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Jaga Jazzist: Live at Cosmopolite
by John Kelman
Jaga Jazzist Live at Cosmopolite Smalltown Supersound 2010 With 30 dates already performed in 2010 since the release of One-Armed Bandit (Ninja Tune, 2010)--its first studio record in five years--Jaga Jazzist is keeping the momentum of its comeback rolling, with a variety of free download tracks and a vinyl-only remix EP, ...
Jaga Jazzist: Bananfluer Overalt
by John Kelman
At a time when the amount of new music being released each and every month is at an all-time high, it's hard enough for artists to get their music heard, let alone maintain momentum between releases. For many, gigging is the only way to ensure their names remain on the radar, but for bands like Jaga ...
Super Bad Sunday: Frank Zappa
WAY TO GO BALTIMORE! Today is the 3rd anniversary of Frank Zappa Day in Baltimore, Maryland. This is the kind of civic mindedness we can get behind! Frank was born in Baltimore and it's great to see such an original, influential native son honored. We serve up our weekly triple shot as a little salute to ...
Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2010
by Jakob Baekgaard
Copenhagen Jazz FestivalVarious VenuesCopenhagen, DenmarkJuly 2-11, 2010 With the current crisis of the major record labels and the folding of venues all over the world, it could be argued that jazz, as an art form, has entered the age of survival where it is simply a basic matter of keeping ...
Norwegian Road Trip, Part 3: Oslo, July 12-14, 2010
by John Kelman
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 [Editors Note: From July 6 to July 26, 2010, All About Jazz Managing Editor John Kelman will travel throughout Norway to cover both the Kongsberg Jazz Festival (also participating in Silver City Sounds) and Molde ...
Jan Bang: Head, Shoulders, Hips, Knees and Toes
by John Kelman
When it comes to organically integrating modern technology into music, few countries are innovating to the degree of Norway, and at the epicenter of that country's forward-thinking approach to melding improvisation with jazz and Norwegian traditionalism--not to mention contemporary classicism, pop, ambient and more; truly any and all musical markers--is producer/remixer/sampler Jan Bang, who has just ...
Alex Machacek: A Very Tall Tale
by Ian Patterson
Be careful what you wish for, for you may get it-so the saying goes. When Alex Machacek asked drummer Marco Minnemann if he had a drum solo he could pass his way to compose around, he could never have expected a drum improvisation lasting 51 minutes. Before he could say, “Hey, 13/16 is a really odd ...
Thôt: With Words Vol. 2
by Chris May
So self-contained is the modern French jazz scene by comparison with those in Britain, Scandinavia and the US, that some of its most interesting artists are practically unknown beyond their home turf. Take Thôt, the quartet led by saxophonist Stephane Payen with guitarist Gilles Coronado, bassist Hubert Dupont and drummer Christophe Lavergne. Founded in 1997, and ...
Frank Zappa: The Freak Out List
by AAJ Italy Staff
Frank Zappa The Freak Out List Sexy Intellectual Prod. Valutazione: 3 stelle Questo bel documentario, che fa seguito all'altrettanto interessante Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention In the 1960's, ci racconta le vicende di uno dei personaggi più interessanti del rock mondiale: quel Frank Zappa che riuscì, nella seconda metà degli anni sessanta, a travolgere ...
Ojai's Music Fest is a Tuneful Blend of Old, New and Frank Zappa
Don't let the quaint setting fool you. From June 10 to 13, Ojais Libbey Bowla simple band shell with seating for a scant 1,400 listeners on old wooden benches and a lawnwill be the venue for distinguished musicians from all over the world. They'll be showcasing new, classic and seldom heard works, joining in a legacy ...
