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One Day in Brazil, 50 Years in Germany
by Chris M. Slawecki
Tony Adamo Was Out Jazz Zone Mad Ropeadope 2018 Some African cultures preserved their history not by the written but by the spoken word, kept by oral cultural historians known as griots. On Was Out Jazz Zone Mad, vocalist Tony Adamo aspires to serve in this same role, ...
Meet Jeff Evans
by Tessa Souter and Andrea Wolper
Our first Super Fan of 2019 is such a jazz head that he and his wife of 42 years got engaged at a jazz club. These days, Jeff frequently can be seen in the New York clubs indulging several of his passions at once. Living in a city he describes as “richly blessed" with venues, he ...
Eric Dolphy: Musical Prophet: The Expanded 1963 New York Sessions
by Troy Dostert
Although his iconic Out to Lunch! (Blue Note, 1964) is one of a handful of undisputed avant-garde jazz masterpieces, Eric Dolphy's stature has never quite risen fully to the level of the jazz titans. Some of this is probably due to his untimely death at age 36, just as he was reaching new creative peaks; and ...
2018: The Year in Jazz
by Ken Franckling
The year 2018 was a busy one for the jazz world. The genre's version of the #MeToo movement resulted in a new Code of Conduct and other efforts to make the music workplace more equitable. International Jazz Day brought its biggest stage to St. Petersburg, Russia. The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, which ran a high-profile ...
Jazz In Detroit / Strata Concert Gallery / 46 Selden
Label: BBE Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: CD1: Pithecanthropus Erectus; The Man Who Never Sleeps; Peggy’s Blue Skylight. CD2: Introduction by Bud Spangler / Celia; Bud Spangler interview with Roy Brooks and commentary. CD3: C Jam Blues; Orange Was The Color Of Her Dress, Then Blue Silk; Dizzy Profile. CD4: Noddin’ Ya Head Blues; Celia (alternate take). CD5: Dizzy Profile (alternate take); Strata Gallery Announcement by Bud Spangler.
Portraits
Label: Portraits (2)
Released: 2018
Track listing: Charles Mingus; Pithecanthropus Erectus; Profile Of Jackie; East Coasting; Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting; Moanin; Better Git It In Your Soul; Goodbye Pork Pie Hat; Devil Woman; Mood Indigo; Bill Evans; Autumn Leaves; Spring Is Here; What Is This Thing Called Love; Nardis; I Wish I Knew; Sweet Lovely; Gloria's Step; Solar; All Of You; My Foolish Heart; Waltz For Debby; Nina Simone; Mood Indigo; My Baby Just Cares For Me; I Loves You, Porgy; Black Is The Colour Of My True Love's Hair; The Other Woman; Summertime; Wild Is The Wind; It Might As Well Be Spring; You've Been Gone Too Long; Trouble In Mind (Single Version); Porgy; Forbidden Fruit; Work Song; Solitude; It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing); House Of The Rising Sun; Just In Time; He Was Too Good To Me; Brown Baby; John Coltrane; Giant Steps; Syeeda's Song Flute; Naima; MR. P.C.; My Favorite Things; Mr Syms; Olè; Thelonious Monk; Blue Monk 1954; Reflections; Monk's Dream; Well You Needn't; Ruby My Dear; Epistrophy; Pannonica; Misterioso; Nutty; Round Midnight;
Charlie Porter: Charlie Porter
by Nicholas F. Mondello
Charlie Porter is an album that is musically and structurally reminiscent of those iconic M.C. Escher prints: dizzying ziggurats, waterfalls to some/nowhere and eye-teasing figure-ground images. Porter, with the able assistance of his local colleagues -all ace musicians -has created an intriguing, intelligent recording that simmers and boils over with ingenious original compositions, stellar musicianship, and ...
Greg Ward Presents Rogue Parade: Stomping Off From Greenwood
by Gareth Thompson
After a stint in New York, saxophonist Greg Ward was lured home to Chicago in 2016 by a project based on Charles Mingus's The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady (Impulse! Records, 1963). Ward's new vision of this record was widely acclaimed, not least for its performance with a ballet company, as Mingus had desired.
Falcarragh Winter Jazz Festival 2018
by Ian Patterson
Falcarragh Winter Jazz Festival Various Venues Falcarragh, Ireland December 7-8, 2018 It only rained twice during the inaugural Falcarragh Winter Jazz Festival--all day Friday, and then all day Saturday. Still, no amount of rain or wind could dampen the spirits of those who turned out to support this bold initiative ...
Alexander von Schlippenbach / Aki Takase: Live At Cafe Amores
by John Sharpe
The Lithuanian NoBusiness imprint has unearthed another gem from the vaults of the Japanese Chap Chap label. Live At Cafe Amores represents the third duet recording from the husband-and-wife pairing of pianists Alexander von Schlippenbach and Aki Takase, but the first where they share the same instrument. Such a situation was perhaps only possible for an ...
