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All-Female Bands Are a Riot!

by Ludovico Granvassu
August 13, 2019

As much as we favor a complete integration of the jazz sexes, this week we feature twenty-four bands or projects with not a single man in sight, actually in hearing. After all, how much jazz radio have you listened to (not on Mondo Jazz) with playlists made exclusively of all male bands? Here's a small contribution ...

Article: Album Review

Gunter Baby Sommer: Baby's Party

Read "Baby's Party" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
August 22, 2018

The music from the German duo of Günter Baby Sommer and Till Brönner is best described as gestural, meaning the pair utilizes posture and body movement to effect an oratory--in this case the somatic nature of Sommer's drum and percussion work and the flow of breath through Brönner's trumpet and flugelhorn. On the occasion ...

Article: Multiple Reviews

Clean Feed 2018

by Mark Corroto
May 9, 2018

Since it's inception in 2002, Lisbon, Portugal's Clean Feed Records has released nearly 500 recordings. Last year the total was 64. Keeping up with their output might be the best way to follow innovative jazz and improvised music in the 21st century. Besides releasing music by masters such as Peter Brotzmann, Joe McPhee, Ivo Perelman, Elliott ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

2018 Winter Jazz Festival Preview & 2017 Highlights (Part 2)

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 25, 2018

Welcome to the second episode of Mondo Jazz dedicated to previewing some of the international artists that will be performing at the 2018 Winter Jazz Festival. It features music by and interviews with Lucia Cadotsch, Yazz Ahmed, Yacine Boulares and Guilhelm Flouzat as well as some 2017 gems by James Brandon Lewis, Fabrizio Puglisi as well ...

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Best of 2017: The All About Jazz Mixtape, Vol.3

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 20, 2018

Volume 1 | Volume 2| Volume 3 Eccola la terza e ultima puntata della nostra compilation con il meglio del 2017, che fa da complemento e colonna sonora alle varie liste di fine anno pubblicate negli scorsi giorni da Luca Canini, Libero Farnè, Angelo Leonardi, Nicola Negri, Neri Pollastri, Vincenzo Roggero e Luca Vitali. ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Best of 2017: The All About Jazz Mixtape, Volume 3

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 17, 2018

Volume 1 | Volume 2 | Volume 3 Some cling to the belief that jazz is in crisis or worse, dead. Our impression is quite the opposite, and to prove our point, we've compiled a mixtape featuring some of the best jazz released in 2017. Also, check out our staff's BEST OF 2017 lists ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Best of 2017: The All About Jazz Mixtape, Volume 2

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 16, 2018

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Best of 2017: The All About Jazz Mixtape, Volume 1

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 15, 2018

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Best of 2017: The All About Jazz Mixtape, Vol.2

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 15, 2018

Ecco arrivata la seconda puntata della nostra compilation con il meglio del 2017. Questa compilation fa da complemento e colonna sonora alle varie liste di fine anno pubblicate negli scorsi giorni da Luca Canini, Libero Farnè, Angelo Leonardi, Nicola Negri, Neri Pollastri, Vincenzo Roggero e Luca Vitali. Inutile dirlo... questa lista di brani non ...

Article: Album Review

Irene Schweizer, Joey Baron: Live!

Read "Live!" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
January 12, 2018

Inciso a Zurigo a fine 2015, l'album riunisce due improvvisatori di scuole e generazioni diverse: Irène Schweizer, settantasei anni, svizzera di Sciaffusa, attraversa l'avanguardia europea praticamente fin dal suo primo affermarsi (se non affacciarsi), mentre Joey Baron, sessantaduenne di Richmond, quella stessa avanguardia (ovviamente dall'altra sponda dell'Atlantico) l'ha accompagnata, per così dire fiancheggiata, nel corso di ...