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Article: Building a Jazz Library

Charles Mingus: An Essential Top Ten Albums

by Chris May
July 26, 2021

Charles Mingus was rarely a happy man and yet his music possessed a power to uplift listeners unlike that of most other composer / bandleaders before or after him. It still has that power in 2021, four decades after his passing and on the eve of his hundredth anniversary in 2022. In his personal life, too, ...

Article: Take Five With...

Take Five with Kristin Callahan

by AAJ Staff
July 15, 2021

Meet Kristin Callahan Kristin has been singing and performing since she was eight years old. She began studying jazz and piano in 2009 and performs at festivals and venues such as the Mid Atlantic Jazz Festival, SOUTH, Montpelier Arts Center, Wine in the Woods, Woodmere Art Museum, Rockwood Music Hall, Twins Jazz, and Rams Head On ...

News: TV / Film

Short Documentary, 'In the Zone: Rick Kilburn,' Becomes A Three-Time Hollywood Winner

July 9, 2021

The Nanaimo mini-documentary film about jazz bassist/producer/composer Rick Kilburn, In the Zone: Rick Kilburn, has just achieved a third Hollywood award win. Film director and Canadian Polaris Music Prize juror Kerilie McDowall and her crew just won the June 2021 Best Web and New Media award at IndieX Film Fest in Hollywood. Additionally at Hollywood's Indie ...

Article: Interview

Dino Piana: un altro giro di Blues

by Paolo Marra
July 2, 2021

A 91 anni Dino Piana ha ancora voglia di suonare come quando da bambino lo faceva con un pezzo di legno sullo scalino di casa--"non potrei stare un giorno senza suonare, starei male perché ho bisogno di esprimermi" così ci dice il trombonista piemontese nell'intervista che abbiamo realizzato in occasione dell'uscita del suo nuovo disco Al ...

Article: Live Review

Roberto Cipelli & Paolo Fresu al Parco Ca' Nova di Medicina

by Emmanuel Di Tommaso
June 29, 2021

Roberto Cipelli e Paolo Fresu Parco Ca' Nova Crossroads Festival 2021 Medicina (BO) 26/06/2021 La prima delle tre apparizioni di Paolo Fresu alla ventiduesima edizione del Crossroads Festival, la manifestazione musicale che anche quest'anno attraversa tutta l'Emilia--Romagna con oltre 60 concerti di alto livello, va in scena al Parco Ca' Nova ...

Article: Album Review

The Luvmenauts: In Space

by Chris May
June 18, 2021

Toronto quartet The Luvmenauts' In Space is a well-crafted assemblage of new millennial library-going-on-soundtrack music. It has echoes of the mid 1960s and early 1970s rock 'n' funk produced by library labels such as KPM and Music De Wolfe, and has intersections, too, with the work of BBC Radiophonic Workshop composer Delia Derbyshire, not least in ...

Article: Hardly Strictly Jazz

Marty Sheller: The Name Behind The Sound You All Know, Part 1

by Skip Heller
May 27, 2021

There are certain musicians who embody eras, even if they're not the player with their picture on the cover. In our contemporary musical climate, Greg Leisz comes to mind. Since 1991, he has popped up on hundreds of acclaimed albums, and without ever really changing his style, he has become centrifugal beyond the considerations of genre ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Jane Ira Bloom, Art Hirahara & David Angel

by Joe Dimino
May 23, 2021

The ceremonial 700th Episode of Neon Jazz features several news releases and it starts with David Angel and music off his latest project Out on the Coast. We also spotlight 94-year old New York saxophonist Vinnie Riccitelli. We'll examine the music and voices of Joe Lovano, Steve Slagle, Art Hirahara and Jane Ira Bloom. then wrap ...

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Take Five with Kari Kirkland

by AAJ Staff
May 19, 2021

Meet Kari Kirkland Kari Kirkland's debut album 'Wild is the Wind' was produced and arranged by four-time Grammy©-nominee, pianist, composer, and arranger Shelly Berg. He assembled an impressive cast of players for the recording: legendary guitarist Dean Parks, Kevin Axt (Tierney Sutton) on bass, and drummer Gregg Field (Frank Sinatra), with Berg himself on piano. The ...

Article: Interview

Tali Rubinstein: Plastic Art

by Scott Krane
May 16, 2021

Recorder player, Tali Rubinstein, studied early music from the Baroque and Renaissance periods for many years, mostly as a teenager. The Israeli-American virtuoso learned under Bracha Kol, a recorder player and operatic vocalist based in Israel. If asked back then whether she was interested in playing jazz, Rubinstein would have looked at you with some interest ...