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Article: Live Review

Bergamo Jazz 2025

by Libero Farnè
March 28, 2025

Bergamo Jazz 2025 Varie sedi Bergamo 20--23 marzo 2025 “Sounds of Joy" era il sottotitolo di Bergamo Jazz 2025 a indicare “la celebrazione di una comunità musicale nata in mezzo alla gente per la gente." Concetto che Joe Lovano, direttore artistico del festival per il secondo anno, non ha mancato di ...

News: Festival

Inaugural Germantown Jazz Festival to Debut April 25–27, 2025

March 11, 2025

Jazz lovers, mark your calendars! The Germantown Jazz Festival (GJF) is set to make its highly anticipated debut from April 25–27, 2025. In partnership with its lead community partner, Artcinia, the GJF will bring a dynamic three-day celebration of music, art, and culture to the heart of Philadelphia. Festival Lineup Opening Night Concert- Friday, April 25, ...

Article: Highly Opinionated

Fantasy Box Set League

by Patrick Burnette
January 30, 2025

Box sets are back, baby! Some of us old timers thought they might be gone for good after the CD crash (remember when Joe Henderson's The Milestone Years was going for twenty-bucks at your local mall?) But companies have realized that for those happy few who continue collecting “physical media," the big-ole stack of music still ...

Album

The Carnegie Hall Concert

By Alice Coltrane

Label: Impulse! Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Journey in Satchidananda; Shiva-Loka; Africa; Leo.

Article: Album Review

Alice Coltrane: The Carnegie Hall Concert

Read "The Carnegie Hall Concert" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
April 18, 2024

The most perfect of time machines, with no errant destinations and no abrupt landings, The Carnegie Hall Concert transports one to a time when artists took their art seriously, when it was sacrosanct. Alice Coltrane's harp comes on like the siren lure of angels, like a missionary, calling all to stop their labor. It seems to ...

Article: Album Review

Charles Lloyd: The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow

Read "The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
March 26, 2024

Those of us who were going to jazz festivals in summer 1966, and were lucky enough to catch the Charles Lloyd Quartet, will likely have one tune in particular imprinted on our memories. That was because “Forest Flower" so precisely reflected the acid-drenched zeitgeist blossoming in Europe and the US. Lloyd, Keith Jarrett, Cecil McBee and ...

Article: Live Review

The Cookers at Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley

by Jack Gold-Molina
March 26, 2024

The Cookers Dimitriou's Jazz Alley Seattle, Washington February 21, 2024 Veteran players The Cookers brought their long-established brand of avant-bop jazz to Dimitriou's Jazz Alley in Seattle. The personnel included David Weiss and Eddie Henderson playing trumpet, alto saxophonist Donald Harrison, tenor saxophonist Craig Handy, pianist George Cables, Cecil McBee playing ...

Article: Building a Jazz Library

Charles Lloyd: Defiant Warrior Still On Song

by Chris May
March 19, 2024

As fool's errands go, few compare with selecting a Top Ten Albums collection from Charles Lloyd's extensive top-drawer output. But here goes. Lloyd newbies could consider the list a launch pad, and seasoned fans can compare the choices with their own... Anyone going to jazz festivals in summer 1966, and lucky enough to ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Cecil McBee, James Zollar & Eddie Henderson

by Joe Dimino
March 10, 2024

We start the 845th Episode of Neon Jazz with master musician, doctor and figure skater Eddie Henderson with music from his 2023 release Witness to History. Eddie is featured on this episode to celebrate the PBS documentary Uncommon Genius. From there, we hear music from his teacher Louis Armstrong then motor our way into another quality ...

Article: The Big Question

What was the most memorable jazz concert you attended?

by Chris May
March 6, 2024

If you are an AAJer, you will almost certainly have some live performances filed under magic moments. My first came in 1966 when I saw Charles Lloyd at the Juan-Les-Pins Jazz Festival in Antibes, France. At the time I knew Lloyd only through his recorded work with Chico Hamilton's group and nothing had prepared me for ...