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Riviera Maya Jazz Festival: Day Three, November 27, 2010
by Chris M. Slawecki
Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 Riviera Maya Jazz FestivalPlaya del Carmen, MexicoNovember 25-28, 2010Day three of the Riviera Maya Jazz Festival was opened by Aguamala, anchored by one of Mexico's most famous and longstanding drummers (and Musical Director for the Festival), Fernando Toussaint. Together ...
Riviera Maya Jazz Festival: Day Two, November 26, 2010
by Chris M. Slawecki
Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 Riviera Maya Jazz Festival Playa del Carmen, MexicoNovember 25-28, 2010 Painting in bold colors from different corners of the Latin American musical spectrum, guitarist Al Di Meola drew from his acclaimed, historic collaborations with Spanish guitarist Paco de ...
Art Pepper: Unreleased Art Vol. 5: Stuttgart May 25, 1981
by Chris M. Slawecki
Recorded during a European tour by Pepper's “comeback quartet" with drummer Carl Burnett, bassist Bob Magnusson and pianist Milcho Leviev, Unreleased Art Vol. 5: Stuttgart May 25, 1981 is a genuine labor of love: Not only the performers' love of music but also the devotion of this alto saxophonist's fans, who sent their own recordings of ...
Riviera Maya Jazz Festival: Day One, November 25, 2010
by Chris M. Slawecki
Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 Riviera Maya Jazz Festival Playa del Carmen, MexicoNovember 25-28, 2010In the language of their spoken words during the pre-performance press conferences, and in the language of music through their concerts, the performers at the 2010 Riviera Maya Jazz Festival ...
The Laya Project: New Day--Laya Project Remixed
by Chris M. Slawecki
For two years, producers Sonya Mazumdar and Patrick Sebag journeyed throughout the coastal communities of India, Indonesia, the Maldives, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Thailand, collecting field recordings of these nations' most respected folk, religious and national music. They compiled these recordings and released them in 2007 as The Laya Project (Earthsync) to honor how the region's ...
Organissimo: Alive & Kickin'
by Chris M. Slawecki
The title of Organissimo's first live recording, Alive & Kickin', is a great description of how a guitar/organ trio live record should sound. Just about everything on this set comes homegrown by this Michigan trio: organ player Jim Alfredson met guitarist Joe Gloss in a Michigan State University (MSU) jazz class; the duo eventually became a ...
Gerry Gibbs: Gerry Gibbs & the Electric Thrasher Orchestra Play the Music of Miles Davis 1967-1975
by Chris M. Slawecki
Among other callings, drummer/percussionist and bandleader Gerry Gibbs serves as occasional “aural historian" of the mercurial music of Miles Davis. Gibbs' most recent tribute to one of the most controversial and notorious segments of Davis' career--fusion explorations that began to expand jazz with Nefertitti (Columbia) in 1967 and continued to stretch past even its most elastic ...
Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra: Who is This America?
by Chris M. Slawecki
Few American bands have been more influential in the global Afrobeat movement than the Brooklyn collective Antibalas. Keeper of the African protest flame ignited by Nigerian musician/activist Fela Kuti in the 1970s, Antibalas' reach is expansive and impressive: it contributed to the Tony- nominated musical Fela!, their horn section won a Grammy for their charts on ...
Miles Davis: Bitches Brew: 40th Anniversary Collectors' Edition
by Chris M. Slawecki
Historic debate over the relevance and merits of trumpeter Miles Davis' seminal jazz-rock fusion masterwork Bitches Brew (Columbia), especially upon this year's 40th anniversary of its original 1970 release, could fill every page of even a paperless internet jazz e-zine (a body of work to which Greg Tate's companion essay adds: “Bitches is a multi-clawed, multi-tentacled, ...
AAJ Readers Get Discount on Tickets to Tiempo Libre in NYC December 10
AAJ readers can get special discount pricing for tickets to see Tiempo Libre when the band returns to New York City to perform in concert on December 10th. Hot off its third Grammy nomination for “Best Tropical Latin Album" for Bach in Havana, the sizzling, dance-inducing Cuban music group Tiempo Libre will perform and generally throw ...
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