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Article: Interview

Yacine Boularès: Coltrane by way of Descartes

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 26, 2018

Saxophonist Yacine Boularès took the road less travelled to discover and develop his passion for jazz. After graduating in philosophy from the prestigious Sorbonne University in Paris, he felt the urge to put into practice the notions of aesthetics he had researched for his dissertation. Following his studies at Paris' Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique and ...

Article: Live Review

BAN BAM: Music Talking

by Ian Patterson
December 7, 2017

BAN BAM The Complex Dublin, Ireland November 25, 2017 BAN BAM is a new, one-day festival by Improvised Music Company--an initiative to address the gender imbalance in jazz/improvised music. A related All About Jazz article covered the conversations by industry professionals around the gender issue that took place in the ...

Article: Live Review

Like A Jazz Machine 2017

by Ian Patterson
June 4, 2017

Like A Jazz Machine Centre Culturel Regionel Opderschmelz Dudelange, Luxembourg May 25-28, 2017 Size, as Like A Jazz Machine knows, isn't everything. The audience in the Centre Culturel Regionel Opderschmelz amounts to just four seated rows downstairs, with a small standing section to the rear, and ten rows ...

Article: Album Review

Hard Proof: Stinger

by Joe Gatto
January 22, 2017

Hard Proof tightly fuses sounds from sub-Saharan Africa with adventurous Jazz and deep Funk to stimulate your brain and move your feet. This Austin, Texas based ten-piece collective began by studying the blueprint of Fela Kuti's Africa 70 band, as well as Funk and Jazz from the whole of sub-Saharan Africa. And yet, they're a totally ...

Article: Film Review

Live from the House of Soul

by Vic Albani
December 7, 2016

Antibalas Live from the House of Soul Valutazione: * * * * Daptone Records/MVDvisual 2016 Ogni tanto salta su l'amico che ti spaccia il nome della band “più grande del mondo," che “sono esplosivi," “una cosa incredibile," “davvero non puoi credere," “devi vederli dal vivo," “semplicemente fighi" e via ...

Article: New York @ Night

BRIC JazzFest 2016

by Peter Jurew
October 28, 2016

BRIC JazzFest BRIC House Brooklyn, NY October 8-15, 2016 After a successful debut in 2015, the BRIC JazzFest returned to the BRIC House in downtown Brooklyn, New York, this year with two nights of jazz-related films and a music “marathon" of twenty-seven acts spread evenly over three nights. ...

Article: Interview

Intervista a Roberto Bellatalla

by Daniele Vogrig
September 12, 2016

Se i concetti di fraternità e universalità da sempre caratterizzano il jazz in tutte le sue forme, senza dubbio e a buon diritto Roberto Bellatalla ne può essere considerato uno dei massimi ambasciatori. Amsterdam, Londra, Johannesburg. Quaranta anni di storia (e di storie), poi il ritorno a casa. Ammesso e non concesso che ...

Article: Building a Jazz Library

Jazz From Around the World: Africa

by Hrayr Attarian
July 21, 2016

There is no doubt that African heritage, particularly that of west Africa is at the root of jazz. This is simply factual and is not meant to belittle the contributions of other cultures to its growth and development. In addition, as a genre, it has proven to have a wide universal appeal. For both reasons jazz ...

Article: Lyrics

José James: una grande voce per la Black Music

by Angelo Leonardi
June 6, 2016

La recente pubblicazione per la Blue Note di Yesterday I Had the Blues -The Music of Billie Holiday , torna a collocare José James in una piena cornice jazzistica. È una commemorazione della cantante e un approccio tradizionale che oggi James affronta senza paura d'apparire prigionero del passato. L'altro esempio riguarda l'album For All We Know, ...

Article: Live Review

Sons of Kemet at Black Box, Belfast

by Ian Patterson
April 12, 2016

Sons of Kemet Black Box Belfast, N. Ireland April 7, 2016 The finer points of ancient Egyptian religion might not have been the chief topic of discussion among the Black Box crowd as it waited for Mobo Jazz Award winners Sons of Kemet to take the stage in. Yet music ...