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40 Year Old Bitches, New MilesTones & Others, Too
by Chris M. Slawecki
AntibalasWho is This America? Ropeadope Records2010 Few American bands have been more influential in the global Afrobeat movement than the Brooklyn collective Antibalas. Keeper of the African protest flame ignited by Nigerian musician/activist Fela Kuti in the 1970s, Antibalas' reach is expansive and impressive: it contributed to the ...
Denny Zeitlin: Nothing Halfway
by Dan McClenaghan
San Francisco-based jazz pianist Denny Zeitlin--aka Dr. Dennis Zeitlin, Psychiatrist--boasts a music career that spans more than fifty years. He began, at a tender young age, playing professionally in the early fifties in his home town of Chicago. He was, very early in his life, interested in the fields of medicine and music, and he has ...
Christian Scott: Breaking Boundaries, Crossing Lines
by Frederick Bernas
Christian Scott is lounging on a black leather couch, easy and relaxed before taking to the stage at a Moscow jazz club. The cold, gloomy Russian capital hosted the New Orleans trumpeter's quintet for a trio of gigs in February 2009--including a show at the US ambassador's cushy residence, in front of an elite audience of ...
Take Five With Franck Amsallem
by AAJ Staff
Meet Franck Amsallem: Mickey Mac: Franck Amsallem has been a professional pianist and composer for over 30 years. As a leader he has released seven cds, all of which have received rare critical acclaim. His sideman credits have included some of the great names in jazz: Gerry Mulligan, Charles Lloyd, Gary Bartz, Sonny Fortune, Bobby Watson, ...
Myron Walden: Eclectic Reedman
by Edward Bride
In words often used to describe the music of Duke Ellington, Myron Walden is a saxophonist beyond category. More so than many other musicians, Walden himself eschews reliance on any one instrument, not tenor or alto nor soprano nor bass nor... well, you get the idea. The voice that he is striving to use in any ...
Singing Jazz: Judy Niemack Master Class
by Jessica Raimi
"Part of the fun of jazz is like seeing someone ski down a dangerous slope. When you improvise, you have to take a chance. If you fall, you fall," Judy Niemack was telling her master class on September 26. The nine women with her, most of them professional singers, in the studio of Second Floor Music ...
Announcing New Recommendations at Rifftides
Eddie Higgins, Standards by Request, 1st Day and 2nd Day(Venus). Among those mourning Higgins' death are virtually all other jazz pianists and the Japanese. He was a celebrity among the large and enthusiastic coterie of listeners in Japan who are devoted to piano jazz. Higgins recorded nearly two dozen albums for Japan's Venus label. These solo ...
Gent Jazz Festival 2009: Days 1-5
by Martin Longley
The Gent Jazz Festival 2009 Bijloke Gent, BelgiumJuly 8: B.B. King/China Moses & Raphael LemonnierMaybe this year's festival, running July 8-19, is going to peak too soon. In 2006, B.B. King (or his management) decided that he wasn't going to tour again outside of North America, thereby filling seats up on a “farewell" European ...
Umbria Jazz: Days 7-10, July 16-19, 2009
by Michael J. West
Days 1-3 | Days 4-6 | Days 7-10 The final days of the 2009 Umbria Jazz Festival were an extravaganza of sorts for lovers of the piano. Topping the must-see list was avant-garde innovator Cecil Taylor, giving a solo concert on Friday at Teatro Morlacchi; but Ahmad Jamal and McCoy Tyner also appeared, and for ...
New Jazz It Up! Episode Features: Chico Hamilton, Grace Kelly, Vintage Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Radio Deejay Russ Davis, and Coverage of the Freddie Hubbard Memorial at St. John the Divine
New York, NY -- From elder statesman Chico Hamilton to rising star Grace Kelly, the current episode of Jazz it Up! bristles with a cool edge that tempers the warmth of summer. On one of her two featured numbers, alto saxophonist Kelly arranges Bill Withers' “Aint No Sunshine" into a jazz showcase; during the second, she ...
