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Article: Live Review

Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2014

Read "Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2014" reviewed by Henning Bolte


Copenhagen Jazz Festival Copenhagen July, 8-10, 2014 The ten-day Copenhagen Jazz Festival, with its 1,200 concerts, is maybe the largest of its kind in Europe. This number of concerts is the consequence of a unique concept. The core of the festival, with some international headliners, is a relatively small scale ...

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Article: Album Review

Dylan Ryan / Sand: Circa

Read "Circa" reviewed by Robert Bush


Circa is the second effort from drummer Dylan Ryan's trio Sand, featuring guitarist Timothy Young and bassist Devin Hoff, extending the concepts established on the 2012 release, Bleached Sky. If you've ever pondered what Crazy Horse or Robin Trower might sound like with an acoustic bassist and a dynamically sensitive drummer, Circa ...

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News: Recording

The impulse! Renaissance Presents: Charlie Haden-Jim Hall

The impulse! Renaissance Presents: Charlie Haden-Jim Hall

Stunning Previously-Unreleased 1990 Recording Captures Two Masters In Performance At Montreal Jazz Festival On September 30, the newly reactivated impulse! label will release Charlie Haden-Jim Hall, a previously-unreleased recording of a stunning duo performance by these two recently departed masters at the 1990 Montreal International Jazz Festival. impulse! is a division of Universal Music France which ...

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Article: Album Review

Tom Chang: Tongue and Groove

Read "Tongue and Groove" reviewed by Mark Corroto


When did the ultimate compliment for a jazz performance switch from “you swing, cat" to “you rock, dude"? Perhaps it happened after a generation of jazz artists raised on rock-n-roll found their way into improvisation and the latitudes of expression that jazz enable. Case in point is Tongue And Groove by guitarist Tom Chang.

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Article: Live Review

Enzo Rocco New Trio

Read "Enzo Rocco New Trio" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


Clusone Jazz 2014 Darfo/Boario Terme 18.07.2014 Mettete insieme tre maestri dei rispettivi strumenti come il chitarrista Enzo Rocco, il batterista Cristiano Calcagnile, il clarinettista Simone Mauri, accomunati dallo stesso spirito iconoclasta, da una curiosità senza limiti, dal piacere contagiosamente esibito del suonare insieme, dal giusto tocco di autoironia e probabilmente ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Lena Bloch: Feathery

Read "Lena Bloch: Feathery" reviewed by Dave Wayne


One of the really enjoyable things about listening to jazz is that, after a few years, one is able to discern some aspects of a particular musician's stylistic evolution. If her debut album, Feathery, is any indication, saxophonist Lena Bloch has staked a claim on some of the most distinct real estate in the jazz neighborhood; ...

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Article: On and Off the Grid

Practice, Do You? Part 3-3

Read "Practice, Do You? Part 3-3" reviewed by Dom Minasi


Continued from Part 2 I began studying the guitar when I was seven years old. I hated my teacher and I didn't practice much, but when I changed teachers' and I went to Joe Geneli, I regained a love for the guitar that I first had when I was four years old when I ...

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Article: Live Review

TD Ottawa Jazz Festival 2014, Days 4-6

Read "TD Ottawa Jazz Festival 2014, Days 4-6" reviewed by John Kelman


Days 1-2 | Days 4-6 | Days 7- 9 Tedeschi Trucks Band Bill Frisell Guitar in the Space Age! Julian Lage & Nels Cline / Bill Frisell Go West TD Ottawa Jazz Festival Ottawa, Canada June 20-July 1, 2014 While not necessarily an intentional decision, the ...

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Article: Interview

Ulf Wakenius: Confessions of A Vagabond

Read "Ulf Wakenius: Confessions of A Vagabond" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Happenstance may play a role in turning dreams into reality, but anyone who's ever realized a burning ambition will appreciate just how much hard work has paved the way. Two phone calls out of the blue almost twenty years apart opened doors to Swedish guitarist Ulf Wakenius, that in the first case he could only have ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Jacob Young: Forever Young

Read "Jacob Young: Forever Young" reviewed by John Kelman


While all groups aim for the kind of collective chemistry that can make, for example, five people speak with a single voice, how they get there can vary significantly. In some cases there's instantaneous chemistry; in other cases, it comes from pre-existing relationships amongst various permutations and combinations of its members; in still other instances it ...


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