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Jimmy Dawkins Presents: The LERIC Story
by John Barron
During the 1980s, Chicago blues musician Jimmy Dawkins ran his own label, LERIC Records, producing original 45s by artists entrenched in the local club scene. Now these sides have been released for the first time on CD by Delmark Records as The LERIC Story, revealing the traditional and soul-influenced sounds of a dynamic group of vocal ...
Mikrokolektyw: Revisit
by John Barron
The Polish avant-jazz duo Mikrokolektyw has been creating a buzz on the European music scene for the last few years. Consisting of trumpeter Artur Majewski and drummer Kuba Suchar, the duo explores improvisations of the moment over electronic rhythm loops on the eleven-track disc Revisit. Having shared the stage with high-profile Chicago musicians like Fred Anderson, ...
Barrett Deems: Deemus
by Nic Jones
Drummer Barrett Deems was a man with a pedigree, who took in stints with violinist Joe Venuti from 1937 to 1944, and a four-year run with trumpeter Louis Armstrong in the 1950s. The first years of the following decade found him keeping the musical company of trombonist Jack Teagarden. All of these affiliations are clues to ...
John Skillman’s Barb City Stompers: DeKalb Blues
by Nic Jones
The Barb City Stompers is a trad through swing band that was formed in 2004 but the pedigree of some of the players goes back well beyond that date. Clarinetist John Skillman has been a member of the Buck Creek Jazz Band for thirty one years, for example, while Roy Rubinstein has offset his career as ...
Willie Buck: The Life I Love
by John Barron
Although blues singer Willie Buck has been leading his own bands in Chicago for over forty years with some of the city's best sidemen, the Houston, Mississippi native is relatively unknown on a national level. Hopefully, this will change with the reissue of The Life I Love, his one and only full-length release from the early ...
Mississippi Heat: Let's Live it Up!
by John Barron
Formed in 1991, Mississippi Heat has become one of the more popular modern blues bands out of Chicago. Led by harmonica great Pierre Lacocque, this high-energy ensemble has released nine recordings with a rotating cast of top-notch talent. On Let's Live it Up!, the group delivers a rocking set with the help of earthy vocalist Inetta ...
Take Five with Shauli Einav
by AAJ Staff
Meet Shauli Einav:Shauli Einav is an emerging jazz saxophonist. He has already performed with his ensembles on prestigious stages such as the Red Sea Jazz Festival, The Israel Festival in Jerusalem, The Rochester International Jazz Festival, Tel-Aviv Intl Jazz Festival, The Knitting Factory NYC, Fat Cat, Smalls and more. Shauli has been invited to ...
Aram Shelton's Fast Citizens: Two Cities
by AAJ Italy Staff
A tenere le redini dei Fast Citizens questa volta non c'è il fondatore Keefee Jackson, ma Aram Shelton, sassofonista originario della Florida che è approdato a Chicago negli anni Novanta, dopo aver studiato a Oakland. Come già in passato, i Fast Citizens immaginano il jazz come la mappa di una metropoli, con uno sguardo che comprende ...
Fred Anderson: 21st Century Chase
by AAJ Italy Staff
Si richiama idealmente - nel titolo - alla storica “sfida" tra Dexter Gordon e Wardell Gray del 1947, questo nuovo disco [disponibile anche in DVD] del patriarca del jazz di Chicago, il sassofonista Fred Anderson. L'occasione: nel marzo del 2009 il musicista ha festeggiato l'ottantesimo compleanno con un concerto nel suo club, il “Velvet Lounge," aggiungendo ...
Aram Shelton’s Fast Citizens: Two Cities
by Nic Jones
Fast Citizens may encapsulate a significant shift that's been occurring in creative improvised music over the last few decades, with the collective nature of music by a sextet of musicians who have been around long enough to qualify, more-or-less, as veterans. This is such an integral aspect of what they do, they make the case that ...
