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Sarah McKenzie: A Mysterious Thing Called Songwriting
by Emmanuel Di Tommaso
Secrets of My Heart is the fifth studio album of the Australian singer, composer and pianist Sarah McKenzie. Released in 2019, this album represents a joyous and uncanny combination of classical jazz standards and new original compositions with a brilliant fusion between jazz, blues and latin sounds. We took the opportunity of the European tour of ...
Marc Urselli: Between Bolan and Willner, tradition and innovation
by Emmanuel Di Tommaso
The wait is over. The much anticipated Angelheaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T-Rex has been released by BMG after a number of vicissitudes, not least the COVID-19 pandemic, which took the album's producer Hal Willner, on April 7, 2020, one day after his 64th birthday. Angelheaded Hipster was his swan song. ...
Marc Urselli: tra Bolan e Willner, tradizione e innovazione
by Emmanuel Di Tommaso
L'attesa è finita. Angelheaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T-Rex è stato pubblicato dalla BMG dopo una lunga serie di vicissitudini, ultima delle quali la pandemia di Covid-19, che si è portata via il produttore dell'album Hal Willner, il 7 aprile 2020, un giorno dopo il suo 64esimo compleanno. Angelheaded Hipster è ...
Zara McFarlane: ritmi e lingue ancestrali
by Serena Antinucci
Songs of an Unknown Tongue (Brownswood Recordings) è il quarto album della pluripremiata cantante inglese Zara McFarlane. A tre anni dal precedente Arise (Brownswood, 2017), la cantante compie un'operazione più personale, di ricerca approfondita delle sue radici musicali e culturali. Dopo un viaggio alla ricerca delle sue radici in Giamaica, McFarlane apre il jazz alle influenze ...
Dave Stryker: The Positive Force Of Blue Soul
by Kyle Simpler
Dave Stryker is passionate about music and its positive energy. From his time working with Jack McDuff and Stanley Turrentine to his years as a solo artist, Stryker has established himself as one of the foremost jazz guitarists around. He also teaches at Indiana University, Montclair State University, Rutgers University, and has an online instructional workshop ...
Half Reopen To Food Delivery: Jazz Headwinds In China
by Jiaowei Hu
The festive electronic music pours out of the Vietnamese restaurant across the square, welcoming back its customers, already at two-thirds volume compared to before the COVID-19 pandemic. Su Yan frowned: “It looks like hiring a DJ does help the business. But what can we jazz clubs do with DJs?" As the Director of Publicity ...
How Do We Keep The Music Playing?
by La-Faithia White
While most of us across the country and overseas have been confined to our homes due to COVID-19, normal life as we once knew, has changed. Typically in April we are celebrating Jazz Appreciation Month outdoors with friends, and attending jazz concerts. Now more than ever, this is a time where we must appreciate and support ...
COVID-19 Quarantines Plague Venues, Labels and Artists
by John Bricker
While musicians and bands are canceling tours because of “stay home" mandates in California and around the world, indie labels, local venues and online platforms are supporting artists by running special promotions, planning online performances and continuing operation as much as possible. After California Governor Gavin Newsom announced a statewide stay-home mandate on March 19 following ...
Dominique Fils-Aimé: Princess of Peace
by Kevin Press
Montreal's Dominique Fils-Aimé is two albums into a trilogy exploring African American music and culture. Stay Tuned! is a smooth-as-silk jazz vocal disc with broad appeal. It was shortlisted by the 2019 Polaris Music Prize selection committee, and named jazz album of the year at the ADISQ First Gala, a Quebec-based industry event.Her debut, ...
Ira Sullivan: The Lonely Revolutionary
by David Einhorn
A critic in Chicago in September 2016 raved about multi-instrumentalist Ira Sullivan's performance at the Jazz Showcase but said that Ira “erred" in lecturing the audience not to applaud after solos. It sounded like the critic had never heard Ira perform live before, because saying he “erred" suggested that at a given moment Ira “misspoke" and ...
