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Take Five With David Tughan
by AAJ Staff
Meet David Tughan: I was born and raised in Northern Ireland. My passion for jazz began at 13 when I encountered the Count Basie Orchestra while vacationing in Florida. Inspired by the swinging energy and joyful sounds of the big band, I began listening to many instrumentalists like Oscar Peterson, Stan Getz, Stephane Grappelli, and ...
L.A. Six: Frame of Mind
by Jack Bowers
Once upon a time ('way back in the 1970s-80s) there was the peerless L.A. Four (Bud Shank, Laurindo Almeida, Ray Brown, Shelly Manne) and now we have the L.A. Six, another hard-swinging post-bop ensemble that has chosen to walk in some rather large shoes by recording a splendid debut album, Frame of Mind. With Tom Peterson ...
2013: The Year In Jazz
by Ken Franckling
The West Coast now has a jazz edifice of its own with strong roots, International Jazz Day grew in scope during year two, jazz made its mark on (and off) Broadway, and the number of musicians lost during the year was large and painful. Here's a look at significant happenings across the jazz world over the ...
Early Chet / Chet Baker In Germany 1955-1959 / Lost Tapes
By Chet Baker
Label: SWR Music
Released: 2013
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 guitar player), 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 ...
Luca Aquino: aQustico
by Nicholas F. Mondello
Based upon his recorded offerings to date, one might get the impression that Italian trumpeter Luca Aquino has legendary Italian explorers' roots in his musical DNA. While Columbus, Vespucci and others took sail over uncharted waters, Aquino (which translates as “little water") sets off yet again and delivers aural riches with aQustico. In ...
Chet Baker: Let's Get Lost
The year was 1988. Most people were still buying LPs though CDs were starting to eat up more and more space in record stores. Jazz sections were fairly thin on older records from the '50s. Most record companies were struggling to make money by issuing new releases, and CD catalogues were thin. Though the analog-to-digital conversion ...
Drummer Charlie Rice & His All-Stars In Collingswood, NJ On Thurs. December 5th!
The Jazz Bridge first Thursdays Neighborhood Concerts Series at the Collingswood Community Center, 30 East Collings Avenue in Collingswood NJ, presents drummer Charlie Rice and his All-Stars on Thursday, December 5th. Showtime is 7:30 p.m., tickets are $10/$5 for students, and are only available at the door. For info: 856-858-8914, 215-517-8337 or visit Jazz Bridge. At ...
Enrico Pieranunzi: Live at the Village Vanguard
by Dan McClenaghan
Italian jazz pianist Enrico Pieranunzi, with his melodic romanticism and wondrous sense of harmony, deepened by by his classical training, gets compared often and aptly to the legendary and game-changing pianist Bill Evans (1929-1980). While Pieranunzi's style is more gregarious, and less introspective than that of Evans--and often more abstract--he does share with the late piano ...
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