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Take Five With Sam Newsome
by AAJ Staff
Meet Sam Newsome: One of the more important soprano saxophonists of his generation, Sam Newsome emerged onto the scene as a member of Terence Blanchard's quintet in the early 1990s, Newsome really hit his artistic stride when he began releasing a series of solo saxophone recordings expanding the sonic terrain of the soprano sax: ...
Michael Carvin: The Making of a Master
by Bob Kenselaar
With a career that spans half a century, master drummer Michael Carvin has plenty to look back on, although he's mostly a forward-looking man. To say he's been prolific puts it mildly. By his own count, he's made some 250 recordings and toured the world five times. He has worked with such major jazz luminaries as ...
Ravi Coltrane: Spirit Fiction
by Troy Collins
The second son of John and Alice Coltrane, saxophonist Ravi Coltrane was born two years before his father's death in 1967. Despite his imposing lineage, Coltrane's steady rise to prominence in the jazz world has been anything but conspicuous; notable stints as a sideman with Steve Coleman, Elvin Jones and Wallace Roney in the mid-1990s eventually ...
Kuala Lumpur International Jazz Festival: 19-20 May, 2012
by Ian Patterson
KL International Jazz Festival Kuala Lumpur Convention CenterKuala Lumpur, MalaysiaMay 19-20, 2012The 19th and 20th of May, 2012 will long be remembered by jazz lovers in Kuala Lumpur as the day jazz came to town. The 13 acts that performed on the stage of the KL Convention Center made history by ...
Luis Perdomo: Walking Towards the Light
by R.J. DeLuke
Pianist Luis Perdomo's fingers dart across the keys, eloquently telling the stories that traverse his mind in that instant; doing so in a manner that enraptures an audience. He moves people, and does so in a manner that appears, on the surface, easy. Like great athletes. Like other great musicians. This is one of the finer ...
Thailand International Jazz Conference: Bangkok, Thailand, January 27-29, 2012
by Carla Marie Rupp
4th Thailand International Jazz Conference Mahidol University College of Music, Salaya Bangkok, Thailand January 27-29, 2012The strong Jazz Studies Department at the College of Music, Mahidol University, makes it possible to host an impressive international annual jazz conference. Committee members literally plan the event throughout the year, and ...
Josh Ginsburg at An Die Musik in Baltimore
by Bob Kenselaar
Josh Ginsburg An Die Musik Baltimore, Maryland January 14, 2012 Josh Ginsburg celebrated the release of his new CD, Zembla Variations (Brooklyn Jazz Underground, 2012), with two special performances, one at the Jazz Gallery in New York on January 12 and the other two days later at An Die Musik, a ...
Freihofer’s Saratoga Jazz Festival: June 25-26, 2011
by R.J. DeLuke
Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz FestivalSaratoga Performing Arts CenterSaratoga Springs, NYJune 25-26, 2011This year's Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz Festival, the 34th edition of the upstate New York event, featured a great touch when famed jazz impresario George Wein was awarded a star on the Saratoga Performing Arts Center Walk of Fame. Wein created the ...
Grammy Nominees Set to Headline Reno Jazz Festival April 7-9
Born into jazz royalty as the son of John Coltrane and Alice Coltrane, Grammy-nominated saxophonist, bandleader and composer Ravi Coltrane has claimed his own rightful territory, creating work The New York Times has called “what jazz sounds like now." Joining the 2011 University of Nevada, Reno Jazz Festival in concert, the Ravi Coltrane Quartet brings its ...
Winter Jazzfest, New York City, Day 1: January 7, 2011
by Daniel Lehner
Day 1 | Day 2 Winter JazzfestNew York, NYJanuary 7-8, 2011 Since the informal move of jazz to the cities in the 1930s, the lore and legend of jazz compositions have lain in streets and places. The most common ones were the clubs, where innovations in jazz were ...
