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Jazz Rebellion for GKN

Read "Jazz Rebellion for GKN" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


Jazz Rebellion for GKN Casa del Popolo di Coiano Prato 2 aprile 2026 La GKN di Campi Bisenzio, comune alla periferia di Firenze, è ormai da cinque anni un simbolo della lotta per i diritti del lavoro non solo in Toscana. Da quando, nell'estate del 2021 e allo scopo di dislocare ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Celebrating Miles Davis's 100th Birthday! Music Representing Three Time Periods (1950-1964, 1965-1968, and 1969-1982)

Read "Celebrating Miles Davis's 100th Birthday! Music Representing Three Time Periods (1950-1964, 1965-1968, and 1969-1982)" reviewed by David W. Daniels


This week's show plays the music of Miles Davis during three distinct time periods and jazz subgenres. First, we feature his bop, hard bop, and cool jazz contributions between 1950 and 1964. Next, music from his modal period and with the 2nd Great Quintet is played, ranging from 1965 through 1968. Finally, Miles's fusion compositions between ...

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Article: Album Review

Kenny Barron: So Many Lovely Things: Live in Brecon

Read "So Many Lovely Things: Live in Brecon" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Pianist Kenny Barron (b. 1943) has paid his dues, working in the bands of Yusef Lateef and Dizzy Gillespie as well as a three-year stint in trumpeter Freddie Hubbard's band. His work as a leader has also soared. His first album under his own name was titled You Had Better Listen (Atlantic, 1967). That title offered ...

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Article: Interview

David Ambrosio Honors The Spirit of the '60s With Civil Disobedience

Read "David Ambrosio Honors The Spirit of the '60s With Civil Disobedience" reviewed by John Chacona


Social activism and jazz have a long mutual history that arguably reached an apex with the resistance music of the '60s. On record, that music found a home at labels such as Impulse! and ESP-Disk. At the same time, artists in the Blue Note Records stable were assembling a body of work that was inspired by ...

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Take Five with Pianist Jon Gold

Read "Take Five with Pianist Jon Gold" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Meet Jon Gold Jon's story begins in the San Francisco Bay Area. Jon's brother (Jay Gold) was an avid music fan who introduced Jon, as a child, to Delta blues, then r&b, and later jazz. Jon's brother Jay was a producer for Mushroom Records, the label for the pop group Heart. Jon started playing slide blues ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

New Music from Joe Fiedler, Billy Childs, Maria Grand, And More

Read "New Music from Joe Fiedler, Billy Childs, Maria Grand, And More" reviewed by Bob Osborne


The present and the past collide in this twelve release set of new albums. The first five featured tracks are from recently recorded material demonstrating the best modern jazz can offer. The remaining seven tracks are historical recordings, never before released, from the Elemental and Resonance labels for Record Store Day 2026. All of these capture ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Old and New Bottles: A Pair of Essential Releases from Joe Henderson

Read "Old and New Bottles: A Pair of Essential Releases from Joe Henderson" reviewed by C. Andrew Hovan


Especially among those who knew him well, Joe Henderson was a true Renaissance man. Born into a large family in Lima, Ohio, he made his way to New York City by way of Detroit--a fertile proving ground for jazz musicians in the 1950s and '60s. While studying at Wayne State University, he counted Donald Byrd, Barry ...

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Article: Album Review

Michael Formanek: New Digs

Read "New Digs" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Michael Formanek has never been content to anchor a bandstand and call it a career. Over decades of work--from sideman stints with Stan Getz and Joe Henderson to the long-running Thumbscrew trio with Mary Halvorson and Tomas Fujiwara--he has operated as a composer and architect, building rooms rather than merely inhabiting them. New Digs recorded over ...

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Article: Album Review

Juán Chiavassa: Fourth Generation

Read "Fourth Generation" reviewed by Marco Iacoboni


Il batterista argentino Juan Chiavassa scommette su un progetto da leader che collega anelli generazionali, che vanno da Wayne Shorter e Joe Henderson (autori di gran parte delle composizioni presenti in questo lavoro) a John Patitucci e Mike Stern, suoi compagni di viaggio d'eccezione insieme a Leo Genovese al piano e Rodhes e a un notevole ...

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Article: Album Review

Joe Henderson: Consonance: Live At The Jazz Showcase

Read "Consonance: Live At The Jazz Showcase" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic


All About Jazz loyalists will most certainly recall the excitement that accompanied the manic energy of the not-too-distant Blue Note release of Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs (2024), pitting saxophonist Joe Henderson and McCoy Tyner onstage in the Bronx in 1966. There is a great deal of that same joie de vivre captured ...


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