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Article: Live Review

Norwegian Road Trip, Part 2: Kongsberg Jazz, July 9-10, 2010

by John Kelman
July 12, 2010

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News: Event

Guitarist John Scofield Presents Eric Krasno & Nigel Hall in Shades of Jazz at the Katonah Museum of Art

July 7, 2010

The Katonah Museum of Art invites you to enjoy an early summer evening of art and jazz with the second Shades of Jazz concert of the new season. As curator for the series, legendary guitarist John Scofield presents some of the brightest talents in jazz today and jams with them at the end of each performance ...

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Article: Album Review

Franck Amsallem: Amsallem Sings

Read "Amsallem Sings" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
July 3, 2010

Thirty years into a career which has seen Algerian-born Frank Amsallem playing piano with musicians as diverse as Joshua Redman, Gary Peacock and Danny Gatton, Amsallem Sings is his debut recording as a vocalist. It's a solo album--Amsallem accompanies himself on piano, without the support of any other players, so that the album stands or falls ...

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Article: Live Review

Stockholm Jazz Festival 2010

by James Pearse
June 17, 2010

Stockholm Jazz Festival 2010 Skeppsholmen, Stockholm, Sweden June 10-12, 2010 The central island of Skeppsholmen was, once again, the ideal location for the Stockholm Jazz Festival (SJF). Running since the early 1980s, the event has attracted some of the biggest names in not only jazz but also pop, rock, soul and hip ...

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Article: Album Review

Jon Mayer: Nightscape

Read "Nightscape" reviewed by Ken Dryden

by Ken Dryden
June 7, 2010

Jon Mayer was working professionally as a jazz pianist as a teen back in the '50s, while attending the Manhattan School of Music. As well as working as a sideman with Tony Scott, Kenny Dorham, Chet Baker, the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra, Sarah Vaughan and others, along with taking part in record dates with John Coltrane ...

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Article: Album Review

Arturo Sandoval: A Time for Love

Read "A Time for Love" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello

by Nicholas F. Mondello
June 4, 2010

Years ago, on The Tonight Show, host Johnny Carson asked guest Frank Sinatra what music he enjoyed listening to when “in those romantic moments." Sinatra, to the host's surprise, said he particularly enjoyed the hearing works of Debussy, Ravel and other Impressionists and Romantics. With A Time for Love, trumpet legend Arturo Sandoval steps away from ...

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Article: Old, New, Borrowed and Blue

Jazz Goes Green: Musical Explorations On A Secondary Color Of Note

by Dan Bilawsky
May 31, 2010

With spring taking hold and summer on the way, it's hard to avoid encounters with the color green. The drab gray and white of winter is now no more and a vibrant green color scheme has taken over. A drive along the Long Island Expressway--which leads to Manhattan and some of the greatest jazz clubs in ...

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Article: Interview

Michael Leonhart: A Fortunate Son

by Telly Davidson
May 18, 2010

For most musicians, writers and actors, making the final decision to go against the grain and pursue a paycheck-to-paycheck, month-to-month career as a performing artist is one of the harder choices in life. Yet for trumpeter Michael Leonhart, a life in jazz and art is “all in the family": his father is the noted jazz bassist, ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five with Ralf Krebs

by AAJ Staff
April 30, 2010

Meet Ralf Krebs:The native Berliner began his musical career at the age of 11, taking lessons in drumming and latin percussion. He was much in demand as a drummer and percussionist in numerous local bands and counted amongst his influences Salsa, Fusion and the Jazz Rock of the 70s and 80s.His love ...

Article: Lyrics

Come se avesse le ali - Rava e Fresu ricordano Chet

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 29, 2010

Nel dicembre 2009 è caduto l'ottantesimo anniversario della nascita di Chet Baker. Nella rubrica Déjà lu, per gentile concessione degli autori e dell'editore, riproponiamo i due interventi di Paolo Fresu ed Enrico Rava apparsi in appendice al libro di Chet Baker “Come se avessi le ali. Le memorie perdute," edito nel luglio 2009 da minimum fax ...