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Article: Meet the Staff

Meet David Wayne

by AAJ Staff
March 18, 2013

I currently live in: Santa Fe, NM I joined All About Jazz in: 2004 What made you decide to contribute to All About Jazz? I am a music fanatic. I play the drums. I was involved in college radio for years and I'd love to do a show again. Maybe when I ...

Article: Hardly Strictly Jazz

Reliving Elvis

by Skip Heller
March 27, 2013

No matter how much is written, or by whom, Elvis Presley remains impossible to explain. The usual “young white rocker who could sing black" is as inaccurate as any standing American mythology. His legacy has been as mangled as his career was, often to the detriment of the work itself. Yes, at the time of his ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Birds

by Ian Patterson
March 21, 2013

Norwegian saxophonist/composer Marius Neset's prowess as a powerful, inventive saxophonist is well noted, yet his trajectory as a composer has been equally fascinating to behold. His debut as leader, the impressive Suite for the Seven Mountains (Calibrated, 2008), demonstrated early compositional ambition with the use of violin, viola and cello. Neset's ongoing involvement in Jazz Kamikaze ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Steven Wilson: The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories) [Deluxe Edition]

by John Kelman
March 1, 2013

Even though Porcupine Tree began as a solo project for a young Steven Wilson in the late 1980s--and despite the British singer/guitarist/keyboardist remaining its primary composer through to The Incident (Kscope, 2009) and the recent live record from that tour, Octane Twisted (Kscope, 2012)--it's been some time since the group was truly representative of his aspirations, ...

Article: Interview

Teofilovic Brothers: Songs Belong to Those Who Sing Them Better

by Nenad Georgievski
February 26, 2013

The Teofilovic brothers (Radiša and Ratko) are two of the most popular performers of traditional songs from Serbia, as well as other parts of the Balkans. In their repertoire they always have wonderful traditional songs that time has forgotten, or that are not always widely known or present in other performers' repertoires. Their wide choices and ...

Article: Album Review

Mats/Morgan Band: Live

by Dave Wayne
February 22, 2013

Keyboardist Mats Öberg and drummer Morgen Ågren--known as much for their musical brilliance as they are for their devotion to the music of Frank Zappa--are at their hyperactive best on this remastered recording from Stockholm's Club Fasching in 1999. Six pieces by Ågren and five by Öberg comprise this all-original set that shows quite a bit ...

Article: Album Review

WA: Cross The Center

Read "Cross The Center" reviewed by Dave Wayne

by Dave Wayne
February 7, 2013

On its surface, Cross The Center may seem like a guitar/drums free jazz freakout. This perplexingly named group from the Pacific Northwest, like their homies Dylan Carlson, SUNN)))000, and The Melvins, proves convincingly that it is possible to freak out with great intelligence, wit and skill. Sure, the electric guitars of Simon Henneman and C. J. ...

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