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Take Five with David Hall

by AAJ Staff
January 9, 2019

About David Hall David Hall is a jazz teacher and performer with a background in classical music. He studied at the University of Cambridge and the Royal Academy of Music. David worked as a musician in cathedrals before finding his calling in education. He is now the musical director of piano courses at Finchcocks ...

Article: Interview

Ted Rosenthal: Dear Erich, A Jazz Opera

by Ken Dryden
January 7, 2019

Ted Rosenthal is one of the most renowned pianists of his generation. He won first prize at the second Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition and has been awarded several NEA grants as a composer. Well known as the pianist in Gerry Mulligan's final quartet, Rosenthal has recorded or performed with many other artists, including Bob ...

Article: Album Review

Eric Dolphy: Musical Prophet:The Expanded 1963 New York Sessions

Read "Musical Prophet:The Expanded 1963 New York Sessions" reviewed by Jerome Wilson

by Jerome Wilson
January 6, 2019

Eric Dolphy's lone Blue Note album, 1964's Out To Lunch! is rightly regarded as a classic but the two records he made for the short-lived Douglas label just before that, Conversations (1963) and Iron Man (1963), have been largely forgotten, due in part to being out-of-print for many years. Now the Resonance label has done something ...

Article: Album Review

Jorge Nila: Tenor Time (tribute to the Tenor Masters)

Read "Tenor Time (tribute to the Tenor Masters)" reviewed by Chris Mosey

by Chris Mosey
January 4, 2019

The four participants on this album all hail from Omaha, Nebraska. Not a town that springs readily to mind in the history of jazz. Although, as drummer Dana Murray, recalls: “In the ballroom days everyone came through--Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Dinah Washington--the list goes on." But it is the friendship and ...

Article: Year in Review

2018: The Year in Jazz

by Ken Franckling
January 3, 2019

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 ...

Album

Talking with Charlie - An Imaginary Talk with Charlie Parker

By Charlie Parker

Label: Hat Hut Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: Phonological Extension; Free Morphenes; All - O - Phones; Morphological Drift; Semantic Crossings.

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Now's The Time

By Charlie Parker

Label: Dreyfus Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: A Night in Tunisia; Ornithology; Parker’s Mood; Now’s the Time; Relaxin’ at Camarillo; Bird of Paradise; Scrapple From the Apple; Moose the Mooch; Billie’s Bounce; Chasing the Bird; Embraceable You; Donna Lee; Out of Nowhere; Confirmation; Ko-Ko; Don’t Blame Me; A Night in Tunisia (The Famous Alto Break); Marmaduke; Steeplechase; Bluebird; Merry-Go-Round; Another Hair-Do; Ah-Leu-Cha.

Article: Film Review

Green Book: A Serious Comedy and Jazz Allegory

by Victor L. Schermer
December 28, 2018

Green Book DreamWorks Universal 2018 Starting perhaps in the 1930s, African American jazz musicians and bands from the north, midwest, and west toured the segregationist South. There they found to their dismay that as much as they were sought after for performances, they were compelled to live in separate hotels and use ...

Article: Album Review

Reto Anneler: Stille Post

Read "Stille Post" reviewed by James Fleming

by James Fleming
December 27, 2018

Stille Post is a record as spacious as a solar system. Reto Anneler's alto and Cristoph Grab's tenor move around the rhythm section like planets orbiting a distant sun. And when the two horns align, the music glows with the red light of an eclipse, shining down on the spare basslines and pointed drumming of Claudio ...

Article: Album Review

The Way Ahead: Bells, Ghosts and other Saints

Read "Bells, Ghosts and other Saints" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
December 25, 2018

Perry Farrell, of the rock band Jane's Addiction, might have said/sung it best in 1988, on the track “Ted, Just Admit it..." when he whispered “Nothing's Shocking." Indeed, nothing is in the 21st century. Marcel Duchamp's painting “Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2" (1912) is mostly admired today, and certainly not the trigger for a riot. ...