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Karen Street/ Streetworks: Streetworks/ Unfurled

Read "Streetworks/ Unfurled" reviewed by Fiona Ord-Shrimpton

by Fiona Ord-Shrimpton
June 12, 2015

Women in British jazz, the stand-out sonically wonderful ones, you just don't hear them all too often, and finding them is like chasing unicorns. Outside of stoic jazz hoovers there are still too few mainstream listeners who suck it up these days, and that never helps. In the popular world of musical vacuum, perhaps the only ...

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Daniele Sepe e il Questionario di Proust

by AAJ Staff
May 28, 2015

All About Jazz: Il tratto principale della mia musica. Daniele Sepe: Onnivora. A tratti apparentemente confusa. AAJ: La qualità che desidero nei musicisti che suonano con me. D.S.: La dedizione alla musica e al pubblico. La sincerità e la semplicità. Oltre al saper affrontare senza paura qualunque repertorio. In ...

Article: Book Review

Listen To This: Miles Davis And Bitches Brew

by Ian Patterson
May 26, 2015

Listen To This: Miles Davis and Bitches Brew Victor Svorinich 202 Pages ISBN: 978-1-62846-194-7 The University Press of Mississippi 2015 Surprisingly, Victor Svorinich's book is the first dedicated exclusively to a study of Miles Davis's ground-breaking album Bitches Brew (Columbia, 1970). Surprising, because just about every facet of the ...

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Article: Live Review

Ms. Taylor P. Collins and the TPC Band at Club Fox

by Walter Atkins
May 23, 2015

Ms. Taylor P. Collins and the TPC Band Club Fox Club Fox Blues Jam Redwood City CA May 13,2015 Seasoned San Francisco Bay Area blues vocalist and bandleader Ms. Taylor P. Collins and the TPC band played an invigorating midweek set at the Club Fox. The intimate venue, part of ...

Article: Lyrics

Storie (minime) di chitarra

by Alberto Bazzurro
May 11, 2015

Non c'è strumento stilisticamente più tentacolare della chitarra, assolutamente centrale nel rock e nel blues, nel flamenco e in tanta musica latinoamericana, nel country e in svariata canzone d'autore, nella tradizione gitana e in altri anfratti ancora dello scibile sonoro planetario (nel jazz e nella classica occupa posizioni magari più appartate ma solidissime), destino tutto sommato ...

Article: Interview

Eivind Aarset: The Edge Between Intimacy and Courage

by Adriana Carcu
May 7, 2015

Guitarist and composer Eivind Aarset is one of the most imaginative exponents of the spirit of open diversity that defines and differentiates the Nordic Jazz soundscape. Coming along a progressive-rock line of influence enriched by a world music heritage and refined by electronics, his music emanates the radiant energy of an unfolding white lotus flower that ...

Article: Bailey's Bundles

Johnny Winter And Live

by C. Michael Bailey
May 2, 2015

Johnny Winter And Johnny Winter And Live Columbia 1971 There is no other live rock and roll disc that is both so wrong and so perfect at the same time. Johnny Winter led a power trio in the early 1970s supplemented by guitarist Rick Derringer (who later ...

Article: Extended Analysis

only sky

by John Kelman
May 1, 2015

Despite a career that now goes back over three decades, the relative infrequency of releases from guitarist and sound sculptor David Torn renders any new one, at the very least, a cause for speculation...if not enthusiastic anticipation. Beyond the soundtracks that have become one piece of the puzzle that defines who Torn is--and acting as engineer ...

Article: Album Review

Mark Wingfield: Proof of Light

Read "Proof of Light" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
April 23, 2015

My initial exposure to UK-based guitarist, educator Mark Wingfield occurred via a recommendation to check out Three Windows (Dark Horse Records, 2008), which is an album that demonstrates his astounding virtuosity and unique voice, spanning jazz, fusion and a host of melodious ambient treatments. Many artists and technicians within the perceivable inner circle recognize Wingfield as ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Stone Free: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix

by Nenad Georgievski
April 18, 2015

Several decades after his tragic and premature death, Jimi Hendrix looms even more larger and deeper than ever. An intrepid risk taker and untamed musical force that he was, this pre-eminent guitarist of the 20th century achieved his position by treating his guitar rather differently than the others. Fueled by a boundless musical imagination, Hendrix used ...