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Take Five With Dan Lehner
by AAJ Staff
Meet Daniel Lehner:Dan Lehner is a freelance trombonist, composer and educator in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan. Born in Hamilton, New Jersey, Lehner briefly attended University of the Arts in Philadelphia before finishing his undergraduate degree in Jazz Studies at William Paterson University, studying under New York trombonists John Mosca and Tim Newman, ...
Curtis Hasselbring: Number Stations
by AAJ Italy Staff
Basta dare un'occhiata ai nomi che compongono il settetto chiamato The New Mellow Edwards e ci si rende subito conto che il gruppo è da paura. Sette musicisti, compreso il leader, tra i più attivi e influenti della scena newyorchese, ognuno titolare di progetti che stanno marchiando a fuoco le sorti del jazz contemporaneo, riuniti per ...
Curtis Hasselbring: Number Stations
by Glenn Astarita
Many avant-garde composers, leaders or conductors employ various mechanisms to instruct the band for a specific composition. Here, longtime New York City alternative composer, trombonist Curtis Hasselbring integrates an all-star lineup for pieces inspired by a random series of numbers, based on shortwave radio stations. Hasslebring iterates that these pieces are hypothetically decoded and provide cryptic ...
Curtis Hasselbring: Number Stations
by Bruce Lindsay
Number stations are, apparently, shortwave radio stations that intermittently broadcast random series of numbers: a Cold War communication system that still lingers. Number Stations is an album by trombonist Curtis Hasselbring and his band, the wonderfully named New Mellow Edwards, that takes its inspiration from these mysterious transmitters.The tune titles are rather enigmatic, but ...
Matt Wilson: Have Drums, Will Travel
by Lawrence Peryer
Drummer Matt Wilson must surely be in the running for the title of hardest-working man in jazz. Wilson is a composer, bandleader, producer and teacher. As a leader, his projects include the Matt Wilson Quartet, Arts & Crafts, Christmas Tree-O and the Carl Sandburg Project. He has been in bands with luminaries such as Joe Lovano, ...
NYC Winter Jazzfest, Day 1: January 6, 2012
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 ...
Satoko Fujii Min-Yoh Ensemble: Watershed
by Dave Wayne
Min-Yoh is the newest star in pianist Satoko Fujii's growing constellation of amazing improvising groups. While the presence of her partner in music and life, virtuoso trumpeter Natsuki Tamura, is a given, Fujii's musical interactions with a seemingly endless array of top-drawer improvisers from all over the world are almost as intimate. The pair gives the ...
Laurence Cook and Jim Hobbs Conjure "Tragedies of Love" on Blaq Lghtn Records
Blaq Lghtn recently released its third disc, Tragedies of Love, a duet involving the elder statesman of Boston drummers, Laurence Cook with the mayor of Boston music, Jim Hobbs and his beloved alto saxophone. It is a work laden with the reflections one might expect in the William Blake form of Experience. If anything, both epitomize ...
Stanford Lively Arts Kicks Off Jazz Series with Josh Roseman Sextet, November 12 At Campbell Recital Hall
Brooklyn-based trombonist, composer, and all-around musical mad-scientist Josh Roseman celebrates his Jamaican heritage with a musical tribute to the founding fathers of dub and ska, presented by Stanford Lively Arts on Saturday, November 12 at 8:00 p.m. in Campbell Recital Hall. A onetime Skatalite himself and a DownBeat #1 Rising Star" trombonist, Roseman will be joined ...
Satoko Fujii's Triple Whammy
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 ...



