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Article: Live Review

Monterey Jazz Festival 2015, Part 2

by Walter Atkins
October 2, 2015

2015 Monterey Jazz Festival Monterey County Fairgrounds Monterey CA September 18-20, 2015 The 58th edition of the storied Monterey Jazz Festival continued its long tradition of bringing its rich blend of both venerable and new artists to the historic Northern California venue. This year's extensive line up included: Chick Corea, Diane ...

News: Recording

Cover: Concert by the Sea

September 7, 2015

When Erroll Garner's Concert by the Sea was released in August 1956, the 12-inch Columbia album featured a striking cover. Photographed from above, the image captured a young white model wearing tight-fitting dark slacks, light-blue sneakers, a cream shirt and an open red jacket. Her head was thrown back slightly to the side, her arms raised ...

Article: Album Review

Elliot Galvin Trio: Dreamland

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by Roger Farbey
September 5, 2015

From the jokey toy piano start of “Ism" to the aborted boogie woogie of “Blues" where Galvin introduces a reflective change of mood, introducing a luxuriant chord-rich theme, it's patently obvious that this is no ordinary piano trio album. The pastoral “A Major" for example, one of the less frenetic tracks, nonetheless contains its own intriguing ...

Article: Live Review

Paris Jazz Diary 2015: Saxophonists Lew Tabackin, James Carter, Craig Handy

by Patricia Myers
July 24, 2015

Lew Tabackin, James Carter, Craig Handy Sunside-Sunset/Duc des Lombards Paris, France July 8, July 11, July 12, 2015 Getting great sax in Paris was a sure thing this summer with three American tenor titans Lew Tabackin, James Carter and Craig Handy performing within three soul-satisfying weeks. In the fewest words: Tabackin ...

News: Video / DVD

Erroll Garner in Paris, 1972

July 24, 2015

On May 29, 1972, the Erroll Garner Quartet was in Paris on tour when they appeared on Jazz Land, a 30-minute French TV show that was taped without an audience and captured jazz artists with multiple cameras and in living color. There's no better way to end this week than to hear Garner's grunts and history-soaked ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Erroll Garner

June 15, 2015

All About Jazz is celebrating Erroll Garner's birthday today! Born in Pittsburgh in 1921 (Sy Johnson\'s biographical note in The Erroll Garner Songbook has June 15, 1923 as Garner\'s birthdate), Errol Garner started playing piano at the age of two (three according to Johnson). He never learned to read music, probably because it was never a ...

News: Recording

Donald Vega "With Respect To Monty" out July 10 on Resonance Records

June 8, 2015

A tribute to the great living master, jazz pianist Monty Alexander In celebration of the Jamaican jazz icon, Monty Alexander, pianist Donald Vega puts together a hard-swinging compilation of Monty's great, early compositions. With Respect To Monty features an all-star lineup of Anthony Wilson (guitar), Hassan Shakur (bass) and Lewis Nash (drums). Since his debut on ...

News: Recording

Release Of Previously Unknown Live Performance By Dorothy Donegan

May 11, 2015

The music on this CD Dorothy Donegan Live at the King of France Tavern, is being released for the very first time. It was recorded live at the King Of France Tavern in Annapolis, Maryland in 1978. Bassist Bill Nelson and drummer Bill Reichenbach, two sidemen who were well aware that they had to be very ...

Article: Take Five With...

Take Five with Stephen Prutsman

by AAJ Staff
March 30, 2015

Meet Stephen Prutsman Active as classical, world and jazz pianist, and composer and music event/festival curator, Stephen Prutsman continues to explore and seek common ground in music of all cultures and languages. On April 8, he performs his album Passengers for the first time in its entirety at Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York. The ...

News: Performance / Tour

Poncho Sanchez: Heating up Lincoln

January 20, 2015

By Gabriel Medina Arenas Nebraska's coldest month is usually January and in 2015 that didn't seem to be an exception. That is, until Poncho Sanchez's hot salsa and Latin jazz melted the ice, bringing “gozadera" and joy to The Midwest. This is not just a metaphor, since the weather did get warmer on Thursday, ...