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Barcelona Voll-Damm Internacional Jazz Festival 2014
by Bruce Lindsay
Barcelona Voll-Damm Internacional Jazz Festival Barcelona October 31-November 6, 2014 The 46th Barcelona Voll-Damm Internacional Jazz Festival proved once again that jazz is a crucial contemporary art form--one that encourages us to think; one that engages with many, many cultures around the world; one that can create surprise; one that can ...
Orlando Julius and The Heliocentrics: Jayeide Afro
by AAJ Staff
Dimmi con chi suoni e ti dirò chi sei. Gli inglesi Heliocentrics guidati da Malcolm Catto, sotto gli auspici dei padri Sun Ra e James Brown, hanno nel DNA la sensibilità per aprirsi alle migliori collaborazioni. Lo hanno fatto con Lloyd Miller (etnomusicologo e musicista di visionaria esperienza), con Mulatu Astatke (non serve vi ...
Eliot Lewis
by Alan Bryson
At an early age Eliot Lewis was determined to make music his life's work, and in the ensuing years he has been living the dream. As you'll hear in the interview, even as an adolescent he had some extraordinary musical encounters which, if submitted as a screenplay, would probably be rejected as unbelievable. After finishing school ...
The Snobs: Ekho’s Wheeling in Thespiae
by Florence Wetzel
The Snobs are a wildly talented art-rock duo hailing from France. Mad Rabbit and Duck Feeling are brothers who have released ten innovative recordings, including the excellent Massive Liquidity (Bam Balam, 2011), which features the poetry and performance of the peerless Steve Dalachinsky. On their release Ekho's Wheeling in Thespiae, their music is, as always, a ...
Bernard Purdie: Letting The Drums Speak
by Ben Scholz
Known primarily for his half-century long career as a studio musician, Bernard “Pretty" Purdie is an icon in the recording industry. With a catalog of 3,000+ recordings including landmark albums such as Steely Dan's Aja Aretha Franklin's Young, Gifted and Black, BB King's Completely Well, and James Brown's It's a Man's Man's Man's World, Bernard Purdie ...
Ginger Baker's Jazz Confusion at Yoshi's
by Harry S. Pariser
Ginger Baker's Jazz Confusion Yoshis Oakland , CA June 15, 2014 Dedicated. Stubborn. Outspoken. Perspicacious. These are some of the descriptions which come to mind when considering the personality and legacy of legendary drummer Ginger Baker. Baker first came to prominence as a member of the rock power ...
Trampled Under Foot at Denver Day of Rock 2014
by Geoff Anderson
Trampled Under Foot Denver Day of Rock Denver, CO May 24, 2014 The Blues runs in the family. At least that's the case for a number of families over the years. Morganfield, Dickenson, Brooks, to name a few. The latest blues brood to hit the scene goes by the name of ...
Carleen Anderson: At Home in London
by John Wesley Reed Jr.
One of the most powerful vocalists today is Carleen Anderson, the “2013 Jazz FM UK Vocalist of the Year." Amy Winehouse once said, “For live performances, you absolutely have to see Carleen Anderson at least three times in your life!" Amy confessed while sitting in on one of Ms. Anderson's soundchecks; Carleen sang “Don't Look Back ...
Miles at the Fillmore - Miles Davis 1970: The Bootleg Series Vol. 3
by John Kelman
By the time Bitches Brew (Columbia) was released in April, 1970—and despite receiving a 5-star review in Downbeat Magazine—trumpeter Miles Davis was already under fire from mainstream jazz critics as having “sold out," despite the densely constructed, improvisationally unfettered music being as unapproachable to an audience looking for accessible music as anything he'd done with his ...
Ed Palermo: Not Only In It For The Money
by Duncan Heining
It's been twenty years since saxophonist-composer-arranger Ed Palermo and his Big Band began playing the music of Frank Zappa. Twenty years, not a lot of bread but a whole lot of love from fans and musicians alike. Oh No! Not Jazz!! on Cuneiform Records marks the band's fourth Zappa album and the third for that remarkable ...
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