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Article: Year in Review

Top 25 "Read" Album Reviews: 2016

by Michael Ricci
January 1, 2017

All About Jazz tracks how often an album review is read, and the reviews listed below represent our top twelve published in 2016. Evolution Dr. Lonnie Smith by Dan Bilawsky Published: January 4, 2016 Spark Hiromi by Jeff Winbush

Album

Space Squid

By Bill Stewart

Label: Pirouet Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: Paris Lope; End Of Earth; Tincture; Septemberism; Happy Walk; Drop Of Dusk; Dead Ringer; Blue Sway; If Anyone Asks You; Space Squid; Dancing In The Dark.

Article: Catching Up With

John Scofield: Jazz Inspires You To Try Something Different

by Nenad Georgievski
December 21, 2016

In a career that has spanned over several decades with releases that have encompassed various types of musical styles and sounds, guitarist John Scofield has always managed to emphasize the importance of melody by building fragments of hummable tunes around musically abstract compositions. His record Country for Old Men (Impulse!, 2016)--the title is a play on ...

Article: Album Review

Steve Slagle: Alto Manhattan

Read "Alto Manhattan" reviewed by Mark Sullivan

by Mark Sullivan
December 18, 2016

Alto Manhattan is Latino for the New York City neighborhood “upper Manhattan" (or “the heights"). It's also where veteran alto saxophonist/flutist Steve Slagle lives, making for a nice bit of wordplay in the album title. This is a well-balanced program, with just a bit more Latin tinge than average. “Family" launches the set with Latin-flavored hard ...

Article: Live Review

The Power Quintet at Jazz Standard

by Dan Bilawsky
December 5, 2016

The Power Quintet Jazz Standard New York, NY December 3, 2016 The age of the collective-minded outfit in jazz is upon us. While the concept of democratically-driven bands is hardly new or unique, more and more artists seem to be taking to the idea with gusto, pooling their ...

Article: Live Review

John Scofield's Country for Old Men at the Ardmore Music Hall

by Mike Jacobs
October 18, 2016

John Scofield's Country for Old Men The Ardmore Music Hall Ardmore, PA September 24, 2016 There are probably only are a handful of guitarists with a catalog as deep and stylistically diverse as John Scofield's. One of the obvious perils that these artists encounter when touring is facing an audience with ...

News: Recording

Sco: Country for Old Men

September 23, 2016

Earlier this year, guitarist John Scofield won a Grammy for his album, Past Present. Released in 2015, Past Present came on the heels of tough times for Sco—the 2013 passing of his son, Evan, to sarcoma at age 26. Sco's music on the album was haunting and pained, the ache of a father and a family ...

Article: Extended Analysis

John Scofield: Country for Old Men

by John Kelman
September 19, 2016

When guitarist Bill Frisell first began a more decided focus on roots music, bluegrass and country & western music with the release of 1996's Nashville (Nonesuch), despite being largely very well-received, jazz purists rankled when the largely bluegrass/folk-informed album began to garner awards like Downbeat Magazine's Best Jazz Album of the Year. While Frisell's oftentimes Americana-tinged ...

Article: Album Review

John Scofield: Country for Old Men

Read "Country for Old Men" reviewed by Maurizio Comandini

by Maurizio Comandini
September 12, 2016

La vita spesso sa essere molto crudele. Nella sua lunga parabola artistica il chitarrista John Scofield, nato a Dayton (Ohio) nel dicembre del 1951, ha avuto numerose soddisfazioni di grande spessore, dalle esperienze come sideman nei gruppi di Charles Mingus, Miles Davis, Chet Baker, George Duke, Joe Henderson, Billy Cobham ed Herbie Hancock, per citare solo ...

Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Patrick Zimmerli

by AAJ Staff
August 18, 2016

About Patrick Zimmerli New York-and Paris-based composer/saxophonist Patrick Zimmerli writes a sophisticated yet approachable hybrid of contemporary classical and jazz music. Recent collaborators include Joshua Redman, Brad Mehldau, Brooklyn Rider String Quartet, Brian Blade, Luciana Souza, the Knights Orchestra and the Escher String Quartet. His music has been performed at Carnegie Hall and Town Hall ...