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Article: Live Review

Jazz Aspen Snowmass June Experience 2023

by Geoff Anderson
July 6, 2023

Jazz Aspen Snowmass June Experience Downtown Aspen Aspen, Colorado June 22-24, 2023 Jazz Aspen Snowmass (JAS) has been around as a concept for a few decades now. The format and specific locations have changed over the years, but the basic idea remains the same: go to a beautiful mountain location and ...

Article: Album Review

The Harry Allen Orchestra: With Roses

Read "With Roses" reviewed by Pierre Giroux

by Pierre Giroux
July 5, 2023

Harry Allen is a tenor saxophonist's tenor saxophonist with an elegant tone and swinging style in the manner of Scott Hamilton, Lester Young or Ben Webster. He has a well-rounded discography of over 70 releases as a leader and many others as a sideman. Over the course of his prolific career, Allen has appeared with the ...

Article: Liner Notes

Dewa Budjana: Joged Kahyangan

by John Kelman
May 12, 2023

Dewa Budjana may not be a household name outside of his native country, Indonesia, but with MoonJune Records picking up this exciting guitarist and composer, all that could be about to change. He's already garnered some serious attention with his first recording for the label, Dawai in Paradise, released earlier this year (2013), but at home, ...

News: Recording

Acclaimed Global Music Collective The Scooches Ready New Single, 'Stop This Climate Change' For Earth Day

April 22, 2023

Global music sensation The Scooches have announced the April 21st release of “Stop This Climate Change,” a poetic and uplifting call to action fraught with cataclysmic imagery, yet infused with the desire for change. Arriving in time for Earth Day, the lyric “We’ve got to stop this climate and change" refers to the climate of helplessness ...

Album

Harvest 50th Anniversary Edition (CD/DVD)

By Neil Young

Label: Reprise
Released: 2022
Track listing: CD 1 - Harvest: Out On The Weekend; Harvest; A Man Needs A Maid; Heart Of Gold; Are You Ready For The Country?; Old Man; There’s A World; Alabama; The Needle And The Damage Done. CD 2 - Words (Between The Lines Of Age). BBC In Concert: Out On The Weekend; Old Man; Journey Through The Past; Heart of Gold; Don’t Let It Bring You Down; A Man Needs A Maid; Love in Mind; Dance Dance Dance. CD 3 - Outtakes: Bad Fog Of Loneliness; Journey Through The Past; Dance Dance Dance. DVD 1: Harvest Time. DVD 2: BBC In Concert - Out On The Weekend; Old Man; Journey Through The Past; Heart of Gold; Don’t Let It Bring You Down; A Man Needs A Maid; Love in Mind; Dance Dance Dance

Article: Year in Review

Ludovico Granvassu's Garden Of Jazzy Delights 2022

by Ludovico Granvassu
December 29, 2022

The depth and range of the music that jazz players have put on record in 2022 are so big that summarizing this “year in jazz" by selecting only ten albums feels akin to taking the photo of a breath-taking landscape with an ultra-low resolution camera... Ten years from now, how is one supposed to understand how ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Chelsea Carmichael, Takuya Kuroda, James Taylor Quartet, OHMA & Other New Releases

by Ludovico Granvassu
August 30, 2022

We are back with another set list chockful of exciting new and upcoming albums, from the cinematic atmospheres of the James Taylor Quartet and the mysterious Louis Fontane, to the explorations of Sam Gendel or Hailey Niswanger's and Mia Garcia's OHMA; from the physchedelic journeys of Wax Machine and Kalaha, to the sounds of London's Total ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Bobby Previte, Angles, Roxana Amed, The Comet Is Coming & More New Releases

by Ludovico Granvassu
August 23, 2022

This week we feature some great examples of how tradition continues to fuel modern jazz projects, and the many ways in which jazz incorporates elements from other musical traditions (from Korea to Spain) and genres (from the blues to rave music).Happy listening!PlaylistBen Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" ...

News: Education

New England Conservatory Announces 2022 Speaker And Honorary Degree Recipients For Its 151st Commencement Ceremony

May 2, 2022

Honorary Degree Recipient and Commencement Speaker: James Taylor, singer-songwriter Honorary Degree Recipient: David Amram, conductor and composer; Ella Jenkins, the “First Lady of Children’s Music” Special Guests: Emanuel Ax, pianist, Honorary Doctorate 2021; Denys Karachevtsev, Ukrainian cellist and music teacher New England Conservatory President Andrea Kalyn and the Board of Trustees announce multiple Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter ...

News: Performance / Tour

Dara Tucker to perform at New Jersey Jazz Society January Social on January 29th

January 25, 2022

Other jazz musicians appearing on the album, in addition to Chestnut, include pianist Sullivan Fortner, bassist Dezron Douglas, drummer Johnathan Blake, saxophonist John Ellis, and trumpeter Giveton Gelin. Among additional song selections on Dreams of Waking are James Taylor's “Secret O' Life," Donny Hathaway's “Someday We'll All Be Free," and Wonder's “You Haven't Done Nothin.'" As ...