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Jean-Luc Ponty: Imaginary Voyages, Part 2

by Peter Rubie
June 1, 2022

Part 1 | Part 2American violinist Stuff Smith once said about the young, classically trained and self taught jazz violinist Jean-Luc Ponty, “He plays violin like Coltrane plays saxophone." Born in 1942, Ponty has almost single-handedly taken jazz violin from the swing era into modern jazz, and beyond. At rock musician Frank Zappa's urging, ...

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Jean-Luc Ponty: Imaginary Voyages, Part 1

by Peter Rubie
May 31, 2022

Part 1 | Part 2 Jazz is an art form that has been a singular hothouse of musical talent over the decades. There are, and have been, lots of not just great but brilliant players. But perhaps not unsurprisingly, there have been far fewer jazz originals. I mean by that, musicians whose playing has ...

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Tom "Bones" Malone: Amazing Career That's One In A Million, Part 2

by Matthew Alec
May 20, 2022

Part 1 | Part 2 World-famous trombonist and multi-instrumentalist Tom “Bones" Malone talks about his incredible career spanning Saturday Night Live, The Blues Brothers, Gil Evans, Frank Zappa, Blood, Sweat, & Tears, The Brecker Brothers, David Sanborn, Late Show with David Letterman, and so much more with All About Jazz contributor and saxophonist Matthew ...

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Tom "Bones" Malone: Amazing Career That's One In A Million, Part 1

by Matthew Alec
May 19, 2022

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Chris Potter, Bunny Brunel, Yellow Jackets, Benny Rietveld

by Len Davis
October 24, 2021

Music from Chris Potter Underground, Bunny Brunel, Yellow Jackets and Scott Henderson.Playlist Chris Potter"Next Best Western" fromUnderground (Universal 00:00 Bunny Brunel “Herbert 7" from Invent Your Future (Nikala) 06:45 Jean-Luc Ponty “Celtic Steps" from The Atacama Experience (Koch) 13:26 Yellow Jackets “Evening News" from Mint Jam (Heads Up) 20:13 Benny Rietveld “Anybody There?" from ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Jean-Luc Ponty

September 29, 2021

All About Jazz is celebrating Jean-Luc Ponty's birthday today! Jean-Luc Ponty is a pioneer and undispute master of violin in the arena of jazz and rock. He is widely regarded as an innovator who has applied his unique visionary spin that has expanded the vocabulary of modern music. Ponty was born in a family of classical ...

Article: Top Ten List

Top Jazz-Rock Fusion Recordings

by Douglas Groothuis
April 27, 2021

The emergence of jazz-rock fusion in American music in the late 1960s was controversial. To some, those who played it were traitors to the cause of jazz. Others thought it has saved jazz from extinction. Sometime in the 1960s, rock had eclipsed jazz in popularity in America, and many jazz aficionados were none too happy about ...

Article: Album Review

Nixon Mohohlo & The Collective Heads of Knuckle: The Queen of Complaints

Read "The Queen of Complaints" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
April 1, 2021

For good or bad, drummer Nixon Mohohlo has worn his heart on his sleeve for most of his musical career. Following a brief experience with monastic silence he recorded an album-length version of John Cage's “4'33." It met with outrage and was pulled from the market. In 1999, he recruited Dutch percussionist Horst Van Clutter for ...

Article: Extended Analysis

The First Generation 1965-1974

by John Kelman
March 18, 2021

What do guitarists Eric Clapton, Peter Green, Mick Taylor, Jon Mark, Harvey Mandel and Freddy Robinson, reed/woodwind multi-instrumentalists John Almond, Ray Warleigh, Alan Skidmore, Dick Heckstall-Smith, Red Holloway and Ernie Watts, bassists John McVie, Jack Bruce, Andy Fraser, Tony Reeves, Stephen Thompson and Larry Taylor, drummers Mick Fleetwood, Keef Hartley, Aynsley Dunbar, Jon Hiseman and Collin ...

Article: Album Review

Kolotov Mocktails: Ivy Hall

by Jack Bowers
March 18, 2021

Setting aside the issue of genres (jazz, folk, Americana, funk, R&B, country, whatever), the question becomes: on their debut album, Ivy Hall, does the Tennessee-based and curiously named quartet, Kolotov Mocktails, deliver the goods? And the answer has to be yes, they do. This leads to a second question: is what they are doing jazz? And ...