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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Ambrose Akinmusire, Dairo Miyamoto and Other Great New Releases

by Ludovico Granvassu
October 16, 2018

This week we'll go through a heap of outstanding new releases, ranging from tributes to seminal albums like Soul Station by Eli Degibri and the Far East Suite by Pierre Bertrand, to new releases by master pianists like Keith Jarrett, Brad Mehldau (in an unreleased duo with Charlie Haden!), Aaron Parks and Simone Graziano. Seasond avant-veterans ...

Article: Album Review

Tim Stevens Double Trio: with whom you can be who you are

Read "with whom you can be who you are" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
September 21, 2018

Most jazz pianists with classical training in their backgrounds seem to feel the pull of of the strings: whether it be Bill Evans with his Bill Evans Trio With Symphony Orchestra Verve, 1965); Phineas Newborn, Jr. on While My Lady Sleeps (Bluebird/RCA, 1957); or, to bring it into the new millennium: Brad Mehldau's Highway Rider (Nonesuch, ...

Article: Multiple Reviews

Piano Trios: 3x3

by Geno Thackara
September 20, 2018

Immortal Onion Ocelot of Salvation Requiem Records 2017 This Polish trio seems set to confuse from the start. If you're pinning your metaphysical hopes on a jungle cat, your spiritual leanings probably lean toward ideas of oneness and harmony more than salvation from evil. Vegetables aren't exactly things we think of ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Brad Mehldau

August 23, 2018

All About Jazz is celebrating Brad Mehldau's birthday today! Pianist Brad Mehldau has recorded and performed extensively since the early 1990s. Mehldau’s most consistent output over the years has taken place in the trio format. Starting in 1996, his group released a series of five records on Warner Bros. entitled The Art of the Trio. Mehldau ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Spoken Jazz & New Releases

by Ludovico Granvassu
August 17, 2018

Spoken word is performance art that goes hand in hand with jazz because words often sound great and notes can speak loud and clear. In this episode we will explore the best of it, together with outstanding new releases that are making our summer even hotter than it already is! Happy listening!

Article: Catching Up With

Frank van Berkel: New Programmer at Amsterdam's Bimhuis is Committed to Serve and to Curate

by Joan Gannij
August 7, 2018

Frank van Berkel, the new Programmer at the Bimhuis, Amsterdam's premier jazz club, is no stranger to the music world. He started out as a musician, double bass/bass guitar, and played many venues back in the '80s and '90s, including Amsterdam's rock palace Paradiso and the Bimhuis, with different bands, that included Nine Tobs, Remo Tobs, ...

Article: Live Review

Fano Jazz by the Sea 2018

by Libero Farnè
August 1, 2018

Fano Jazz by the Sea Varie sedi Fano e dintorni 21-29.07.2018 A partire dall'edizione dello scorso anno la Rocca Malatestiana è diventata il fulcro di Fano Jazz by the Sea. Nel giardino antistante la possente struttura storica viene allestito il Jazz Village, punto di incontro per varie iniziative collaterali: concerti e ...

Article: Album Review

Toronto Jazz Orchestra: 20

by Jack Bowers
July 20, 2018

The name on the album--20--says it all: the world-class Toronto Jazz Orchestra has been presenting marvelous music in eastern Canada and beyond for twenty years and has marked the special anniversary by releasing the fourth in a series of admirable recordings that began in 2001 with Toronto Jazz Orchestra. This time out, all ...

Article: Profile

SFJAZZ: Decades After, Five Years In

by Arthur R George
July 19, 2018

Five years after the San Francisco, California organization SFJAZZ created its own building, the SFJAZZ Center, it has proved a raving, even rampaging, success, unrelenting in programming, sales, education, and music production. Its number of concerts has doubled from 248 to more than 500. Its membership has increased by almost 200% to more than 14,000. It ...

Article: Interview

Carlo Pagnotta, Direttore Artistico Di Umbria Jazz

by Libero Farnè
July 9, 2018

Da quando prese le mosse nel lontano 1973, il festival di Umbria Jazz si è evoluto nel tempo ed è cresciuto, senza mai rinunciare alla sua primaria identità, vale a dire la volontà di innestare la forza prorompente del jazz sulla cultura e la storia millenaria di un'intera regione. La direzione artistica della manifestazione, che nei ...