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Article: Album Review

Dylan Ryan Sand: Sky Bleached

Read "Sky Bleached" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
March 11, 2013

Faintly anarchic song-forms, coupled with a new-wave formulation of the jazz-rock trio setting forges a compelling imprint with drummer Dylan Ryan's debut solo effort. And it's one of those match made in heaven type of scenarios, where the respective musicians' styles, synergy, and use of space as a supplementary instrument coalesce into a program that bears ...

News: Event

The 4th Annual Bay Area Jazz Summit Concert on March 17th

March 11, 2013

The 4th Annual Jazz Summit Concert brings together three Bay Area jazz ensembles for an afternoon of big band jazz. The Netivot Shalom JazzKleztet band is a high energy ensemble under the direction of clarinetist Rabbi Stuart Kelman. The Albany Jazz Band is a 25 piece big band under the direction of Bob Levenson, and features ...

Article: Album Review

Charles Lloyd / Jason Moran: Hagar's Song

Read "Hagar's Song" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
March 10, 2013

Saxophonist/composer Charles Lloyd's 16 albums for ECM since the late 1980s represent a body of work as important as the influential recordings he made for Columbia and Atlantic in the 1960s. Lloyd's recordings with his latest quartet, Rabo de Nube (2008), Mirror (2010), Athen's Concert (2011) and, now, Hagar's Song, stand together as a special chapter ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Tommy Flanagan / Jaki Byard: The Magic of 2

by C. Michael Bailey
March 9, 2013

The story of this previously unreleased performance by pianists Tommy Flanagan and Jaki Byard at San Francisco's famous Keystone Korner begins with its unusual distributing label, Resonance Records. The original brainchild of studio owner George Kalbin, the label exists as part of the larger endeavor, the non-profit Rising Jazz Stars Foundation, dedicated to the discovery and ...

Article: Meet the Staff

Meet Carl L. Hager

by AAJ Staff
March 8, 2013

I currently live in: Los Angeles, CAI joined All About Jazz in: 2009What made you decide to contribute to All About Jazz? I've been a writer and editor most of my life, and I love jazz. One day after I'd been reading All About Jazz for a few months, I inquired to ...

News: Award / Grant

Girls Groove In 30 Countries During First Two Weeks Of "Hit Like A Girl"

March 7, 2013

San Jose, Calif., — Hit Like A Girl: The Contest For Female Drummers today reported that video entries have been posted by female drummers from more than 30 different countries. The contest is produced by DRUM! Magazine in conjunction with TRX Cymbals and Tom Tom Magazine. Girls and women of all ages are invited to submit ...

News: Recording

Vocalist Jeffrey Gimble Releases Debut Album, "Beyond Up High"

March 5, 2013

"Beyond Up High," Jeffrey Gimble's Debut CD, arranged by Tamir Hendelman and produced by Mark Winkler, to be released April 15, 2013 on Cafe Pacific Records. Jeffrey Gimble’s “Beyond Up High" displays all the appealing qualities of an unusually intriguing new album, certain to be around for more than a little while. Just listen to the ...

News: Recording

Return Of The Del-Lords: The "Elvis Club" Is Open For Business Again

March 1, 2013

Fabled New York rockers the Del-Lords return with their first new album in more than two decades NEW YORK, NY: ”We didn’t start with any agenda, other than to make a great record,” Scott Kempner says of the Del-Lords’ unexpected return to action following a two-decade layoff, which has yielded Elvis Club, the band’s first new ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Charles Lloyd / Jason Moran: Hagar's Song

by John Kelman
February 28, 2013

Looking back at Charles Lloyd's sizable discography as a leader, what's becomes immediately clear is that the saxophonist has shared a number of special, long-term musical relationships with pianists: first, Keith Jarrett, in the quartet that brought Lloyd considerable fame and commercial success in the 1960s; and then Bobo Stenson, when he returned from nearly two ...

Article: Live Review

Dave Holland: San Francisco, CA, February 7-10, 2013

by Harry S. Pariser
February 27, 2013

Dave Holland ResidencySan Francisco Jazz CenterSan Francisco, CAFebruary 7-10, 2013 Dave Holland was beaming ear to ear. And he had every reason to be, as the 66-year-old bassist was center stage helping to inaugurate a magnificent new hall, the showplace of the San Francisco Jazz Festival. The past two weeks had ...