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Toronto Jazz '09 Festival Journal: 'Round About Midday to 'Round About Midnight
by Raul d'Gama Rose
T.D. Canada Trust Toronto Jazz Festival Toronto, Ontario, Canada June 26-July 5, 2009 To begin at the beginning: close encounters in a war against the abolition of free will by methodical conditioning and the servitude made acceptable by regular doses of chemically-induced progress and happiness from: canned food, ...
J.D. Allen: Shine!
by Wilbur MacKenzie
Shine! is the second Sunnyside release by saxophonist JD Allen and his trio with bassist Gregg August and drummer Rudy Royston. A Detroit native, Allen has been based in New York for quite a few years now, working with bassist Ron Carter, saxophonist David Murray, trumpeter Lester Bowie and drummers Jack DeJohnette and Cindy Blackman.
Lisa Hilton to Release "Twilight & Blues" on August 17th
Can jazz be green and blue, and still sunny? “I hope so,” responds critically-acclaimed composer, pianist and producer Lisa Hilton of her newest release, twilight & blues (1012 Ruby Slippers Productions). “As an artist I think it’s possible to play your passion as well as your conscious. There are so many concerns about our planet now ...
Norberto Tamburrino: Prigioniero del Mare / Prisoner of The Sea
by Jay Deshpande
On his sophomore effort Prigioniero del Mare / Prisoner of The Sea, Italian pianist Norberto Tamburrino continues to chart his course through a host of original compositions. Although he tests the waters with more trio arrangements than on his preceding album, Deco (Splasc(H), 2006), his greatest strength continues to lie in his solo work.
J.D. Allen, Joel Harrison, Mats Gustafsson/Thurston Moore, Steve Reid, Joey Calderazzo & Eddie Palmieri
by Martin Longley
J.D. Allen/Gregg August/Rudy RoystonSmokeJanuary 26, 2009Smoke is a cosily atmospheric haunt that's removed from the downtown jazz club heartland, though a Broadway location on the Upper West Side still makes for a convenient subway ride. The place is smaller than might be imagined, possessing only a few rows of tables ...
Publisher's Top Picks for 2008
by Michael Ricci
It was another productive year for “Team AAJ" as we delivered some new features and upgraded several others across the website. We also beefed up our editorial staff to better manage the increasing number of contributors. The programming staff (Mike Lorenz and myself) continued to build on our foundation that has firmly established AAJ as the ...
2008 Contributor Picks
by AAJ Staff
We solicited opinions from all active All About Jazz contributors, and out of more than 1,000 nominations, the following 2008 releases garnered the most votes. New Releases Charles Lloyd Rabe de Nube (ECM Records) Reviews ...
JD Allen: Notes of Change
by Franz A. Matzner
Volant solos, melodic tapestries, mournful cadences, orphic rhythms. J.D. Allen's extraordinary I AM-I AM (Sunnyside, 2008) sculpts an aural monument to transformation, a musical testament to the power of the mind to overcome itself through introspective endeavor. Each of its ten compositions roils with the intensity and exposition of a soul wrestling with its two halves, ...
JD Allen's Sunnyside Records Debut "I Am I Am" Due Out April 22
"A tenor saxophonist with an enigmatic, elegant and hard-driving style" —The New York Times In the mid eighties, the mighty Joe Henderson released two live albums entitled The State of the Tenor (Vols. 1 and 2) . Two decades later, the profound and powerful Detroit-born, New York-based tenor saxophonist/bandleader JD Allen, undoubtedly the most accomplished and ...
J.D. Allen: Pharoah's Children
by C. Andrew Hovan
When it comes to recordings of mainstream excellence, it's hard to ignore the impressive battery of titles that producer Gerry Teekens has built up for his Criss Cross imprimatur. The label has established an consistently reliable reputation among experienced musicians, most recently shifting towards documenting some cutting edge musicians of a younger age. Case in point, ...
