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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Xhosa Cole, Lakecia Benjamin, J.D.Hive, Jason Yaeger & More New Releases

by Ludovico Granvassu
February 18, 2023

A playlist built around the work of impressive emerging saxophonists (Lakecia Benjamin, Xhosa Cole, Jason Marshall, and Alex Hitchcock), and guitarists (Ant Law and David Doruzka). Together with a tribute to Kurt Vonnegut, the reissue of an Acid Jazz classic, and much more, this is an hour of music that should keep you happy and full ...

Article: Live Review

Un dicembre di proposte originali al PARC di Firenze

by Neri Pollastri
February 3, 2023

Mixité Firenze P.A.R.C., ex Scuderie Granducali, Piazzale delle Cascine 12.2022 A Firenze, fine stagione esaltante per gli amanti della musica “creativa" e fuori dagli schemi, grazie alla fitta serie di appuntamenti al PARC --Performing Art Research Centre, nuova realtà dedita alla sperimentazione di idee e linguaggi innovativi. Dall'inizio di dicembre ...

Article: Interview

Ugly Beauty: The Music and Mind of Ben Allison

by AAJ Staff
January 13, 2023

This interview was conducted by Paul F. Roberts and was first published at All About Jazz in September 2001. All of us have a story in our head-a myth of how a new jazz talent gets discovered. Here's how it goes: The young musician—let's call him “the Kid"-practices alone in his bedroom ...

Album

Balance

By Fabian Willman

Label: CYH Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Intro; Murmuration; Trees, Birds, River Sky; Last Song; Everything Is Something; Royal: No Moon At All.

Album

Andromeda's Mystery

By David Doruzka

Label: Bivak Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: From the Farthest Sky to the Deepest Sea; No Electricity; Sweet Farewell; All My Tomorrows; Lone; Andromeda's Mystery; Chorale (In Memory of Tomas Stanko and Edward Vesala); Murky Waters.

Album

The Montreux Years

By Chick Corea

Label: BMG
Released: 2022
Track listing: Fingerprints; Bud Powell; Quartet No. 2 (Pt. 1); Interlude; Who’s Inside the Piano; Dignity; America (Continents Pt. 4); New Waltz.

Article: Album Review

Doruzka/Wylezol/Ballard: Andromeda's Mystery

Read "Andromeda's Mystery" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette
December 4, 2022

Drummer Jeff Ballard has kept himself busy and productive while his long-time collaborator, pianist/composer Brad Mehldau, has been engaged in projects other than the trio in which they share membership. Ballard lent his finely-honed percussion technique and instinctive empathy as a musician to the Fabian Willman Trio's Balance (CYH Records, 2022) as well as appearing on ...

Article: Profile

Dial H for Hitchcock

by Peter Jones
November 5, 2022

When we meet in a South London pub, tenor saxophonist Alex Hitchcock mentions that he has a rehearsal the next day with the bassist Jasper Høiby for which he needs to learn about an hour of new music. It's for one gig, which is at the weekend. “So it's in at the deep end—quite exciting." If ...

Article: Album Review

Chick Corea: The Montreux Years

Read "The Montreux Years" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette
September 26, 2022

If there is anything more ambitious than curating an extensive, comprehensive collection covering the history of an artist, it is collating selected works which vividly outline a particular timeline or theme. Chick Corea's The Montreux Years is a fine example of the latter; this seventh edition in the archive series devoted to the iconic festival not ...

Article: Live Review

Sesto Jazz 2022

by Neri Pollastri
August 5, 2022

Sesto Jazz 2022 Sesto Fiorentino (FI) Giardino del Teatro della Limonaia 8-10.7.2022 L'edizione 2022 di Sesto Jazz, ormai tradizionale festival organizzato dalla Scuola di Musica Bruno Bartoletti di Sesto Fiorentino con la collaborazione di Music Pool, ha conservato la collocazione estiva impostasi lo scorso anno per ragioni legate ...