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Michael Bates: Acrobat: Music for, and by, Dmitri Shostakovich

Read "Acrobat: Music for, and by, Dmitri Shostakovich" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


È impressionante il background del bassista canadese Michael Bates. Musicista hardcore e punk, raffinato contrabbassista jazz, allievo di Yoshio Nagashima (Tokyo Symphony), Tony Falanga e Mark Helias, studioso di Shostakovich, ora attivo a Brooklyn nella pattuglia di compositori-improvvisatori più creativi sulla scena newyorkese. Questo Acrobat prende le mosse proprio da Shostakovich, non già come omaggio stilistico, ...

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Article: Live Review

NYC Winter Jazzfest, Day 1: January 6, 2012

Read "NYC Winter Jazzfest, Day 1: January 6, 2012" reviewed by Daniel Lehner


Day 1 | Day 22012 NYC Winter Jazzfest, Day 1New York, NYJanuary 6, 2012 No one could argue that jazz didn't have a tumultuous 2011. For the better, bassist/vocalist Esperanza Spalding's Grammy for Best New Artist marked the first time a jazz musician was awarded that honor, and veteran tenor ...

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Endangered Blood

Label: Skirl Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: Plunge; Rare; Epistrophy; Elvin Lisbon; K; Tacos At Oscars; Iris; Uri Bird; Valva; Andrew's Ditty Variation One.

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Houseplant

Label: Winter & Winter Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: 01. Inkionos; 02. Cahme; 03. Houseplant; 04. FYR; 05. Malomice; 06. Littel; 07. Elight; 08. Naluch; 09. Cadmium Waits; 10. Adbear; 11. Lowers in a Nine Sense; 12. Downsturm. Tutti i brani sono di Jim Black.

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The Claudia Quintet + 1 featuring Kurt Elling and Theo Bleckmann: What Is the Beautiful?

Read "What Is the Beautiful?" reviewed by Troy Collins


Jazz and poetry have a longstanding relationship that precedes the postwar experiments of the Beats, dating back to the Harlem Renaissance. As with any artistic collaboration, the cooperative efforts of improvising musicians and poets have yielded mixed results over the years. One of the first artists to successfully explore this territory (with John Cage and Charles ...

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Article: Album Review

Dave King Trucking Company: Good Old Light

Read "Good Old Light" reviewed by Troy Collins


Branching out from his duties in The Bad Plus and Happy Apple, drummer Dave King formed the Dave King Trucking Company to explore a highly personalized take on Americana that he describes as “if the great Nashville bands of the '60s and '70s could improvise and were Coltrane fanatics." Building on this idea, King and company ...

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Satoko Fujii's Triple Whammy

Read "Satoko Fujii's Triple Whammy" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian


The year 2011 is proving to be a fruitful one for Japanese composer and improviser Satoko Fujii. In addition to a world tour, she has released three albums (all on June 21) on her own Libra record label, each in a different setting and in the company of different musicians. Her only constant companion, through all ...

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Take Five With Jackson Evans

Read "Take Five With Jackson Evans" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Meet Jackson Evans: Based in Savannah, Georgia, Jackson is known throughout the southeast as an in-demand band leader, composer, arranger and accompanist. In addition to organizing several regional tours he has performed in concert series and festivals including an appearance as a featured guest at the Savannah Jazz Festival.Jackson holds a BM ...

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Article: Live Review

Undead Jazz Festival: Day 4, June 26, 2011

Read "Undead Jazz Festival: Day 4, June 26, 2011" reviewed by Daniel Lehner


Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 Undead Jazz Festival New York, New York June 23-26, 2011 The last night of the Undead Jazz Festival, which had paraded its way from the chic, well-lit streets of the West Village down into the depths ...

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Undead Jazz Festival: Day 2, June 24, 2011

Read "Undead Jazz Festival: Day 2, June 24, 2011" reviewed by Daniel Lehner


Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 Undead Jazz FestivalNew York, New YorkJune 23-26, 2011 Sometimes a great idea just begs to be used again. The first performance of Search and Restore's “round-robin style" improvisation cycle last December proved its worth went beyond novelty. ...


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