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Joachim Mencel: An Eye on Brooklyn From Poland
by Paul Rauch
It is rare when an album is released by a veteran artist that so clearly defines his or her musical identity as a jazz musician, much less speaks musically to the artist's hopes, dreams and passionate pursuits of a lifetime. Such is the case with Polish pianist/composer Joachim Mencel's Brooklyn Eye (Origin, 2022). To Mencel, the ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Chet Baker
All About Jazz is celebrating Chet Baker's birthday today! Chesney Henry “Chet" Baker Jr. was raised in a musical household in Oklahoma (his father was a guitarist), and coming of age in Southern California during the bebop era of jazz, Baker found success as a trumpet player in 1951 when he was chosen by Charlie Parker ...
Chet Baker: Live In Paris
by Stefano Merighi
A un certo punto arriva un'anonima bossanova, “Arbor Way" di Rique Pantoja, e lì ci sono cinque minuti di assolo di Chet Baker che ti avvolgono con un calore disarmante, che ti ricordano che cos'era quella sua vulnerabilità adamantina, quella sua sapienza oracolare, del tutto estranea al sistema del jazz allora imperante, quello degli “young lions" ...
Jazz Documentary 'In The Zone: Rick Kilburn' 12x Award-Winner from Canada to South Korea
Humbled and honoured to finally announce her short film results, first-time short documentary film director Kerilie McDowall was surprised to discover that she had won an award for Best Director from the Seoul Short Film Festival in South Korea for her short film, In the Zone: Rick Kilburn. Later the short’s star, Rick Kilburn, on IMDB ...
Dan McClenaghan's Top Jazz Recordings of 2022
by Dan McClenaghan
The top jazz recordings of 2022, in no particular order. Justin MorellExit Music For Intelligent Life On Earth Sonic Frenzy Records A provocative and beautiful guitar and drums album. Guitarist Justin Morell has teamed with drummer Mark Ferber (see postscript concerning Ferber at the end of this article) to construct ...
Marína Ósk: One Evening in July
by Jane Kozhevnikova
Who knew back in the early days of jazz that the songs written back then would later become standards and inspire people in the “far far away" 2022? Marína Ósk, a promising emerging musician from Reykjavík, Iceland, has found her composer's voice in writing lyrical jazz pieces which sound like some songs of the “Great American ...
La Jazz Campus Orchestra al Roma Jazz Festival
by Serena Antinucci
Jazz Campus Orchestra Roma Jazz Festival Auditorium Parco della Musica 13/11/2022 La Jazz Campus Orchestra è energia pura, contagiosa. Si respira un forte senso di appartenenza ad una stessa comunità, composta da giovani talenti, che di volta in volta, si armonizzano. Diretti dal Maestro Massimo Nunzi, trombettista e arrangiatore di artisti ...
Dave Liebman and Richie Beirach: Ruminations and Reflections
by Victor L. Schermer
Ruminations and Reflections Dave Liebman and Richie Beirach 305 Pages ISBN: # 978-1 955604 10-9 Cymbal Press 2022 Saxophonist Dave Liebman and pianist Richie Beirach have worked together since the early 1970s when they got together in Liebman's loft in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan to improvise free ...
Franco Ambrosetti: Nora
by Dan McClenaghan
Franco Ambrosetti's album is called simply Nora. Short and sweet, four letters, two syllables. But it could easily have been called “Franco Ambrosetti with Strings," as the Swiss flugelhornist & trumpeter follows the orchestral path of alto saxophonist Charlie Parker and his groundbreaking Charlie Parker With Strings (Verve, 1950), trumpeter Chet Baker's Chet Baker with Strings ...
Randal Despommier: A Midsummer Odyssey
by Jerome Wilson
Lars Gullin was a Swedish baritone saxophonist active mainly in the Fifties and Sixties and known for his work on his native jazz scene as well as playing with American stars such as Chet Baker and Lee Konitz. His compositions were an early example of a European musician mixing the sounds of his home country with ...
