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Carla Bley/Andy Sheppard/Steve Swallow: Andando el Tiempo

Read "Andando el Tiempo" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
April 26, 2016

There are few figures in modern music that are truly more iconic than Carla Bley. Her list of accomplishments are impossible to chronicle in this limited space, but suffice to say that her influence traverses genres, styles and generations, in a way that perhaps no other artist has approached. Her early crowning jewel—the jazz opera Escalator ...

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Lyle Mays Quartet: The Ludwigsburg Concert

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by Karl Ackermann
February 26, 2016

He has been referred to as Pat Metheny's alter ego, in the way that Billy Strayhorn was to Duke Ellington. Pianist/composer Lyle Mays was born with perfect pitch in a tiny rural hamlet of Wisconsin. Had it not been for his family's strong affinity for music, Mays may have had little exposure in that environment. Mays ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Michel Benita Ethics: River Silver

by John Kelman
February 22, 2016

It's no secret that music is something that can dissolve borders, transcend cultures, and speak with a language understood by all. That the decreasing size of the world has made it possible for artists from disparate countries to collaborate and create music that is truly greater than the sum of its parts--imbued not just with the ...

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Lars Møller's Aarhus Jazz Orchestra feat. David Liebman and Marilyn Mazur: ReWrite of Spring

Read "ReWrite of Spring" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
February 17, 2016

In the early twentieth century, at a time when the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky was barely known, he had already composed the celebrated works Firebird (1910) and Petrushka (1911). The 1913 work, The Rite of Spring, was to become renowned both as a ballet and as a stand-alone orchestral score. The Paris premier at the newly ...

Article: Year in Review

Nenad Georgievski's Best of 2015

by Nenad Georgievski
January 5, 2016

2015 was not an easy year. I became a dad for the third time while I was working on a Film festival for music documentaries. The festival itself was an uphill battle, but I managed to get it organized with astounding success. In the meantime I was writing constantly or was listening to music, as if ...

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Eberhard Weber: Encore

By Eberhard Weber

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: Frankfurt; Konstanz; Cambridge; Rankweil; Langenhagen; Granada; Sevilla; London; Klagenfurt; Bradford; Edinburgh; Hannover; Pamplona.

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Encore

By Eberhard Weber

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: Frankfurt; Konstanz; Cambridge; Rankweil; Langenhagen; Granada; Sevilla; London; Klagenfurt; Bradford; Edinburgh; Hannover; Pamplona.

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Eberhard Weber: Hommage à Eberhard Weber

By Eberhard Weber

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: Resumé Variations; Hommage; Touch; Maurizius; Tübingen; Notes After an Evening; Street Scenes (bonus track, HD and Made for iTunes only).

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Hommage à Eberhard Weber

By Eberhard Weber

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: Resumé Variations; Hommage; Touch; Maurizius; Tübingen; Notes After an Evening.

Article: Year in Review

Mark Sullivan’s Best Releases of 2015

by Mark Sullivan
December 11, 2015

This is my first year end list as an AAJ contributor, hopefully the first of many! I reviewed a lot of great music, major label and independent productions alike. Here's the ten that rose to the top of my list of favorites, in no particular order. Eberhard Weber Hommage à Eberhard ...