Results for "Chris Dave"

Pino Palladino, Blake Mills: Notes with Attachments

by Emmanuel Di Tommaso
March 12, 2021

Pino Palladino e Blake Mills firmano uno dei dischi più attesi dell'anno. Il polistrumentista e produttore californiano viene da un 2020 molto intenso, caratterizzato dall'uscita del suo album solista Mutable Set e da una serie di preziose collaborazioni con artisti del calibro di Bob Dylan e di Perfume Genius, che hanno realizzato due dei migliori dischi ...

Mirna Bogdanović, Pino Palladino, Chris Pattishall, Miguel Zenón & New Releases

by Ludovico Granvassu
February 12, 2021

The future of the jazz is in good hands as you'll hear from the emerging artists featured on this show, ranging in style from Chris Pattishall's stunning modern take on Mary Lou Williams' “Zodiac Suite" to the eclectic first album by Slovenian singer Mirna Bogdanovic. Bass veteran Pino Palladino has a different 'first': his debut album ...

Blue Note Review 2: Spirit & Time and More

by Marc Cohn
April 10, 2020

Lots of cool features this week. First, Side 2 of the new-music LP from 2nd limited-edition Blue Note Review box with drummers Tony Allen and Chris Dave reimagining Tony Williams compositions. Then, a deep dive into the Savoy vaults from 1947 with recreations of 78s by Charlie Parker, Fats Navarro and Dexter Gordon. Celebrating Sonny Rollins ...

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Snaggle: The Long Slog

by Dave Wayne
January 11, 2017

In the art world, labeling oneself as “the next (fill in the blank)" or “(name of country)'s answer to (fill in the blank)" is a risky ploy that may reap short-term benefits in terms of quickly generating a fan base, but may actually be detrimental in terms of creative sustainability. The : Toronto-based jazz-funk- rock sextet ...

Badbadnotgood Is Truly Goodgoodnotbad

by Dave Wayne
December 20, 2016

Among the pleasantest surprises of 2016, a year replete with many notably unpleasant surprises, was the appearance of IV by the poly-stylistic jazz / instrumental hiphop quartet BadBadNotGood. IV came hot on the heels of Sour Soul, their remarkable 2015 collaboration with Ghostface Killah. If you still bristle when you see the words “jazz" and “hiphop" ...

Meet Kenny Garrett

by Craig Jolley
October 9, 2016

This interview was first published at All About Jazz in April 2002 and is part of our ongoing effort to archive pre-database material. First tier alto saxophonist Kenny Garrett is notorious for his energy and for his ability to spontaneously compose (improvise). He announced himself twenty years ago in the bands of Freddie Hubbard ...

José James: una grande voce per la Black Music

by Angelo Leonardi
June 6, 2016

La recente pubblicazione per la Blue Note di Yesterday I Had the Blues -The Music of Billie Holiday , torna a collocare José James in una piena cornice jazzistica. È una commemorazione della cantante e un approccio tradizionale che oggi James affronta senza paura d'apparire prigionero del passato. L'altro esempio riguarda l'album For All We Know, ...

Marcus Strickland's Twi-Life: Nihil Novi

by Dan Bilawsky
April 30, 2016

When you wipe away all of the minutiae and technical matters involved with the recording process, there are really only two schools of thought on the subject: You either aim to capture what's literally there or you choose to produce something that's not. Everything else is semantics and dealing with variants, mixtures, and/or a balance between ...

Take Five with Delandria Mills

by AAJ Staff
November 14, 2014

Meet Delandria Mills: A flutist and educator, I am a native of Houston, Texas. I began playing the flute at age seven and graduated from Houston's High School for the Performing Arts. Both my Masters in Classical Flute and Graduate Performance Diploma in Jazz Studies were earned from the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, ...