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Article: Album Review

Eric Jacobson: Heading Home

Read "Heading Home" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello

by Nicholas F. Mondello
October 20, 2024

Wisconsin trumpeter, composer-arranger, educator and author Eric Jacobson and his team deliver Heading Home, his third album as leader. Offering eight Jacobson originals played by Chicago heavyweights and a New Yorker guest, all Jacobson regulars, the album, a hard bop retrospective, is arguably--if not definitively--the trumpeter's finest outing to date. “Survival" opens in ...

Article: Album Review

Enrico Granafei: It's Hard to Say Goodbye

Read "It's Hard to Say Goodbye" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello

by Nicholas F. Mondello
September 18, 2024

With It's Hard to Say Goodbye, multi-talented Italian guitarist and harmonica player, Enrico Granafei and a group of standouts offer eleven Latin-flavored jazz selections. The effort, recorded over an extended period, also features two artists who have unfortunately passed--trumpeter Claudio Roditi and pianist, Mike Longo. Granafei has dedicated the album to them and to the memory ...

Album

Harvest Time Featuring Herbie Hancock

By Yana Purim

Label: CID/Fama
Released: 2023

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Claudio Roditi

May 28, 2023

All About Jazz is celebrating Claudio Roditi's birthday today! This Brazilian composer/arranger and trumpet artist has fourteen critically acclaimed albums, a Grammy nomination, and a busy international touring schedule that includes the most prestigious jazz festivals in the world. Claudio Roditi was born May 28th, 1946 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He began his musical studies ...

Article: Liner Notes

Michael Dease: The Other Shoe: The Music of Gregg Hill

by AAJ Staff
March 26, 2023

"Think of any big city," Greg Hill says, introducing the narrative armature of his composition, “The Other Shoe," the denouement and title track of this stimulating collaboration with Michael Dease, who arranged each of Hill's 10 compositions contained herein. “It's 2 in the morning, you're still awake, and your neighbor comes in upstairs. You hear the ...

Article: Album Review

Michael Dease: Best Next Thing

Read "Best Next Thing" reviewed by Kyle Simpler

by Kyle Simpler
August 6, 2022

Like many other talented musicians, Michael Dease always looks for ways to take his music to the next level. He is continually exploring and looking ahead rather than simply resting on his laurels. Because of this passion and determination, he has earned a reputation as a top session player and as a band leader in his ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Claudio Roditi

May 28, 2022

Album

In the Beginning

By Arkadia Jazz All-Stars

Label: Arkadia Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: New Vista, Beauty and the Beast, Caravan, Naima, Jazz Influence, Convite (Invitation), Up Jumped Spring, Tiny Capers, Yardbird Suite, Smashing Thirds, Out of Nowhere

Article: Rising Stars

Baritone Saxophonist Tate Hanlon: Winner of Gerry’s Jazz Challenge

by Sanford Josephson
September 1, 2021

The names of the judges in the Gerry & Franca Mulligan Foundation's Gerry's Jazz Challenge competition among high school music students were kept anonymous. The results, though, were anything but mysterious. The contestants were judged on five categories: notes, sound, technique, intonation, and presentation. Tate Hanlon, a senior at Fairview High School in Fairview, ...