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Montreal Jazz Festival: Days 4-6, July 4-6, 2009
by John Kelman
Days 1-3 | Days 4-6 | Days 7-9 Joshua Redman By Invitation Day 1 / Brian Blade and the Fellowship Band Joshua Redman By Invitation Day 2 / Kenny Werner QuintetJeff Beck / Anat CohenFestival International de Jazz de Montreal Montreal, Quebec, Canada July 4-6 2009
Steve Kuhn: Shimmering Beauty
by Maxwell Chandler
This interview was originally published on All About Jazz on March 2, 2009. Whether it is in his trio, collaborating with vocalists or accompanying an orchestra, pianist Steve Kuhn has always managed to effortlessly defy and combine genres. Whether it is an older recording or one of his newer albums, an inherent ability to ...
Various Artists: Mahavishnu Redefined: A Tribute to John McLaughlin and the Mahavishnu Orchestra
by John Kelman
With guitar icon John McLaughlin's greater visibility, thanks to recent tours with his 4th Dimension group and Five Peace Band collaboration with pianist Chick Corea, there's been a flurry of reassessment of his vast and vital output as a repertory source. Drummer Gregg Bendian's Mahavishnu Project delivered first-time performances with Return to the Emerald Beyond (Cuneiform, ...
Manu Codjia: Manu Codjia
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Manu Codjia is among the most active sidemen on the French jazz scene and one of the most original guitarists playing jazz anywhere. His playing--clearly indebted to Bill Frisell, but also to Allan Holdsworth, Tommy Bolin on Billy Cobham's Spectrum (Atlantic, 1973), and a host of other influences--constantly generates new ideas on several levels at once: ...
Mike Stern Album w/: Vai, Johnson, MMW, Brecker
GUITARIST MIKE STERN PLAYS WITH TALENTED FRIENDS IN A BIG NEIGHBORHOOD Guest artists on new recording include Steve Vai, Eric Johnson, Esperanza Spalding Richard Bona, Randy Brecker, Medeski Martin & Wood, Cindy Blackman and others Mike Stern Five-time GRAMMY nominated guitarist Mike Stern's music has always come from a colorful and diverse ...
Julie Coryell – Jazz Author, Manager, Singer
By Bill Siegel Julie Coryell – jazz author, manager, singer, songwriter, actress, and more – passed away unexpectedly on May 10, at St. Francis Hospital in Poughkeepsie, NY. She was 61 years old, and had been living at the Victory Lake Nursing Home in Hyde Park, NY. She collaborated with award-winning photographer Laura Friedman on the ...
Take Five With Georg Cocron
by AAJ Staff
Meet Georg Cocron:Independent musician/guitarist, Georg Cocron, is a versatile, skilled guitarist whose creative escapades include five solo CDs and numerous session guitar credits. Inspired by jazz and rock legends such as Al Di Meola, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, and classical composers J.S. Bach, and George Frederic Handel, Cocron has branched out with avant-garde, electro-acoustic ...
McCoy Tyner: Fly With The Wind
by Graham L. Flanagan
McCoy Tyner may be best-known for his legendary tenure with John Coltrane's quartet in the early '60s, as well as his recordings as a leader for Blue Note, but budding fans should investigate his formidable output from the subsequent decade. In 1972, Tyner defected to Orrin Keepnews' Milestone label, where he remained through ...
John Scofield: Piety Street
by Doug Collette
John Scofield's Piety Street is an exercise in musicology, but it's also much more than that. Without sacrificing the prominence of his electric guitar playing--just utilizing it from a different perspective--this gospel blues album further demonstrates how he has executed similar fusions, in altogether different contexts, throughout his extensive 36-album career. Just as Scofield doesn't play ...
Will Sellenraad: Balance
by J Hunter
Will Sellenraad grew up in a place and time many people dream of: New York City's downtown scene of the '60s and '70s, when music and art were both in a state of quicksilver flux. Given that his parents (prominent New York artists themselves) named their son after modern-art pioneers William de Kooning and Piet Mondrian, ...
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