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Marc Copland in Love
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 ...
Bill Evans: Live at Art D'Lugoff's Top of the Gate
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 ...
Take Five With Jussi Reijonen
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, ...
Roberto Magris: One Night In With Hope And More...Vol.1
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 ...
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 ...
Michelle Marie: Two Countries, One Language
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 ...
Dan DeChellis Trio: My Age of Anxiety
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 ...
Motian Sickness: The Music of Paul Motian: For the Love of Sarah
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 ...
Majamisty TriO: Mistyland
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 ...
Ferner/ Juliusson: Undertowed
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 ...


