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Article: Album Review

Todd Clouser's A Love Electric: 20th Century Folk Selections

Read "20th Century Folk Selections" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto

More than rock musicians and more than blues artists, jazz musicians carry the greatest burden of musical legacy. There are not stories about a contemporary rock musician who dedicates his career to mastering The Beatles catalog, or of the one who's playing is paralyzed because she cannot deal with Jimi Hendrix's solos. Nope. Only in jazz ...

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Article: Album Review

Matthew Shipp: Elastic Aspects

Read "Elastic Aspects" reviewed by Chris Rich

by Chris Rich

Elasticity is expressed throughout this Matthew Shipp trio release in the deftness of transitions, the focused investigations of central elements in music and a selection structure that has its own striking cohesion. The piano gets its elaborate discovery expedition with corresponding investigations from bassist Michael Bisio and drummer Whit Dickey. Recorded in July ...

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Article: Album Review

Pablo Bobrowicky: Southern Blue

Read "Southern Blue" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey

Argentinian guitarist Pablo Bobrowicky has a beautifully unadorned and organic tone, as naked as an electrified guitar can be. He makes it a point not to hide behind reverb, sustain, or overdrive, producing a plectrum sound halfway between electric and acoustic. On Southern Blue, his fourth Red Records recording as a leader, Bobrowicky returns to the ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Dave Bryant

Read "Take Five With Dave Bryant" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

Meet Dave Bryant: Keyboardist and composer, Dave Bryant is best known for his work as a member of Ornette Coleman's Prime Time group. Bryant's addition to the group marked Coleman's first extended work with a keyboard instrument in decades.Instrument(s): Keyboards.Teachers and/or influences? I went through a ...

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News: Radio

Shelly Berg Plays Art Tatum This Week on Riverwalk Jazz

Shelly Berg Plays Art Tatum This Week on Riverwalk Jazz

This week on Riverwalk Jazz, actor Vernel Bagneris offers a glimpse of Art Tatum through the words of jazz musicians who knew him, and noted pianist Shelly Berg performs Tatum masterworks with the Jim Cullum Jazz Band. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM sattelite radio and can be streamed ...

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Article: Interview

Rez Abbasi: Thoroughly Modern Marvel

Read "Rez Abbasi: Thoroughly Modern Marvel" reviewed by Lawrence Peryer

by Lawrence Peryer

Guitarist Rez Abbasi is part of a generation of jazz musicians who came of age after the conservative backlash of the 1980s. He and his peers are making their mark on America's art form by contributing their rich and varied cultural backgrounds and with an embrace of popular culture that was heresy in some quarters for ...

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Take Five With Rory Hoffman

Read "Take Five With Rory Hoffman" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

Meet Rory Hoffman: I was raised in a musical family, playing drums in the country gospel family band by the time I was five. Twice named musician of the year, 2004--2005, by the ICMA, based in Nashville, TN. Moved to Nashville in the spring of 2008. I currently work as a freelance touring and ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Jan Johansson: In Hamburg with Georg Riedel

Read "Jan Johansson: In Hamburg with Georg Riedel" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson

Jan JohanssonIn Hamburg with Georg RiedelACT Music2011 The small number of posthumous releases in the 42 years since the death of Swedish jazz pianist/composer Jan Johansson at the age of 37 remains something of a mystery. Johansson--who pianist Esbjorn Svensson described as being “a very, very big influence“--has ...

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Article: Interview

Stefano Bollani: And Now For Something Completely Different

Read "Stefano Bollani: And Now For Something Completely Different" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson

Impersonating singer Paolo Conte and other Italian cultural icons comes as naturally to pianist Stefano Bollani as interpreting the music of Antonio Carlos Jobim, Michael Jackson, Brian Wilson, or Maurice Ravel--or indeed, writing novels. To say that Bollani is multitalented is a bit like saying Art Tatum could play the piano a bit. Oh, and Bollani ...

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Article: Book Review

Tad Hershorn: Norman Granz - The Man Who Used Jazz For Justice

Read "Tad Hershorn: Norman Granz - The Man Who Used Jazz For Justice" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson

Norman Granz: The Man Who Used Jazz For Justice Tad Hershorn Hardcover; 488 pages ISBN: 9780520267824 University of California Press 2011 That this is the first comprehensive biography on groundbreaking jazz impresario Norman Granz (1918-2001) says much about the man's private nature. Granz shied ...


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