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Best of 2017: The All About Jazz Mixtape, Volume 2

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 16, 2018

Volume 1 | Volume 2 | Volume 3 Some cling to the belief that jazz is in crisis or worse, dead. Our impression is quite the opposite, and to prove our point, we've compiled a mixtape featuring some of the best jazz released in 2017. Also, check out our staff's BEST OF 2017 lists ...

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Best of 2017: The All About Jazz Mixtape, Volume 1

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 15, 2018

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Best of 2017: The All About Jazz Mixtape, Vol.2

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 15, 2018

Ecco arrivata la seconda puntata della nostra compilation con il meglio del 2017. Questa compilation fa da complemento e colonna sonora alle varie liste di fine anno pubblicate negli scorsi giorni da Luca Canini, Libero Farnè, Angelo Leonardi, Nicola Negri, Neri Pollastri, Vincenzo Roggero e Luca Vitali. Inutile dirlo... questa lista di brani non ...

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Best of 2017: The All About Jazz Mixtape, Vol.1

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 8, 2018

E pensare che c'è chi continua a pensare che il jazz è in crisi. A noi sembra proprio il contrario. E qui cerchiamo di provarlo con una compilation contenente alcuni dei brani che ci hanno colpito di più nel 2017, in varie puntate, di cui questa è la prima. Questa compilation fa da complemento ...

Album

Generations

By Brian Landrus

Label: BlueLand Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: Jeru Concerto, Mvt. 1; Jeru Concerto, Interlude; Jeru Concerto, Mvt. 2; Jeru Concerto, Mvt. 3; Jeru Concerto, Mvt. 4; Orchids; The Warrior; Arrow in the Night; Arise; Human Nature; Ruby; Every Time I Dream.

Article: Year in Review

Il Meglio Del 2017 secondo Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
December 24, 2017

È stato un anno jazzistico particolarmente ricco e creativo. I grandi protagonisti che hanno superato--spesso di molto--il mezzo secolo ci hanno regalato nuove opere memorabili. Basterebbe ricordare i recenti album di Wadada Leo Smith, Charles Lloyd, Satoko Fujii, Steve Coleman, Tomasz Stanko, Enrico Pieranunzi, Bill Frisell, Gary Peacock, Roscoe Mitchell, Tim Berne, Tom Harrell, Miroslav Vitous, ...

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Dan Bilawsky's Best Releases Of 2017

by Dan Bilawsky
December 1, 2017

Few things are a given, yet we can always count on a flood of new music making its way into the world over the course of a year. In 2017 some of the best jazz found its path by looking forward, doubling back, and/or branching out. In short, this music and the dedicated artists who make ...

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Brian Landrus: Generations

Read "Generations" reviewed by Jerome Wilson

by Jerome Wilson
August 22, 2017

With Generations baritone saxophonist Brian Landrus has created an ambitious set of music for full orchestra that is based in jazz but also touches on classical music, hip hop and reggae, giving prominent position to instruments like harp and vibraphone to give his ensemble an airy, spacious sound.It all begins with the five-movement “Jeru ...

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Jeru Concerto, Mvmt. 1

July 29, 2017

Album: Generations
By Brian Landrus
Label: BlueLand Records
Released: 2017
Duration: 4:26

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Brian Landrus: Generations

Read "Generations" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
July 16, 2017

Brian Landrus established himself as a composer of great strength and substance, and rose to his position as one of the foremost low reed specialists on the scene, through albums like the expansive Mirage (Blueland Records, 2013) and the trio-centric The Deep Below (Blueland, Records/Palmetto Records, 2015). But even well wrought and absorbing dates like those ...