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Article: Interview

Mara Rosenbloom, Darius Jones, Brian Drye: Brooklyn Artist Snapshot

by Seton Hawkins
August 14, 2013

To even the casual observer, Brooklyn has incubated an extraordinary new generation of talented jazz artists. While the Borough is certainly renowned for a vibrant jazz community, and indeed has been since the mid-twentieth century, this latest cohort of artists is nevertheless worthy of a particular spotlight, not only for being a gathering of tremendous performers ...

Article: Album Review

Endangered Blood: Work Your Magic

Read "Work Your Magic" reviewed by Troy Collins

by Troy Collins
August 12, 2013

Work Your Magic is the sophomore follow-up to Endangered Blood's self-titled 2011 Skirl Records debut. The acoustic quartet features an all-star lineup, with Human Feel's Chris Speed and Jim Black joined by fellow Skirl label mates Oscar Noriega and Trevor Dunn. First named The Benefit Band, the group was initially formed in 2008 to help Human ...

Article: Live Review

Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2013

by Henning Bolte
August 3, 2013

Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2013Copenhagen, DenmarkJuly 12-14, 2013The annual Copenhagen Jazz Festival, with more than a thousand concerts during ten days--spread over more than hundred places and stages across the city--is a special, unique affair. Like other big jazz festivals, it also has its headliners--big names, mostly American, like Terence Blanchard, Richard Bona, Chick ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Lamacal

by Henning Bolte
June 27, 2013

Lama is a young Portuguese/Canadian trio with a firm foothold in both Rotterdam and Porto. Lama is trumpeter Susana Santos Silva, double bassist Gonçalo Almeida and drummer Greg Smith. Lamaçal, Lama's second album on Clean Feed, was recorded live during the Portalegre Jazz Fest in 2012, and features well known clarinetist/saxophonist Chris Speed as a guest. ...

Article: Album Review

Lama + Chris Speed: Lamaçal

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 27, 2013

Dopo lo scintillante debutto di Oneiros, il trio lusitano-canadese denominato Lama e capitanato dal bassista Gonçalo Almeida, dà alla stampe l'opera seconda invitando per l'occasione il quotato clarinettista/sassofonista Chris Speed. Registrato durante la decima edizione del Portalegre Jazz Festival, Lamaçal pur conservando alcune delle caratteristiche presenti nell'album di debutto - su tutte una convincente liaison dangereuse ...

Article: We Travel the Spaceways

Art Strike!

by Mark Corroto
May 22, 2013

"Would you support an art strike?" That's the question I've been asking musicians for the past few months. “Will you agree to stop writing and performing music for one year?" In 1990 the London artists Stewart Home and Mark Pawson proposed that all artists cease to “make, exhibit, distribute, sell, or discuss their work" for three ...

Article: Meet the Staff

Meet Daniel Lehner

by AAJ Staff
March 16, 2013

I currently live in: New York, NYI joined All About Jazz in: 2010What made you decide to contribute to All About Jazz? I actually submitted my first review, which was the Undead Jazz Festival 2010, to the AAJ message boards. I saw they had a section for concert reviews so I decided ...

Article: Album Review

Curtis Hasselbring: Number Stations

Read "Number Stations" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
March 1, 2013

Number stations are, apparently, shortwave radio stations that intermittently broadcast random series of numbers: a Cold War communication system that still lingers. Number Stations is an album by trombonist Curtis Hasselbring and his band, the wonderfully named New Mellow Edwards, that takes its inspiration from these mysterious transmitters.The tune titles are rather enigmatic, but ...

Album

Granular Alchemy

By Chris Speed

Label: ILK Music
Released: 2012
Track listing: 01. Sediments; 02. Sand; 03. Metal; 04. Suite: Wind / Skin.

Album

Acrobat: Music for, and by, Dmitri Shostakovich

By Chris Speed

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2012
Track listing: 01. Dance of Death (Shostakovich) – 6:25; 02. Talking Bird – 8:06; 03. Strong Arm – 7:08; 04. Some Wounds – 6:59; 05. Fugitive Pieces – 8:08; 06. Silent Witness – 9:37; 07. The Given Day – 7:55; 08. Yurodivy – 5:21; 09. Arcangela – 7:03. Tutti i brani di Michael Bates, eccetto dove indicato.