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Hasaan Ibn Ali: Requiem (And Praise) For A Heavyweight Pianist
by Victor L. Schermer
"The new release of Hasaan's Retrospect In Retirement Of Delay: The Solo Recordings (Omnivore Recordings, 2021), which features him in privately recorded performances from 1962 to 1965, reveals his profundity, his overwhelming power, his mighty virtuosity. It does more than put him on the map of jazz history—it expands the map to include the vast expanse ...
Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer
by AAJ Staff
The following is a revised excerpt from “Chapter 20: Frislandia" of Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer by Philip Watson (Faber & Faber, 2022). Bill Frisell's music has always, right from the beginning, raised critical questions about definition and classification, about the very nature of genre. What is it that Frisell is playing, and how ...
Kimberly Hannon Teal: Jazz Places, Space For Everybody?
by Ian Patterson
Behind the bricks and mortar of any jazz venue, large or small, lies an often complex history, a set of codes, expectations and ideologies, projected both both from within and from without. Old school, traditional, cutting edge, avant-garde, mainstream--different venues convey meanings and associations that align with different and often competing strands of jazz ...
New England Conservatory Jazz Orchestra Celebrates The Centennial Of Massachusetts Jazz Master Jaki Byard on March 3
The Music of Jaki Byard" concert will highlight the multi-instrumentalist, composer and arranger’s big band repertoire and his legacy at NEC World premiere of new work by composer Carl Atkins written in honor of Byard. International broadcast on Saturday, April 9 The NEC Jazz Orchestra under the direction of Ken Schaphorst celebrates the centennial of Jaki ...
Ugly Beauty - Jazz In The 21st Century
by Angelo Leonardi
Ugly Beauty Phil Freeman 250 pagine ISBN: #978-1-78904-632-8 Zer0 Books 2021 Critico musicale da tempo presente nelle riviste musicali e nei blog statunitensi e inglesi (The Wire, Down Beat, Jazziz, The Village Voice, Stereogum ecc...) Phil Freeman si occupa sia di jazz che di metal (è stato capo ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Jason Moran
All About Jazz is celebrating Jason Moran's birthday today! Since his formidable emergence on the music scene in the late 90s, jazz pianist Jason Moran has proven more than his brilliance as a performer. The Blue Note Records recording artist has established himself as a risk-taker and innovator of new directions for jazz as a whole. ...
Let My People Go
By Archie Shepp
Label: Archie Ball Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child; Isfahan; He Cares; Go Down Moses; Wise One; Lush Life; Round Midnight.
The Sound Will Tell You
By Jason Moran
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Track listing: Follow the Light; Spoken in Two (Tear); For Love; My Mother's Handful of Tea; Only the
Shadow Knows (Honey); Body & Soul with Intimate Friends (Shadow);Dawns after the
Dream; Bee Mantra (Honey); How much more terrible was the Night; The only morning
coming (Tear); Hum then Sing then Speak; Toni Morrison said Black is a Rainbow
(Shadow).
Mark Corroto's Best Recordings Of 2021
by Mark Corroto
Another year in jazz, and another year in global pandemic jazz. When we look back on these times, I believe we will refer to them much like the designations BC and AD (or BCE and CE, if you like). We'll ask, what was music like before masks and social distancing; and, remember when we squeezed together ...
New England Conservatory Faculty Members, Alums Receive 2021 Jazz Road Creative Residencies Grants
New England Conservatory faculty members Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol, Jason Moran and Nasheet Waits and alumni Jamie Branch and Felipe Salles have each been awarded 2021 Jazz Road Creative Residencies Grants of up to $40,000 from South Arts. These grants are part of Jazz Road’s largest investment in the field to date as part of a national ...
