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Iris Ornig: No Restrictions
by Hrayr Attarian
Intrepid bassist Iris Ornig's second release follows the thematic structure of her remarkable debut, New Ground (Self Produced, 2009), but is more polished and coherent, hence more engaging. This is a hard goal to achieve, as the first was a thoroughly enjoyable and stimulating album. If New Ground was a collection of short ...
Wolfgang Schalk: Word of Ear
by Mark F. Turner
As if to quietly utter “enough with talking about the music...," guitarist Wolfgang Schalk gets to the heart of the matter with Word of Ear and lets his playing speak loud and clear. This is his sixth recording as a leader and he continues to reveal expressive phrasing and piercing solos on hollow body electric and ...
Ladder Is High, Women Keep Climbing
by Jack Bowers
Unlike college sports, there is no Title IX program for women in jazz. Those who wish to pursue that line of endeavor have to elbow their way into what remains essentially a male-dominated profession (or art) and keep climbing the ladder one rung at a time. True, women have made notable inroads in recent years and ...
Kuala Lumpur International Jazz Festival: 19-20 May, 2012
by Ian Patterson
KL International Jazz Festival Kuala Lumpur Convention CenterKuala Lumpur, MalaysiaMay 19-20, 2012The 19th and 20th of May, 2012 will long be remembered by jazz lovers in Kuala Lumpur as the day jazz came to town. The 13 acts that performed on the stage of the KL Convention Center made history by ...
Money Raised For Litchfield Jazz Camp Scholarships At An Afternoon Of Jazz & Friends
Litchfield Performing Arts, the not-for-profit producer of The Litchfield Jazz Festival and its teaching arm, Litchfield Jazz Camp, held a successful fundraiser on April 29 at the home of its board president Bob Lenz and his wife Carol. The afternoon was designed to show off the talents of outstanding campers and to introduce a debuting artist ...
Litchfield Jazz Camp Announces Two New Courses And Select Places Still Available
Kent, CT: Litchfield Jazz Camp (est. 1997) is excited to announce new course offerings for 2012. Guitarist and Camp Teaching Artist Doug Munro will offer a College Prep Seminar during sessions three (7/22-7/27), four (7/29-8/3), and five (8/5-8/10). Doug, who is a Professor of Music at SUNY Purchase and founder of their Jazz Program, will offer ...
A New Recording By Guitarist/Composer Wolfgang Schalk
Wolfgang Schalk's latest release Word of Ear further showcases his talent as a consummate guitarist, playing with deep soulfulness and feeling. He delivers hard swinging and emotive compositions in the vein of the patriarchal jazz guitarist lineage while highlighting his membership in the elite club of today's creative voices. With the follow up to his critically ...
Breakthru Radio's "The Jazz Hole" Celebrates 3rd Anniversary
New York, NY—BreakThru Radio (BTR) is the world's leading source for the best independent music on the Internet using a unique on-demand programming approach. Three years ago, on February 1st 2009, Linus Wyrsch joined the team of DJs and took over the bi-weekly jazz show “The Jazz Hole." Being a sought-after musician himself in the Big ...
Helen Sung: (re)Conception
by AAJ Italy Staff
Helen Sung approda al suo quinto lavoro da leader, (Re)Conception, accompagnata in questo viaggio da una sezione ritmica d'eccellenza formata da due veterani come Lewis Nash alla batteria e Peter Washington al contrabbasso.Sung rivisita otto standard che coprono un periodo che va dagli anni quaranta agli anni sessanta -da George Shearing a Duke Ellington ...
(re)Conception
By Helen Sung
Label: SteepleChase Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: (re)Conception; I Believe in You; Far From Home; Duplicity; C Jam Blues; Wives and Lovers; Crazy, He Calls Me; Teo; Everything But You.
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