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Jazz Musician of the Day: Avishai Cohen
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 ...
Charu Suri: The Jazz Raga
by Karl Ackermann
The Roots of Indo-JazzJazz and Indian ragas share common ground in their traditional use of improvisation. They are often talked about in compatible terms, but Ravi Shankar, for one, did not believe that ragas could be compared to jazz improvisation. Spontaneous creation in jazz differs from the complex rhythmic structural patterns of Indian improvisation. Shankar became ...
New Sounds from Slocum, Hill and Oveido
by Bob Osborne
Featured on this week's show are new albums from Matt Slocum, Marquis Hill, Ariel Invernizzi Oviedo, Fishblot, Amos Gillespie, Avishai Cohen, and Jorge Garcia. There is also a track from improvisation super-group" John Dikeman, Pat Thomas, John Edwards, and Steve Noble. Also included are archive choices from Stan Sulzmann and Tony Hymas, Joanne Brackeen and Mary ...
Ilmiliekki Quartet: Ilmiliekki Quartet
by Pat Youngspiel
When opener Three Queens" kicks off seemingly mid-motion, Verneri Pohjola, Tuomo Prättälä, Antti Lötjönen and Olavi Louhivuoria foursome going by the name of Ilmiliekki Quartetsound as though they've already been at it for a while. They're all warmed up, in complete sync and have found a common groove at which they're smoothly tugging and pulling in ...
A Different Drummer, Pt. 6: Iberian Beats – Jorge Rossy & Pedro Melo Alves
by Karl Ackermann
The music of the Iberian Peninsula is as rich and diverse as any in the world. Its influences are many yet it developed in the pre-global bubble of geography. Early music of the peninsula was impacted by much of the known world in the primeval period and the Middle Ages. The peninsula was isolated by the ...
Two Roses
Label: Naive / Believe
Released: 2021
Track listing: Almah Sleeping; When I'm Falling; Nature Talking; Song For My Brother; Emotional Storm; Two roses (Shei
Shoshanim); Nature Boy; A Child Is Born; Puncha Puncha; Morenika; Seven Seas; Arab Medley; Overture
'Noam', Op. 1; Alon Basela.
Take Five with Ido Spak
by AAJ Staff
Meet Ido Spak Ido Spak's jazz journey: Ido Spak is a composer, arranger and pianist. He concentrates on jazz-fusion with the influence of classical techniques and Middle Eastern music. Ido wishes to bring new things to jazz and combine new rhythms and new ways of improvisation. Ido Spak writes music for films and has experience as ...
Siena Jazz 2021
by Serena Antinucci
Durante una chiacchierata con il contrabbassista Paolino Dalla Porta e il batterista Fabrizio Sferra, alla fine della mia permanenza alla cinquantunesima edizione dei Seminari Estivi Internazionali di Siena Jazz, ho capito cosa significhi davvero vivere il jazz. Le lezioni si sono appena concluse e ci ritroviamo nell'atrio della Fortezza Medicea (sede della scuola), prima ...