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Vic Juris: Tension and Release
by Victor L. Schermer
This article was first published at All About Jazz on July 28, 2009. Vic Juris is one of the premier jazz guitarists in the business today. Perhaps less known than some of his peers, he is nevertheless admired by all of them and has accumulated, since his emergence on the scene in the 1970s, ...
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 ...
Ted Quinlan: Absolutely Dreaming
by Friedrich Kunzmann
Toronto-based guitarist Ted Quinlan is a Canadian institution on the instrument and constantly in high demand. Over the years he has performed as a sideman alongside famed musicians such as Chet Baker, Jimmy Smith or Dave Holland, while keeping busy as a leader. His guitar tone varies from clean and smooth to fuzzy and rough, channeling ...
Hal Galper Trio: The Zone: Live At The Yardbird Suite
by Dan McClenaghan
Pianist Hal Galper has rounded out a career spanning five decades with his stint at Origin Records, beginning with Furious Rubato (2007) and wrapping things up--or so it was rumored--with 2018's Cubist. Most of these are trio affairs featuring bassist Jeff Johnson and drummer John Bishop, with Cubist adding saxophonist Jerry Bergonzi to the mix. All ...
Enrico Rava: Around the Jazz World in 80 Years - The Leader Part -1
by Ludovico Granvassu
In advance of the long-overdue return of Enrico Rava to New York -where he will be taking part in the celebration of the 50th anniversary of ECM at Jazz at Lincol Center on 1 and 2 November—here is the first installment of an overview of the career of the grand master of Italian Jazz.
Intervista a Franco Ambrosetti
by Angelo Leonardi
Il 2019 è stato un anno significativo per il trombettista svizzero Franco Ambrosetti. In aprile è stato pubblicato il suo libro autobiografico “La scelta di non scegliere" mentre da poche settimane è uscito Long Waves, il suo ventottesimo disco da leader con un cast stellare comprendente John Scofield, Uri Caine, Scott Colley e Jack DeJohnette.
Stephanie Patton: A Breath of Spring
by C. Michael Bailey
Michael Chabon's alternate history The Yiddish Policemen's Union (HarperCollins, 2007) is set in Sitka, Alaska, located on the southeast portion of Alaska, situated on the west side of Baranof Island and the south half of Chichagof Island in the Alexander Archipelago of the Pacific Ocean. But Sitka is not only notable for its literary allusions; it ...
Giovanni Tommaso: sulle tracce di Miles Davis passando per Kind of Blue
by Paolo Marra
La musica è un modo per ritrovare le proprie origini, le radici perdute. Un giorno Miles Davis si ricorda di quegli “eccezionali gospel" che ascoltava in chiesa da piccolo in Arkansas. Per rivivere quelle sensazioni perdute butta giù un blues di cinque battute con un suono “molto scorrevole." Ma quando entra in studio il 2 marzo ...
Lookout Farm: At Onkel Po's Carnegie Hall: Hamburg 1975
by Chris May
Fasten your seat belt, please. Dave Liebman and Richie Beirach's club date with Lookout Farm barely lets up during an hour of ferocious jazz going on jazz-rock. It's in roughly the same bag as Miles Davis' post-Bitches Brew (CBS, 1970) electric albums, some of which had Liebman in the lineup. The tape lay in the vaults ...
Enrico Rava Special Edition at Teatro Nuovo
by Francesco Martinelli
Enrico Rava Special Edition Pisa Jazz Teatro Nuovo Pisa, Italy Sept. 25 2019 Enrico Rava, the musician who almost single-handedly gave Italian jazz an international profile in the '70s with his recordings, turns 80 this year and celebrates the milestone in the way he knows best: in music. He's ...
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