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Article: Album Review

Veryan Weston: Different Tesselations

Read "Different Tesselations" reviewed by John Eyles


Different Tesselations must be considered as a companion piece to Tesselations for Luthéal Piano (Emanem 2003), the album on which Veryan Weston debuted his sequence of 52 closely linked pentatonic scales in a piece he called “Tesselations"--so named, he said, because it “contains structures which have, by coincidence, similarities with some of the principles of geometric ...

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Article: Interview

Jen Shyu and Theo Bleckmann: Breaking the Song Barrier

Read "Jen Shyu and Theo Bleckmann: Breaking the Song Barrier" reviewed by Daniel Lehner


Before Robert Moog came out with the first synthesizer, before Adolphe Sax invented his famous reed instrument, before the trumpets sounded at Jericho, even before the world's ancient tribes tightened their animal skins to make drums, humanity's first instrument was the voice. Not that this is of particular consequence to Theo Bleckmann. “To me, that argument ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five with Lynn Veronneau

Read "Take Five with Lynn Veronneau" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Meet Lynn Veronneau: Quebec native Lynn Veronneau has been tearing through mid-Atlantic listening venues with her band, “Veronneau," like a force of nature with 50 shows in their first year, a new CD, and shows scheduled for the US, UK and Canada.As a child in suburban Montreal (Sherbrooke), Veronneau was influenced by the world ...

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Article: Album Review

Fred Hersch: Alone at the Vanguard

Read "Alone at the Vanguard" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose


The beauty of subtle emotion and the glacial calm of Fred Hersch's pianism are so arresting and so captivating that it virtually stops the breath. His mastery of the instrument, coupled with a deep and soulful connection with the joy of music gives Hersch the unique power to both entertain as well as heal the mind ...

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Article: Live Review

Piirpauke: Espoo, Finland, April 27, 2011

Read "Piirpauke: Espoo, Finland, April 27, 2011" reviewed by Anthony Shaw


PiirpaukeApril JazzEspoo FinlandApril 27, 2011 The first official evening of the annual spring festival in this distinctly first-rate suburb of Helsinki featured the principal imported star Bobby McFerrin and his VOCAbuLarieS show in the tented arena, while in the formal Tapiola Cultural Center, Piirpauke's much rougher concoction of global music ...

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Article: Interview

Jimmy Haslip: The Honest Endeavor of Making Music

Read "Jimmy Haslip: The Honest Endeavor of Making Music" reviewed by Ian Patterson


When electric bassist Jimmy Haslip joined pianist/keyboard player Russell Ferrante as a sideman on guitarist Robben Ford's recording sessions for The Inside Story (Elektra Records, 1979), he probably wouldn't have wagered much on his and Ferrante's musical partnership lasting 33 years to date, in one of jazz's most durable and best-loved ensembles, the Yellowjackets. Haslip is ...

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Article: Live Review

Jazzkaar 2011: Tallinn, Estonia, Days 7-8

Read "Jazzkaar 2011: Tallinn, Estonia, Days 7-8" reviewed by John Kelman


Days 1-3 | Days Days 4-6 | Days 7-8 Dave Liebman Quintet / European Jazz Orchestra Jazzkaar Festival 2011 Tallinn, Estonia April 26-27, 2011 As Jazzkaar 2011 heads into the home stretch, it's important to remember that, with Tallinn selected as European Capital of Culture for 2011, ...

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Article: Live Review

Jazzkaar 2011: Tallinn, Estonia, Days 1-3

Read "Jazzkaar 2011: Tallinn, Estonia, Days 1-3" reviewed by John Kelman


Days 1-3 | Days 4-6 | Days 7-8 Punkt Festival in Tallinn / Talvin Singh and Niladri Kumar Jazzkaar Festival 2011 Tallinn, Estonia April 20-22, 2011 It's one thing to visit a European country and marvel at the history that has been made in centuries past; it's another to ...

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News: Festival

Blue Note Jazz Club Celebrates 30th Anniversary With Inaugural Blue Note Jazz Festival In New York City

Blue Note Jazz Club Celebrates 30th Anniversary With Inaugural Blue Note Jazz Festival In New York City

Chris Botti, Dave Brubeck, Chaka Khan, Bobby McFerrin, The Roots and Many More to Perform in June at this Year's Largest New York Jazz Festival June 1—June 30, 2011 New York, NY—In honor of its 30th anniversary, the Blue Note Jazz Club is opening its doors throughout New York City during the month of June for ...

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Article: In the Artist's Own Words

Wayne Wallace: The Thrill of the Grammys

Read "Wayne Wallace: The Thrill of the Grammys" reviewed by Wayne Wallace


I have had the honor of performing on four Grammy-nominated recordings. Mister E, by Pete Escovedo, S.F. Bay, by the Machete Ensemble, Then Some, by Steve Berrios, and Far East Suite, by Anthony Brown and the Asian American Orchestra. This was my second time being a part of a Grammy presentation, but my first as the ...


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