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Suite: April 2020
By Brad Mehldau
Label: Nonesuch Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: I. Waking Up; II. Stepping Outside; III. Social Distance; IV. Stopping, Listening, Hearing; V. Remembering Before All This;
VI. Uncertainty; VII. The Day Moves By; VII. Yearning; IX. Waiting; X. In The Kitchen; XI Family Harmony; XII. Lullabye;
Don't Let It Bring You Down; New York State of Mind; Look for the Silver Lining.
Nenad Georgievski's Best Releases of 2020
by Nenad Georgievski
2020 was a difficult year with many obstacles to overcome and with many high and low amplitudes. As a result, it was a year when naturally ambient, classical, and neo-classical music took over and provided greater joy than any other genre. Even the jazz records I preferred had plenty of quiet moments. The upbeat stuff was ...
Enjoy Jazz and More 2020
by Henning Bolte
Various venues Enjoy Jazz and More Heidelberg, Mannheim, Ludwigshafen, Schwetzingen October 14-30, 2020 Enjoy Jazz is a festival that stretches across 7 weeks from the beginning of October to halfway through November in the urban area of Mannheim, Ludwigshafen and Heidelberg in southwestern Germany. The long stretch had ...
Take Five with George Kahn
by AAJ Staff
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 ...
Trio Grande: Three instruments, three nationalities, one supergroup
by Friedrich Kunzmann
An incessant stream of new artists, new ideas, revisitations of old ideas and ever-shifting technological inventions continues to push jazz onward, forward into the 21st Century. While most of today's music began taking root and developing in the turbulent jazz topographies of the last century, each new interpretation, extension and redesign today adds a new perspective, ...
Out of the Roma Villages of Turkey, Clarinet Reigns Beyond Its Traditions
by Arthur R George
The clarinet, foundational for jazz from Sidney Bechet unto Eric Dolphy, remains in strong use in the indigenous Roma music of the eastern Mediterranean. Elsewhere in the world clarinet generally has been moved aside by saxophone's bigger sound. But in the Balkans, Greece, and Turkey, clarinet provides jazz shadings to traditional music, speaks a range of ...
Josh Nelson: D+N+A: David/Nelson/Agreement
by C. Michael Bailey
Vocalist Mon David and pianist Josh Nelson's D+N+A: David/Nelson/Agreement has two recorded antecedents in John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman (Impulse!, 1963) and Emilia Vancini's And If You Fall, You Fall (Espira, 2020). This new release favors the former in that David is a baritone voice as was Hartman and his repertoire on D+N+A is one of ...
Take Five with Denin Koch
by AAJ Staff
Meet Denin Koch Hailed as possessing pristine playing, meticulous composing" and a very personal voice deserving of attention," guitarist and composer Denin Koch has synthesized his wide and varied influences into a unique approach to jazz improvisation. He has performed with Arturo Sandoval, Pat Metheny, Branford Marsalis, Ellis Marsalis, Wycliffe Gordon, Dee Daniels, Ryan Keberle, and ...
Joshua Redman + Brad Mehldau + Christian McBride + Brian Blade: RoundAgain
by Pat Youngspiel
None of these men requires introducing to anyone who has even remotely followed the contemporary jazz scene at any point over the past thirty years. Their respective bodies of work have guided and represented jazz throughout the last decades and continue to set the benchmark for original composing and improvising today. 26 years after their much-lauded ...
Angelica Sanchez & Marilyn Crispell: How To turn the Moon
by Dan McClenaghan
Fans of piano jazz might have a preference for the trio formatpiano/bass/drums. Or they might like their piano straight, no chaser, with solo piano sets. There is no shortage of trio and solo recordings floating around for our listening enjoyment. But two pianos? Rare, though not unheard of. Brad Mehldau and Kevin Hays offered up the ...



