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Article: Album Review

Noah Preminger: Meditations on Freedom

Read "Meditations on Freedom" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
January 11, 2017

Open and civil discourse has always been a tenant of democracy. Recent political events in the U.S. have reduced that discourse to a crude, gutter-level low that has left an alienated population in its wake, marginalized and left without a strong voice. From the time of the Civil War, protest music has provided counsel for vulnerable ...

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Article: Interview

Nat Hentoff: The Never-Ending Ball

by Ian Patterson
January 9, 2017

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 ...

Article: Opinion

A giant of jazz journalism silenced

by Jim Trageser
January 8, 2017

Nat Hentoff was an old-school intellectual whose favorite topic—whose very touchstone—was, throughout his life, jazz. At one point in the 1990s, Hentoff—who passed of natural causes on Jan. 7—announced that he was giving up writing about jazz to focus on topics that seemed more critical—free speech and civil liberties, which he felt were under ...

Article: Out and About: The Super Fans

Meet Luis Torregrosa

by Tessa Souter and Andrea Wolper
January 3, 2017

Dr. Luis Torregrosa has been a Super Fan for as long as he can remember; you could even say his love of music is no less than a calling. Based in Trenton, MI (our first Super Fan outside of New York!), Luis has spent the last 45 years of his life not only enjoying the music ...

Article: What is Jazz?

Jazz Stories: 2016

by Michael Ricci
December 31, 2016

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 ...

Album

Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus

By Charles Mingus

Label: Impulse!
Released: 2016
Track listing: II B.S.; I X Love; Celia; Mood Indigo; Better Get Hit In Yo' Soul; Theme For Lester Young; Hora Decubitus;

Album

Shadows

By Charles Mingus

Label: Destination Moon (3)
Released: 2016
Track listing: Untitled Percussion Composition; Nostalgia In Times Square; Alice's Wonderland; Self-Portrait In Three Colours;

Article: Live From Philadelphia

Kurt Rosenwinkel Trio at Germantown Settlement School

by Geno Thackara
December 30, 2016

Kurt Rosenwinkel Trio Settlement Music School Philadelphia, PA December 23, 2016 He's come a long way since first starting lessons at Philadelphia's Settlement Music School, but city native Kurt Rosenwinkel has never forgotten those roots. On a night when they could have been squeezing in a little last-minute ...

Article: Interview

Marco Pesatori, sotto le stelle del jazz

by Rosarita Crisafi
December 27, 2016

Marco Pesatori è un noto astrologo italiano e un intellettuale eclettico. Scrittore, laureato in Storia della critica d'arte con una tesi sul movimento Dada, è stato collaboratore di Gianni Sassi nella Cooperativa Intrapresa, un laboratorio che influenzò profondamente la cultura e l'industria discografica italiana ed europea a cavallo tra gli anni '70 e '80. Nel suo ...

Article: Hi-Res Jazz

The Westerlies: New Music For Brass In Hi Res

by Mark Werlin
December 12, 2016

The Westerlies, a self-titled album performed by an “accidental brass quartet" of two trumpet players and two trombonists, is a stunning accomplishment: a reference-quality recording of trans-genre new instrumental music that managed to beat the odds and reach a wide audience. The album's unexpected success points to the importance of curation in an overcrowded online music ...