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Enjoy Jazz Festival: Days 1-2, October 20-21, 2009
by John Kelman
Days 1-2 | Day 3-6 | Days 7-10 | Days 11-12 Situated along the Neckar River in the central part of Germany, Heidelberg may seem like an unlikely place for a six-week jazz festival in the middle of the fall each year. But Enjoy Jazz, now in its eleventh year, has been bringing an ...
Oz Noy: No Longer Making Choices
by Matthew Warnock
Oz Noy's Schizophrenic (Magnatude Records, 2009) is the perfect moniker for the Israeli-born, New York-based guitarist. With an array of influences ranging from Charlie Parker to Jimi Hendrix to Stevie Ray Vaughan, Noy melds elements from funk, rock, blues and jazz into his own unique, personal take on modern instrumental music. Noy's solos seem ...
Bill Frisell: Disfarmer
By: Ron Hart Michael Disfarmer was an odd, curmudgeonly fellow from the WWII-era Midwest whose hobby was taking photographs of the various townsfolk from his hometown of Heber Springs, AK. And, like all great unsung-artists, little did Disfarmer know that his photographs would later become a treasured look into the vortex of Little America in the ...
Announcing the Winners of the Nonesuch "Bill Frisell - Disfarmer" Giveaway
Glenn Astarita, Monte Carollo, Mark Carroll, Joe Murtha and David Kuntz, Congratulations! You're the lucky winners of the Nonesuch Records “Bill Frisell - Disfarmer“ giveaway. All About Jazz will contact you about claiming your prize. We'd like to thank everyone who participated in the contest and please visit Nonesuch Records for more releases. Enjoy the music! ...
Jonathon Haffner: Life on Wednesday
by Dan McClenaghan
Alto saxophonist Jonathon Haffner's band on Life on Wednesday puts up a united front, sounding as integrated as the internal workings of a utilitarian, high horsepower industrial machine. But that machine has some grit in its innards on the set's opener, “Time Time," with a rasp of Wayne Krantz' metallic guitar paired with Craig Taborn's Wurlitzer ...
Kalle Kalima and his Dance Suite for Domesticated Animals, Helsinki
by Anthony Shaw
UMO Jazz Orchestra and Kalle Kalima Korjaamo, Helsinki September 25, 2009 When a guitarist attempts to compose for big band, there's an expectation of strong rhythmic motifs, but when the musician concerned is as suffused in contemporary idioms as is Kalle Kalima one gets much more. The big band in ...
Jonathan Kreisberg: Unearthed
by Matthew Warnock
The world of jazz guitar has long been filled with some of the most storied names in jazz history. Artists such as Charlie Christian, Johnny Smith, Wes Montgomery, Pat Metheny and John Scofield have all become recognized as some of jazz's greatest innovators and most prolific performers.In a day and age when it seems ...
Ben Allison: Think Free
by Troy Collins
Gradually moving away from the chamber music-like aesthetic of his Medicine Wheel and Peace Pipe ensembles of the nineties, bassist Ben Allison has begun embracing his formative influences, leaning towards a slightly more rock-oriented sound. Think Free is his third Palmetto album in as many years, thematically following Little Things Run the World (2008) and Cowboy ...
Guelph Jazz Festival & Colloquium 2009
by Kurt Gottschalk
Guelph Jazz Festival & ColloquiumGuelph, OntarioSeptember 9-13, 2009The Guelph Jazz Festival and Colloquium devoted itself this year to trying to unpack an idea so common that it is at once crucial and cliché: whether the practice of music-making might have world-changing implications. Through presentations on (for example) gang intervention in South Africa through ...
CD Release: "Backward Compatible" by Steve Shapiro & Pat Bergeson, Featuring Vocalist Annie Sellick
New York vibist Steve Shapiro and Nashville guitarist have released their third recording, Backward Compatible, on the Apria label. Also joining them once again is the fine jazz vocalist Annie Sellick. Respected studio musicians, Steve Shapiro & Pat Bergeson have worked with artists such as: Alison Krauss, Madeleine Peyroux, Steely Dan, Bill Frisell, Lyle Lovett, Bill ...
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