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Article: Interview

Roberto Gatto: vivere sbagliando è una gran perdita di tempo

by Daniele Vogrig
June 26, 2017

Tra una lezione e l'altra, abbiamo incontrato Roberto Gatto nel suo studio presso il Conservatorio di Latina, dove è titolare della cattedra di batteria e percussioni jazz. Ripercorrendo la carriera di uno tra i più illustri batteristi del panorama jazz italiano e internazionale, ne è scaturita una lunga e piacevole chiacchierata fra aneddoti, ricordi e progetti ...

Article: Record Label Profile

ears&eyes Records: From Chicago to the World

by Jakob Baekgaard
June 22, 2017

Those who feel that jazz has run out of steam, that there is nothing new to say, should encounter bassist and renaissance man, Matthew Golombisky, who runs the Chicago-based label ears&eyes. The name says it all. Golombisky is interested in what is going on around him. He is not only curious about music, but also passionate ...

Article: Bailey's Bundles

Art Pepper: Presents “West Coast Sessions” Volumes 3 & 4

by C. Michael Bailey
June 22, 2017

Today is the day that I finally come clean about Art Pepper and me. In 1984, I was taking a year off between having finished Pharmacy School and beginning a graduate program in Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Design. During this time, I had my yearly eye appointment with my ophthalmologist, one Dr. A. Henry Thomas, with ...

Article: History of Jazz

Pittsburgh Jazz: A Brief History

by Steve Rowland
June 14, 2017

This article was first published at the Explore PA History website. At first glance, Pittsburgh might not seem the most likely place to produce great jazz musicians. Situated on the western edge of the state, “Smoketown" was a gritty industrial city, better known for being the center of the nation's steel industry, than for ...

Article: Interview

Intervista a Fabrizio Bosso

by Daniele Vogrig
June 11, 2017

Con un nuovo album registrato dal vivo tra l'Italia e il Giappone, Fabrizio Bosso ha ripercorso il proprio cammino artistico e musicale, fotografando con il suo attuale quartetto i memorabili istanti di un tour ancora in atto. Abbiamo avuto il piacere di parlarne insieme... All About Jazz: Iniziamo dal tuo ultimo album, State ...

Article: Out and About: The Super Fans

Meet Donna M.

by Tessa Souter and Andrea Wolper
June 6, 2017

Reader: Are you a jazz Super Fan? Do you know a jazz Super Fan? If so, be sure to see the call-to-action at the end of this column. But first, meet our Super Fan for June, Donna M.: Raised on soul music, Donna M. was a relative late-comer to jazz (Vince Guaraldi's Peanuts score ...

Article: Multiple Reviews

Margrete Grarup: Denmark's jazz secret is out

by Chris Mosey
May 28, 2017

The Copenhagen daily newspaper Berlingske Tidende in 2015 called Margrete Grarup “the best kept secret in Danish jazz." In 2017, with two albums released in rapid succession on Storyville, that secret is out... and a star is born. Grarup has a wonderfully rich and expressive voice. She comes to jazz via the Scandinavian ...

Article: Interview

Bobby Zankel: The Soul of Jazz - Past, Present, and Future Tense

by Victor L. Schermer
May 21, 2017

Part 1 | | Part 5 | Part 6[This is the first of an All About Jazz series of interviews and articles on “The Many Faces of Jazz Today: Critical Dialogues," in which we will explore the current state of jazz around the world. Jazz has expanded in many directions. The business, educational, geographical, ...

Article: New York @ Night

Charles Mingus 95th Birthday Celebration

by Peter Jurew
May 10, 2017

Mingus Big BandJazz StandardNew York, NY April 24, 2017 Saturday, April 22, was an unusually good day. It started, blessedly, when the president did not tweet out a series of early morning fabrications/accusations to befuddle the free world. And it could only get better from there: It was Earth Day! Scientists ...

Article: Take Five With...

Take Five with Sherry-Lynn Lee and George Paolini of 23rd Hour

by AAJ Staff
April 27, 2017

About 23rd Hour For singer-songwriters and multi-instrumentalists Sherry-Lynn Lee and George Paolini, a chance meeting at an open mic transformed unlikely bedfellows into sympathetic artistic souls. Together now, the duo, who perform under the moniker 23rd Hour, announces its debut album--Perfect Strangers--a body of original compositions and jazz standards that melds eclectic ...