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News: Event

New Yorkers Come To Jeff Golub's Aid One Final Time

January 14, 2015

January 21 all-star concert planned to memorialize the guitarist and benefit his family sells out. New York, NY: When the newly blind guitarist Jeff Golub stumbled and fell onto New York City subway tracks where he was clipped and dragged by a train in 2012, New Yorkers came to his aid. When word spread throughout the ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Miles Davis: Olympia – Mar 20, 1960

by C. Michael Bailey
January 14, 2015

A Totally Subjective History of Jazz, 1945--1968 I am going to over-simplify the history of small-ensemble jazz between the heyday of bebop and the vestibule of fusion using a single catalyst--Miles Davis. Davis was instrumental in or the genesis of five major movements (not including fusion) in jazz where the hinges of these ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Rudresh Mahanthappa: Bird Calls

by Victor L. Schermer
January 13, 2015

In this innovative album, Rudresh Mahanthappa is to “Yardbird" Charlie Parker what Albert Einstein was to Isaac Newton. He revises Parker's legacy to his own advanced understanding, yet preserves the essential truth of Parker's contribution to jazz. One genius says “hello" to another and then goes his own way. The result is an exciting “leaning in" ...

News: Festival

First Tucson Jazz Festival features Bacharach, Reeves, Cobb, Childs, DeFrancesco, more

January 12, 2015

By Patricia Myers The HSL Tucson Jazz Festival, a 13-day event from January 16-28 will feature both national and Arizona musicians, headlined by 86-year-old composer Burt Bacharach, 85-year old drummer and NEA Jazz Master Jimmy Cobb, and four 2015 Grammy-nominated musicians. Organist Joey DeFrancesco received a Best Jazz Instrumental nomination for Enjoy The View ...

Article: Album Review

Kendall Moore: Focus

by Hrayr Attarian
January 6, 2015

Trombonist and composer Kendall Moore's debut, Focus, exhibits remarkable maturity and an exquisite harmonic sense. The six originals are intricately constructed and orchestrated in intriguing patterns. Each one is imbued with an individualized mood and varying degrees of dramatic tension. The cinematic “Fellowship" opens with pianist Angelo Versace's sparse haunting keystrokes. The ensemble's languid, ...

Article: Year in Review

2014: The Year in Jazz

by Ken Franckling
January 5, 2015

The year 2014 turned out to be a year noteworthy for its numbers. Newport turned 60, Blue Note turned 75, International Jazz Day's third edition featured 900 events in more than 190 countries. The jazz world lost seven of its NEA Jazz Masters, and New Orleans trumpeter Lionel Ferbos died at 103. Sad but not unexpected, ...

Article: Year in Review

C. Andrew Hovan's Top 10 for 2014

by C. Andrew Hovan
January 4, 2015

This will be a first in some time. For a variety of reasons, I had to curtail my writing activities about five years ago. As a result, my limited work for All About Jazz consisted mainly of photography and live reviews. As a result, I felt less then prepared in previous years to present any kind ...

Album

The Ivory Hunters

By Bill Evans

Label: Phoenix Jazz Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: Honeysuckle Rose; As Time Goes By; The Way You Look Tonight; It Could Happen to You; The Man I Love; I Got Rhythm; Everything I’ve Got; You Don’t Know What Love Is; I Don’t Know about You; I’m Getting Sentimental over You; Dancing in the Dark; I love You; 'S Wonderful.

Album

The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings, 1961

By Bill Evans

Label: Riverside
Released: 2014

Album

Three Classic Albums Plus

By Bill Evans

Label: Avid Entertainment
Released: 2014
Track listing: Portrait In Jazz; Come Rain Or Come Shine; Autumn Leaves; Witchcraft; When I Fall In Love; Peri's Scope; What Is This Thing Called Love; Spring Is Here; Some Day My Prince Will Come; Blue In Gree (Take 3); Everybody Digs Bill Evans; Minority; Young And Foolish; Lucky To Be Me; Night And Day; Tenderly; Peace Piece; What Is There To Say?; Oleo; Epilogue; Sunday At The Village Vanguard; Gloria's Step (Take 2); My Man's Gone Now; Solar; Alice In Wonderland (Take 2); All Of You (Take 2); Jade Visions (Take 2); Alternate Takes; Gloria's Step (Take 3); Alice In Wonderland (Take 1); All Of You (Take 3); Jade Visions (Take 1); Blue In Green (Take 1);