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Sons of Kemet: Your Queen Is A Reptile
by Karl Ackermann
There is nothing quite like the Sons of Kemet. In a genre that struggles with the perception that it too often becomes mired in sameness and safety, this is a group that embraces the African roots of jazz while skirting the very essence of the genre. Eye-opening deviations come from unexpected places and in the case ...
Guitarist Carl Michel Celebrates the music of Paul Motian with "Music in Motian" on Play On Records
The music of drummer/composer Paul Motian is revered in certain circles of jazz, while resting in obscurity among others. The performing credits of Motian run deep and are extensive, but as a author of highly original music, he lies in the under-documented category. This will not last much longer as, in the years since his passing, ...
Joshua Redman's New Album, "Still Dreaming"—Featuring Ron Miles, Scott Colley & Brian Blade—Out Now
Saxophonist and composer Joshua Redman is joined by drummer Brian Blade, bassist Scott Colley, and cornetist Ron Miles for Still Dreaming—an album inspired by his father Dewey Redman's 1976–1987 band, Old and New Dreams—released on Nonesuch Records on May 25, 2018. Along with the senior Redman, Old and New Dreams featured an all-star lineup of Ornette ...
Bokani Dyer: African Piano
by Seton Hawkins
Throughout this decade, pianist, composer, and bandleader Bokani Dyer has stood as one of the most formidable and creative keyboard talents in South Africa today. Raised in a musical family--his father is the legendary saxophonist Steve Dyer--Bokani Dyer quickly demonstrated an extraordinary musical vision and identity of his own. Indeed, albums of his, notably Emancipate the ...
2017 Howard University Jazz Ensemble: A Tribute to Geri Allen
by Jack Bowers
Pianist / composer Geri Allen, one of the Howard University Jazz Studies program's distinguished alumnae, left us far too soon, succumbing to cancer on June 27, 2017, two weeks after her sixtieth birthday. During a career that spanned more than thirty-five years, Allen performed and recorded with a who's who of renowned jazz artists from Ron ...
Francesco Chiapperini, una storia bigama
by Alberto Bazzurro
Pugliese di nascita ma lombardo d'adozione, classe 1978, Francesco Chiapperini, clarinettista e sassofonista nonché compositore, è senza ombra di dubbio uno dei nomi più interessanti emersi in questi ultimi anni nel panorama del jazz di casa nostra. Il suo ultimo album, The Big Earth, inciso dal vivo alla Scighera di Milano da un organico di dodici ...
Peo Alfonsi Trio: Oyasin
by Neri Pollastri
Non è nuova la collaborazione del chitarrista sardo Peo Alfonsi con il contrabbassista Salvatore Maiore e il batterista Roberto Dani (che assieme formano la ritmica del trio di Stefano Battaglia): una dozzina d'anni orsono i tre registrarono infatti uno splendido lavoro. per molti versi analogo a questo, Amada. Fa dunque molto piacere ritrovarli assieme, impegnati in ...
Steve Cardenas: Charlie & Paul
by Karl Ackermann
The third season of the subscription-based vinyl label Newvelle launches with a quartet led by guitarist Steve Cardenas. A Kansas City native, he cut his teeth in that city before moving to New York in the mid-1990s. Cardenas has appeared on more than fifty albums playing with Ben Allison, Jon Cowherd, Chris Cheek, Eliane Elias, Chris ...
A Vintage Year For Jessica Felix And The Healdsburg Jazz Festival
by Arthur R George
It's a 20th anniversary vintage year for the Healdsburg Jazz Festival, pouring over the first ten days of this coming June, in the Sonoma County “wine country" 70 miles north of San Francisco. That there is a festival at all is due to the tenacity of its artistic director Jessica Felix, who planted jazz in Healdsburg ...
Bergamo Jazz Festival 2018
by Angelo Leonardi
Bergamo Jazz Festival 2018 Varie sedi Bergamo 18-25.3.2018 Ha festeggiato la 40ma edizione --dal 18 al 25 marzo --, uno dei più longevi festival nazionali ed europei, confermando la sua centralità con un ricco e variopinto programma che ha spaziato in vari ambiti senza cedere sul versante della qualità. In ...
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