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Article: Book Review

Jazz And Death: Reception, Rituals And Representations

Read "Jazz And Death: Reception, Rituals And Representations" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Jazz and Death: Reception, Rituals and Representations Walter van de Leur 200 Pages ISBN: 9781138553422 Routledge 2023 The title might seem a tad non-felicitous, but it surely invites reflection. How do we respond to and commemorate jazz musicians' deaths? In what ways do these rituals manifest themselves from one ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five with Tubist Jim Shearer

Read "Take Five with Tubist Jim Shearer" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Meet Jim Shearer Jim Shearer was born in Water Valley, Mississippi, in 1964. His family owned the local newspaper, The North Mississippi Herald, from 1943-2004, and his father was an active musician on the side, playing jazz saxophone and serving as Minister of Music at the family church (but never at the same time!). After spending ...

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Article: Album Review

The Bix Centennial All Stars: Celebrating Bix!

Read "Celebrating Bix!" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Here's a new album by the Bix Centennial All Stars honoring the legacy of the renowned cornetist Bix Beiderbecke. Sort of. Actually, most of the music on Celebrating Bix! was recorded and released in March 2003, the actual centenary of Beiderbecke's birth in Davenport, Iowa. This expanded twentieth anniversary edition includes a trio of songs not ...

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Article: Album Review

Buselli / Wallarab Jazz Orchestra: The Gennett Suite

Read "The Gennett Suite" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


This is where music for mass consumption--recorded music--started, in Richmond, Indiana, in the 1920s, in a piano factory by the railroad tracks in a glacier-carved gorge. Established in 1887, in the beginning Starr Pianos' bread and butter was pianos, but they branched out to selling other instruments and eventually photographs and records--their own records, recorded in ...

Article: Book Review

Prima di Joni Mitchell e Carole King c'era Connie Converse

Read "Prima di Joni Mitchell e Carole King c'era Connie Converse" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


To Anyone Who Ever Asks--The Life Music and Mistery of Connie Converse Howard Fishman 576 pagine ISBN: # 9780593187346 Dutton 2023 La storia del jazz è piena giovani innovatori scomparsi tragicamente. Meteore che hanno lasciato un segno indelebile prima di uscire di scena. Molti sono morti in giovane età ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Bix Beiderbecke

Jazz Musician of the Day: Bix Beiderbecke

All About Jazz is celebrating Bix Beiderbecke's birthday today! Early jazz legend Leon Bismark [Bix] Beiderbecke was born on March 10, 1903, in Davenport, Iowa, a mid-sized midwestern city. He attended Davenport schools until 1920 and showed an early aptitude for music. His family disapproved of his interest in jazz and sent him to Lake Forest ...

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Article: Interview

Jeff Berlin: Making Jack Songs, Making Amends, Making A New Path

Read "Jeff Berlin: Making Jack Songs, Making Amends, Making A New Path" reviewed by Mike Jacobs


Chances are, if you know Jeff Berlin's name, you know at least some of the bassist's now-classic work with such seminal jazz/rock/fusion mainstays as Bill Bruford or Allan Holdsworth. If so, you may also know of his 10 albums as a leader or some of his many other sideman, supergroup and touring credits. If you're still ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five with Bryan S. Wright

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Meet Bryan S. Wright Bryan S. Wright is a pianist and Grammy-nominated musicologist based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Since 2003, he has been the Executive Producer of Rivermont Records, a label dedicated to preserving and promoting ragtime and early jazz styles through reissues of historic recordings alongside new recordings by today's most celebrated ragtime and early jazz ...

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Article: Building a Jazz Library

From George Coleman to Meeco: Ten Overlooked Classics

Read "From George Coleman to Meeco: Ten Overlooked Classics" reviewed by Chris May


The only thread running through this installment of Building A Jazz Library is that of unsung quality. No particular artist is spotlighted, nor any particular genre. There are simply ten, randomly selected albums, recorded in the US and Europe between 1953 and 2021, which show jazz off at its finest, but which, for one reason or ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Bix Beiderbecke

Jazz Musician of the Day: Bix Beiderbecke

All About Jazz is celebrating Bix Beiderbecke's birthday today! As a boy, Bix Beiderbecke had a few piano lessons, but he was self-taught on cornet and developed an unorthodox technique by playing along with recordings. His family disapproved of his interest in jazz and sent him to Lake Forest Academy in 1921, but the opportunity to ...


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