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Oran Etkin: Gathering Light
by Dan Bilawsky
Multi-reedist Oran Etkin's first album--Kelenia (Motema Music, 2009)--fused Malian sounds and Jewish music with jazz. Its follow-up--Wake Up, Clarinet! (1-2-3-4 Go, 2010)--was geared toward kids. Now, for round three, Etkin has cast his net over a huge portion of the globe, pulling together, arranging, and morphing musical ideals he's encountered while touring through Asia, Israel, and ...
Will Bernard: Just Like Downtown
by Angelo Leonardi
A partire dalla fine degli anni novanta, ovvero dal tempo dei suoi esordi da leader, Will Bernard s'è caratterizzato per il contagioso groove della sua musica, in uno spettro di situazioni che va dalle contaminazioni contemporanee al classico organ trio, reso celebre da Jimmy Smith, Wes Montgomery o Jack McDuff. A differenza di ...
Ben Allison: The Stars Look Very Different Today
by Vic Albani
Ibrido e crossover da sempre, il contrabbassista statunitense Ben Allison è uno di quei musicisti che--altrettanto da sempre--è caratterizzato dall'iper-classica etichetta “o lo ami o lo odi." Sinceramente, almeno io, non riesco a comprendere perché. Credo invece che, disco dopo disco, Ben sia riuscito a costruirsi un personalissimo stile compositivo e--quel che più importa--un altrettanto personalissimo ...
Claudio Filippini: Facing North
by Robin Arends
Pianist Claudio Filippini, born in Pescara in 1982, is one of the bright young stars of Italian jazz. With his album The Enchanted Garden (CAM Jazz, 2011) he was hailed as the new “wonder boy" of Italian jazz. Now he is regarded as a pianist/composer of international stature, with his album Facing North (CAM Jazz, 2013) ...
All About Jazz Expands Publishing Platform to Include Quarterly Magazine
Philadelphia, PA - All About Jazz, the web’s leading destination for jazz news, has teamed with Dutch based MFM Media to produce a quarterly jazz magazine through the Issuu.com publishing platform. Each issue reflects choice content previously published at All About Jazz with strong consideration given to connected material. For instance, the first issue focuses on ...
Ben Allison: The Stars Look Very Different Today
by Troy Collins
Conservatory-educated jazz musicians often follow a similar developmental path as they mature, typically expanding the relatively narrow focus of their academic training to reexamine the non-jazz related music styles that initially inspired them. Take the young lions of the pre-millennial era for example; most have extended their purview beyond straight-ahead hard bop to incorporate aspects of ...
Monash Sessions: Jazz in New York
By Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music, Monash University
Label: Jazzhead (Australia)
Released: 2013
Track listing: 1. Andy Gravish Ensemble - Swinging At The Haven 06:31
2. Michael Wolfe Ensemble - Portraiture 08:33
3. Michael Wolff Ensemble - Hummin 09:09
4. Sy Johnson Ensemble - Goodbye Porkpie Hat 05:44
5. Sy Johnson Ensemble - Blues Suite #4 07:37
6. Andy Gravish Ensemble - Night Dreamer 04:15
7. Jean-Michel Pilc Ensemble - Dirge 05:09
8. Dave Pietro Ensemble - Darn That Dream 06:32
9. Dave Pietro Ensemble - Sweet Time Suite 06:54
10. Ben Allison Ensemble - East Of The Sun 06:59
11. Dave Pietro Ensemble - Adam's Apple 07:27
Mosaic Records: Making Jazz History
by Bob Kenselaar
No one is more astonished by the longevity of Mosaic Records than Michael Cuscuna, the veteran record producer and one-time disc jockey who founded the label together with Charlie Lourie, a former clarinetist who worked in both jazz and classical contexts before becoming an executive at CBS records, Blue Note, and elsewhere. Arguably the premier reissue ...
D.A.V.E.
Album: The Stars Look Very Different Today
By Ben Allison
Label: Sonic Camera Records
Released: 2014
Duration: 5:49
Jazz Musician of the Day: Ben Allison
All About Jazz is celebrating Ben Allison's birthday today! Bassist/composer Ben Allison is one of a few band leaders working in jazz today who has developed his own instantly identifiable sound. Known for his lyrical melodies, inventive grooves and inspired arrangements, Ben draws from the jazz tradition and a range of influences from rock and folk ...
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