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Article: Live Review

Katie Thiroux Quartet at Birdland

by Dan Bilawsky
November 8, 2016

Katie Thiroux Quartet Birdland New York, NY November 6, 2016 Joy swings eternal in the music of bassist-vocalist Katie Thiroux. And that's just one of the many gifts that spring forth from this skyrocketing talent. Over the past eighteen months, Thiroux has had one deserved success after another. It started ...

Article: Multiple Reviews

Jazz for President - Le suite di Delfeayo Marsalis e Ted Nash

by Angelo Leonardi
November 7, 2016

Gli anni sessanta sono lontani e con essi la controversia su jazz e politica. Com'è noto, la musica è un'arte asemantica e i musicisti non possono trasmettere significati (in questo caso politici) con il linguaggio delle note. Però gli artisti esprimono eventuali scelte ideologiche iscrivendo la loro musica in un quadro semantico più generale, fatto di ...

Article: Multiple Reviews

In Jazz We Trust: On The Politically Inspired Work Of Delfeayo Marsalis and Ted Nash

by Dan Bilawsky
October 2, 2016

The current state of American politics--a veritable cesspool that makes reality television seem sane by comparison--leaves little to feel good about. Moral compasses are skewed, elected officials bicker like fractious toddlers, and candidates ranging from the lunatic sybarite variety to the bumptiously insincere seek the highest office in the land with strong approval from the loud ...

Article: Interview

Jim Ridl: Opening Doors in the Big Apple

by Victor L. Schermer
August 16, 2016

Something fresh and vital is in the air when a truly creative musician is about to release a new album. Jim Ridl's Door in a Field: Volume II: Songs of the Green River, an independent release, is full of surprises and rich in musical ideas. The album is set to be released in early Fall, and ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Benny Carter

August 8, 2016

All About Jazz is celebrating Benny Carter's birthday today! Benny Carter\'s long career was consistently characterized by high musical achievement, and he developed a unique and readily identifiable style as both an alto saxophonist and an arranger. He was able to double on trumpet and was also proficient on clarinet, piano, and trombone. His saxophone playing ...

Article: Album Review

Umlaut Big Band: Euro Swing Vol. 2

Read "Euro Swing Vol. 2" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
July 24, 2016

In Elvis Costello's autobiography, Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink (2015), he writes about his mother working in a music shop in the 1940s in Britain, and how she somehow became an expert in acquiring American jazz records from musicians and other international travelers. Certainly, she learned her craft from other music sellers and fans, maybe a ...

Article: Album Review

Richie Cole: Pittsburgh

Read "Pittsburgh" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
July 23, 2016

After a lifetime of movin' on that has taken him from Trenton, NJ, to cities, towns and hamlets across the country and around the world, it seems that alto saxophonist Richie Cole, now fifty-eight, is at last ready to settle down and plant some roots. As he declares in his latest album's opening number, “I Have ...

Article: Live Review

Montreux Jazz Festival 2016

by Ian Patterson
July 20, 2016

Montreux Jazz Festival 2016 Various Venues Montreux, Switzerland July 9-12, 2016 No matter at what point, or for how long you dipped into the Montreux Jazz Festival during the seventeen days of its 50th edition, the sense of history was palpable. Charles Lloyd was present, just as he was ...

Article: Album Review

Eugenia Choe: Magic Light

Read "Magic Light" reviewed by James Nadal

by James Nadal
April 26, 2016

One of the most interesting aspects of jazz immersion studies is how it influences and affects players from diverse backgrounds. Korean born and classically trained pianist Eugenia Choe was drawn to jazz by its opportunities for compositional development and improvisational challenges, bringing to Magic Light a lyrical understanding of technical structure, and an intellectual ability to ...

Article: Interview

Discovering Wardell Gray: An Interview with Biographer Richard Carter

by Victor L. Schermer
December 9, 2015

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 [This is one of two interviews and an article intended to bring readers' attention to the under-recognized tenor saxophonist, Wardell Gray, whose brief career spanned the transition from swing to bebop and whose life was cut short by sudden and tragic circumstances.] Richard Carter ...