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Jean-Michel Pilc: True Story
by Joel Roberts
Paris-born pianist Jean-Michel Pilc continues his impressive series of Dreyfus Jazz releases with True Story, his first album since 2006's New Dreams and the debut effort for his exciting new trio featuring respected veteran drummer Billy Hart and talented Russian-born bassist Boris Kozlov. The 49-year-old Pilc, a resident of New York for the past 15 years, ...
Sonny Rollins Elected as Member of American Academy of Arts & Sciences
by Jack Bowers
This month's most welcome news has nothing to do with big bands but everything to do with artistry and excellence: saxophonist and jazz icon Sonny Rollins has been elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. The Academy, a center for independent policy research (I don't quite understand what that has to do ...
Phil Meadows' Standard: Leeds, UK, April 24, 2010
by Alex J Watson
Phil Meadows' StandardToast BarLeeds, UKApril 24, 2010Saxophonist Phil Meadows is a rising star of the UK jazz scene. Benchmark performances such as his appearance at Manchester Jazz festival last year, along with various accolades, including winner of LIMA Bands Competition 2008, have helped kick start the career of the young Chethams ...
Michele Giuliani: Widespread Roots
by Achille Brunazzi
Pianist Michele Giuliani--born in Baritone--is one of the emerging talents of the Italian jazz scene. After years of constant experimentation--from progressive rock music to funk and jazz--the 34 year-old completed Roots (Zeitgeist, 2009), the sum total of all his musical experiences, named for the diversity of influences and cultures featured in Giuliani's music. Giuliani ...
The State of The Piano Trio 2010 (Pt.1): Helge Lien Trio and Trichotomy
by C. Michael Bailey
The piano trio is a durable and fertile format for musical expression. It is the jazz equivalent of classical chamber music--that is, music produced by a small number of instruments, small enough to be accommodated in close confines. While the piano trio can come in many flavors, the typical one is piano, bass and drums (aka ...
Ralph Towner / Paolo Fesu: Chiaroscuro
by Martin Gladu
In a stuffed, empty room, rays of moonlight spill through a cobwebbed window and come licking a tired hardwood floor to the feet of an old, stiff chair. On it, the silhouette of a guitar; its strings, silent. At its side, a second chair with an embossed trumpet planted alongside a lonely music stand completes the ...
Larry Willis: Reaching and Teaching
by Russ Musto
In a career spanning five decades, Larry Willis has amassed one the most impressive resumes in jazz, including tenures with Jackie McLean, Hugh Masekela, Joe Henderson, Woody Shaw, Stan Getz, Carla Bley, Roy Hargrove, Jimmy Cobb's So What Sextet and Jerry Gonzalez and the Fort Apache Band, testifying to the high esteem in which he is ...
Take Five with Ralf Krebs
by AAJ Staff
Meet Ralf Krebs:The native Berliner began his musical career at the age of 11, taking lessons in drumming and latin percussion. He was much in demand as a drummer and percussionist in numerous local bands and counted amongst his influences Salsa, Fusion and the Jazz Rock of the 70s and 80s.His love ...
Peter Asplund: Asplund Meets Bernstein
by Chris Mosey
This reverent but highly accessible and creative tribute to Leonard Bernstein, by Swedish trumpeter Peter Asplund, will undoubtedly be a leading contender for his homeland's next Golden Record (Gyllene Skivan) award. It's the most important jazz album to emerge from the Nordic Area in a good long while. Asplund's collaboration with Mats Hålling--a ...
Ralph Bowen, Dan Pratt, Brandon Wright: Posi-Tone strikes gold again
by J Hunter
Traditional jazz does not have to be boring. It does not have to be staid, or re-fried or adhere to a formula concocted in a New Orleans barroom over nine decades ago. A lot of the large labels don't get that. Fortunately, the creative triumvirate at Posi-Tone Records not only understands this concept, but they practice ...
