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Zbigniew Seifert Jazz Violin Competition Draws World's Greatest Upcoming Violinists To Kracow
The first edition of the International Zbigniew Seifert Jazz Violin Competition will be held from July 16-19, as part of the 19th Summer Jazz Festival in Piwnica pod Baranam in Kracow, Poland. In addition to commemorating the great Seifert, the organizers of the competition, which is open to entrants from all over the world, hope that ...
Yvonnick Prene: Wonderful World
by Ian Patterson
Before arriving in New York in 2007, Paris-born harmonica player Yvonnick Prené had already gained schooling of the practical kind, touring and recording with pianists Laurent Cugny and Yaron Herman, and trumpeter Alex Tassel. Prené hit the ground running in the States, winning several scholarships that enabled him to study with saxophonist Lee Konitz, bassist John ...
Xavi Reija: Resolution
by Ian Patterson
Catalan drummer Xavi Reija's fifth recording and his first with MoonJune Records is a highly charged affair that draws from rock, jazz and the shifting ground between. Reija's hard-edged polyrhythms, bassist Bernat Hernandez' thundering bass lines and guitarist Dusan Jevtovic's raw, fuzz-toned electric guitar combine to stir up a storm that evokes memories of drummer Tony ...
Ulf Wakenius: Confessions of A Vagabond
by Ian Patterson
Happenstance may play a role in turning dreams into reality, but anyone who's ever realized a burning ambition will appreciate just how much hard work has paved the way. Two phone calls out of the blue almost twenty years apart opened doors to Swedish guitarist Ulf Wakenius, that in the first case he could only have ...
The North: Slow Down (This Isn't the Mainland)
by Ian Patterson
When French pianist Romain Collin and Hawaii natives double bassist Shawn Conley and drummer Abe Lagrimas, Jr got together in Honolulu there was no special agenda; just three friends playing a few gigs in a relaxed environment, far from the hurly burly of their adopted cities of Los Angeles and New York. However, a trio chemistry ...
Monday Night Irish Jazz/Impro Series At Whelans, Dublin
The healthy state of Irish jazz/improvised/contemporary music is celebrated in a series of upcoming Monday night concerts at Whelans in Dublin. Improvised Music Company begins its series of monthly Monday nights in Whelan’s with three vocally adventurous acts on 23rd June. Fresh from a breathtaking performance at Down With Jazz festival, Blue Eyed Hawk present melodic, ...
Wayne Shorter Quartet at National Concert Hall, Dublin
by Ian Patterson
Wayne Shorter Quartet National Concert Hall Dublin, Ireland June 14, 2014 The rapturous applause that greeted the Wayne Shorter Quartet as it took to the stage of Dublin's National Concert Hall was a heart-felt show of appreciation for Shorter's immense contribution to jazz over the past six decades. From his role ...
The Amazing Bud Powell: Black Genius, Jazz History, and the Challenge of Bebop
by C. Michael Bailey
The Amazing Bud Powell: Black Genius, Jazz History, and the Challenge of Bebop (Music of the African Diaspora) Kindle Edition Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr. 257 Pages ASIN: # B00CDTSS78 University of California Press 2013 All of the sudden, we have competing biographies of modern jazz pianist Bud Powell. For ...
Chris Schlarb: Making The Saint
by Ian Patterson
Having spent four years cutting and pasting fifty trusted musicians on his stunning debut solo recording, Twilight & Ghost Stories (Asthmatic Kitty Records, 2007) guitarist/composer Chris Schlarb may understandably have felt like scaling back. Instead, Schlarb invested similar time and resources to sculpt the beautifully meditative folk-jazz ambient suite Psychic Temple (Sounds Are Active/Asthmatic Kitty Records, ...
Hauschka at The Kevin Barry Room
by Ian Patterson
Hauschka The Kevin Barry Room National Concert Hall Dublin, Ireland June 7, 2014 Had Volker Bertlemann pursued a career in classical music he probably wouldn't have needed a nom de plume, but in the rather niche market of prepared piano music--for which he is best known--a little strategic marketing ...
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