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Jarod Bufe: Brighter Days
by Dan McClenaghan
Making a living as jazz artist is a challenge. For every jazz megastar who can support his or herself with their music, dozens rely on day jobs and remain relative unknowns, even while making great music. Players like saxophonist Buck Hill, who did a forty-year stint working for the Post Office while releasing eleven excellent recordings--including ...
Eric Lilley, Jim Doherty, Jeremy Pelt, Dawn After Dawn, Sharel Cassity
by Cheryl K.
During this week's two-hour program of Jazz and improvised music, cuts from new releases by pianist and composer Eric Lilley, soprano saxophonist Yuval Cohen, The Republic of Ireland's tenor saxophonist Michael Buckley and pianist Jim Doherty, drummer and composer Travis Brant, trumpeter Jeremy Pelt, the trio project Dawn After Dawn, saxophonist Sharel Cassity, and clarinetist Kinan ...
Seattle Jazz Fellowship: A New Age In A New Space
by Paul Rauch
The Seattle Jazz Fellowship, a 501(c)(3) non-profit supporting jazz and jazz culture primarily at the local level, came to life in a backroom bar in the city's arts district on Capitol Hill in October 2021. The city, the nation, the world, was just beginning to fully climb out of the social slumber imposed by the COVID-19 ...
Gravity and Resurgence: The Many Dimensions of Dexter Gordon
by Arthur R George
Long Tall Dexter; swinger, bebopper, saxophone balladeer; acting the dissipated genius expatriate who was not unlike himself in the movie Round Midnight; his dressed-up persona “Society Red;" the laconic elder statesman of his later years. Dexter Gordon is all those things, but more than a kaleidoscope of caricatures. Those who trace their lineages through ...
Take Five with Saxophonist Zishi Liu
by AAJ Staff
Meet Zishi LiuZishi Liu is a Boston-based saxophonist and music curator originally from China. He made history as the first Chinese artist to play at Boston's famed Regattabar in collaboration with Blue Note Jazz Club in 2025. His work has been featured by WGBH, contributing to the broader narrative of Asian representation in jazz.
Kissas... Brooklyn Style
by Jason Sugars
For the purposes of this write-up, there's probably little need to go into a long history of the Japanese “Kissa"--you can read any of our articles covering them here. By now, we all know about the cafés and bars across the country dedicated to jazz. The listening bar has made the trip back to the birthplace ...
The Jazz Kissa Owner: Danny de Zayas
by B.D. Lenz
When you read the title of this column there's a good chance you asked yourself, “what the heck is a jazz kissa?" I had never heard of them either until a recent interview I did with photographer Philip Arneill about his photo collection dedicated to the dying institution that is the jazz kissa (read that interview ...
Take Five with Saxophonist Noah Peterson
by AAJ Staff
Meet Noah Peterson While his troubadour days are behind him, Noah continues to have musical adventures. From his many bands and explorations of different genres of music Noah always has his fingers in something. His latest adventure includes his brand new quartet recording of all original music Coming Home To You and the rebirth of The ...
PAZ: Variation and Creation: The Story of PAZ
by Tony Poole
Paz was a London-based British fusion collective formed in 1972 by vibraphonist Dick Crouch. Their sound was heavily influenced by Latin music, though not entirely. Crouch worked as a producer for the BBC Transcription Department in West London. He formed the group out of a growing dissatisfaction with the local jazz of the time, and a ...
Dizzy, Eri Yamamoto, Cecil Payne
by David Brown
This week, we'll check in with some late '60s, early '70s Dizzy Gillespie, then a set of new quartet and solo works from pianist Eri Yamamoto. Two new works from Blue Note records follow with an archival release pairing McCoy Tyner and Joe Henderson live at Slugs Saloon 1966 followed new music by the all-star collective ...
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