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Jazz Musician of the Day: Avishai Cohen

April 20, 2019

All About Jazz is celebrating Avishai Cohen's birthday today! Bassist/Composer Avishai Cohen, born April 20, 1970 in Israel, a musician who has been called a “jazz visionary of global proportions” by DownBeat, and was declared one of the 100 Most Influential Bass Players of the 20th Century by Bass Player Magazine, is renowned around the world ...

Article: Take Five With...

Take Five with Guy Paz

by AAJ Staff
March 19, 2019

About Guy Paz: Drummer, Composer, and Producer Guy Paz is one of the most accomplished musical voices emerging on the Israeli and US jazz, indie, funk, folk, pop, soul and R&B music scenes today. In his short time in the United States, Mr. Paz has gained international recognition as one of the most exciting and ...

Article: Multiple Reviews

3x3: Piano Trios, vol. IV

by Geno Thackara
March 9, 2019

Yonathan Avishai Joys and Solitudes ECM Records 2019 Though Yonathan Avishai isn't exactly in solitude on his debut as leader, half the recording is well suited to quiet times away from the world, or perhaps being enjoyed with minimal company—the trio at hand is comfortable with silence as any ECM ensemble ...

Article: Album Review

Tomasz Dabrowski: Ninjazz

by Don Phipps
February 24, 2019

Dark and foreboding, with a slight touch of heat, Polish trumpeter Tomasz Dąbrowski's album Ninjazz offers up a selection of work that reminds one of his mentor, the late great Tomasz Stanko, with a bit of Enrico Rava, Kenny Wheeler, and Mark Isham thrown in for good measure. Dabrowski is joined on this effort ...

Article: Live Review

JAZZTOPAD 2018

by Henning Bolte
February 16, 2019

Jazztopad Festival Witold Lutoslawski National Forum of Music National Forum of Music, Club Mleczarnia November 21-25, 2018 Jazztopad is the annual Jazz Festival of Poland's Witold Lutoslawski National Forum of Music in Wroclaw. Wroclaw, a vibrant, hip, internationally oriented city that never sleeps, has character, lots of peculiar neighborhoods, populated by ...

Article: Live Review

Kraków Jazz Juniors Competition 2018

by Martin Longley
February 12, 2019

Jazz Juniors 2018 ICE Kraków Congress Centre/Piec Art Acoustic Jazz Club Kraków, Poland November 29-December 2, 2018 In 2017, the four-day Jazz Juniors competition was merged under the banner of Hitch On, with promises of a full duality for its 2018 42nd edition. Along the way, this didn't ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Ziv Ravitz Trio Live At BIMHUIS Amsterdam

by BIMHUIS
February 11, 2019

Ziv Ravitz has established himself as a reference young drummer thanks to successful collaborations with the likes of Avishai Cohen, Mark Turner and Lee Konitz. For years the Israeli Brooklyn-based musician has performed in the trio of saxophonist Will Vinson, who on this tour hands over the reins to him. In early 2019, Ziv ...

Article: Album Review

Marta Sanchez: Danza Imposible

Read "Danza Imposible" reviewed by Neri Pollastri

by Neri Pollastri
February 6, 2019

Terzo disco a proprio nome per la giovane pianista e compositrice madrilena Marta Sanchez, formazione classica e alcuni anni passati a New York dopo la decisione di dedicarsi interamente al jazz. La formazione che qui guida è un classico quintetto composta da un trio e da una front line di due sax, ma ha la particolarità ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Shai Maestro Trio At BIMHUIS Amsterdam

by BIMHUIS
January 21, 2019

Shai Maestro began playing classical piano at the age of five an,d after discovering Oscar Peterson at the age of eight, he fell in love with jazz. After turning down offers from prestigious American music schools, at 19 he joined the band led by bassist Avishai Cohen featuring Mark Guiliana on drums. With that trio he ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Maria’s A Winner & Sonny Is Too

by Marc Cohn
January 18, 2019

Sometimes in this business, you get so saturated with new music that your ears are paralyzed. The blues to the rescue, including Dexter Gordon singing with his voice, not just the saxophone. We also salute and celebrate Maria Schneider's receipt of a Jazz Masters' Award this spring from the National Endowment for the Arts. The first ...