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Steve Khan: Public Access / Headline / Crossings

Read "Public Access / Headline / Crossings" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
March 25, 2018

It's been a great couple of years for Steve Khan fans who are (relatively) new to the guitarist's work, especially his early releases, thanks to UK-based BGO Records. First, his '70s-era trio of fusion-centric LPs on Columbia Records, 1977's Tightrope, 1978's The Blue Man and 1979's Arrows, were remastered and reissued in a 2015 two-CD set, ...

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Picture Him Happy

By Ben Sidran

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2017

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Mondo Jazz: Traveling (Part 1)

by Ludovico Granvassu
December 24, 2017

Jazz and Travel... what a natural fit! In this installment of Mondo Jazz we explore music that was inspired by the relentless travels that jazz musicians have to endure in order to share their music with their audiences, their departures and arrivals, their discoveries, adventures and misadventures using trains and planes and the places ...

Article: Album Review

Dewa Budjana: Zentuary

by John Kelman
December 25, 2016

In retrospect, all paths have truly led to this. Four increasingly impressive recordings for Moonjune Records have brought Dewa Budjana together with a variety of high profile, top-drawer jazz musicians from the American west and east coasts. Each successive album, from 2013's Dawai in Paradise through to 2015's Hasta Karma, have found the Indonesian guitarist raising ...

News: Music Industry

Dave King Trio – Asia Avails 2017

September 5, 2016

A very exciting new trio from three of the most dynamic jazz artists working today! Led by visionary drummer Dave King, this trio recently made a splash at the Winter JazzFest in New York in January 2016, and are warming up for a new record, set to come out on ECM Records in 2017. Dave King ...

Article: Live Review

A Day With Dave Liebman

by Ian Patterson
February 16, 2016

A Day With Dave Liebman National Concert Hall Dublin, Ireland January 31, 2016 Lasting the course in jazz, that's to say, building a successful career that, just like any other job, spans more than half a lifetime, brings with it a wealth of knowledge and experience. Sharing that knowledge with ...

Article: Multiple Reviews

Piani di Battaglia

by Alberto Bazzurro
September 17, 2015

Un elemento che salta all'occhio, in Stefano Battaglia, è la discrezione, come artista e come uomo. Uno dei tanti modi in cui lo rivela è il grande rispetto che ha per la musica altrui. Una differenza, magari per molti impercettibile, che separa questi due album lo conferma una volta di più: nel primo, che ha per ...

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Don't Cry for No Hipster

By Ben Sidran

Label: Nardis
Released: 2014
Track listing: Back Nine; Brand New Music; Don't Cry for No Hipster; At Least We Got to the Race; Can We Talk; In the Beginning; It Don't Get No Better; Dying Anyway; Private Guy; Reflections; Take a Little Hit; Sixteen Tons; Rich Interior Life; Hooglin'.

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Blue Camus

By Ben Sidran

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2014

Article: Catching Up With

Ben Sidran: The First Existential Jazz Rapper

by Joan Gannij
December 11, 2014

Ben Sidran is an old school hipster in the authentic sense of the word. He's a no frills, musician's musician who's got the heart, got the chops. He's been there, done that, and ready to do more. Sidran has never been interested in following trends or squeezing into categories and is not about to start now. ...