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Ravi Coltrane Quartet: Cosmic Music Tour
by Chris May
Ravi Coltrane QuartetBarbican Hall London October 11, 2022 London's go-to concert venue for high-grade international jazz in friendly and comfortable surroundings, the Barbican Centre is no stranger to celebrations of the music of Alice Coltrane and John Coltrane. In autumn 2017, A Concert For Alice And John presented bands led ...
JazzMI 2022 - VII Edizione
by Paolo Peviani
JazzMI Milano 29.09-9.10.2022 Fine settembre: cadono tutte le restrizioni anti-Covid che ci hanno accompagnato per oltre due anni, ed inizia il festival JazzMI. Non potevamo immaginare modo migliore per festeggiare il ritorno alla vita normale. Milano che si riscopre, sia pure per solo una decina di giorni, città del jazz! Uno status ...
David Murray: Seriana Promethea
by John Sharpe
It's over 45 years since David Murray blew into the Lower East Side lofts from California. For a while he was near ubiquitous and amassed a discography to match. While releases have become less prolific in the decades since, he remains restlessly active, and Seriana Promethea by his Brave New World Trio ranks alongside his best. ...
Poncho Sanchez Latin Jazz Band at Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley
by Jack Gold-Molina
Poncho Sanchez Latin Jazz Band Dimitriou's Jazz Alley Seattle, WA August 12, 2022 Poncho Sanchez and his Latin Jazz Band performed two sets at Dimitriou's Jazz Alley on Friday, August 12th. Still touring to support 2019's Trane's Delight, they have faced numerous cancellations and delays due to COVID restrictions. As Mr. ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Elvin Jones
All About Jazz is celebrating Elvin Jones' birthday today! Elvin Ray Jones was a jazz drummer. He was born in Pontiac, Michigan, the youngest child in a family of ten. His father worked for General Motors. Two of Jones' brothers were also jazz musicians: Hank (piano), and Thad (trumpet/flugelhorn). Elvin began playing professionally in the 1940s, ...
Ernie Krivda and Theron Brown at Free Concerts in Cleveland
by John Chacona
Ernie Krivda and friends Ernie's front porch Lakewood, Ohio July 31, 2022 Cleveland, Ohio is the birthplace of Albert Ayler and the late Abdul Wadud. It's where the Black Unity Trio recorded what was probably the first free jazz record to be independently released. The city's free jazz bona fides are ...
The Cookers Quintet: The Path
by Paul Beard
The Path is the fourth record to be released by Canadian group The Cookers Quintet and is a collection of eight originals, recorded at the Warehouse, Vancouver, that were first played to live audiences on a West Canadian tour in the fall of 2021, and then put down in the studio. The album continues ...
CTI Records: Ten Tasty Albums With No Added Sugar (Almost)
by Chris May
Few jazz producers divide opinion as much as Creed Taylor. He is a hero to many and a villain to as many more. His fans love him for his high production values. His detractors accuse him of dumbing jazz down with excessively sweetened orchestrations and other sales-oriented compromises. Nowhere is the dispute more heated than over ...
Carole Nelson: Zen And The Art Of Music Making
by Ian Patterson
To what extent music is a product of nature versus nurture is impossible to qualify, but it is reasonable to assume that a musician's immediate environment plays into the music somehow. Difficult, certainly, to imagine bebop birthing anywhere other than in the hurly burly of 1940s New York, for example. For London-born, Ireland-based pianist Carole Nelson, ...
Nate Smith: A Drummer's Life
by Mark Robbins
Nate Smith can't sit down! After headlining with two of his bands at the 2022 Newport Jazz Festival, The Fearless Flyers and Nate Smith + Kinfolk he is off to New York for a one week run at the Blue Note followed by Los Angeles, Europe and then back to the United States where he is ...
