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Sizhukong: It Don't Mean a Thing if it Ain't Got That Oon

by Ian Patterson
February 1, 2010

It is something of a paradox that the western world knows so relatively little about modern China, even as the awakening giant's influence in the world is increasing. Who knows exactly what music is fermenting in its endless metropolises and among its multitude of ethnicities? Who knows what musical experiments and innovations are exciting passions and ...

Intervista a Mirko Guerrini

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 1, 2010

Mirko Guerrini, trentaseienne sassofonista fiorentino, compositore e band leader ben noto per i suoi lavori, spesso molto diversi fra loro (I Diavoli del Ritmo, Cirko Guerrini, Italian Lessons), e per le sue collaborazioni con importanti musicisti, è personalità artistica poliedrica e di grande interesse. In occasione dell'uscita del suo ultimo CD, Il Bianco e l'Augusto, realizzato ...

Chicago Underground Dive into the Laptop-Jazz Vortex

January 31, 2010

By Tad Hendrickson The fusion of jazz and electronics hasn't been a particularly fertile one -- particularly when you consider the possibilities of pairing the agility of improvisation-minded musicians with the infinite possibilities offered by technology, both in the production studio and in the live setting. In the late '60s and early '70s, Miles Davis and ...

POW! Darius Jones

January 31, 2010

The Brooklyn jazz scene has been a boon to New York, fostering a defiantly local culture that the city's biggest clubs (Blue Note, Vanguard, etc) sometimes lack. In Greenwich Village, you see top jazz stars deliver polished performances; at Brooklyn events like the New Languages Festival, you see scruffy young musicians experimenting, developing, emerging. Yet there's ...

Buddy de Franco + Sonny Clark, PT 2

January 30, 2010

By 1954, the clarinet was all but finished as a solo instrument. Benny Goodman was largely a nostalgia act. Artie Shaw was completing his final recordings with his Gramercy Five. And other leading jazz musicians who played the “stick" did so out of necessity for studio work or as a secondary instrument. One of the only ...

19th-Century Concept, with a Few Upgrades

January 30, 2010

Pat Metheny, the jazz guitarist, has lately spent an inordinate amount of time thinking about robots. Actually, that's putting it mildly: he has been downright obsessed with robots, and with getting them to do his bidding. “I haven't slept more than four hours a night for six months now," he said one day last fall at ...

Giant Steps: The Survival of a Great Jazz Pianist

January 30, 2010

Influential artists sometimes click in the public consciousness only after the rise of the movements they have influenced. A school of creative work emerges--seemingly spontaneously, its origins obscure at first. Then, with attention to the artists in that school comes recognition of their influences, their antecedents and their mentors. After Pollock, de Kooning and their peers ...

Riding on the the Main Line of Jazz

January 30, 2010

The trumpeter Jeremy Pelt has spent most of the last decade as a young exemplar, traveling the postbop continuum on his own steam, at his own pace. As a bandleader he has plunged headlong into funk and dipped a toe in chamber orchestration, but the larger theme of his output seeks a footing on the bedrock ...

Sutton Foster Featured in Riverfront Times

January 30, 2010

Buddy de Franco + Sonny Clark, PT 1

January 29, 2010

Clarinetist Buddy De Franco has had a series of astonishing careers. He has been a leading swing era musician, a big band leader, a bebop headliner, an early participant in merging small-group jazz with the American Songbook, a polytonal experimenter, and champion of all forms of the music. Buddy's first 10 years alone are remarkable. In ...