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Reunion Big Band: My Life Is Now - A Tribute to Marco Tamburini

by Angelo Leonardi
August 18, 2020

La musica di Marco Tamburini rivive in quest' album orchestrale, ideato e diretto da Roberto Rossi, che è fondò la Reunion Big Band vent'anni fa con Piero Odorici e il compianto grande trombettista, compositore e insegnante. Singolarmente la formazione registra solo ora il suo debutto discografico, con un progetto che raccoglie note composizioni del trombettista reinterpretate ...

Drew Wesely/Kenneth Jimenez/Francisco Mela: Triangulate the Landscape

by Troy Dostert
August 3, 2020

An interesting trio comprised of a well-established veteran percussionist, Francisco Mela, and two relative newcomers, bassist Kenneth Jimenez and guitarist Drew Wesely, the musicians behind Triangulate the Landscape are engaged in that age-old challenge of free improvisation: how to create a substantial musical conversation that combines separate, independently-determined voices into a larger whole. While the three ...

Merano Jazz 2020

by Giuseppe Segala
August 2, 2020

Merano Teatro Kimm, Piazza delle Terme 15-19.7.2020 La realizzazione del Jazz Festival di Merano ha subito quest'anno qualche esitazione, ma alla fine ha prevalso la determinazione degli organizzatori: verso la metà di giugno è stato confermato lo svolgimento della sezione didattica, denominata Accademia Jazz Mitteleuropea, dal 15 al 19 luglio ...

Vanessa Perica, Immanuel Wilkins, Steve Cardenas & More New Releases

by Ludovico Granvassu
July 13, 2020

Spectacular debut releases by Vanessa Perica, Immanuel Wilkins and Micah Thomas; international and inter-generataional collaborations between Marcin Wasilewski and Joe Lovano, and among Juhani Aaltonen, Jonas Kullhammar, Christian Meaas Svendsen, Ilmari Heikinheimo; three bands, lead by Michael Wolff, Steve Cardenas and Dave Glasser, revolving around the thick and catchy pulse of Ben Allison's bass and much ...

Michel Herr: Positive: Music For Sextet And String Quartet

by Ian Patterson
July 12, 2020

Although perhaps best known as a jazz pianist who has worked with the likes of Archie Shepp, Bill Frisell, Philip Catherine, Joe Lovano, Zbigniew Seifert and Toots Thielemans, Michel Herr has long enjoyed a parallel career as a conductor / musical director, and as an arranger for cinema, television and radio productions. It is in these ...

Bill Stewart Interview

by Mike Brannon
July 4, 2020

From the 1995-2003 archive: This article first appeared at All About Jazz in May 2002. Upon joining The John Scofield group in the mid '80s it seemed like drummer Bill Stewart just appeared out of nowhere. They of course did a number of tours and studio dates together while word got around about Stewart's ...

Marcin Wasilewski Trio, Joe Lovano: Arctic Riff

by Thomas Fletcher
June 28, 2020

The Marcin Wasilewski Trio is amongst the most evident and high-profile jazz groups that roam the Polish scene. Celebrating their twenty-fifth anniversary playing together only last year, the ensemble is widely renowned for challenging the piano trio and broadening its sound. Having collaborated with luminary wind players such as Jan Garbarek, Arthur Blythe and John Surman, ...

James Bond and other Secret Agents, Spies and Detectives - Part 2

by Ludovico Granvassu
June 27, 2020

In the first part of the show [click here to listen to it] we focused on jazz inspired by the music composed by James Barry for the James Bond series. Here we switch our attention to other great soundtrack composers like Lalo Schifrin, or Quincy Jones, and other movie characters like Sherlock Holmes, Ms. Marple, Nero ...

Highlights of Jazz in the Early 1990s (1987 - 1994)

by Russell Perry
June 23, 2020

This is the 95th of 100 programs in the Jazz at 100 series. For 94 programs, we have moved on a roughly chronological path through 100 years of jazz recordings, following trends, introducing major players and stylistic evolutions. As we approach the present, we face the historian's dilemma: in more recent music, what performances will have ...

Mark Hynes

The new Mark Hynes Trio album "Tribute" is now out on Cellar Music! Joe Lovano has this to say: "'Tribute' The Mark Hynes Trio featuring Dennis Irwin on Bass has some beautiful Sounds and Feelings. The power of this timeless Music rings Strong and Clear!!!" Featuring the last bassist Dennis Irwin in a rare unreleased recording, the trio swings joyously with a modern panache. With Darrell Green on drums, as well as one bonus track dedicated to Dennis, with Yasushi Nakamura on bass and Jerome Jennings on drums. Mark has performed/recorded with Quincy Jones, Christian McBride, Jon Faddis, Bernard Purdie, Rodney Whitaker, Jon Hendricks, Steven Bernstein, Karriem Riggins, Bobby Watson, Craig Taborn, Max Weinberg, Lew Soloff, Victor Lewis, Art Baron, Kevin Mahogany, Harold Ashby, Howard Johnson, Marcus Belgrave, Lizz Wright, Jerry Dodgion, Junko Onishi, Chuck Israels and Earl May. He has performed at the New York City Ballet, the LA Phil, The Kennedy Center, Apollo Theater, LA's Disney Concert Hall, Great Hall of The Moscow Conservatory, Jazz At Lincoln Center's Allen Room, Town Hall, Chicago Theater, Detroit Opera House, Folly Theater (KC), Detroit International Jazz Fest, Chicago Blues Fest, to name a few. Mark has performed with the Quincy Jones Orchestra, Rodney Whitaker Octsemble, Max Weinberg Big Band, Grover Mitchell Orchestra, Gerald Cleaver Quintet, Art Baron's The Duke's Men, Chuck Israels NY Little Big Band, Bobby Battle Quartet, David Berger Jazz Orchestra, Lavay Smith, and Brian Pareschi Quintet, among countless others. Growing up in Chicago, Mark was immersed from an early age in the blues drenched tradition that produced such hometown heroes as Johnny Griffin and Von Freeman. Moving to Detroit after college, he began working with the new generation of jazz lions there, as a regular member of bands led by Rodney Whitaker, Gerald Cleaver, Greg Burk and Bobby Battle