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Article: Building a Jazz Library

Ten Terrific Sax Plus Organ Combinations

by Artur Moral
February 12, 2025

OK, maybe the electric guitar was its first and most celebrated love affair, but the organ's alliances with the saxophone's family members are undoubtedly among the richest musical combinations, both in terms of sound and the intense interrelationships that typically develop in such encounters. Whether it be a tenor with a Hammond, a soprano with an ...

Article: Interview

Jeff Ballard, Toscano per amore

by Neri Pollastri
February 10, 2025

Classe 1963, californiano di Santa Cruz, Jeff Ballard è oggi uno dei grandi batteristi della scena jazz internazionale. Membro di formazioni importanti come il sestetto di Chick Corea e il trio di Brad Mehldau, ha collaborato continuativamente con musicisti come Kurt Rosenwinkel, Danilo Perez, Avishai Cohen. Abbiamo avuto occasione di incontrarlo a Sesto Fiorentino, dove vive. ...

Article: Live Review

Macedonian National Jazz Orchestra Honors Quincy Jones

by Nenad Georgievski
February 1, 2025

Macedonian National Jazz Orchestra Macedonian Philharmonic Hall Skopje, Macedonia January 24, 2025 The National Jazz Orchestra kicked off its new season with a vibrant homage to Quincy Jones, one of the most influential musical figures of the 20th century. The concert, titled Jazz Classics: Quintessence by Quincy Jones, took place ...

Article: Live Review

Sam Blakeslee Large Group at BLU Jazz+

by John Chacona
January 12, 2025

Sam Blakeslee Large Group BLU Jazz+ Akron, OH December 20, 2024 In December, flowers bloomed in northeast Ohio, but climate change had nothing to do with it. The sudden blossoming was the work of Sam Blakeslee who returned to his home state to celebrate the holidays with family and friends, 18 ...

Article: Album Review

Al Jarreau: Wow: Live at the Childe Harold

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by Mark Corroto
December 17, 2024

Al Jarreau gained nationwide recognition with the theme to the 1985 hit television show “Moonlighting," which starred Cybill Shepherd and Bruce Willis. He also had a chart-topping single “We're In This Love Together." Before he was a pop star, R&B singer, and a successful cross-over artist, Al Jarreau was the purest of jazz talents. He gained ...

Article: Extended Analysis

The Duke Ellington Carnegie Hall Concerts: January 1943

by Chuck Lenatti
November 20, 2024

Duke Ellington was one of the most popular and successful jazz musicians of the first half of the 20th century and according to composer Gunther Schuller and musicologist and historian Barry Kernfeld, “the most significant composer of the genre." Radio broadcasts from his residency at New York's Cotton Club beginning in 1927 extended Ellington's ...

Article: Big Band in the Sky

Remembering Quincy Jones: Music Is Like Water

by Ian Patterson
November 7, 2024

Quincy Jones, a giant of popular music culture in the 20th and 21st centuries, died in Los Angeles on Sunday, November 3, He was 91. Though he began his career in the '50s as a jazz trumpeter, Quincy Jones may be best remembered as a highly successful producer, arranger and conductor--hats he wore with ...

Article: Catching Up With

Quincy Jones: An Evening With A Legend

by Solomon J. LeFlore
November 4, 2024

This article was first published on All About Jazz on October 31, 2014. I love jazz! I love everything about it... the improvisation, syncopation, the forceful rhythm, and the fact that it is truly America's original art form. Its unique and innovative use of brass and woodwind instruments and the piano is jazz. And, ...

Article: Multiple Reviews

Three types of albums from ezz-thetics

by John Eyles
October 28, 2024

In 1975 Werner X. Uehlinger founded the Swiss-based HatHut label which mainly released jazz by such illustrious names as Anthony Braxton, Steve Lacy, Joe McPhee, Max Roach and Cecil Taylor. The labels Hat MUSICS and Hat ART followed in 1981. !997 brought hatOLOGY and hat(now)ART, the latter issuing modern compositions by the likes of John Cage ...

Article: Live Review

Wynton Marsalis’ The Shanghai Suite At Hong Kong Academy For Performing Arts

by Rob Garratt
October 23, 2024

Lincoln Centre Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis Lyric Theatre, The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts “An Evening of Swing" & “Wynton Marsalis' Birthday Celebration" Hong Kong October 17-18, 2024 How does Wynton Marsalis spend his birthday? On the road, of course. The venerable champion of all things jazzy and ...