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Article: Live Review

Winter Jazzfest 2025: The Once and Future Music

by Adam Beaudoin
April 9, 2025

Winter JazzfestNew York, NYJanuary 9-15, 2025 Impressions of A Love Supreme We are standing in a line outside the venue, waiting in the January chill to listen to nearly two dozen musicians perform and pay tribute to John Coltrane's A Love Supreme, 60 years to the month after its release. People ...

Article: Album Review

Simon Moullier: Elements of Light

Read "Elements of Light" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
March 27, 2025

Nel quinto disco da leader, il vibrafonista francese--da tempo residente negli Stati Uniti--torna a proporre molte sue composizioni, come aveva fatto in Spirit Song, il debutto del 2020. Per l'occasione Simon Moullier sostituisce anche l'organico, confermando solo Jongkuk Kim, l'emergente batterista coreano che lo segue dall'album d'esordio. Il nuovo quartetto comprende il talentuoso giovane ...

Article: Album Review

Chris Varga: Breathe

Read "Breathe" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
March 20, 2025

Setting up shop as a jazz artist in Seoul, South Korea, is probably not the recommended way of raising the profile in the United States. But vibraphonist Chris Varga, who worked the jazz scene in Chicago during the '90s, made that trans-Pacific move and set himself up as a busy and prolific player in Korea's vibrant ...

Article: Album Review

Emiliano D'Auria: The Baggage Room

Read "The Baggage Room" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
February 17, 2025

Dopo le atmosfere cantabili e un po' algide del precedente First Rain--registrato in Norvegia col suo stabile quintetto--Emiliano D'Auria va a New York e s'immerge nel tumulto jazzistico contemporaneo guidando una formazione col sassofonista Dayna Stephens, il trombettista Philip Dizack, il contrabbassista Rick Rosato e il batterista Kweku Sumbry. Anche se stilisticamente ha espresso ...

Article: Live Review

Umbria Jazz Winter 2024

by Libero Farnè
January 6, 2025

Umbria Jazz Winter 2024 Orvieto, varie sedi 28 dicembre 2024--1° gennaio 2025 Come avviene ormai da 31 anni, Umbria Jazz Winter si svolge nel raccolto, accogliente e suggestivo centro storico di Orvieto nel clima festoso di fine anno, distribuendo i concerti in sedi storiche di grande prestigio. La serata inaugurale si è ...

Article: Year in Review

I Dischi del 2024 secondo Ludovico Granvassu

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 2, 2025

Spesso molti articoli sulle “migliori uscite dell'anno" iniziano con una premessa quasi apologetica ("questi non sono necessariamente 'i migliori album dell'anno,' ma 'i miei preferiti';" “è tutto soggettivo;" “domani avrei scelto titoli diversi;" “ho potuto selezionare solo dieci album," ecc.)? Queste dichiarazioni sembrano riflettere il disagio del redattore, costretto a riassumere un vasto ecosistema artistico selezionando ...

Article: Year in Review

Most Read Album Reviews: 2024

by Michael Ricci
January 1, 2025

All About Jazz tracks how often an album review is read, and the reviews listed below represent our most popular in 2024. The late Chris May placed five reviews in the top ten. MoonDial Pat Metheny Reviewed by Chris May July 12, 2024 Eagle's Point Chris Potter ...

Article: Year in Review

Ludovico Granvassu's Garden of Jazzy Delights 2024

by Ludovico Granvassu
December 31, 2024

Have you noticed how many “best of the year" listicles start with an apologetic preamble ("these are not necessarily 'the best albums of the year' but 'my favorites';" “it's all subjective;" “tomorrow I might have chosen different titles;" “I could only select ten albums" etc.)? Those disclaimers channel the writer's discomfort of having to summarize a ...

Album

Motion I

By Gerald Clayton

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Ofafrii; Synchrony; Radical; Aspiring to Normalcy; Second Day; Gabaldon’s Glide; Bird’s Luck.

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Dizzy, Eri Yamamoto, Cecil Payne

by David Brown
December 24, 2024

This week, we'll check in with some late '60s, early '70s Dizzy Gillespie, then a set of new quartet and solo works from pianist Eri Yamamoto. Two new works from Blue Note records follow with an archival release pairing McCoy Tyner and Joe Henderson live at Slugs Saloon 1966 followed new music by the all-star collective ...