspiciously, and as a creative artist he continues to expand and impress. Among other honors, Wilson\'s first, self-titled CD received a Grammy nomination for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Recording in 1998; his second CD “Goat Hill Junket" was featured prominently on ...
Furthering The Flute In Jazz: Holly Hofmann and Bill McBirnie
by Dan Bilawsky
Long gone are the days when the flute was only seen as a jazz novelty or a saxophonist's double. Once upon a time you could count the number of notable jazz flautists on a hand (or two), but the ranks have swelled a little bit over the years, and those leading the charge today aren't content ...
Diana Krall Sextet at Mesa Arts Center
by Patricia Myers
Diana Krall Sextet Mesa Arts Center Mesa, Arizona April 8, 2014 Diana Krall applied her sultry voice and dynamic piano style to a captivating if surprising concert that combined jazz with tender childhood memories, silent-film clips and Seinfeld-style mischievous humor. In a stage setting that resembled an old-time theater, Krall mostly ...
