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Gabriel Zufferey: Contemplation
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Jazz mashups are in the air. First, pianist Robert Glasper artfully wove pianist Herbie Hancock's “Maiden Voyage" together with Radiohead's “Everything in its Right Place" on the his In My Element (Blue Note, 2007). The Jazz Punks' raucous Smashups (Foam @ the Mouth, 2012) mashed up saxophonist Sonny Rollins with guitarist Jimi Hendrix, and Led Zeppelin ...
Herd Trio: Helsinki, Finland, March 29, 2012
by Anthony Shaw
Herd TrioKoko Jazz Club Helsinki, FinlandMarch 29, 2012 With their emergence onto the Finnish scene in 2009 in the national competition for the Nordic Jazz Comets award (won that year by the Icelandic Ingemar Andersen Quartet) the Herd trio have been making waves in northern waters ever since. This gig, ...
Steve Horowitz: New Monsters
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Despite the suggestion of the title, New Monsters is not actually crawling with legions of denizens from the netherworld. The promise of monsters has more to do with the unleashing of musical forces as diverse as klezmer and Erik Satie. Moreover, far from being a quaint experiment, the album takes a radical road--one that was travelled ...
Umbria Jazz Winter #19, Days 1-2: December 28-29, 2011
by Sara Villa
Days 1-2 | Days 3-5 Umbria Jazz Winter #19 Perugia, Italy December 28, 2011-January 1, 2012 In an Italy where the cuts inflicted to the cultural sector by the last Berlusconi government led a figure like Riccardo Muti to publically express his indignation, Umbria Jazz Winter # 19 was a confirmation ...
Splashgirl: Pressure
by Chris May
Splashgirl Pressure Hubro 2011 This radiant album from Norwegian piano trio Splashgirl is unlike anything that came before it, except, in some measure, its immediate predecessor, Arbor (Hubro, 2009), whose trajectory it develops. Certainly, nothing quite like it has come out of central Europe or the US. An approximate comparative ...
Jazz em Agosto 2010
by Kurt Gottschalk
Jazz em AgostoLisbon, PortugalAugust 6-15, 2010 If music-making were as simple as putting things in a box, a review of Lisbon's 2010 Jazz em Agosto festival might go something like this: The duo of John Surman and Jack DeJohnette put as much as they could in the box, while Evan Parker's Electro- Acoustic ...
Julian Waterfall Pollack: Infinite Playground
by Bruce Lindsay
It seems at times as if the world is filled to the brim with technically adept young jazz players--musicians whose speed and dexterity earn immediate respect. But technique is not all there is. Indeed, it's not even half. Heart and soul need to be in the music as well. At only 22 years of age Julian ...
Various Artists: Sound Of The World Presents - Anywhere On This Road
by Bruce Lindsay
Various Artists Sound Of The World Presents: Anywhere On This Road Warner Classics & Jazz 2010 The series of compilation albums known as Sound Of The World was the brainchild of the DJ and writer Charlie Gillett. Credited with championing both Dire Straits and Ian Dury in their ...
Alonzo Holliday: The Archaeology of Out-Bop
by Gordon Marshall
Frank Turek's dream: he is in a smoky bar where jazz floats in the background. Coming up to sit down next to him is a hip, old cat who begins to tell him stories of playing sax in bands in the early '40s. He introduces himself as Alonzo Holliday. Back to waking life, in the '90s: ...
Take Five With Tony Foster
by AAJ Staff
Meet Tony Foster: Currently based in Seattle, Washington, Tony Foster was born and raised in North Vancouver, BC, Canada. He received his initial musical training early on, in the form of classical piano lessons privately. In school bands, his main instrument became the trumpet. His studies on the trumpet continued until college, and it was not ...
