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Pablo Held: Forest Of Oblivion
by Jerry D'Souza
Pianist Pablo Held showed early promise by winning three Young Jazz Musician competitions in Germany, the first when he was just 13. He then went into august company playing with the WDR Big Band and trumpeter Manfred Schoof. On Forest of Oblivion, his first as a leader, Held shows just why he has been such a ...
Herbie Hancock and Lang Lang to Perform with Philadelphia Orchestra at Mann Center
On July 30, at The Mann Center for the Performing Arts, The Philadelphia Orchestra will be joined by two very exciting guests; Herbie Hancock and Lang Lang, whose artistic partnership was inspired by their 2007 Grammy performance. Led by conductor John Axelrod, the Orchestra will perform Dvorak’s Carnival Overture, Vaughn Williams’ Concerto for Two Pianos and ...
Jazz Port Townsend Pulls out All the Stops
Jazz Port Townsend, Washingtons largest summer jazz festival turns the Victorian seaport and arts community of Port Townsend into the summer jazz getaway July this weekend. The festival, headlined by such internationally renowned musicians as Taylor Eigsti, Wycliffe Gordon, Ernie Andrews, Sarah Gazarek, Benny Green, and Ambrose Akinmusire, among others, features jazz in the clubs as ...
George Wein: Back to Doing His Thing
by R.J. DeLuke
Not many people stand in shoes similar to the ones in which jazz impresario George Wein now finds himself. Having invented the jazz festival more than half a century ago, his name is synonymous with the Newport Jazz Festival, his first and most well-known child of that genus. He led a company that expanded on the ...
Icons Among Us: An Epic Jazz Documentary, Part 1
by Nick Catalano
Part 1 | Part 2 A host of visionary producers in Seattle have produced an extraordinary TV documentary on the state of contemporary jazz art and artists. Dubbed Icons Among Us: Jazz In the Present Tense, the four-part program features a virtual who's who of young jazz performers talking about their creative struggles and ...
Badal Roy: Keeping the Groove
by Chris Kompanek
India-born tabla player Badal Roy has spent the past four decades playing with some of jazz's greatest giants, including John McLaughlin, Miles Davis and Ornette Coleman. He has been playing with fellow On the Corner alum Michael Henderson, as part of the Miles from India tour. Backstage before a recent concert at the Iridium in New ...
Glenn White: Sacred Machines
by Jay Deshpande
New York-based saxophonist Glenn White presents a set of eloquent and somewhat haunting tunes on Sacred Machines. The machines herein are a platform for the strong soloists in the ensemble, but the album's unity comes from a common palette that transcends the bandleader's harmonic tendencies (White wrote six of the disc's seven songs). Sacred Machines presents ...
Baptiste Trotignon: Share
by Raul d'Gama Rose
At first blush, one thought and just one thought rattles around in the mind: “Can Bill Evans never rest in peace?" But then the music of “Samsara," the second track on the lovely Share wafts into the inner ear. With flugelhornist Tom Harrell and Mark Turner wailing on tenor saxophone, Share's main protagonist, Baptiste ...
Take Five With Adam Shulman
by AAJ Staff
Meet Adam Shulman: Adam Shulman has been a staple of the San Francisco Jazz scene since he moved to the city in 2002. Before the move, Adam was a student at UC Santa Cruz where he studied with the great Smith Dobson and the trumpeter/arranger Ray Brown. He received his degree in classical performance under the ...
Steve Kuhn: Shimmering Beauty
by Maxwell Chandler
This interview was originally published on All About Jazz on March 2, 2009. Whether it is in his trio, collaborating with vocalists or accompanying an orchestra, pianist Steve Kuhn has always managed to effortlessly defy and combine genres. Whether it is an older recording or one of his newer albums, an inherent ability to ...
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