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Bern Nix: A History In Harmolodics
by AAJ Staff
New York-based free jazz guitarist Bern Nix is one of the few people who are well-versed in Ornette Coleman's “harmolodics" style. He played with Coleman from 1975-1987, and now leads the Bern Nix Trio in New York City. In his compositions and his intriguing covers of standards, he is always looking in the corners of the ...
Take Five With Scott Forrey of Vector Trio
by AAJ Staff
Meet Scott Forrey: Scott Forrey has played trumpet with jazz, funk, Latin, and avant-garde bands for more that 30 years. He was both a student and faculty member at Berklee College of Music in the 1980s, where he studied improvisation with saxophonist George Garzone and bassist Miroslav Vitous. Among his interests are composition, arranging ...
Vision Festival 2009: Day 2
by John Sharpe
Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7 All-Star Collective / Bill Cole's Untempered Ensemble / Sun Ra Arkestra14th Annual Vision Festival Abrons Arts Center New York, New York June 10, 2009 Chapter Index All-Star Collective Bill ...
Ottawa Jazz Festival 2009: Days 4-6, June 28-30, 2009
by John Kelman
Days 1-3 | Days 4-6 Amina Claudine Myers / Gary Burton Quartet Revisited John Roney Silverbirch Project / Julian Lage / Enrico Rava-Stefano Bollani DuoAndy Milne/Benoît Delbecq Crystal Magnets / Sylvain Kassap QuartetTD Canada Trust Ottawa International Jazz Festival Ottawa, Ontario, Canada June 25-27, 2009 ...
Samo Salamon & Aljosa Jeric Quartet: Mamasaal feat. Mark Turner
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
That bandleaders Samo Salamon and Aljosa Jeric are Slovenian doesn't appear to be of much musical relevance; jazz settings of East European folk songs are not the order of the day here. But it might have some metaphorical relevance; just as their tiny homeland has shot to the top of all social, economic and political rankings ...
Bad Blood in the City: The Piety Street Sessions
Label: Hyena Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Survivors of the Hurricane; Sad Days, Lonely Nights; Katrina; Let's Talk About Jesus; Dead Presidents; Commit a Crime; Grinnin' in Your Face; There Is Power in the Blues; Backwater Blues; Old Slave Master.
James Blood Ulmer: Bad Blood in the City: The Piety Street Sessions
by Chris M. Slawecki
"Blood wrote these songs that are the essence of the blues," suggests producer and guitarist Vernon Reid. “They're politically incorrect, they're sad and haunting, they're pissed off and on an existential level, they address the complicated concept that is America, which is something Blood's been dealing with since the beginning of his career." You ...
Bad Blood In The City: The Piety Street Sessions
Label: Hyena Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Survivors of the Hurricane; Sad Days, Lonely Nights; Katrina; Let's Talk about Jesus; This Land is No One's Land; Dead Presidents; Commit a Crime; Grinnin' in your Face; There is power in the Blues; Backwater Blues; Old Slave Master.
James Blood Ulmer: Bad Blood in the City: the Piety Street Sessions
by AAJ Italy Staff
Se qualcuno aveva ancora qualche dubbio sul fatto che James “Blood” Ulmer fosse innanzitutto e prima di ogni altra cosa un chitarrista blues, Bad Blood in The City dovrebbe contribuire a sgombrare definitivamente il campo da qualsiasi fraintendimento. Ulmer era già blues quando accompagnava Ornette Coleman e tutti lo definivano pomposamente “harmolodic guitarist”; era blues quando ...
