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The Complete Hank Mobley Blue Note Sessions 1963-70

By Hank Mobley

Label: Mosaic Records
Released: 2020

Article: Interview

Matthew Halsall: A New Dawn

by Chris May
November 16, 2020

After five years without the release of any newly recorded material, the British trumpeter and composer Matthew Halsall has returned in winter 2020 with a fresh new band and a sparkling new album, Salute To The Sun, on his Gondwana Records label. It is more than good to have him and his music back.

Article: Take Five With...

Take Five with George Kahn

by AAJ Staff
November 16, 2020

Meet George Kahn George Kahn majored in music at Brandeis University and moved to Los Angeles in 1976 to pursue a music career as a pianist and film composer. His jazz recording career now spans over 20 years. The George Kahn Trio album, released in 2018 reached #16 on the JazzWeek Charts. His new album, George ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Celebrating Jazz Scorpios Nellie Lutcher and More

by Mary Foster Conklin
November 2, 2020

Today's broadcast celebrates many Jazz Scopios, with birthday shoutouts to Nellie Lutcher ("He's a Real Gone Guy, Hurry On Down"), Dizzy Gillespie, Fred Hersch, Dianne Reeves, Magos Herrera, Jimmy Heath, Freddy Cole, Anita O'Day and Fran Landesman ("Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most," “Ballad of the Sad Young Men"). Thanks for listening and please ...

Article: Interview

Joe Farnsworth: Friends In High Places

by R.J. DeLuke
October 26, 2020

Joe Farnsworth is one of the top jazz drummers working today, with a resume that includes some of the absolute greats. His muscular swing and precise timekeeping have been attractive to employers like Wynton Marsalis, Diana Krall, McCoy Tyner, George Coleman, Pharoah Sanders, Eric Alexander, Benny Golson and many more. He likes to say ...

Article: Album Review

Bertrand Denzler / Antonin Gerbal: Sbatax

by Mark Corroto
October 2, 2020

With six and one-half minutes remaining in this single thirty-eight minute live tenor saxophone/drums recording, an audience member at a club in Berlin begins howling. Listeners to this recording will probably be saying to themselves, “where have you been? I've been shouting encouragement since I pressed play!" It's that kind of record. The two ...

Article: Highly Opinionated

Ornette Coleman: An Outsider Cracks the Egg

by S.G Provizer
September 11, 2020

Part 1 | Part 2 There are two ways a musician can make a significant impact on jazz. One is to mobilize virtuosity and knowledge to push the current boundaries of the music. There are a number who fall in this category, but unassailable examples are Louis Armstrong, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker. The ...

Article: Album Review

Andy Fusco: Remembrance

Read "Remembrance" reviewed by David A. Orthmann

by David A. Orthmann
August 23, 2020

Since 2016 SteepleChase Records has released five discs by alto saxophonist Andy Fusco. This impressive, often stunning body of work goes a long way in raising the profile of a man who had seldom been given the opportunity to record under his own name. While Fusco leads the sessions, he's the antithesis of a star or ...

Article: Book Review

Ornette Coleman: The Territory And The Adventure

by S.G Provizer
August 16, 2020

Ornette Coleman: The Territory And The Adventure Maria Golia 368 Pages ISBN: #9781789142235 University of Chicago Press 2020 Ornette Coleman holds a singular place in jazz history. The seeds of change in jazz had been sewn by Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra, John Coltrane and their cohorts, but Coleman's ...

Article: Interview

Charles Tolliver: Blowing Down The Walls Of Trump’s Jericho

by Chris May
July 21, 2020

Charles Tolliver has played with practically every major African American jazz stylist of his generation, and composed for some of them, too. In addition, he is the co-founder of Strata-East, the most influential label at the intersection of hard bop and spiritual jazz during the 1970s. Tolliver's long and distinguished career continues to flourish, with a ...