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Article: Live Review

Tri-Centric Orchestra Commissioning Series at Roulette

by Kurt Gottschalk
October 7, 2013

The Tri-Centric Orchestra Roulette Tri-Centric Orchestra Commissioning Series Brooklyn, NY Sept. 24-25, 2013 Addressing the audience at Roulette on Sept. 24, halfway through the first of two nights of the Tri-Centric Presenting Series, trumpeter and foundation executive director Taylor Ho Bynum acknowledged the influence of Artistic Director and spiritual godfather ...

News: Career

Website Design and Internet Strategy Services by Maxim Micheliov's design4music.org

September 27, 2013

design4music.org has successfully built over 40 musicians websites and is ready to provide excellent web design services to you. If you're a musician, record label owner, presenter, or jazz organization, and are in the market for website design services, Contact Max Micheliov to discuss options. design4music.org delivers: A unique, artistic design. Carefully planned structure and navigation. ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Ingrid Laubrock

September 24, 2013

All About Jazz is celebrating Ingrid Laubrock's birthday today! Originally from Germany, Ingrid Laubrock started having music lessons at the age of four and began to play classical piano and sing in local choirs aged eight. Her first recording experience dates from that time, singing the solo voice in an arrangement for an a capella choir. ...

Article: Album Review

Mary Halvorson Septet: Illusionary Sea

Read "Illusionary Sea" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
August 26, 2013

Guitarist Mary Halvorson's Illusionary Sea is rich and intriguing filled with contrasting yet complementary motifs and patterns. Leading a septet of versatile and idiosyncratic musicians, Halvorson deftly entwines divergent musical threads into an elegant musical tapestry that bears her distinctive mark without overshadowing her band mates' individuality.The elaborately constructed pieces allow ample room for ...

Article: Album Review

Vole: The Hillside Mechanisms

Read "The Hillside Mechanisms" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
June 10, 2013

Three stalwarts of the London Improvisers Orchestra come together on the debut outing of the genre-mashing Vole. When playing credits number saxophone iconoclasts Peter Brotzmann, Evan Parker and Ingrid Laubrock, bassist Simon Fell and pianist Alexander Hawkins, then energy and imagination can be almost guaranteed. What's fascinating is how they align improv with noise, heavy metal ...

Article: Live Review

Moers Festival: Moers, Germany, May 17-20, 2013

by Henning Bolte
June 5, 2013

Moers Festival 2013Moers, GermanyMay 17-19, 2013The internationally renowned Moers Festival again arrived at a turning point, with its 42nd edition. It was the last edition with the famous blue marquee in the vast Castle-park of the city of Moers. Next year, the festival will continue in a reconstructed solid hall, an old covered ...

Article: Album Review

Paradoxical Frog: Union

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 27, 2013

Album prettamente free-jazz, Union è la seconda e ultima (per ora) fatica del trio Paradoxical Frog, che annovera Ingrid Laubrock al sax, Kris Davis al piano e Tyshawn Sorey alla batteria. Data l'implicita natura del genere suonato, non è facile decifrare in pochi ascolti un opera composta in maggioranza da brani lunghi il cui svolgimento è ...

Article: We Travel the Spaceways

Art Strike!

by Mark Corroto
May 22, 2013

"Would you support an art strike?" That's the question I've been asking musicians for the past few months. “Will you agree to stop writing and performing music for one year?" In 1990 the London artists Stewart Home and Mark Pawson proposed that all artists cease to “make, exhibit, distribute, sell, or discuss their work" for three ...

News: Festival

Sixth Annual Red Hook Jazz Festival In Brooklyn, Taking Place June 9 And 16 In The Urban Meadow

May 20, 2013

big bang productions presents the sixth annual RED HOOK JAZZ FESTIVAL on two consecutive Sundays, June 9 and June 16 in the Urban Meadow, a community garden on the Columbia Waterfront District. Both days start at 1pm and end at 6pm. Celebrating its sixth installment of this homegrown jazz festival, this year's line-up features some of ...

Article: Album Review

Kris Davis: Capricorn Climber

Read "Capricorn Climber" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
March 28, 2013

Relocating from her native Canada to New York City, pianist Kris Davis has infused her imposing talents into New York City's unconventional, downtown-like scene. She once again aligns her compositional and improvisation expertise with like-minded artists, who frequently transition the jazz idiom into a boundless vista. Hence, the album projects a topsy-turvy and rather oscillating aura, ...