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2018: The Year in Jazz

by Ken Franckling
The year 2018 was a busy one for the jazz world. The genre's version of the #MeToo movement resulted in a new Code of Conduct and other efforts to make the music workplace more equitable. International Jazz Day brought its biggest stage to St. Petersburg, Russia. The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, which ran a high-profile ...
Jazz Bata 2

Label: Mack Avenue Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: Obatala; Son XXI; Luces; Ochun; Chucho’ Mood; 100 Anos De Bebo; El Guije; The Clown.
Chucho Valdes: Jazz Bata 2

by Chris Mosey
With Jazz Bata 2, composer pianist and bandleader Chucho Valdés finally follows up on an experimental album he cut in Cuba in 1972. The subject matter of both records is the folklore and religious beliefs of the Yoruba slaves shipped to the Caribbean between 1770 and 1840. On Jazz Bata 2 Valdés' piano ...
Bailey’s Bundle – Seven Women (Plus Three) 2018 – Part IX

by C. Michael Bailey
Yilian Cañizares and Omar Sosa Aguas Ota Records 2018 Pianist/composer Omar Sosa has established himself as a pioneer at the edge of Cubano-Caribbean music. Sosa teams with violinist/vocalist Yilian Cañizares for a breezy and sensual stroll through 11 original, for lack of a better term, world music compositions that are as ...
SFJAZZ: Decades After, Five Years In

by Arthur R George
Five years after the San Francisco, California organization SFJAZZ created its own building, the SFJAZZ Center, it has proved a raving, even rampaging, success, unrelenting in programming, sales, education, and music production. Its number of concerts has doubled from 248 to more than 500. Its membership has increased by almost 200% to more than 14,000. It ...
Matsuli Music: The Fight Against Forgetting

by Seton Hawkins
Now approaching a decade of operations, Matsuli Music has placed itself at the frontline of reissuing some of South Africa's most influential, important, and yet nevertheless now difficult-to-find albums in pursuit of its stated mission: The Fight Against Forgetting." Indeed, to that end, founder Matthew Temple has done extraordinary work, as thanks to his efforts, classic ...
Arturo O'Farrill, Chucho Valdes: Familia: Tribute to Bebo & Chico

by Angelo Leonardi
Dizzy Gillespie ricordava con amarezza il modo con cui la critica jazz aveva trattato la sua collaborazione col conguero Chano Pozo, giudicandola un'eccentricità marginale. Il trombettista la giudicava invece il momento culminante della sua carriera. Quell'atteggiamento verso il cosiddetto Latin Jazz è ancora diffuso e il multiforme terreno d'incontro tra jazz e musiche dei caraibi è ...
2018 Bergamo Jazz Festival

by Luciano Rossetti
Photos from the Bergamo Jazz Festival 2018, held in Bergamo from 22 to 25 March 2018, featuring Rita Marcotulli, Logan Richardson, Claudio Fasoli, Simona Severini, Maceo Parker, Roger Rota, Louis Sclavis & Vincent Courtois, Pulsar Ensemble, Linda May Han Oh, Chucho Valdes & Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Chano Dominguez, Zach Brock & Phil Markowitz, Jeremy Pelt, Silvia Perez ...
Bergamo Jazz Festival 2018

by Angelo Leonardi
Bergamo Jazz Festival 2018 Varie sedi Bergamo 18-25.3.2018 Ha festeggiato la 40ma edizione --dal 18 al 25 marzo --, uno dei più longevi festival nazionali ed europei, confermando la sua centralità con un ricco e variopinto programma che ha spaziato in vari ambiti senza cedere sul versante della qualità. In ...
Dafnis Prieto Big Band: Back to the Sunset

by Vincenzo Roggero
Nove dediche a personaggi particolarmente importanti nella personale crescita artistica -da Tito Puente a Egberto Gismonti, da Steve Coleman a Michel Camilo, da Chucho Valdes aHermeto Pascoal passando per Andrew Hill -una big band stellare impreziosita dalla presenza di Henry Threadgill e Steve Coleman in due brani e le radici caraibiche a far da collante. Si ...