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Fred Hersch at the Barcelona Jazz Festival

by Artur Moral
November 17, 2024

Fred HerschConservatori del Liceu56 Festival de Jazz de BarcelonaBarcelona, Spain October 29, 2024 The 56th Barcelona Jazz Festival boasted one of the most complete and balanced line-ups in recent years. Fred Hersch's solo piano concert was, without a doubt, one of its greatest nights, a performance characterized by tributes, admiration ...

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Anat Cohen Quartetinho a Macerata Jazz

by Enrico Tomassini
November 13, 2024

Anat Cohen Quartetinho Teatro Lauro Rossi Macerata Jazz Macerata 14 ottobre 2024 Secondo appuntamento della manifestazione Macerata Jazz--giunta alla cinquantacinquesima edizione--con l'esibizione dell'Anat Cohen Quartetinho, un quartetto di virtuosi e polistrumentisti selezionati dalla leader attingendo ad un'altra altra sua formazione di successo, il Tentet. Anat Cohen è nata ...

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Genius Loci 2024

by Neri Pollastri
October 24, 2024

Complesso Monumentale di Santa Croce Genius Loci 2024 Firenze 26-29 Settembre 2024 Per il settimo anno l'Opera di Santa Croce ha aperto gli spazi del meraviglioso complesso monumentale che circonda la basilica fiorentina per dar vita al caleidoscopico festival Genius Loci, due serate (e un'alba) di concerti, spettacoli ...

Article: Liner Notes

Delia Fischer: Beyond Bossa

by Allen Morrison
August 31, 2024

In 2019, after I'd been writing for DownBeat Magazine for about a decade, I was asked to review a batch of new albums from Brazil, including one by a Rio de Janeiro-based singer named Delia Fischer who wrote her own songs. I gathered that, in addition, she was a jazz pianist, an arranger, and the musical ...

Article: Catching Up With

My Conversation with David Binney

by Glenn Astarita
August 14, 2024

This article first appeared on All About Jazz in September 1999. New York City-based saxophonist and composer David Binney has been getting lots of well-deserved attention over the last several years. Three excellent CDs with the unique and hard driving band Lost Tribe, stints with Medeski Martin & Wood, Drew Gress' Jagged Sky, Aretha ...

Article: Album Review

Roberto Bindoni: Summer Things

Read "Summer Things" reviewed by Neri Pollastri

by Neri Pollastri
June 28, 2024

Mezz'ora di musica per sola chitarra, acustica o classica; musica sempre sospesa, ora dolce e melodica, ora più astratta e riflessiva, costruita con raffinati arpeggi, ma anche valorizzando stridor di corde, riverberi, suoni parassiti e percussioni sulla cassa: questo è Summer Things, album autoprodotto del chitarrista bresciano Roberto Bindoni. Il lavoro arriva dopo Winter ...

Article: Rising Stars

Introducing Vocalist Dani Assis

by Sanford Josephson
June 1, 2024

Vocalist Dani Assis' bio points out that he was born into a musical family. That is an understatement. “When I was younger," he said, “I didn't know there was anything else to life other than music because both my parents were musicians. My mom, Adriana Quadros, is a wonderful singer, and my father, Nanny Assis, is ...

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I poeti del piano solo: Fred Hersch e Gregory Privat

by Neri Pollastri
May 28, 2024

Fred Hersch, Gregory Privat Sala Vanni I Poeti del Piano Solo Firenze 10-11.5.2024 Quinta edizione della rassegna fiorentina “I Poeti del Piano Solo," che ogni anno, grazie alla direzione artistica di Stefano Maurizi, porta sui palcoscenici cittadini una selezione dei più interessanti pianisti jazz della scena internazionale. Quest'anno i concerti ...

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Take Five with Pianist Marta Karassawa

by AAJ Staff
May 8, 2024

Meet Marta Karassawa Marta Karassawa, a Brazilian pianist and arranger, graduated from Berklee College of Music and formed the Marta Karassawa Quintet in 2001, bringing to light the nostalgia of the great jazz quintets of the '40s and '50s. With it, she performed on the stages of various clubs and festivals. Now, completely revamped, she leads ...

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Keith Jarrett's European Quartet: Innocence

by Scott Lichtman
March 6, 2024

It just so happens that two of the most poignant jazz ballads--in my opinion--were released in the same year. I'm not talking about throw-back masterpieces, such as Thelonious Monk's “Round Midnight" or Horace Silver's “Lonely Woman." Rather, they are Keith Jarrett's “Innocence" and Egberto Gismonti's “Palhaço," both originally issued in 1980. What makes these pieces stand ...