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Bobby Bradford & John Carter Quintet: No U Turn: Live In Pasadena, 1975

Read "No U Turn: Live In Pasadena, 1975" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
May 14, 2015

History, it is said, is written by the victors. With jazz history, the story is too often written by New Yorkers, or at least those east of the Mississippi. Listeners with inquisitive minds are required to dig deeper, into record bins and into interviews with musicians to learn about players that did not make New York ...

Article: Take Five With...

Ab Baars e il Questionario di Proust

by AAJ Staff
April 30, 2015

All About Jazz: Il tratto principale della mia musica. Ab Baars: Allegramente ostinata. AAJ: La qualità che desidero nei musicisti che suonano con me. A.B.: Grandi orecchie e una storia da raccontare. AAJ: Come musicista, il momento in cui sono stato più felice. A.B.: ...

News: Festival

Angel City Jazz Festival Kicks Off 2 Weeks Of Music

September 16, 2014

This weekend the 7th Annual Angel City Jazz Festival opens in Los Angeles. Rocco Somazzi founded the festival in order to present non-commercial jazz to an LA audience which had scant exposure to music from the more adventurous end of the jazz spectrum. Back in 2008, 13 different bands, highlighted by the inimitable alto saxophonist, Arthur ...

Article: Multiple Reviews

I tesori della Emanem

by AAJ Staff
April 28, 2014

Gli appassionati di jazz europeo conoscono bene il nome della Emanem, l'etichetta fondata nel 1974 da Martin Davidson per documentare la scena londinese legata alla free improvisation e che nel suo vasto catalogo custodisce molti capolavori anche di artisti americani. Bobby Bradford e John Carter Tandem Tra le più ...

Article: Live Review

Bradford-Gjerstad Quartet at Philadelphia Art Alliance

by Tyran Grillo
April 16, 2014

Bradford-Gjerstad Quartet Philadelphia Art Alliance Philadelphia, PA March 29, 2014 Pivot or persevere? It's a question that frames every moment of jazz performance and one that suffused the Philadelphia Art Alliance loft, where on a rainy Saturday cornetist Bobby Bradford, reedman Frode Gjerstad, bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, and ...

Article: Extended Analysis

John Carter & Bobby Bradford: Tandem

by John Eyles
April 12, 2014

The music on the double CD Tandem (remastered) was all previously available on two single Emanem CDs, Tandem 1 and Tandem 2, released in 1996. They have now been withdrawn and replaced by this release. In the process the music has been programmed in a more sensible order and, as the album title highlights, the sound ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Wood Flute Songs: Anthology/Live 2006-2012

by Mark Corroto
November 12, 2013

A box set that includes over nine hours of one musician's output could be considered indulgent. Indulgent yes, unless that musician's last name is Parker. Certainly the family of Parker we're talking about includes the bebop innovator Charlie Parker, free jazz saxophonist Evan Parker, and jazz padrone William Parker . The latter Parker is a bassist, ...

News: Recording

William Parker 8CD Box Set Of Previously Unissued Recordings To Be Released On AUM Fidelity November 12

August 20, 2013

On November 12, AUM Fidelity will release Wood Flute Songs: Anthology / Live 2006–2012, an 8CD box set of all previously unissued multi-track concert recordings by world-renowned bassist-composer-bandleader William Parker, a 2013 recipient of the Doris Duke Foundation’s Artist Award. Parker is a wonderfully prolific composer, and over half of the compositions will make their debut ...

Article: Album Review

David Murray Infinity Quartet: Be My Monster Love

Read "Be My Monster Love" reviewed by Steve Bryant

by Steve Bryant
June 18, 2013

Tenor man David Murray is considered to be one of the most prolific and innovative players and composers of the last 40 years.Not only has he distinguished himself as an inventive leader of the avant-garde movement, he has become a veritable Renaissance man just based on the myriad of projects he has undertaken in ...

Article: We Travel the Spaceways

Art Strike!

by Mark Corroto
May 22, 2013

"Would you support an art strike?" That's the question I've been asking musicians for the past few months. “Will you agree to stop writing and performing music for one year?" In 1990 the London artists Stewart Home and Mark Pawson proposed that all artists cease to “make, exhibit, distribute, sell, or discuss their work" for three ...