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Take Five With The Music Upstairs Project
by AAJ Staff
Meet The Music Upstairs Project:Feast your eyes on that Spin Doctor's mixtape. The Music Upstairs Project is the brainchild of 4 MILES Records founder and recording artist Cameron Turner. A well-traveled, self-produced multi-instrumentalist, Turner combines his knowledge of modern recording software and groove-based programs with his 60's and '70s-era psychedelic fusion influences. Following the ...
Michael Olatuja: Speak
by Eugene Holley, Jr.
At its very best, pop music is supposed to be inclusive, and open to a wide variety of styles and genres; that's what makes it pop right? But what is heard on the Internet and the airwaves is at best formulaic, at worst uninspired and superficial. Along with that diagnosis there's the almost Apartheid-like exclusion of ...
Return to Forever:Returns
By: Ron Hart Back when I was the music editor for this wannabe hipster rag out of NYC, I was told by my editor-in-chief, when pitching the idea of reviewing--if my memory serves me well--a Jaco Pastorius reissue, that, “Our magazine is serving a primarily hipster set which is into hip-hop, rock, electronica, some kitschy pop ...
Take Five With Agustin Barreto
by AAJ Staff
Meet Agustin Barreto: Barreto, a native of San Juan, Puerto Rico started playing electric bass at age 16 and soon discovered his gift and passion for music. After a few years of “gigging around town" with a local rock band, he landed several jobs playing on local TV shows. With the encouragement of his peers he ...
Yellowjackets: New Morning - The Paris Concert
by John Kelman
YellowjacketsNew Morning - The Paris Concert Heads Up International2009A group that has, on occasion, ventured along the fine line between contemporary jazz and that of the smoother variety, Yellowjackets has always been a performing band. Now approaching its 30th anniversary as a collective, it's the group's eighth year ...
National Health: National Health / Of Queues and Cures
by John Kelman
Keyboardist Dave Stewart first emerged with Uriel and Egg--two early Canterbury groups that initially expanded on the psychedelia of earlier progenitor Soft Machine but ultimately created their own space where rock, classical and even hints of jazz music met. But Stewart truly hit his stride with Hatfield and the North, whose two Virgin albums--the impressive Hatfield ...
Stockholm Jazz Fest 2009
by Dan Hafstrom
Stockholm Jazz FestivalSkeppsholmenStockholm, SwedenJuly 15-19, 2009 Lee Ritenour/Richard Galliano/Jon Hasse Lennart Aberg/Oddjob/Nina Simone Tribute/SMV/Sonny Rollins Joss Stone/Erykah Badu ---> Lee Ritenour/Richard Galliano/Jon HasseJuly 15, 2009 After financial problems and last year's peculiar bookings, (Patti Smith on a jazz festival ...
Steven Hashimoto's Mothra: Tradewind
by Matthew Warnock
Tradewind is an intellectually stimulating and highly entertaining modern jazz album by Chicago bassist Steven Hashimoto's group, Mothra. It features a highly accomplished lineup of musicians including guitarist Neal Alger, vibraphonist Kathy Kelly, saxophonists Dan Hesler and Michael Levin, and drummer Heath Chappell. Their adventurous grooves, complex chord progressions, and twisting and turning melody lines flow ...
Objets Trouves: This Side Up
by Nic Jones
It's only right that this group didn't come together under the name of one of its members as this is cooperative music of an order that's still only too rare. This is Objets Trouves' second title for Intakt, indicating that the label seems intent on a long-term relationship with them. If so this is a good ...
Mike Stern Album w/: Vai, Johnson, MMW, Brecker
GUITARIST MIKE STERN PLAYS WITH TALENTED FRIENDS IN A BIG NEIGHBORHOOD Guest artists on new recording include Steve Vai, Eric Johnson, Esperanza Spalding Richard Bona, Randy Brecker, Medeski Martin & Wood, Cindy Blackman and others Mike Stern Five-time GRAMMY nominated guitarist Mike Stern's music has always come from a colorful and diverse ...
