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Nat Hentoff: The Never-Ending Ball

by Ian Patterson
This interview was first published at All About Jazz on June 23, 2010. Nat Hentoff was eleven years old when, walking down the road one day in Boston, he heard music so exciting that he shouted with pleasure and ran into the shop to learn that the music was of clarinetist Artie Shaw. In ...
A giant of jazz journalism silenced

by Jim Trageser
Nat Hentoff was an old-school intellectual whose favorite topicwhose very touchstonewas, throughout his life, jazz. At one point in the 1990s, Hentoffwho passed of natural causes on Jan. 7announced that he was giving up writing about jazz to focus on topics that seemed more criticalfree speech and civil liberties, which he felt were under ...
2016: The Year in Jazz

by Ken Franckling
The year 2016 bubbled with events and initiatives to strengthen jazz's place in American and world culture, as well as a variety of venue openings, closings and cancellations. Jazz hit the silver screen in many ways throughout the year, and International Jazz Day continued to thrive--complete with a major all-star concert at the White House. Pop ...
Matthew Shipp Trio: Piano Song

by Jakob Baekgaard
Depending on your perspective, tradition can both be a blessing and a burden. Especially in jazz, it is hard to say something new and this is true as well when it comes to the noble art of the piano trio. Thelonious Monk has been there, Bill Evans has been there and Cecil Taylor has been there--just ...
Jazz Stories: 2016

by Michael Ricci
All About Jazz--a longstanding internet destination for all things jazz--is a community bound by its love of the music. Since March, we've solicited jazz stories from our members asking them to answer any of a handful of questions and we wanted to recognize some of our submissions from 2016. New stories arrive daily and ...
Garden 2nd Set

By Cecil Taylor
Label: Hat Hut Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: Introduction to Z; Garden II; Driver Says; Pemmican; Points.
Live In The Black Forest

By Cecil Taylor
Label: Edel Germany Gmbh
Released: 2016
Track listing: The Eel Pot; Sperichill On Calling.
Hyper + Amir ElSaffar: Saadif

by Vincenzo Roggero
Hyper (ossia Nicola Fazzini al sax, Alessandro Fedrigo alla chitarra basso acustica, Luca Colussi alla batteria) sono i tre quarti dell'XY Quartet (completato dal vibrafonista Saverio Tasca) e il + dopo la sigla non è un semplice simbolo matematico ma apertura verso musicisti che vogliano in qualche modo relazionarsi con le dinamiche, le visioni e la ...
Barry Guy / Marilyn Crispell / Paul Lytton: Deep Memory

by John Sharpe
Bassist Barry Guy took a key role in pianist Howard Riley's groundbreaking trio in the late 60s, early 70s. And while that early experience has in no way defined him, it means it perhaps comes as less of a surprise that he has increasingly turned to the format in the latter part of his career. One ...
Schlippenbach Trio: Warsaw Concert

by John Sharpe
There can't be too many outfits still going strong after 44 years, especially with an unchanged roster. But that's exactly the situation German pianist Alexander von Schlippenbach faces with his trio of countryman Paul Lovens on the drum stool and the legendary Evan Parker on tenor saxophone, give or take an occasional bassist. As a consequence ...