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Article: Album Review

Tim Rachbach: Under One Moon

Read "Under One Moon" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
October 17, 2018

"Ancient Thread" forcefully opens 23 year-old drummer Tim Rachbach's solid debut, Under The Moon, and it's a fitting title, indeed. Throughout this and six other Rachbach compositions, ("Toy Tune" belongs to none other than saxophonist Wayne Shorter) a group of young adventurous players explore their way through the music's many nuanced turns. Saxophonist Xavier ...

Article: Jazz Poetry

Poetry and Jazz: A Chronology

by Duncan Heining
October 14, 2018

My intention here is to offer a detailed but inevitably incomplete chronology of poetry and jazz. The focus is solely on the combination of the two art forms in performance, not on poetry about jazz or jazz musicians or poetry inspired by jazz but not performed to music. My definition of 'poetry' is fairly broad and ...

Article: Interview

Alan Broadbent: Intimate Reflections on a Passion for Jazz

by Victor L. Schermer
October 12, 2018

Pianist, composer, and arranger Alan Broadbent doesn't just “dig" jazz. He has a deep and enduring passion for it. Growing up in mid- 20th-century New Zealand, he quickly went beyond piano lessons to reading musical scores and learning jazz standards. Then, when the Dave Brubeck Quartet came to his relatively isolated hometown of Auckland, his love ...

Article: Album Review

Tim Stevens Double Trio: with whom you can be who you are

Read "with whom you can be who you are" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
September 21, 2018

Most jazz pianists with classical training in their backgrounds seem to feel the pull of of the strings: whether it be Bill Evans with his Bill Evans Trio With Symphony Orchestra Verve, 1965); Phineas Newborn, Jr. on While My Lady Sleeps (Bluebird/RCA, 1957); or, to bring it into the new millennium: Brad Mehldau's Highway Rider (Nonesuch, ...

Article: My Playlist

Enrico Zanisi

by Vincenzo Roggero
September 20, 2018

1. Childish Gambino, Awaken, My Love, (Glassnote, 2016). Donald Glover, in arte Childish Gambino, è un artista multiforme che non conoscevo fino a poco tempo fa. In seguito allo scalpore suscitato da un video dal titolo “This Is America," pubblicato qualche tempo fa, ho avuto l'opportunità di scoprire di più i suoi lavori, in particolare ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Honoring Aretha & Timeless Lyrics by Carolyn Leigh

by Mary Foster Conklin
September 15, 2018

This week we remember the legendary Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin in the second hour and enjoy a sampling of standards with lyrics by Carolyn Leigh plus songs by women who wrote with pianist Jimmy Rowles whose centennial is being celebrated this year. Playlist Lynne Arriale “Woodstock" from Give Us These Days ...

Article: Catching Up With

Zach Brock: Jazz Violin's New Wave

by Angelo Leonardi
September 12, 2018

Best known for his work with Snarky Puppy, Zach Brock is among the most creative violinists of his generation. Zach Brock is bringing the violin back to center stage. Influenced by European masters of the seventies like Jean-Luc Ponty, Zbigniew Seifert, Didier Lockwood, Brock has widened his perspective from modern jazz to rock, finding a synthesis ...

Article: Interview

Randy Weston: Brooklyn, Africa e ritorno

by Ludovico Granvassu
September 4, 2018

Per ricordare il grande pianista statunitense, riproponiamo un'intervista del 1999 che ripercorre la sua vita e la sua carriera, dalla nascita a Brooklyn agli anni passati in Africa fino alla consacrazione dopo il rientro negli Stati Uniti. Ogni anno, la facoltà di musica dell'università di Harvard, dedica parte del suo calendario accademico all'analisi ...

Article: Album Review

John Vanore: Stolen Moments

Read "Stolen Moments" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
August 31, 2018

Oliver Nelson incise il magistrale The Blues and the Abstract Truth in una sola session nel febbraio 1961 con sette strumentisti lui compreso. Aveva 29 anni e guidava una formazione strepitosa con Eric Dolphy, Freddie Hubbard, George Barrow in front line e una ritmica comprendente Bill Evans, Paul Chambers e Roy Haynes. Quei nomi e la ...