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Monnette Sudler: Daring To Dream

by Suzanne Cloud
October 8, 2013

She's not working. She's too sick. And it hurts to the bone that she can't play the way she used to because she has Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) lung disease and is waiting for a lung transplant. Nobody knows what causes this scarring and stiffening of the lung tissue, hence the idiopathic part of the name, ...

Article: Live Review

Jazz au Chellah Festival 2013

by Mehdi El Mouden
October 2, 2013

Jazz au Chellah Festival Chellah Rabat, Morocco September 11-15,2013 The evening breeze on summer nights caresses the walls of the fortress while seagulls hover all over the towers. The moon is discernible from afar. In the distance, you can spot swarms of people walking down a long alley leading to the ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Woody Shaw: The Complete Muse Sessions

by John Kelman
September 9, 2013

The past couple years have been banner ones for reviving the legacy of Woody Shaw, a trumpeter and composer who--emerging in the early '60s on albums by extant jazz stars like Eric Dolphy, Andrew Hill, McCoy Tyner and Horace Silver, and contributing to on-the-rise names including Larry Young and Chick Corea--has all-too-often been overlooked. Still, with ...

Article: Book Review

Beyond A Love Supreme: John Coltrane And The Legacy Of An Album

by Ian Patterson
August 25, 2013

Beyond A Love Supreme:John Coltrane And The Legacy of An Album Tony Whyton Pages: 176 ISBN: 978-0-19-973323-1 Oxford University Press 2013 Few jazz icons have cast such a long shadow as saxophonist John Coltrane. Since his death at the age of 40 in 1967, ...

Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Cecilia Wennerstrom

by AAJ Staff
July 21, 2013

Meet Cecilia Wennerstrom:Cecilia Wennerstrom is a Swedish saxophonist who has received several awards by the Swedish Arts Grants Committee. During the '80s, she led the band Salamander and released several albums on Dragon Records. During the '90s, she led her own quartet and released records through Four Leaf Clover. Recently she formed Wela Records/Plugged. ...

Article: Album Review

Harris Eisenstadt September Trio: The Destructive Element

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by Mark Corroto
July 9, 2013

In a jazz setting, the traditional role for a bassist is to keep time, and in effect be the glue that holds a composition--and essentially the jazz unit--together. Maybe that is the reason is why drummer Harris Eisenstadt chose to construct his September Trio sans bassist. Aptly named, The Destructive Element follows the September Trio of ...

Article: Interview

Ray Russell: Playing with Time

by Ian Patterson
July 1, 2013

Each time guitarist/composer Ray Russell releases a new album, it feels like a comeback. Now, More than Ever, Russell's debut on the Abstract Logix label, comes seven years after Goodbye Svengali (Cuneiform Records, 2006), his heartfelt tribute to composer Gil Evans. Although Russell may drop off the radar for periods of time, he's never really far ...

News: Crowdfunding Campaign

Archie Shepp's Kickstarter For New "Attica Blues" Project

June 12, 2013

Archie Shepp launches a Kickstarter campaign to finalize funding on a new Attica Blues Band live album recording. Forty years after his masterpiece Attica Blues, recorded with a big band of 39 musicians and in which he highlights social injustices faced by African Americans, Shepp returns with a brand new big band composed of 26 musicians ...

Article: Interview

Christy Doran: New Bag, New Tricks

by Ian Patterson
June 10, 2013

The opening concert at the 14th Bray Jazz Festival in May, just half an hour outside Dublin in County Wicklow, was something of a homecoming gig for Irish guitarist Christy Doran and his quartet New Bag. Doran was born 63 years ago, just a few short miles down the road from Bray, in Greystones, though at ...

Article: Interview

Ross Hammond: Holding onto the Wave

by Troy Collins
June 3, 2013

Sacramento-based guitarist Ross Hammond has been steadily gaining attention, courtesy of a tireless performing schedule reinforced and documented by a series of diverse albums issued on his own Prescott Recordings imprint. Hammond's releases have featured a variety of instrumental lineups, ranging from lyrical solo recitals to frenetic collective improvisations. His most recent endeavor is Cathedrals (Prescott ...