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Two Simultaneous Jon Irabagon Releases: Quartet & Solo
by Mark Sullivan
Saxophonist Jon Irabagon has worked in a wide variety of settings, including Mostly Other People Do The Killing, the Mary Halvorson Quintet, Barry Altschul's 3Dom Factor, and the Dave Douglas Quintet. For the 2015 release on his own Irabbagast Records label he released two records on the same day: Behind the Sky, with his quartet plus ...
Jon Irabagon: Behind The Sky
by Dan Bilawsky
The grieving process is a personal journey and an act of discovery, allowing individuals to truly appreciate what was, while awakening to the reality of what is. And while no two people mourn in the exact same fashion, mourning itself, no matter the method, is almost always a cathartic experience. In the case of saxophonist Jon ...
Take Five with Rob Saffer of the Creative Music Foundation
by AAJ Staff
In this installment of Take Five we hear from Executive Director Rob Saffer of the Creative Music Foundation, an organization founded in 1971 by Karl Berger, Ingrid Sertso and Ornette Coleman. CMS has brought together leading innovators in the jazz and world music communities through their CMS workshops. About the Creative Music Studio Fall ...
Dave Douglas Quintet Returns With "Brazen Heart"
Trumpeter and composer Dave Douglas, one of the most prolific and influential jazz musicians of our time, has created “a body of work [that] reflects an inveterate engagement with the world, taking inspiration from literature, politics, dance and film, as well as jazz and new-music traditions,” writes Nate Chinen of The New York Times. But Douglas ...
Creative Music Studio Announces Fall Workshop, October 5-9, 2015
Composer/multi-instrumentalist and Creative Music Studio alumnus Peter Apfelbaum, master percussionist/educator Billy Martin, and composer/saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa will join CMS Artistic Directors/Co-Founders Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso as Guiding Artists for the Creative Music Studio Fall 2015 Workshop Intensive, October 5-9, at the ear-inspiring Full Moon Resort in Big Indian, NY. CMS’s Fall 2015 Workshop features a ...
Mario Pavone: Blue Dialect
by Mark Corroto
Gone are the days where a jazz trio maintains a three month residency, playing nightly in a club. Nor are there world traveling units that refine their skills nightly on the road, working and reworking material. There will be no more piano trios led by the likes of Thelonious Monk and Bill Evans. But have no ...
Harris Eisenstadt's "Canada Day IV" Will Be Released On September 4
Drummer/Composer's Quintet Features Nate Wooley on Trumpet, Matt Bauder on Tenor Saxophone, Chris Dingman on Vibraphone and New Member Pascal Niggenkemper on Bass Canada Day III made many Best of 2012 lists. In the meantime, award-winning drummer Harris Eisenstadt launched a new group, Golden State (with two releases on Songlines). Now Canada Day, his his longest-running ...
Dave Douglas: High Risk
by Luca Muchetti
È firmata dal musicista newyorkese Dave Douglas una delle tante e nuovi possibili interpretazioni elettroniche del jazz. Il filone, spesso interlocutorio ma talvolta anche gravido di belle sorprese, nel caso del musicista statunitense di recente nominato direttore artistico di Bergamo Jazz con High Risk disegna una prospettiva dalle linee solide, all'interno di un progetto che denota ...
Dave Douglas: High Risk
by Mark F. Turner
A leading trumpeter and composer, Dave Douglas has never been content staying in one location for too long. Within his already diverse discography, he's produced imaginative music with numerous ensembles that include the intrepidly free Tiny Bell Trio; an acoustic-electric sextet Keystone; vivid reflections of Americana with his Riverside band. This time, he ventures once again ...
Dave Douglas: There's Wisdom Everywhere in the Universe
by Dave Wayne
We're republishing this June 2013 in celebration of the 10 year anniversary of Dave Douglas's Greenleaf Music record label. When All About Jazz last spoke with trumpeter, multi-bandleader, teacher, composer, marathon runner, podcaster, and record label head honcho Dave Douglas in November, 2011, he was in the Ukraine on the last leg of a ...
