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Article: Live Review

Jazz Liège Festival 2014

Read "Jazz Liège Festival 2014" reviewed by Jean-Pierre Goffin


Jazz Liège Festival Brussels, Belgium May 8-10, 2014 The International Jazz Festival in Liège was created twenty-four years ago. The city was known for decades as the Belgian capital of jazz, with musicians such as Bobby Jaspar ( who played with Miles Davis,J.J. Johnson, Donald Byrd and many others), René ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Blue Note Jazz Festival: World Premiere Brad Mehldau & Christian McBride Produced By Jill Newman Productions

Blue Note Jazz Festival:  World Premiere Brad Mehldau & Christian McBride Produced By Jill Newman Productions

Blue Note Jazz Festival & Jill Newman Productions World Premiere Brad Mehldau & Christian McBride - June 6 - 8, 2014 Pianist Brad Mehldau will replace pianist André Previn at Blue Note Jazz Club, 131 West 3rd Street, New York, NY, Friday, June 6 through Sunday, June 8, as part of the 2014 Blue Note Jazz ...

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Article: Interview

The Passion of Lorenzo Tucci

Read "The Passion of Lorenzo Tucci" reviewed by Robin Arends


Drummer Lorenzo Tucci is an important part of the thriving Italian jazz scene and a musician drawn to experimental settings. He recorded Drumonk (Veneto Jazz, 2007) his tribute to Thelonious Monk without piano, and a piano-trio album, Tranety (Albore Jazz, 2010), dedicated to John Coltrane without a saxophonist. In the 1990s Tucci started his professional carreer ...

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Article: Interview

Brad Mehldau: Dragons & Dreams

Read "Brad Mehldau: Dragons & Dreams" reviewed by Ian Patterson


For many, pianist Brad Mehldau's recording Day is Done (Nonesuch Records, 2005) with drummer Jeff Ballard and bassist Larry Grenadier came as close to trio perfection as is reasonable to expect in your wildest dreams. Perhaps perfection is a chimera, yet even if attainable it's at best fleeting by nature. But for Mehldau that doesn't stop ...

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Article: Live Review

Mai Jazz 2014

Read "Mai Jazz 2014" reviewed by John Kelman


Mai Jazz 2014 Stavanger, Norway May 6-11, 2014 After visiting Norway as often as four or five times annually, a first trip to the country in early May is surprisingly late for a first visit of the year. The last time visiting the west coast city of Stavanger was in 2008, part ...

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Article: Live Review

Bray Jazz Festival 2014

Read "Bray Jazz Festival 2014" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Bray Jazz festival Various venues Bray, County Wicklow Ireland May 2-4, 2014 It was an auspicious day. Fifteen years ago to the very day George Jacob introduced the first gig in the history of Bray Jazz Festival. The BJF has survived and prospered, growing from a small, largely national ...

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Article: Album Review

Roy Assaf Trio: Second Row Behind The Painter

Read "Second Row Behind The Painter" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


Pianist Roy Assaf decided to try a different studio tactic when he set out to make this record. Instead of simply having his trio take multiple passes at tracks on a single predetermined playlist, he decided to have the group simulate a stay at a club. They recorded multiple sets, accumulating almost five hours worth of ...

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Article: Album Review

Jeff Ballard: Time's Tales

Read "Time's Tales" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


Accanto all'esperienza con Brad Mehldau e Larry Grenadier e l'altra--meno appariscente e quasi cameristica--del Fly (che lo vede con quest'ultimo e Mark Turner) Jeff Ballard affianca dal 2006 un altro trio, di cui è leader, e che ora debutta su disco con questo variopinto ed estroverso Time's Tales. “Sono a metà della mia ...

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Article: Lyrics

I 10 CD nel CD-Player di... Mattia Cigalini

Read "I 10 CD nel CD-Player di... Mattia Cigalini" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


01. Metallica--Black Album (Elektra-1991). 02. Brad Mehldau--The Art of the Trio, Vol. 4-Back at the Vanguard (Nonesuch-1999). 03. Massimo Urbani--Easy to Love (Red Records-1987). 04. Dr. Dre--Cronic 2001 (Aftermath-1999) 05. Wayne Shorter--Without a Net (Blue Note-2013). 06. Miles Davis--Nefertiti (Columbia-1968).

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Take Five With Jon Mapp

Read "Take Five With Jon Mapp" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Meet Jon Mapp: Jon Mapp sounds like no other bassist. He uses a bass guitar, a wooden box and a laptop to record layered pieces, creating music that is expressive, compelling and indelible. Jon is quickly emerging as a truly individual voice on the bass who is known for his unorthodox technique and creative approach ...


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