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Article: Radio & Podcasts

More Miles/Gallon

by Marc Cohn
August 30, 2019

This week we return with a “Bitches Brew -Day 2" and a “compare and contrast" between two Wayne Shorter tunes (from Super Nova) versus Miles Davis (from Water Babies). But of course, there's more. We moon over Anita O'Day (a centennial warmup) and go to a hotel with Kenny Clarke keeping time on a phone book ...

Article: Live Review

Jazzkaar 2019

by Martin Longley
August 30, 2019

Jazzkaar Tallinn, Estonia April 23-28, 2019 Towards the second half of Jazzkaar, there was an invasion of starry Americans, overwhelming the normally quite striking wealth of indigenous Estonian talent. As ever, the fundamental structure of this 10-dayer revolved around its two main stages in the Telliskivi Creative City, Vaba Lava ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Charlie Parker

August 29, 2019

All About Jazz is celebrating Charlie Parker's birthday today! The only child of Charles and Addie Parker, Charlie Parker was one of the most important and influential saxophonists and jazz players of the 1940’s. When Parker was still a child, his family moved to Kansas City, Missouri, where jazz, blues and gospel music were flourishing. His ...

Article: My Favourite Things

Joonas Haavisto e il Questionario di Proust

by Paolo Peviani
August 28, 2019

Il tratto principale della mia musica L'equilibrio tra composizione e improvvisazione. Metto anche molta attenzione sul suono e la melodia. La qualità che desidero nei musicisti che suonano con me Ascoltare è la cosa più importante. Poi vengono altre abilità, come il prendere dei rischi, il ...

Article: Album Review

Anders Lonne Gronseth: Theory Of Anything

Read "Theory Of Anything" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
August 25, 2019

2018 saw the release of the eponymous debut of Norwegian reedman Anders Lonne Gronseth's quintet, Multiverse (Pling Music). 2019 opened the door to Theory Of Anything, music recorded by the group at the same session. The sound is Nordic cool and patient in its unfolding, with Gronseth's compositions leaving the doors wide open to spontaneity and ...

Article: Interview

Chick Corea: Music With The Fun Factor

by R.J. DeLuke
August 23, 2019

Chick Corea is a musical icon, having amassed a career that runs through most styles of jazz and has veered off into classical experiments as a well. Freedom of expression is always being at the core. His amazing musical journey—over five decades as a solo artist—has had him rubbing elbows with some of the ...

Article: Catching Up With

Wallace Roney: What’s Going on Today

by Kevin Press
August 19, 2019

Trumpeter Wallace Roney has come a long way since his days as a Miles Davis mentee. The young man who earned the Down Beat Award for Best Young Jazz Musician of the Year in both 1979 and 1980 is now a seasoned veteran with 22 band-leader recordings to his credit. During his career, Roney ...

Article: Album Review

Steve Lehman Trio + Craig Taborn: The People I Love

Read "The People I Love" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
August 18, 2019

It is easy think about the shock of the new that was bebop when listening to The People I Love by alto saxophonist Steve Lehman's trio. Not that Lehman plays bebop as it was in the 1940s. It took mammals millions of years of evolution to climb down out of trees and fashion tools, but it ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

New Music from William Parker and Whit Dickey

by Bob Osborne
August 15, 2019

Great music from the Aum Fidelity label with new albums from William Parker and Whit Dickey together with a selection of other recent releases and some classic “Bird." Playlist William Parker in Order to Survive “Eternal Is the Voice of Love II" from Live/Shapeshifter (Aum Fidelity) 00:00 Whit Dickey Tao Quartets “Peace Planet" from ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

The Songbooks (1950 - 1959)

by Russell Perry
August 13, 2019

Songs from what came to be known as the Great American Songbook, have been part of jazz perhaps since The Original Dixieland Jazz Band began recording Irving Berlin compositions. In the 1940s, singer Lee Wiley recorded several collections of 78s, known as “albums"--a name that stuck into the LP era, focused on the work of individual ...