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Album

Close Up

Label: Clean Feed Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: Object; Passaros; Sol Enganador; The Future; Listening; Storm Coming; Woman; Quiet Riot; Cantar Ao Fim.

Album

Label: Skipstone Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: The Great Revelation; Artemisia; Seven Heartbreaks; The Devil Made Liquid; Sparkotropic; La Fee Verte; As They Are; Tulips Brush Against My Legs; Blush; Drop by Drop.

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Jazz Renditions of Blues, Soul, Pop & Rock Hits (Part 1)

by Ludovico Granvassu
October 30, 2018

The compositions that we refer to as “jazz standards" were the pop songs of their time, before gradually developing into mainstays of the jazz repertoire. This week we focus on jazz interpretations of today's popular music, with renditions of the songs of artists ranging from Marvin Gaye to Sonic Youth, from Prince to Led Zeppelin, from ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Mark Turner, Pipe Dream and other great new releases

by Ludovico Granvassu
September 18, 2018

The summer is winding down and the pace at which new albums are being released is picking up. Given the quality of what is coming our way, we duly oblige.Enjoy two hours of gorgeous new music, including some unexpected gems from the European jazz scene like the Austrian ensemble Little Rosies Kindergarten and the ...

Article: Live Review

Saalfelden Jazz Festival, 2018

by Stefano Merighi
September 3, 2018

Jazz Festival SaalfeldenJazzfestival Saalfelden 2018 Saalfelden, Austria Casa del Jazz 23-26.08.2018 Il Jazzfestival di Saalfelden garantisce di solito un combinato efficace di musica avventurosa, inedita, ed esibizioni invece legate a nomi “sicuri," sempre di gran qualità. Quest'anno la formula si è rivelata meno felice del solito, pur contando su un ...

Article: Live Review

3rd Zbigniew Seifert International Jazz Violin Competition

by Ian Patterson
August 9, 2018

3rd Zbigniew Seifert International Jazz Violin Competition Krzysztof Penderecki European Centre for Music Luslawice/Kraków Poland July 25-28, 2018 “An international jazz violin competition? Really?" That is usually came as a surprise to the applicants, and eventual participants themselves, that an international jazz violin competition should exist says a lot about the ...

Article: Catching Up With

Erik Friedlander: Reversing Abstraction

by Ludovico Granvassu
July 31, 2018

Music works in mysterious ways. Take the latest project by Erik Friedlander. Some time ago, the New York cellist went to an exhibition of six absinthe glasses by Pablo Picasso at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Despite the somewhat abstract and deconstructed nature of these sculptures, he got inspired to write some of ...

Article: Album Review

Sara Serpa: Close Up

Read "Close Up" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
July 13, 2018

Finalmente un album pienamente convincente della cantante portoghese (qui anche autrice di tutto il materiale tematico), spesso preziosa, nella sua produzione, ma altrove (anche all'interno di uno stesso lavoro, suo o altrui) un po' disarticolata, quasi schizoide, magari solo curiosa, e comunque alterna nella resa in concreto. Sarà senz'altro anche merito dei due musicisti che l'affiancano, ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Erik Friedlander

July 1, 2018

All About Jazz is celebrating Erik Friedlander's birthday today! Cellist Erik Friedlander is a composer and an improviser, a first-call studio player and a jazzbo. A veteran of NYC\'s downtown scene, his 12 CDs as a leader recently include, Block Ice & Propane, his solo cello reinterpretation of American roots music; The Broken Arm Trio, a ...

Article: Bailey's Bundles

Seven Women 2018 – Part V

by C. Michael Bailey
May 9, 2018

An embarrassment of riches... Shirley Crabbe Bridges MaiSong Music 2018 Vocalist Shirley Crabbe's 2011 debut recording, Home (Self Produced), was very well received, with critic Edward Blanco noting that the singer has, ..."a warm approach to the music, her smooth vocals seem a perfect fit for voicing ...