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Article: Bailey's Bundles

Marc Copland in Love

Read "Marc Copland in Love" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey

Pianist Marc Copland has previously released popular and well-received trio recordings in series, most recently New York Trio Recordings Vol. 1: Modinha (Pirouet, 2006), New York Trio Recordings Vol. 2: Voices (Pirouet, 2008) and New York Trio Recordings Vol. 3: Night Whispers (Pirouet, 2009). But he has an ensemble association with bassist Drew Gress and drummer ...

Article: Album Review

Bill Evans: Live at Art D'Lugoff's Top of the Gate

Read "Live at Art D'Lugoff's Top of the Gate" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

D'Lugoff's non è certo un nome facile da pronunciare per un italiano, eppure merita un piccolo sforzo, perché si tratta di un locale notevole. Era il club posto un piano sopra il più celebre Village Gate e per questo soprannominato “Top of the Gate". Accoglieva artisti dello stesso calibro e capitava spesso che il trio di ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Jussi Reijonen

Read "Take Five With Jussi Reijonen" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

Meet Jussi Reijonen: Born in Rovaniemi, a small town on the Arctic Circle in northern Finland, fretted/fretless guitarist and oudist Jussi Reijonen is truly the product of a world with few frontiers. Having grown up moving back and forth between Finnish Lapland, the Middle East, and East Africa, and currently living in Boston MA, ...

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Article: Album Review

Roberto Magris: One Night In With Hope And More...Vol.1

Read "One Night In With Hope And More...Vol.1" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco

Italian composer and pianist Roberto Magris is an internationally renowned artist reminiscent of piano masters like Kenny Drew, McCoy Tyner and the legendary Bill Evans. A veteran jazz musician, Magris has recorded eighteen albums in a career that has spanned over three decades and, with One Night In With Hope And More...Vol. 1, continues his collaboration ...

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News: Recording

Concord Music Group Releases Five New Titles In Very Best Of Jazz Series

Concord Music Group Releases Five New Titles In Very Best Of Jazz Series

Titles include the works of music legends Dave Brubeck, Vince Guaraldi, The Bill Evans Trio, Thelonious Monk, and Cannonball Adderley LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Concord Music Group is launching five new titles in its Very Best Of jazz series, which showcases some of the very best tracks culled from the recordings of some of the most ...

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Article: Interview

Michelle Marie: Two Countries, One Language

Read "Michelle Marie: Two Countries, One Language" reviewed by Fernando Rodriguez De Mondesert

by Fernando Rodriguez De Mondesert

Michelle Marie is one of the young female guitarists with which to be reckoned with on the jazz scene today. Her original compositions and arrangements create an incredible, impressionistic atmosphere, and when she adds her voice to the mix, they simply add to the ambiance. Combined with her presence and artistic desire, Michelle Marie definitely commands ...

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Article: Album Review

Dan DeChellis Trio: My Age of Anxiety

Read "My Age of Anxiety" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann

If anything in jazz approaches the status of a commodity, it would be the piano trio. The inevitable comparisons run the gamut from Bill Evans and Keith Jarrett to Cecil Taylor and, more often than not, those benchmarks are either unattainable or unsustainable. A more accessible measure may be in the ability to differentiate one group's ...

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Article: Album Review

Motian Sickness: The Music of Paul Motian: For the Love of Sarah

Read "For the Love of Sarah" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky

The parts of the drum set, viewed individually or as a collective whole, fit neatly under the “percussion" heading in the musical instrument world, yet Paul Motian rarely seemed to view them as objects to be struck. Motian found a way to finesse the cymbals, flirt with the drums and free the drum set from the ...

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Article: Album Review

Majamisty TriO: Mistyland

Read "Mistyland" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian

Supreme virtuosity and intense lyricism come together on Majamisty Trio's Mystiland. Both the group and record are named after Erroll Garner's composition that serves as leader Maja Alvanović's theme song, and is also the only standard on an otherwise all-original disc from the pianist. She imbues Garner's masterpiece with a breeziness that masks the complexities of ...

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Article: Album Review

Ferner/ Juliusson: Undertowed

Read "Undertowed" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni

The duo of Norwegian guitarist Per-Arner Ferner and Swedish pianist Per Gunnar Juliusson was established in 2008 and already in 2010 was awarded the title Young Jazz Musicians of the Year in the JazzIntro competition in Molde Jazz Festival. This award led to a series of promoted performances in the next two years, culminated in this ...


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