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Article: Big Band Report

Los Angeles Jazz Institute Festival - Woodchopper's Ball: Part 2-4

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Los Angeles Jazz Institute Festival “Woodchoppers' Ball" Four Points by Sheraton at LAX Los Angeles, CA May 23-27, 2018 Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 Concert 4: Keen and Peachy: Music of the Woody Herman Second Herd -Directed by Michael Berkowitz ...

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Article: Big Band Report

Los Angeles Jazz Institute Festival - Woodchopper's Ball: Part 1-4

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Los Angeles Jazz Institute Festival “Woodchoppers' Ball" Four Points by Sheraton at LAX Los Angeles, CA May 23-27, 2018 Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 The Los Angeles Jazz Institute (LAJI), under Ken Poston, has continued for some thirty years to ...

Article: Live Review

Brda Contemporary Music Festival 2018

Read "Brda Contemporary Music Festival 2018" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


Brda Contemporary Music Festival Casa della Cultura, Chiesa di San Martino Smartno, Slovenia 13-15.9.2018 Ottava edizione di un festival per mille ragioni atipico, uscito dal cappello di un creativo anarchico qual è Zlatko Kaućić: tre giorni di sola musica improvvisata, in un minuscolo borgo medioevale --Smartno, nella Goriška Brda, ...

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Article: Album Review

Al Muirhead's Canadian Quintet: Undertones

Read "Undertones" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Swing was the thing, until alto saxophonist Charlie Parker, trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, and pianist Bud Powell helped give birth to bebop, and alto saxophonist Ornette Coleman set jazz free. Not that swing ever went away, it just got bumped into the back seat. So when “Confirmation" and “Dance of the Infidels" wailed on the dashboard radio, ...

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Article: Album Review

Gordon Grdina, Francois Houle, Kenton Loewen, Benoit Delbeq: Ghost Lights

Read "Ghost Lights" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


Titolo decisamente evocativo dei contenuti musicali, quello assegnato a questo CD dal paritetico quartetto franco-canadese, perché il baluginare di suoni all'interno di atmosfere perlopiù soffuse richiama davvero scenari nei quali la luce si manifesta per poi sparire, in cicli mutevoli e cangianti. Ma non si scambi questo Ghost Lights per un lavoro astratto o ...

Article: Live Review

Double Cut 8ctet ad Area M Città Studi Sound

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Double Cut 8ctet Area M Città Studi Sound, Giardino del Campus Martinitt Milano 03.07.2018 Anche quest'anno l'appassionato di jazz milanese può contare sulle iniziative di Area-M, progetto di rete culturale diretto da Emilio Sioli e coordinato a livello artistico da Tino Tracanna. Venticinque gli eventi musicali in programma, tenuti principalmente ...

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Article: Album Review

The Nels Cline 4: Currents, Constellations

Read "Currents, Constellations" reviewed by Mark Sullivan


Guitarist/composer Nels Cline's new quartet builds upon his collaboration with guitarist Julian Lage, which was documented on Room (Mack Avenue, 2014). Both wondered what it would be like to add a rhythm section; respected players, bassist Scott Colley and drummer Tom Rainey, accepted the invitation to join the duo during a residency at The Stone in ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Jimmy Giuffre

Jazz Musician of the Day: Jimmy Giuffre

All About Jazz is celebrating Jimmy Giuffre's birthday today! Reedman and composer Jimmy Giuffre was born in Dallas, TX. He started his musical education at age 9 learning the clarinet and within few years he was proficient enough to give solo clarinet recitals at local functions. After high school he attended North Texas State University receiving ...

Article: Album Review

Stephan Oliva, Susanne Abbuehl, Øyvind Hegg-Lunde: Princess

Read "Princess" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


Princess è il primo album di un trio europeo multinazionale, dedicato alla figura di Jimmy Giuffre, dal quale provengono anche cinque delle undici composizioni (una delle quali completa di sue liriche). La formazione è composta dal francese Stephan Oliva, eclettico pianista che si muove tra la contemporanea e il jazz, dalla cantante svizzera Susanne Abbuehl, ben ...

Article: Multiple Reviews

Luciano Troja e l'arte del duo

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Luciano Troja è un pianista messinese dai molteplici interessi: ama gli standard, che sviscera e rilegge assieme al chitarrista Giancarlo Mazzù (clicca qui qui per leggere l'intervista che abbiamo fatto loro), frequenta con continuità l'improvvisazione radicale, si dedica al piano solo studiando la musica di Earl Zyndars al quale ha dedicato il CD At Home with ...


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