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Phil Haynes: Electricity Incarnate!
by Doug Collette
In the annals of jazz both short-term and long, the influence of drummer-led initiatives is immeasurable. There is Art Blakey and his Jazz Messengers, of course, plus Tony Williams' Lifetime and, in addition, numerous single-minded efforts like these two coincidental releases of Phil Haynes. Each is a largely freewheeling exercise in revisitation gestated during COVID lockdowns: ...
Merano Jazz Festival And Academy 2025
by Giuseppe Segala
Merano Jazz Festival and Academy 2025 Varie sedi Merano 8-13 luglio 2025 Il jazz a Merano ha mostrato alcuni dei suoi molteplici volti. Quello dell'orgoglio, della denuncia sociale e della teatralità afroamericana intrisa di soul con il quartetto We Exist! guidato da Dee Dee Bridgewater. Quello eclettico, ricco di humor e ...
BEATrio At National Concert Hall
by Ian Patterson
BEATrio National Concert Hall Dublin, Ireland July 7, 2025 Some stars take longer than others to align. In the case of BEATrio, the supergroup of drummer Antonio Sánchez, harpist Edmar Castañeda and banjoist Béla Fleck, you could say that the stars took 16 years to line up. BEATrio might ...
Lee Morgan: Here's Lee Morgan
by C. Andrew Hovan
While Craft Recordings' new OJC reissue series has largely drawn from its treasure trove of Prestige and Riverside titles, the label recently expanded its scope to include two standout jazz albums from Chicago's historic Vee-Jay Records. Founded in 1953 by husband-and-wife team James Bracken and Vivian Carter, Vee-Jay was not only one of the ...
San Francisco Jazz Festival 2025
by Harry S. Pariser
San Francisco Jazz Festival SFJAZZ San Francisco, CA June 13-15, 2025 For decades now, SFJAZZ has held the San Francisco Jazz Festival as a series of concerts spread over weeks. The festivities gained a permanent home when the new building opened in January 2013. This year, new Executive Artistic Director Terence ...
Marie Mørck: My One and Only Love
by Katchie Cartwright
Copenhagen's Marie Mørck releases her third album, My One and Only Love, as a 20-something up-and-comer on the Danish vocal jazz scene. Her well-received earlier projects contained originals and standards, but My One and Only Love stays within the American Songbook. How would Mørck have us perceive her program in 2025? For ...
Eric Siereveld's Organic Quintet: Sweet William
by Jack Bowers
On their second recording together, trumpeter Eric Siereveld and his New York-based Organic Quintet are more a sextet most of the way, as guest trombonist Steve Davis lends a master hand (two, actually) on six of the album's eight numbers. The term “organic" springs from the fact that one of the ensemble's anchors ...
Al Foster: Love, Peace and Jazz!
by Terrell Kent Holmes
This article was first published on All About Jazz on May 3, 2009. Drumming great Al Foster has spent nearly a half-century playing with some of the greatest musicians, and on some of the most memorable albums, in jazz history, from Miles Davis' On The Corner and Agharta to Joe Henderson's State of the ...
Jazz Interpretations of the film music of Henry Mancini, Part 1
by Larry Slater
Henry Mancini was one of the greatest composers in the history of film, and many of Mancini's scores swung. Henry Mancini was born Enrico Nicola Mancini in the Little Italy neighborhood of Cleveland to Italian immigrant parents. It's no surprise that many of Mancini's tunes have jazz sensibilities because he had deep jazz roots. ...
Mark Masters Ensemble: Sam Rivers 100
by Dan McClenaghan
The Mark Masters Ensemble released Porgy and Bess Redefined! (Capri Records) in 2005. The music was taken from the George Gershwin/DuBose Heyward English-language opera, which was first performed in 1935. Masters' take on the classic was brilliantly expressed by the ensemble, who dug into his adventurous charts with freedom mixed with respect for the familiar and ...
