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2013 Enjoy Jazz Festival
by John Kelman
Enjoy Jazz 2013 Heidelberg/Mannheim/Ludwigshafen, Germany November 6-14, 2013 It's always a treat to return to Heidelberg for Enjoy Jazz. As a very intended contrast to most jazz festivals, that compress a lot of music into a very short time, Enjoy Jazz's founding premise, when it was first conceived 15 years ago by ...
Chip Stephens Trio: Chip Stephens Trio: Relevancy
by Carlo Wolff
Chip Stephens is an impeccable technician, a clever, even daring composer, and a restless explorer of melody. Adept at swing and complexity, he unfurls piano lines with a restless authority that marries brawn to delicacy in this collection of originals and transmogrified standards. Bracketed by a brisk, darting take on Carla Bley's angular “Syndrome" ...
Enter the "Carla Bley - Trios" Giveaway at All About Jazz!
All About Jazz members are invited to enter the ECM Records “Carla Bley - Trios“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on November 26th. Click here to enter the contest (Becoming a fan of Carla Bley at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.) Good luck! ...
Jakob Bro: December Song
by Henning Bolte
December Song is the final part of a trilogy which started with Balladeering (2009) and continued with Time (2011). It started with the fivesome of Jakob Bro himself, Bill Frisell, Lee Konitz, Ben Street and the late Paul Motian. When Time was recorded in September 2011 at Avatar, Thomas Morgan subbed for Ben Street. Paul Motian ...
Libor Smoldas: Intuition and Dreamtime
by Chris Mosey
Libor Smoldas is one of the best jazz guitarists the Czech Republic has produced in recent years. He plays extremely fluent, straight ahead music in the Jim Hall tradition, with overtones of Kenny Burrell. He is more relaxed, less intense than his contemporary, David Doruzka, best known of the current crop of Czech jazz guitarists. Smoldas ...
Carla Bley / Andy Sheppard / Steve Swallow: Trios
by Sammy Stein
In Lugano, Switzerland in 2012, pianist Carla Bley, saxophonist Andy Sheppard and bassist Steve Swallow were recorded, and the result is Trios (EMC 2013). This CD is atmospheric and energised. Included are new versions of Bley's original “Utviklingssang" ( “Development Song"), “Vashkar" and the suites “Les Trois Lagons" , “Wildlife," and “The Girl Who Cried Champagne." ...
Carla Bley / Andy Sheppard / Steve Swallow: Trios
by John Kelman
In a career more defined by memorable compositions than instrumental acumen, it's easy to forget that Carla Bley may not be the most virtuosic pianist on the planet, but she's a far more than capable one, as evidenced on duo recordings like Are We There Yet? (Watt, 1999), with life partner/bassist Steve Swallow, and Songs With ...
The Swallow Quintet: Into the Woodwork
by John Kelman
In the press sheet for Steve Swallow's Into the Woodwork, the award-winning electric bassist is quoted, saying: “Good humor before and after the red light goes on is very important. Music-making should be fun, after all." Those fortunate enough to see Swallow with Steve Kuhn and Joey Baron this past summer--including a memorable stop at the ...
Nous N’Irons Pas a New York 2013
by Patricia Myers
Nous N'Irons Pas a New York 2013Duc des LombardsParis, FranceJuly 23-30, 2013 Four American jazz stars performed as part of a two-month-long tribute to New York-style jazz at Duc des Lombards for its annual Nous N'Irons Pas a New York ("We're not going to New York") theme, indicating that New York/American ...
Florian Ross Big Company: Ties & Loose Ends
by Jack Bowers
The late pitcher Satchel Paige once offered this sound advice: “Never look over your shoulder; someone may be gaining on you." Nowadays, those who seem to be gaining the most ground when it comes to big-band jazz are Europeans and Asians who've been listening closely to and learning from their peers in the States and using ...
